The payload of the rocket consisted of a large, thin-walled container.

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Meals also usually include malum, a salad of chopped leafy greens and coconut, crispy poppadoms (a large circular piece of thin, spiced bread), dal (a type of lentil stew), coconut sambal (a spicy condiment), home-made chutney and of course, fragrant steamed rice.

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Denton is tall and rangy, and has a famously large head that sits precariously on a thin neck and narrow shoulders, leaving the impression of an evolved brain that is perhaps a little too conscious of its pedestrian context.

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This thin stylish model features a large 2.5-inch monitor with 230, 400 dots of high resolution and a non-extending 3X zoom lens ranging from 38-114mm (35 mm film camera equivalent).

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In this invisible world, tiny particles of gold melt at temperatures several hundred degrees lower than a large nugget, and copper, which is normally a good conductor of electricity, can become resistant in thin layers in the presence of a magnetic field.

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The textile industry, which has been suffering for many months, undone at first by the strong pound and since by thin demand in the shops, had more bad news this week when Courtaulds Textiles, a large manufacturer, said that it would probably cut 1, 200 jobs at Claremont Group, a clothing supplier to (currently troubled) Marks and Spencer which it bought a few weeks ago.

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The larger Gateway EC58 notebooks are thin and light enough to take anywhere with a slim one-inch profile, yet they have a large 15.6-inch LED-backlit display that features a 16:9 aspect ratio and 1366 x 768 (WXGA) pixel resolution.

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