Andy Grove noticed an occasional tremor in the index finger of his right hand. it was 1999, when Grove was 63 and had just stepped down as the chief executive of chipmaker Intel.
They found the age range for heart attacks in men where the index finger was relatively long was 35 to 80 years of age, but in those with relatively long ring fingers it was 58 to 80.
Andy Grove noticed an occasional tremor in the index finger of his right hand. it was 1999, when Grove was 63 and had just stepped down as the chief executive of chipmaker Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ).
With a virtual 6 x 9 inch color VGA display, a small joy stick and mouse buttons operable by the index finger when using the phone during a conversation the StarTac phone provided the ability to viewed shared subject matter, photos or documents while talking, 15 years ago.
They worked out the ratio of the length of the index finger to the length of the ring finger for each child, and compared it with those of 34 of the children's healthy siblings, 88 of their fathers, 88 of their mothers, and a number of unrelated controls that were matched for sex and age.
When the phone is closed and held horizontally like a camera, there is a shutter button on the side which will fall right under the right index finger.
The contact in a good handshake should be the web of skin between the thumb and index finger.
The guitarist was recognised as much for his powerful, gruff vocals as his musicianship and was known for playing with picks on both the thumb and index finger of his right hand.
The boy stuck out his index finger and motioned to one of the men.
When I was small, I would sit on his lap, staring at the stump of his left index finger, rounded and smooth, the top two knuckles so cleanly severed it seemed he'd been born without them.
Villa was in the team despite sustaining a hairline fracture of his right index finger while celebrating the first of his hat-trick goals against Russia, and the Sweden defense kept him under wraps until the 38th minute, when Isaksson had to stop a low shot.
We didn't have to change our usual or "traditional" finger positioning, meaning we were able to keep our right thumb in the bottom left corner of the pad and use our index finger to navigate. (Even if our thumb moved slightly up on the pad it still worked.) Best of all, while using that finger positioning we rarely zoomed in on something by mistake.
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During this exam, a flexible tube containing a small transducer about the size of your index finger is guided down your throat.
The newer, thinner Kindle seems more interested in wowing customers with its iPod-like exterior than in comfortably filling the space between an index finger and a thumb.
Whenever Father acquired a new book on our country the country my parents had fled, the country I had never seen, yet continued to think of as my own he would immediately finger the index pages.
The young man had an annoyed look on his face and, motioning with his index finger, he summoned the women to a corner in the room.
The one was on his index finger was shattered and is now gone, nothing now but a soft patch of skin.
Poor Kylie was still talking in adorable gibberish, pointing a tiny index finger toward the disappearing tot she'd been cut off from.
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When you perform certain gestures with your hand--such as touching your thumb to your index finger in the "okay" sign--there are electrical signals associated with that gesture that pass through the nerves in your upper arm as they carry commands from your brain to your hand.
Some citizens alleged that the ink applied to a voter's index finger to safeguard against repeat voting could be scrubbed off, a charge the Election Commission denied.
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The main control surface is wide enough, in fact, that we could comfortably put three fingers on the top of the mouse, using the middle to control the mouse wheel and DPI sensitivity adjustment rocker (a nice touch in and of itself) without ever moving our index and ring finger from the all-important trigger buttons.
And as soon as it was over, I would just take my index finger, raise it up, hit the button, and it will play again.
To sign up, you take a personality test that Fisher designed, which asks you questions about everything from feelings about following rules to your understanding of complex machinery and the length of your ring finger, relative to your index finger.
Horsup works in northern hairy nosed wombat conservation, which at the time involved holding a piece of wombat excrement between his index finger and thumb.
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They also estimated the students' exposure to the hormone before they were born by measuring the ratios of their index fingers to their ring fingers (a long ring finger indicates high testosterone exposure) and by measuring how accurately they could determine human emotions by observing only people's eyes, which also correlates with prenatal exposure to testosterone.
In a recurring bit of business, one dancer's index finger pointed or poked at another dancer. (Think of the Pillsbury Dough Boy or, perhaps, the Three Stooges.) It seemed meant to be cute but often looked creepy.
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Australia were grateful to England skipper Andrew Strauss after he allowed the tourists to make a late change to their line-up when wicketkeeper Brad Haddin injured his left index finger while warming up.
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