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• “He also told of the horrors of his captors torturing him, of keeping him in a 4-foot by 4-foot tiger cage, of stabbing split bamboo pieces into his skin, then dousing them with diesel and setting them afire.”

  Heroes or Villains?

• “And then there's the bruising issue: A banana can easily get squished from the 4-foot fall from a machine's top shelf.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Great Banana Challenge

• “With a long metal police fence separating Miller and other members of Occupy Oakland from their confiscated items--tents, water, food, clothes, medicine, plates--and now possessed by the police, Miller grabbed a big blue and white bullhorn that looked like it was almost half of her 4-foot, 5-inch frame.”

  The Huffington Post: Roberto Lovato: Occupy Oakland Faces A Troubled Police Department --and Historic Mayor

• “The room for their son Hank has a 4-foot wide sculpture of a moon, made by artist Jesse Durost.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Rockin' Forest Fairy Tale

• “If you had a pair of glasses that contained a computer always connected wirelessly to the Internet and projected a 4-foot monitor in front of your eyes that that only you could see, would your spouse think it was a great idea?”

  Future Wildcards: are these good ideas?

• “In Columbus, Ohio, witnesses say a reptile wrangler used his bare hands to capture a 4-foot alligator that an alert dog noticed outside an Ohio business.”

  Weirdest News Stories in June 2010 | myFiveBest

• “The region around his outpost at Ashoqeh, just west of the provincial capital of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan, is surrounded by irrigation trenches and 4-foot (1. 2-meter) high mud walls that grapes grow over.”

  The Huffington Post: Dan Luckett, Double-Amputee, Returns To Afghan War

• “The nuptials at this ceremony were led by “I-Fairy,” a 4-foot (1. 5-meter) tall seated robot with flashing eyes and plastic pigtails.”

  I-Fairy: Robot with Flashing Eyes Conducts Wedding in Tokyo | Impact Lab

• “Michal Czerwonka for The Wall Street Journal In the studio, a large room with visible steel beams, concrete gray floors and a 4-foot long skylight, a 7-foot hanging corrugated plastic lighting sculpture made of small plates comes down from the 20-foot ceiling.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Where Art and Architecture Collide

• “From AP:The Occupy Seattle movement released a written statement late Tuesday expressing support for "a 4-foot 10-inch, 84-year-old woman, a priest and a pregnant woman who as of this writing is still in the hospital.”

  The Guardian: Occupy Wall Street: protesters regroup after eviction - Wednesday 16 November

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