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...course, Harvard was not helped by a recent slew of injuries that left the team shorthanded this weekend. Just this week, one player has come down with mononucleosis and another recently suffered a broken thumb...
...Such large-cap global technology players are special cases, however; the European economy overall isn't so dependent on doing business abroad. Economists have a rule of thumb that a one-percentage-point decline in U.S. growth would take something between .2 to .4 points off Europe's growth...
...makes a pistol out of his thumb and forefinger, cocks his wrist and aims at an imaginary target across the room. "Locked and loaded," he says, looking over with a wide, confident, closed-mouth grin. It's 11:35 p.m., and he's ready for sport. This is a night for kau lui - a woman-hunting night...
...like me, and all you really want is grippingly well-made TV on demand, no recorder loves you back like TiVo. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to make up for my unexplained absence with some serious thumb action...
...Japan they are speaking in thumbs. Everywhere you look--in restaurants and in movie theaters, on crowded trains and in taxicabs, in baseball stadiums and in university lecture halls--the New Man and New Woman of Japan walk and sit with head down, arm extended and one thumb feverishly tapping buttons on a new kind of cell phone, one that lets you surf the Web using a technology called i-mode...