The Week contest: Worth your weight in gold

Dubai is offering gold as a reward for weight loss... how should Americans get their just desserts?

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Last week's question: The fabulously wealthy city of Dubai is attempting to induce its increasingly chubby citizens to lose weight by offering them a gram of gold for every kilogram — roughly 2.2 pounds — they shed. What inducement should the U.S. government offer Americans to drop some pounds?

THE WINNER: For every collective ton lost, Congress will lose one member

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