Once enriched, one pencil-thin, 14-foot rod of uranium has enough energy to provide 56 years of electricity use by a typical American.

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So pencil that one in.

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The well-made commercial featuring supermodel Adriana Lima earned a gold pencil at the One Show.

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The century-old company, whose founder invented the first mechanical pencil and designed one of the first radio sets in Japan, has in recent years fallen behind nimbler rivals, such as South Korea's Samsung.

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The same is true of the pose in which Freddie initially sees him: pooled in light, brow clutched, pencil in hand, one careful comma of blond hair dangling down, as if posing for the portrait of a thinker.

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I've one thing, if you have a pencil, our producer Matt Martinez is from Phoenix.

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As Leonard Read poignantly portrayed, no one could single-handedly furnish even a simple pencil.

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Then one day in the 1930s, suffering from rheumatism, he picked up a pencil and became an artist.

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In one research project, participants were either prevented or encouraged to smile by holding a pencil in their mouths.

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Donna Karan was one of the numerous designers who featured this molded shoulder, which, paired with a slim pencil skirt, creates an inverted "V" shape, explains Morrison.

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