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  • Don't get me wrong; every day is not like today when at 1:30 in the afternoon we have just finished our breakfast of Pop-Tarts and bananas, and I am snuggled on the couch with our 17-year-old daughter and 20-pound cat.

    Non-Tiger Mother Pleads for Sanity 2011

  • Echoing his declaration in the State of the Union address that "this is our generation's Sputnik moment," Obama reminded residents that it was in Manitowoc that a 20-pound chunk of the Soviet satellite crashed in 1962.

    After jobs-focused speech, Obama tours Wisconsin factories Perry Bacon Jr. 2011

  • Geneva police traced "eight or nine pallets" containing 20-pound packages of ground meat to a local store that sells discount foods, "a bent-can store" as Morgan describes it.

    Operation Meat Locker is latest attempt to ax meat thieves 2011

  • A teenager tossed a 20-pound frozen turkey out the rear window of the car he was riding in and it broke the windshield of an oncoming car, hitting and nearly killing Ruvolo, its driver.

    Meryl Ain, Ed.D.: A Plan to End Bullying and Make Schools Kinder and Gentler Ed.D. Meryl Ain 2012

  • Geneva police traced "eight or nine pallets" containing 20-pound packages of ground meat to a local store that sells discount foods, "a bent-can store" as Morgan describes it.

    Operation Meat Locker is latest attempt to ax meat thieves 2011

  • Geneva police traced "eight or nine pallets" containing 20-pound packages of ground meat to a local store that sells discount foods, "a bent-can store" as Morgan describes it.

    Operation Meat Locker is latest attempt to ax meat thieves 2011

  • Getty Images Kansas City Royals outfielder Melky Cabrera Among other things, it holds a 10-ounce, hard-clay sleeve that slides onto the bat; a 50-ounce weighted bat made of wood and plastic; a half-bat, half-pipe contraption, 96 ounces, with a sliding weight resembling the pendulum weight on a metronome; and an old-fashioned 20-pound sledgehammer.

    Baseball's Weight Problem Craig Wolff 2011

  • Credentials: Guiding on the White River since he was 15, Mike Neher has a reputation for putting clients on brown trout tipping the scales over the 20-pound mark.

    Favorite Lures of the Trout Guides 2009

  • Swisher veers to the clay sleeve, while David Wright, the New York Mets third baseman, has used either a 10- or 20-pound steel-ribbed bar recovered from the construction site during the building of Citi Field.

    Baseball's Weight Problem Craig Wolff 2011

  • A teenager tossed a 20-pound frozen turkey out the rear window of the car he was riding in and it broke the windshield of an oncoming car, hitting and nearly killing Ruvolo, its driver.

    Meryl Ain, Ed.D.: A Plan to End Bullying and Make Schools Kinder and Gentler Ed.D. Meryl Ain 2012

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