Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...refused to return the coins and gave them to Wenner, the owner of Rolling Stone and several other glossy magazines and, need we add, a very wealthy man. Corliss is suing the rock mogul (and Anderson) to get back the coins, which could be worth between $22,000 (in weight) and $10 million (if bought by collectors.) This is the first case of its kind in Idaho, and it rests on whether the coins were lost, were abandoned or are buried treasure, in which case they should go to Corliss, or were merely mislaid, in which case they...
...that when she was discharged from the hospital, the baby she took home was weighed at 7 lbs., 12 oz. But just after birth her child had weighed 9 lbs., 6 oz. Babies often shed a few ounces in the hours after birth, but not 17% of their body weight. Hospital chief of staff Dr. Thomas Massaro admits the hospital can't explain why the large discrepancy went unnoticed. "We don't understand that," he says, though he is virtually positive there was no accidental switch in this case. "We have very good documentation that the band was properly...
...pulled a gravity load of up to 7.9 Gs during their ascent, meaning that a pilot like Glenn who weighed 168 lbs. would briefly feel as if he weighed a whopping 1,327. Shuttle astronauts generally pull no more than 3 Gs, and Glenn, who has not added much weight to his still fit frame in the past 36 years, should tolerate that burden easily...
...from adoptive parents to begin life anew with birth parents? More recent and extreme cases, like the two-year-old Maryland boy plucked from a loving foster mother to be reared by a biological mother who had killed his sister, have prompted legislators to pass laws that give more weight to the "best interests" of the child...
Such boasts carry little weight with the NATO forces. Says a well-placed officer in Trebinje: "If we detain Karadzic, nothing will happen. They have too many other problems." The only impediments to his capture, say those working for peace in Bosnia, are in Washington, Paris and other capitals. Says U.S. diplomat Jacques Klein: "There won't be real justice until these people have their day in court...