Besides having unusual optical properties and being very small each is just one-twentieth of a millimetre in diameter the lenses have another trick of particular relevance to micro-optical systems.

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Being very small will afford some protection.

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But he made the issue seem so serious that "I felt like a very small human being, " she says.

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She also highlights the reality of being a small band fighting some very powerful interests.

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One constant so far, though, is that all of the objects being hidden are stationary and very, very small.

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It was a big decision, because we were moving from being the only cranberry baking ingredient to perhaps having a very, very small percentage of the snacking market.

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Only a "very small percentage" of EDS's 140, 000 employees are being cut, he adds.

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It will probably be small comfort to her that the Commissioner upbraided the Inland Revenue for "not being very helpful" in explaining why she failed to qualify for tax exemption.

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Peers have said current rules exempting "a very small number" of wild ponies from having microchips was justified but the exemptions were being used "much too widely" and some domestic ponies were continuing to be branded instead.

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And being blocked on the Web could mean extinction for small, independent-minded online publishers--the very folks who have benefited most from the Internet revolution.

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