All of the new start-up reactors are tiny compared to the 104 old ones, each of which was custom designed for and constructed at the site of its utility power plant.

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The mind-boggling premiums were described by Larry Harbour, the 33-year-old owner of LB Custom Chrome and Detail in Broken Bow, Neb.

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Of course, they didn't just use any old off the shelf magnet, instead designing custom neodymium iron-boron models that produce just the right magnetic field necessary to make that hard drive completely useless.

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The old software model is a high-touch solution with designs that require custom work, which is expensive to implement and not quick to scale.

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In coming years, Endy says, we'll begin to see the first custom-crafted biomachines: cells that can keep track of how old they are or bacteria engineered to hunt down and kill tumor cells.

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Custom-made for 17-year-old Garland in 1939, the frock has a 27-inch waist and her name sewn on the inside hem.

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If you've been a cellphone owner for long enough, you'll remember the Bad Old Days when US carriers would gleefully disable Bluetooth or steer Internet access through poorly-written custom portals, all in the hopes of eking out a few more dollars for using the carrier's special services.

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The living room now has cedar walls from an old barn and is filled with works by local artists and knickknacks on the walls and shelves, from the Collings custom acoustic guitar Ms. Prettyman bought when she first started doing well to the glass jar Mr. Mraz used to hold the ring he proposed to her with.

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