When you - you're crack climbing a thin crack, you stick your toes into the crack and then kind of wrench down on to stand up, and it's painful.

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So while you're sitting around with the other patients in your pajamas and everybody's pale and thin and you're waiting for your turn to get the gamma rays, you think about a lot of things.

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"As you know, we're getting thin here, " Bruins coach Claude Julien said on Friday, a day after Torey Krug, in his first career NHL playoff game, scored to send the game into overtime and Boston defeated the New York Rangers 3-2 in Game 1 of their best-of-seven, second-round playoff series.

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If you're cooking red meat, choose thin, porous cuts of meat for the most delectable results.

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The Atrix HD is packed with more radios than you can throw a stick at -- to be fair, we're not sure why you would want to lob thin wooden objects at a set of antenna anyway.

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The difference is that with Thin Mints, Samoas and other Girl Scout treats, "you're buying a product, " says Mr. Trenka.

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The world is no stranger to flexible batteries, but they've almost always had to be made in thin sheets -- that doesn't amount to a long running time if you're powering anything more than a watch.

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