On Mersea Island, to cut down on the weight of paper they have to carry, the biggest newsagent thoughtfully takes out all the advertising supplements at the shop and chucks them in the bin first.

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Weight: 2.8 ounces (80 paper clips' worth of weight).

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In describing it on Tuesday, Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller said it was about the size and weight of a pad of paper.

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The work lent weight to claims made on the Rock Paper Shotgun website by an unnamed worker at SimCity Creator Maxis who said a permanent connection was not always needed.

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The second paper also failed to find statistically significant weight loss in a similar study on teens, except for one subgroup.

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They speak up passionately on behalf of the pigs penned in the industrial farms whose skins are paper thin and bleed at the slightest touch and whose legs snap under the weight of their steroid-gorged bodies.

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Newly designed Australian army vests will be equipped with paper-thin, flexible and lightweight solar-cells with very high power-to-weight ratios.

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