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He is Susie and Mark's 9-year-old biological son. And he already towers over his mother because he is not a dwarf.

At the city's new university campus, a 20-metre statue of the Great Helmsman towers over the classrooms and dormitories that surround it.

The Renaissance Center, world headquarters of General Motors, towers over abandoned warehouses along the Detroit River in downtown Detroit.

This landmark mosque was built in the 1950s and its minaret towers over the posh streets of this diplomatic neighborhood.

Although he's only 12, David towers over his mother.

In the photo above, George towers over the world's smallest dog, Boo Boo, at a photo shoot for the Guinness World Record's book.

When Michael Phelps is out of the water, he towers over mere non-Olympic mortals.

The City Hall building in Los Angeles, California, towers over the city streets.

On both sides of the road rubble towers over his modest parish car.

America still towers over rivals in scientific virtuosity, military power, the vitality of democracy and much else.

A bird that towers over a cheetah and is more than twice as heavy.

We are the only foreigners in the restaurant, and at 6ft 4in, my boyfriend towers over the locals.

Gotham's greatest family towers over the city.

For the present, of course, AIPAC remains highly effective. It still towers over J Street, its doveish rival.

Don't miss the torchless, naked male version of the Statue of Liberty that towers over the ancient icons at the park's northwest edge.

Libyan-financed hotel towers over Sudan's capital, Khartoum, and has been nicknamed Gadhafi's egg because of its unique shape.

One of today's top strikers, the Czech Republic's Jan Koller, towers over defenders at 6-7.

The tall building towers over all the others.

The mountain towers over that part of Eighth Avenue like some splendid, immense office building.

towers over other poets of the day.

The mountain range it towers over is the Southern Alps .