The Palestinian territory is almost exactly marathon length from top to bottom.

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The female body armor also has a shorter bottom for a better fit, since the average torso length of women is shorter than that of men.

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The bottom-left 4 x 4 pads represent drum sounds (touch the slider to scroll up and down through even more sounds), while the bottom-right quarter of the grid serves as a clip-length control (press and hold the first pad, tap the fourth for a four-bar loop, etc.).

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The GenVault plate, the size of an index card and slightly thicker, contains 384 tiny wells, each lined on the bottom with special paper and prefilled with a strand of synthetic rice DNA, varying in length and sequence.

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Her skates are chunks of steel as long as 13 feet (the crew changes skate length according to ice conditions), with an almost imperceptible curve along the bottom and a razor-sharp edge so that the skate bites hard into the ice.

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