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...even before the weekend, the administration had to do some heavy advance work. It had to place an ad in The Crimson the size of Dartboard's collective thumb in order to announce the first-ever visit of a Chinese head-of-state. It had to send letters of warning, including a notice from the Cambridge city manager, to all departments that the Yard would be blocked off from almost every entrance...
Foale, however, had a handy way to figure it out. If he held up his thumb at arm's length, he could blot out a patch of sky equal to about 1 1/2[degrees] of arc--a point of reference he could use, along with his watch, to determine how fast a spacecraft was moving. Foale swam over to the window, spent a few minutes watching stars come and go behind his thumb, and swam back to Tsibliyev and Lazutkin. "Tell them we're moving one degree per second," he said...
...everything from hippies to punk rockers to police officers to mentally challenged people," Marshall says, jerking his thumb to a buddy standing against the wall...
Junior All-American Mike Zimmerman remains bench-bound after spraining ligaments in his right thumb one week ago against Massachusetts...
...chance of survival if his respiratory system had escaped damage. Today someone who has as much as 70% of his body burned can expect the same odds. And the average hospital stay for a severely burned patient is considerably less than the old rule of thumb, which was one day for every 1% of the body burned...