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  • Peeled, seeded, cucumber cut into matchstick-size pieces.
  • Soon there were lists of 200 women waiting to have the device -- a set of matchstick-size capsules -- implanted in their upper arms.
  • True to its name, the Kyocera mandolin can help you get those perfect thin or matchstick-size vegetable slices that seem to magically appear on TV shows and magazine spreads.
  • The Norplant system, as it is called, consists of six matchstick-size capsules surgically implanted in the arm that slowly release a low dosage of levonorgestrel, the same...
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