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...allowed users to book flights via i-mode (a service providing pared-down Internet access via mobile phone in Japan) since 1999. The AirAsia SMS system might soon become just as routine. Since its inception at the end of August, more than 8,000 seats have been booked by thumb. Whether they were all reserved by fleeing husbands is anyone's guess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dossier | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

Cliche might have it that the fiercest the Harvard-Yale rivalry gets is a heated game of Trivial Pursuit, although in reality it’s probably closer to a Beirut ineptitude contest punctuated by occasional thumb wars. But there is a world of legitimate college football rivalries out there—theoretically, right across the Charles—and FM made the 45-minute schlep to Boston College to investigate this strange staple of campus life everywhere but here...

Author: By Kaija-leena Romero, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chilled Rivalry | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

After the biggest, strongest and fastest men in the world collide for 60 minutes and end up tied, the fate of the game is decided by the thumb of some scrawny referee...

Author: By Brenda Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Time To Give Overtime The Ol' College Try | 10/22/2003 | See Source »

...healthy frozen dinners, whose calorie counts are printed on the package, as a good way to make the transition to smaller portion sizes. How many calories you should eat in a day depends on whether you want to lose or maintain weight. The American Heart Association's rule of thumb is to multiply your weight in pounds by 13 (15 if you're active). If you want to lose weight, subtract 250 calories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: How to Eat Smarter | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

...They thumb their nose up at this community and they have been thumbing it for years,” Graham says...

Author: By Jessica R. Rubin-wills, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Neighbors Tired of Living in Harvard’s Shadow | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

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