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Stuff this in your stocking

OK, this is what I want for Christmas: The latest Swiss Army knife has 85 different tools, weighs more than two pounds and costs nearly $1,000.

The Giant is supposed to feature every blade that has ever been incorporated into Swiss Army knives as made by Wenger, one of the two firms that make them . "We've sold 20 to retailers so far, and we can't get them in fast enough," says Garry Woodhouse of Whitby and Co, sole importer of Wenger knives into Britain. "They're assembled by hand in Switzerland, and I'm told that the man doing it is working his fingers to the bone."

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