Since then we've seen rumored specs that include Android 2.2, a 7-inch Super AMOLED display, 1.2GHz A8 processor, 4, 000mAH battery, 370-gram weight, and 16GB of on-board memory with up to 32GB of microSD expansion.

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In a competition where speed is everything, every additional gram of weight is a disadvantage.

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Gary Friedman was not born to a world of 800-gram-weight Turkish towels and hand-knotted Persian rugs.

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For every ounce of triglycerides you eat, you add 250 calories (or 9 calories per gram -- the weight of a raisin) to your diet.

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Brief exposure to high levels of PCBs and dioxins may cause skin lesions and affect the liver (the tolerated daily intake for dioxin is about 1 picogram - one trillionth of a gram - per kg body weight).

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As Japan Airlines (JAL) says, it is looking at its operations from every angle to find ways of reducing weight from aircraft, even if it is just by one gram.

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