Want your favorite designer to make ruby red handbags, re-issue a dress from last season or roll out plus sizes?

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Similarly, middle-aged women hope that their dress sizes haven't swelled into "plus" sizes.

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Fine-tune your reading experience with eight adjustable font sizes plus a choice of six font styles.

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And new software, plus the ability to vary the projected sizes and brightnesses of planets and moons, makes it possible to simulate the sky from anywhere in the solar system: to see earthrise from Mars, for example, or to watch Jupiter's moons rise and set from a vantage point just above the gas giant's cloud-tops.

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And the sport, just as the athletes, comes in all shapes and sizes, from the 15-plus-hour Ironman distance, to the entry-level super-sprint distance.

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