The following morning I pulled a dusty copy of Elizabeth David's classic "English Bread and Yeast Cookery" from the shelf where it had languished for years, and began to thumb around.

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Her fingernails were bitten, the flesh raw, bleeding a little around her thumb.

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"Think of it like passing around a thumb drive, " he said.

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The sopped beer label curled around his thumb.

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Apple is taking that supposedly wasted cash hoard and kicking serious ass while the rest of the computer industry sits around sucking its thumb and starts complaining about big, bad Apple cleaning up components and shutting them out.

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The general rule of thumb is that running backs experience a decline in productivity around the age of 30 due to the wear and tear they undergo.

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Around back, just to the right of the LCD, is a thumb rest and adjacent video record button, followed by Canon's standard lineup of menu, playback, info and dial controls.

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As the name implies, it's all based around pressure: a light touch performs the usual commands, while squishing the thumb's wider surface area against the screen allows the equivalent of a multi-touch gesture, such as a pinch to zoom.

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