Your weight is nothing more than a number describing how strongly the force of gravity is pulling down on your body. You can happily ignore it most of the time. But if you need to keep tabs on it for ...

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2001-01-13 04:00:00 PDT London-- In his 12 years as a fruit-and-vegetable vendor, no one ever asked Steven Thoburn for 0.45359237 kilos of bananas -- the metric equivalent of a pound. That is the ...