"At the Olympics, the boxers have to make the weight every day they box, " said Costello.

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The beauty of the best of these wines (like those in the box) is that they carry their weight with a George Saunders-like suavity.

FORBES: Grape Juice

But the prevailing theory begins with a scam artist buying an iPad, replacing it with something of similar size and weight and then repackaging the box so it looks ready for the sales floor once again.

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At Smiley's, you get a 750hp dirt dragster that has about the highest power-to-weight ratio of anything this side of a fighter jet (see box, p. 153).

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In the most radical break with the party establishment so far, John Norquist, the mayor of Milwaukee, has thrown his weight behind a scheme that allows poor parents to send their children to private schools (see box).

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Dr. Fox suggested an easy first step to get her into the weight-loss mind set: Cut back the number of Chick-O-Sticks by one box per week.

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