And I think most participants have pretty thick skin, which is not to say it helps, but I think everybody can get over it pretty quickly.

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"It's amazing to think I used to have these huge round chubby thick arms and now I've got this muscle definition, " she said.

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If we think in terms of nanometers, asheet of paper is about 100, 000 nanometers thick, and a human hair is approximately 80, 000 nanometers wide.

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Think nanotubes of atoms, coated in titanium, a billionth of a meter thick, say the Yale and Rice teams.

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Though the woods are dense and thick, the gorillas leave behind muddy prints the size of baseball mitts, and are easier to spot than you may think.

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And what Dr. Kumanyika says is that essentially, first of all, we, as a group, have--and I think Katrice also spoke to this earlier--we kind of embraced the notion of having thick bodies.

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