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CHECKING A BEER BELLY
Measure the circumferences of your waist and hips. If the waist-to-hips ratio is over 1.0 in men or above 0.8 in women, your risk of heart attack or stroke is five to ten times greater than if the ratio is less.
US Pharmacist
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BUYING A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
If you're buying a musical instrument for a beginner, spend twice as much as you think you should. The instrument will be better built, easier to play, and it will sound better. And it will have a better resale value.
Jim Willett, musician, Boston, Massachusetts
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BUYING A LAWNMOWER
The higher the ratio between horsepower and blade diameter, the longer the motor will last.
Steven M. Keisman, New York City high school resource coordinator
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SWAPPING MUSCLE FOR FAT
About 40 percent of your body weight is muscle. If you swap nine pounds of muscle for nine pounds of fat, you'll shrink by about 1 percent because muscle is denser.
Ned Frederick, writer, Exeter, New Hampshire
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JOGGING
If you can run 1 1/2 miles in 12 minutes, 6 days a week, you can run any distance you like.
Dr. Larry R. Hunt, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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PUBLIC SPEAKING
Address your lecture to the median intelligence of your audience.
Carla van Berkum, Russian studies teacher, Baltimore, Maryland
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CORRELATING MID-TERM AVERAGES TO A FINAL GRADE
In a required course in college, despite how much a student promises to study, or how much a professor encourages the students to work harder, about 75 percent of students will have the same final semester grade as their mid-term grade or average. Fifteen percent of students will go down one half grade from mid-term to final. Five percent of students will go up one half grade. Five percent of students will drop from a C or a D to an F or a W or an I.
Madeleine Curtis, College Professor, Reading, WA, USA
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INCLINE OF STAIRS
When designing stairs, an incline of 38 to 42 degrees is most comfortable.
Robin Berghuijs, student of architecture, Netherlands
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TALKING WITH COPS
Most of the time when talking to a cop their eyes will be looking all around instead of at you, the speaker. They are not being rude, they just scan their surroundings a lot. This is also a good tip off for talking to an undercover cop.
Waldo Weyeris, Engineer, Boulder, CO, USA
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SPEAK SOFTLY AND BE HEARD
In a noisy room, if you speak softly people will quiet down to hear you speak. Speaking louder only encourages more noise and the message gets harder to deliver.
Calvin, CA, USA
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FINDING VOLUNTEERS
You have to ask twelve people to find two volunteers.
Clarke Green
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