The man described as white, aged 40-50, 6ft tall and of slim build with short dark curly hair and he was clean-shaven.

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Mr Heaton is described as white, of stocky build, 5ft 9in tall, with short, dark-brown hair.

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Mrs Cameron is described as 5ft 3in (1.6m) tall, of medium build, with short-bobbed blonde hair.

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They are now offered in 25 colors, in short and "Original Tall" 16-inch-high versions, in a dozen stores.

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They are gorgeous, bright-eyed, brilliant girls: one tall, one short, pant legs dragging, torn leggings, sneakers that glow in the dark or light up with each step, boom boom boom.

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Depending on where in the United States you choose to attend school, you can receive college scholarships for being short, tall, fat, left-handed or a distant relative of Lambert and Annetje Van Valkenburg.

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In one gallery, Xiao Yuncong's 1657 "Landscape" with its soothing, simplified forms in blue and green is displayed cater-cornered to Cheng Sui's monochromatic "Tall View of Streams and Mountains, " where short, vertical strokes infuse a monumental composition with a buzzing sense of life.

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"He's part of our family, " says Forgione, whose short and stocky pet weighs in at nearly 40 pounds, stands 15-inches tall and measures 21-inches long, snout to tail.

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Though politicians, educators and their media enablers would have us believe that the act of earning a college diploma makes short people tall, turns bad writers into Somerset Maugham, and the mathematically challenged into highly-paid engineers, reality is happily intruding.

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