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...chips (each of us takes another) but not jim-dandy chips, either. Mouth feel, I would say, is about right. (This is no joke in the snack-food biz; successful mouth-feel technicians retire to seaside mansions.) Finger feel is pretty good too. Pick up a chip and your thumb and forefinger get greasy, just as nature intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SO, HOW DOES IT TASTE? | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...your midterm and final, will probably be pretty familiar with the idiosyncrasies of your handwriting. You don't have to go to FBI training camp to figure this stuff out, especially if you only have 20 or 30 students to choose from. So it's a good rule of thumb not to count too heavily on your own anonymity: don't say anything you wouldn't feel comfortable saying, if not to your TF's face, then in a reasonably public setting...

Author: By Dmitri Tymoczko, | Title: The Evaluation Game | 12/19/1995 | See Source »

...ALREADY A RULE OF THUMB for judging secret Pentagon projects, maybe it should be: If the name is astral, the premise is spacy. First Star Wars. Now Star Gate. That is the real code name (not the postscandal tabloid headline) of a secret program that spent $20 million in the past 10 years to employ psychics in pursuit of the unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE VISION THING | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

MIKE TYSON Perfectly timed broken thumb KOs slow-selling Mathis match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Nov. 13, 1995 | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

...fall practices so far, the only bang-ups have been a bad back for Horwath and broken thumb for Stringer. Even so, both are scheduled to play in the opener on September 8, which is at Rhode Island...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: F. Hockey Shoots For Top | 9/13/1995 | See Source »

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