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863 Body Rules thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
USING A PENCIL
If the painted area of a pencil is smaller than the width of your four fingers, the pencil is too small to use comfortably. Throw it out.
Steven F. Scharff, cartoonist, Union, New Jersey
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864 Groups thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
CHOOSING A TREASURER
In a small organization that does not pay its officers, the treasurer's position is likely to be held by the one member who will accept it.
Alan R. Brown, New York, New York
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865 Color thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
WALKING ON ICE
Blue ice is safer than black ice.
Cally Arthur, managing editor, American Demographics
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866 Business thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
KEEPING YOUR CUSTOMERS
Customers who have complained to a company and who had their complaint satisfactorily resolved tell an average of five people about it.
Technical Assistance Research Programs, in Microservice Management
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867 Insurance thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
THE THUMB-VALUE RULE
A thumb is worth 40 percent of the whole hand in worker's compensation cases.
Scott Parker, data specialist, Beaumont, Texas
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868 Illness thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
HALLUCINATING
If someone is experiencing auditory hallucinations, the diagnosis usually is mental illness. If someone is experiencing hallucinations involving sight, smell, or touch, the diagnosis usually is a physical illness.
Gerry M. Flick M.D., Ship's Surgeon, S.S. Constitution off Hawaii
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869 Health thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
WATCHING ANTS
Food that ants like to eat is food that people should avoid (ants in our kitchen go for sweets and deep-fried tortilla chips).
David Leventer, psychotherapist, Santa Cruz, California
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870 Gardening thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
GROWING PLANTS INDOORS
Most indoor plants do best in 1,000 to 1,200 foot-candles of light. You can determine whether you have enough light in a room by taking a camera with a built-in light meter setting the ASA to 200, the f stop to 1/16, and the shutter speed to 1/60th of a second. If there is enough light for a picture, then there are 1,000 to 1,200 foot-candles of light.
Thomas W. Neumann, anthropological archaeologist, wildlife ecologist, and field crew crisis manager
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871 Precipitation thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
FORECASTING THE WEATHER
Big flakes mean little snow. Little flakes mean a lot of snow.
Stanley G. Laite, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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872 Climbing thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
CLIMBING NORTH IN THE SMOKYS
Climbing 1,000 feet in altitude in the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina results in a change in vegetation equal to traveling 100 miles north--the Smoky Mountains at 6,000 feet look like northern New England or southern Canada.
Doug Rugh, agricultural economist, Sevierville, Tennessee
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873 Driving thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
AVOIDING DEER ON THE ROAD
Half of all the deer hit by cars are struck in May or November.
Walter Pitkin, literary agent, Weston, Connecticut
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