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2352
Wastes
JUDGING THE SIZE OF CLEAN-UP OPERATION
You can determine how big the clean-up operation is at the site of an environmental disaster by counting the number of portable johns the crew has on hand. A job with 4 portable johns is a big job.
Tom Massey, on-the-scene EPA coordinator at a burning tire dump, Winchester, Virginia
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2353
Sales
SELLING APPLIANCES
When greeting a customer, make sure your first remark refers directly to the product you hope to sell.
Mike Hart, appliance dealer
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2354
Money
USING YOUR MONEY
A dollar bill is about six inches long.
Jeffrey?Bald, piano tuner and guitar maker, San Jose, California
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2356
Cooking
COOKING SPAGHETTI
When spaghetti is done, it will stick to the wall.
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2357
Dieting
CALORIES AND RESTING
The average person, resting comfortably for 24 hours, will burn about 1,700 calories.
Steve Hinshaw, Farmland, Indiana
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2358
Farming
DIGGING A WELL BY HAND
It is difficult and dangerous to hand-dig a narrow hole with vertical sides. If you are digging a surface well by hand, make the top of your hole three times the width you hope to have at the bottom.
Harlan Cooke, cattle hauler
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2359
Wind
SURFING
A west wind means good surf.
Joseph Liberkowski, ex-ocean lifeguard, Medford Lakes, New Jersey
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2360
Joker
BOILING AN EGG
The hymn "Onward, Christian Soldiers" sung in a not-too-brisk tempo makes a good egg-timer. If you put the egg into boiling water and sing all five verses, with the chorus, the egg will be just right when you come to Amen.
Mrs. G.H. Moore, quoted in The New Yorker, London, England
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2361
Personalities
DRIVING SAFELY
Maintain a safe distance from cars with bumper stickers that say their owners are going straight to hell - or straight to heaven.
Bill Bickel, Hillside, New Jersey
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2362
Negotiating
GETTING A GOOD DEAL
No deal is so good that you can't walk away from it. It will always be better the next time you sit down at the table.
Steven M. Keisman, New York City high school resource coordinator
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2363
Fish
RAISING CATFISH
If at their first daily feeding, catfish rapidly swim to the surface, stick their heads out of the water, and gulp for food, everything is O.K. If they are sluggish or don't come to the surface, promptly change the water.
John Todd, The New Alchemy Institute, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
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