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HAULING BOOKS
You can fit 2,000 mass-market paperbacks in a mini-pickup.
Dave Ewan, Wind Chimes Book Exchange, Millville, New Jersey
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Current Rating: 5.3 out of 10 based on 16 reviews
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LIFE LESSONS
When it hurts the most, you're learning the most.
Wallace Winfrey, Golden, Colorado, USA
(1) Contributions from this contributor since (2008-01-08)
Current Rating: 5.7 out of 10 based on 22 reviews
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ON CHILDREN IN GROUPS
One boy has a brain. Two boys have half a brain. Three boys have no brain.
Renee, Glass Artist Mother of Five, Summerville, SC, USA
(1) Contributions from this contributor since (2008-01-25)
Current Rating: 8.0 out of 10 based on 22 reviews
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IN C, 5 LINES OF CODE IS 1 COMPLEX
The simplest metric "lines of code" is correlated with the more sophisticated metric "cyclomatic complexity". The constant for C is roughly 5. If you have lines of code and you want camlock coupling, divide by 5.
Johnicholas Hines, Programmer
(1) Contributions from this contributor since (2008-02-07)
Current Rating: 5 out of 10 based on 13 reviews
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BOXERS SMILING
When a boxer smiles after taking a big punch you know it hurt him.
UKJohn, UK
(7) Contributions from this contributor since (2008-06-21)
Current Rating: 5.6 out of 10 based on 12 reviews
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BUY AND SELL ITEMS
Time will come when buyer of un-necessary items, feels need to sell necessary items.
Muhammad Akram, Employee, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
(13) Contributions from this contributor since (2010-08-01)
Current Rating: 6 out of 10 based on 10 reviews
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DRESSING RIGHT
If a person is poorly dressed, you notice the clothes. If impeccably dressed, you notice the person.
Steven M. Keisman, New York City high school resource coordinator
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Current Rating: 6.4 out of 10 based on 46 reviews
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SETTING UP AN OFFICE
Provide 250 square feet of floor space for each vice president, 200 for middle managers and 175 for clerks.
T. U. Powell, architect
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Current Rating: 5.6 out of 10 based on 21 reviews
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INSTALLING A FAN IN A SUN ROOM
To move hot air out of an overheated sun room, you need a thermostatically controlled fan with a flow rate of four to six cubic feet per minute per square foot of glass in the sun room.
Jan F. Kreider, consulting engineer, Popular Science
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Current Rating: 5.1 out of 10 based on 16 reviews
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USING PHOTOGRAPHIC FILTERS
Any filter will lighten objects of its own color and darken those of a complementary hue.
Paul Lisseck, health food broker, North Hampton, Massachusetts
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Current Rating: 5.3 out of 10 based on 20 reviews
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PICKING STEEL CABLE
The safe working load of steel cable, in tons, is the diameter in inches squared times eight. For example: 1/2" squared times 8 = 2 tons; 5/8" squared times 8 = 3.125 tons.
Paul Carter, stage hand, New York, New York
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Current Rating: 4.2 out of 10 based on 19 reviews
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