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PROOFREADING
If you find one error while proofreading, there are likely to be several more in the same contiguous paragraphs.
Cheryl A. Russell, demographer, mother, editor-in-chief, American Demographics
(LR) Legacy Rule of Thumb from previously published collections
Current Rating: 5.7 out of 10 based on 21 reviews
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IDENTIFYING A SEDGE
Sedges have edges (round rushes have none).
Scott M. Kruse, biogeographer, Fresno, California
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Current Rating: 4.8 out of 10 based on 17 reviews
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DECLARING SOMEONE DEAD
For hypothermia victims, nobody's dead until they're warm and dead.
Richard Wolkomir, writer
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Current Rating: 5.2 out of 10 based on 25 reviews
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WRITING POETRY
A poem should be half its original size in finished form.
Steven Vest, librarian and poet, Berea, Ohio
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Current Rating: 5 out of 10 based on 21 reviews
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OCCAM'S RAZOR
The simplest explanation is the one most likely to be true.
Dean Sheridan, electronics technician and deaf actor, Torrance, California
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Current Rating: 6.1 out of 10 based on 22 reviews
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REPEATING AN EXPERIMENT
If you can't repeat your own experiment, you are probably not doing science. If no one else can repeat your experiment, you are probably lying.
Gary Marlow, scientist, Ithaca, New York
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Current Rating: 6 out of 10 based on 18 reviews
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BUYING EGGS
If the difference in price between medium and large eggs is less than fifteen cents per dozen, the large eggs are a better deal.
Janet Salmons, home economist
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Current Rating: 5.6 out of 10 based on 19 reviews
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PANNING FOR GOLD
A good miner, doing a careful job of panning, can handle about 6 pans per hour, or 60 in ten hours - about one-third of a cubic yard of gravel. An expert working in sandy gravel without much clay or hardpan might double this, panning two-thirds of a cubic yard in a day. Under the most favorable conditions, a yard a day is just about the top limit for panning.
William F. Boericke, gold miner
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Current Rating: 4.4 out of 10 based on 15 reviews
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ESTIMATING MAINTENANCE COSTS OF YOUR HOME
Generally, you can figure on annual maintenance costs equivalent to about .03 percent of the cost of your home. That's up to $6,000 for a $200,000 house.
Dean Sheridan, Anaheim, CA, USA
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Current Rating: 6.5 out of 10 based on 16 reviews
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MAKE FLYERS AND HANDOUTS MORE EFFECTIVE
If you're selling a content-based product, make sure that flyers feature compelling examples of the actual content, not just hype text or slogans. Not only will it create value for the flyer (decreasing the chances it will be discarded), it weeds out people who are not interested in your specific product.
David Malki !, Filmmaker, cartoonist, pilot, Los Angeles
(11) Contributions from this contributor since (2008-01-09)
Current Rating: 5.5 out of 10 based on 16 reviews
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BEING WATCHED?
If you feel you are being watched, position yourself in a way where you can see the "starer" in the corner of your eye and then look at your wrist watch. If they are watching you, then they will most likely look at their wrist watch as well.
Waldo Weyeris, Engineer, Boulder, CO, USA
(48) Contributions from this contributor since (2008-01-22)
Current Rating: 7.5 out of 10 based on 28 reviews
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