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The shortcomings of traditional print edition textbooks are obvious: For starters they're heavy, with the average physics textbook weighing 3.06 pounds.

With the percentage of people over age 65 expected to nearly double by 2050, it's important to weigh the health benefits of screening against the risks and costs of routine testing.

Saying they can no longer ignore the rising prices of health care, some of the most influential medical groups in the nation are recommending that doctors weigh the costs, not just the effectiveness of treatments, as they make decisions about patient care.

Saying they can no longer ignore the rising prices of health care, some of the most influential medical groups in the nation are recommending that doctors weigh the costs, not just the effectiveness of treatments, as they make decisions about patient care

A college classmate of mine, tim, was an excellent football player, even though he weighed much less than the average player.

At my heaviest I weighed 370 pounds.

Competition is fierce and the chief prize is a complete stilton cheese weighing about four kilos (disappointingly, but understandably the cheeses used in the race are wooden ones).

Each empty can of its food weighs 40g.

Each individual (个体的) ant hardly weighs anything, but put together they weigh roughly the same as all of mankind.

However, we are not all using the same reference standard to weigh risks and rewards.

Mammals weighing sixty kilograms have an average brain size of 200 cm2.

On average, each of the two million big stones weighed about as much as a large pickup truck.

Sometimes we decide that a little unnecessary danger is worth it because when we weigh the risk and the reward, the risk seems worth tasking.

Leading doctors today weigh in on the debate over the government's role in promoting public health by demanding that ministers impose "fat taxes" on unhealthy food and introduce cigarette-style warnings to children about the dangers of a poor diet.