Royal could handle up to 14 pieces of paper but some sheets are thicker than others, which required calculating the right-sized pile so he wouldn't jam.

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He didn't jam that often.

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Guys aren't going to hit jam shots to right field like at Yankee Stadium.

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Wal-Mart won't sell 72 different Pearl Jam concert CDs, but a digital music service could.

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Either way, The Adored is loads of fun, with abundant energy, hooks and cocky swagger, generated by a bunch of kids who weren't even alive when The Jam was hitting its stride.

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The scientists argue that "thinking too much" about preferences caused the students to focus on all sorts of variables that didn't matter, such as the texture of the jam or the presence of strawberry seeds.

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The radio news isn't urgent, peppered with useful English phrases: traffic jam, bumper-to-bumper.

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"If the paper jams and the voter doesn't know what to look for, the election poll worker may not understand there's a jam, " Cox said.

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The flaws he found weren't instantly catastrophic, he said, but could be used to track private airplanes, intercept messages and jam communications between planes and air-traffic control.

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Though he grew up in a home that revered show tunes and was regularly taken to Broadway, the jam band leader had to learn the hard way that what he did in Phish didn't translate to the musical stage.

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