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1097 Eyes thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
FINDING YOUR DOMINANT EYE
To find your dominant eye, make a circle of your thumb and forefinger about 6 inches in front of your face. Look through the circle with both eyes at an object across the room. Now close one eye; if the object stays in the circle, the open eye is the dominant one.
Donald H. Dunn, in Business Week
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1098 Flying thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
FUELING A HOT AIR BALLOON
You get about half an hour of flight in a hot air balloon per 20-pound tank of propane gas.
Barbara Frederking, balloonist
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1099 Movies and Film thumb thumb thumb thumb
FIGURING OUT A MOVIE
In a murder mystery, if there's a close-up scene of a character for no apparent reason, that character is most likely the killer.
Paul A. Delaney, meteorologist, Beltsville, Maryland
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1100 Photography thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
MAKING PRINTS FROM SLIDES
If there's some light on a subject's face in an underexposed slide, chances are you can get a satisfactory print if you order special-order highlighting.
Dean Sheridan, electronics technician and deaf actor, Torrance, California
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1101 Grooming thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
CUTTING YOUR HAIR
People who wear their hair short will generally need a haircut within a week after their hair looks perfect.
Ann Kimbrough, Blaine, Tennessee
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1102 Crime thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
SELLING STOLEN PAINTINGS
A stolen painting will sell for one-tenth of what it would sell for on the open market.
Kat Dalton, artist, Ithaca, New York
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1103 Joker thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
BRITISH THERMAL UNITS
One BTU is roughly equal to the amount of heat energy given off by burning a wooden kitchen match.
Robert G. Flower, engineer
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1104 Groups thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
WORKING WITH GROUPS
Twenty percent of any group will be critical of the rest.
Marilyn Rider, Body & Soul, Ithaca, New York
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1105 Design thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
LOOKING AT SPECKS
If your eyes can see it, you need to worry about it. That's the rule for any faint mark or strange speck on artwork headed for the printer. Otherwise, if you want something to show up, it won't and if you don't want something to show up, it will.
Michael Rider, art director, American Demographics
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1106 Business thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
THE MARKETING RULE OF THREE
Any new product should have at least three easily recognizable advantages over its competition.
Lloyd Barringer, sales representative
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1107 Measuring thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
USING A MICROSCOPE
If you can see an object with a light microscope, its dimensions can be conveniently expressed in millionths of a meter (micrometers).
Derek D. Cardy, zoologist, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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