Go ahead! Stretch your e-magination and test yourself. Click on the right answer and get the full scoop. Get it wrong—try again. Each bundle is a hollow papier-mâché prop for the set of a disaster movie.   There’s not much weight to plastic foam.   The center is filled with helium balloons.   Rice cakes don’t weigh much. Sorry! Too low tech for the big screen. Why is this man in Guangzhou, China, not quite so heavily burdened as he appears? Photograph by Michael Yamashita

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