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At 180.5 inches in length and 3,455 pounds, the Mazda5 is almost 2 feet shorter and a half-ton lighter than the Honda Odyssey minivan.

Mazda5 Says Yes to Convenience, No to Bloat Dan Neil 2011

At 180.5 inches in length and 3,455 pounds, the Mazda5 is almost two feet shorter and a half-ton lighter than the Honda Odyssey minivan.

An On-the-Small-Side Minivan 2011

Most plastics can't be recycled together, but many look so similar that they are difficult to sort...just a few PVC bottles in a half-ton bale of PET bottles or vice versa, can contaminate the whole batch, rendering it unusable.

Lisa Kaas Boyle: Plastic And The Great Recycling Swindle Lisa Kaas Boyle 2011

In September, Border Patrol agents fired gunshots into Mexico after coming under attack during a half-ton drug bust and giving chase to a truck along the Rio Grande.

Mexico confirms border teen died from gunshot 2011

Most plastics can't be recycled together, but many look so similar that they are difficult to sort...just a few PVC bottles in a half-ton bale of PET bottles or vice versa, can contaminate the whole batch, rendering it unusable.

Lisa Kaas Boyle: Plastic And The Great Recycling Swindle Lisa Kaas Boyle 2011

Most plastics can't be recycled together, but many look so similar that they are difficult to sort...just a few PVC bottles in a half-ton bale of PET bottles or vice versa, can contaminate the whole batch, rendering it unusable.

Lisa Kaas Boyle: Plastic And The Great Recycling Swindle Lisa Kaas Boyle 2011

The half-ton pastry was filled with a vanilla custard and was baked in a specially-designed pan, not make of smaller cakes stacked together.

New record set for World’s Largest Cupcake | Baking Bites 2009

They bought a half-ton of grapes and made a barrel of wine.

California cult-wine makers pursue label of exclusivity Edward Robinson 2011

A car is a half-ton metal death machine designed to travel at ridiculously high speeds in areas largely occupied by soft, slow-moving human beings, and we give operating licenses for these machines out to any idiot who can figure out how to parallel park.

Matthew Yglesias » DC Cop Urges Pedestrians to Avoid Inconveniently Colliding With Illegally Fast-Driving Cars 2009

He often sat in that cabin, smoked his pipe, and dreamed beautiful little dreams, -- dreams in which neither the dumps nor the half-ton of dust in the P.C. Company's big safe, played a part.

THE PRIESTLY PREROGATIVE 2010