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479 Body Rules thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
DETERMINING YOUR FRAME SIZE
To determine the size of your frame, wrap a dollar bill around your wrist. If the ends of the bill touch, you have a small frame. If there's a finger's width or less between them, you have a medium frame. Anything more than a finger's width and you have a large frame.
Scott Parker, data specialist, Beaumont, Texas
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480 Fuel thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
ESTIMATING FUEL USE
Aircraft carriers get six inches to the gallon.
Phillip Williams Jr., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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481 Uncategorized thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
MAKING A TV COMMERCIAL
Limit yourself to one sales point per television commercial.
Jennifer Johnson, Knoxville, Tennessee
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RUNNING A HOTEL
Here's a formula for breaking even in the hotel business. Build a hotel by borrowing 80 percent of the construction cost at a 10 percent interest rate. Make sure the hotel averages a 60 percent occupancy rate. And charge $1 per room for every $1,000 per room in construction costs.
Scott Parker, data specialist, Beaumont, Texas
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483 Gambling thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
PLAYING POKER
Don't enter a poker game unless you have 40 times the betting limit in your pocket. If you plan to play poker for a living, start with a bankroll at least 200 times the maximum bet.
Edwin Silberstang, games expert
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484 House and Home thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
PICKING A NEW PLACE TO LIVE
You can live happily in a new house or apartment if, on your first visit, you immediately can visualize yourself and your family engaged in your normal activities among your current possessions. If you have to stop and think about how you'd use each area or how your furniture would fit in the place, forget it.
Andrea Frankel, computer scientist, engineer, holistic health practitioner, San Diego, California
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485 Exercise thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
STICKING WITH A FITNESS PROGRAM
If you can follow a fitness program for 21 consecutive days, you can follow it for life.
Kenneth Blanchard, author, quoted in Boardroom Reports
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486 Cattle thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
FEEDING A COW
A cow should have 3 pounds of hay per day for every 100 pounds of weight.
Roger Seeley, Albany, New York
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487 Precipitation thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
WAITING FOR RAIN
If there's dew on the spiderwebs in the grass in the morning, it won't rain.
Pete Stewart, auctioneer, Armagh, Pennsylvania
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488 Hiking thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
GETTING SOMEWHERE
If it takes you a half hour to walk somewhere, it will take you one minute to drive there.
Anonymous
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CHECKING YOUR EXHAUST
Blue smoke from your exhaust may mean your car needs a complete engine overhaul. Black smoke usually means a maladjusted carburetor. White smoke: Ignore it if the engine is cold, but if it keeps up after the engine has warmed, you may have a leaking head gasket.
Reader's Digest, reported in Bottom Line Personal
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