• It's on the banks of the Charles River, which she can see most of the year when the leaves aren't so thick on the trees outside her windows.

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  • To wit, at 590g (1.3 pounds) the tablet isn't even that thick or heavy, considering the gigantic battery squeezed inside.

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  • The result of too many spicy burritos, chocolate sundaes, pepperoni pizzas, thick T-bones and vodka martinis consumed over too many years.

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  • His face, the little that wasn't covered by his thick beard, seemed unaffected by his years of hardship and overexposure to the desert wind and sun.

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  • Don't go overboard by applying thick liquid eyeliner.

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  • Plus, with 30 hours of battery during audio playback and 5 hours for video, the 0.4-inch thick player doesn't do bad for itself at all in that department.

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  • "The embers were so thick, we couldn't breathe, " he recalls.

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  • On the bright side, it's narrow enough to rest comfortably in the hand while using it as a phone, and it's not annoyingly thick -- don't get us wrong, it's a beefy phone, but not to the point of causing a problem in your pocket.

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  • Sure, it's hard to imagine a reason for most people to pick up a DMP-B15 over a cheapish Blu-ray playing laptop -- the thing is monstrously thick, and can't even handle a traditional laptop-style screen orientation, only everything but -- but the hardware is reliable enough for kids to handle on the road, and the single-use makes it a good home Blu-ray player for plugging into that second HD-starved TV.

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  • Armstrong hasn't spoken at length and publicly about the thick dossier of evidence USADA published in October.

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  • Then it unveiled so-called Sleekbooks, which basically hold the same promise as Ultrabooks, except that for whatever reason (AMD processors, a too-thick chassis) they don't meet Intel's official Ultrabook requirements.

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  • The flames were chewing thick, dry brush that hasn't been burned in about a dozen years.

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  • George, whose neck was three feet of scrag and whose skin would have made several dozen purses, all thick, dry leather, didn't care two hoots.

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  • As the game started with Brewster Park enveloped in a thick blanket of fog which didn't lift for the entire match, McNeice opened the scoring in the second minute but the Donegal champions replied with scores from John O'Malley, Molloy and Eoin Waide.

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  • Even though I had been assured that the tags wouldn't hurt the walruses because of their tough skin and thick layer of blubber, I was still relieved to see that the animal barely seemed to notice the tag as it landed on its hide.

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  • The other surprise, a small presentation also at MILK Studios, was a label called Calla characterized by bold prints in geometric in neon yellow and purple. (It also smelled like a rose-filled winter garden inside, courtesy olfactory branding company 12.29.) The silk-screened slim-fit pants, cute above-the-knee dresses, and thick PVC heels worked well together with tiny T-shirt-cut tops and softly angled jackets.

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  • With a thick North Carolina accent, Lyandon Warren can't hide his roots.

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  • We didn't have any problem holding it in our hand, and while we weren't given exact dimensions, it appeared to be roughly 10mm thick.

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  • Heart isn't assured in a first-rounder, and it may run thick in the DNA of an undrafted journeyman.

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  • Also, you wouldn't find the same, noise-canceling half-inch-thick glass polished with the same pumice used to sharpen observatory telescopes.

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  • And God knows the so-called experts in the field didn't have a clue--just ask reporters at those Sears catalog-thick new economy magazines that now could be printed on an envelope.

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  • "There is no way to describe seeing your son behind a window so thick that it has barbed wire in it and you can't give him a hug, " Morgan, a stay-at-home mom with a strong Southern accent, said in a phone interview.

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  • But the visitors didn't have to wait long for an equaliser, with official Atkinson again in the thick of the action.

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  • The edges aren't quite as rounded, and while the phone is fairly hefty at 9.9mm thick, we had little trouble exploring the screen and handling the smartphone with one hand.

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  • It's thinner and lighter than an iPad, registering at 8.9mm thick and 21.2 ounces (603g), but it doesn't seem to be cheaply built -- in fact, its soft-touch finish felt quite sturdy and solid to us.

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  • We have very thick walls which insulate the house perfectly and on sunny days in winter we don't have to use the heating.

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  • The situation wasn't much better in many Long Island communities, where commuters woke up Monday to roads jammed with thick layers of ice and slush.

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  • She wore a black pillbox hat with a thick veil that fell over her eyes, making it difficult for someone who didn't know her to divine her age.

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  • Though he didn't find it funny, she giggles at the memory of putting lipstick on him while he slept and scooping his thick hair up into small ponytails.

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  • Of course, we don't expect you to do that, which is why this week's show finds us sitting down with a thick stack of nominations and discussing the musicians who most excite us.

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