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...CURRENCY 100 Weight, in kilograms, of the Royal Canadian Mint's new jumbo gold coin, which beat out Austria's 31-kg piece-known as "Big Phil"-as the world's largest pure gold coin $1 million Face value, in Canadian dollars, of the new coin. Its current market value is about twice that due to the surging price of gold...
...first cultural fault line he's straddled. In 2002, he made it into the New York Times for exhibiting the compacted car wreck of expatriate art critic Robert Hughes, who'd narrowly survived a collision in Western Australia. For Post-Traumatic Origami, Kesminas placed 68 kg of crushed metal in a plastic vitrine with a beer can and fishing reel, among other objects. He still laughs at the memory: "Robert Hughes is really the champion of Modernism. Here he is in a cube. It's perfect." Nor was it much of a leap from his court-jestering with the Histrionics...
...race-day, Cambridge was the strong favorite, and no ‘Light’ Blues in reality, weighing in as the second-heaviest boat in the history of the race at 785.6kg, 34.8kg heavier than the Dark Blues...
Police believe that Woolmer knew his killer or killers. There was no sign of forced entry to his room, and it's unlikely that those responsible for his death took the time to disrobe the 1.85-m, 113-kg man before fleeing. Woolmer had apparently been comfortable enough to let his visitors into his room while he was unclothed, or perhaps wearing a towel before or after a shower. "I believe that it would be extremely difficult for a complete stranger to go into the hotel lobby, get into the lift, go to his room, and that he would open...
...Ministers lead stressful lives and eat whatever is available-if you give them cake, they eat cake." KARL EIRIK SCHOETT-PEDERSEN chief of staff for Norway's Prime Minister, announcing that fruit and vegetables will be served at Cabinet sessions after a minister said he gained 7 kg snacking on sweets offered at the meetings