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3165
Miscellaneous
IS IT BAD?
If in doubt, throw it out.
Nickie, London
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3677
House and Home
ACTUAL COST OF HOMEOWNERSHIP
Homeowners should plan on paying about $100 a month for a repair fund. Total net housing cost can be 40-45 percent more than the base mortgage.
Scott Parker
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3933
Telephones
IPHONE SMS
On the iPhone, a usual 160-characters text message fills about 6 lines of the text entry field. After seven lines, it will most likely be a multi-part message.
fabian hemmrt, design researcher, berlin, germany
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4189
Speaking
OVERCOMING ANXIETY WHILE PUBLIC SPEAKING
Instead of imagining people in their underwear, do not look at anyone directly. Focus on the horizon just above the heads of the people in the last row of the audience.
Brian
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4445
Electricity
IF IN DOUBT USE A 10K RESISTOR
If you are not sure which resistor value to use in a digital or analog circuit first try a 10K (kΩ) one.
Raphael Wimmer, PhD student, München, Bayern, Germany
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Miscellaneous
PROJECT TRIANGLE
Fast, cheap or good: You'll get two of the three.
tilden
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5213
Health
HOSPITAL RULE
If you are a patient in a US hospital, and the number of “code blue” announcements equal the number of birth announcements, you should consider transferring to another hospital.
Barry
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Chess
WINNING AT CHESS
Always check--it might be mate.
Norman Brenner, Fleetwood, New York
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Books
SELLING BOOKS
Ten percent of bookstore customers buy 90 percent of the books. Ten percent never buy anything.
Dave Ewan, Wind Chimes Book Exchange, Millville, New Jersey
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Cattle
THE BEEF CARCASS RULE OF ONE-QUARTER
A properly butchered beef carcass is one-quarter steaks, one-quarter ground beef and stew meat, one-quarter roasts, and one-quarter waste.
Harry Pound, Pound's Meat Cutting
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862
Crime
HIJACKING AN AIRPLANE
Only hijack an airplane as part of a team. If there's a long standoff, someone has to stand guard while you go to the bathroom.
Gordon Hard, assistant editor, Consumer Reports, Mount Vernon, New York
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