Dow itself invested in thin-film solar startup NuvoSun for its solar shingles and shut down its internal work on thin-film solar.

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Funnel clouds look like cone-shaped or thin rope-like protuberances which hang down from the cloud base, and often do not last very long.

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That leaves these phones with shaved-down prices and thin margins.

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At the same time, he could try to pin down the thin, fast-fading shadow that was himself and his past.

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Visually everything has been stripped down, with thin clean sans-serif fonts, large images and lots of soft grays.

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Fires in the Rockies and the Pacific Northwest show little sign of the usual September slow-down, and firefighting resources nationwide have been stretched thin.

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Now that the heavy lid of technology has been lifted so we (finally) have ample bandwidth, a multitude of screens (computers, tablets, phones, ultra-thin LED screens), and a cheering audience, it all boils down to a single element that has been with us since troubadours sat down to play madrigals: Great Content.

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She was a bone-thin woman with a pretty face, dark eyes, and brown hair that hung down her back.

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Also, scientists at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University have been able to build a nano-thin layer of particles of titanium dioxide, a substance that reacts with sunlight to break down dirt and other organic material.

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Rocks laid down at the time - some 65.5 million years ago - show a thin layer abundant in rare elements like Iridium, spherules and shocked Quartz that could only have come from a meteorite impact.

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