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1. News - World - SCIENCE

   Wrinkly fingers may help us get a better grip on wet things, study says

   Posted Jan 10th 2013, 12:00am by AFP

   ... News World Wrinkly finger Evolutionary adaption Gripping Agence France-Presse in Paris 'Prune fingers' help to improve your grip in wet conditions, finds study into 'digital puckering' Getting wrinkly fingers from soaking in the bath is an evolutionary advantage, for it helps us get a better grip on objects under water, scientists suggested yesterday. Digital puckering ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1124004/wrinkly-fingers-may-help-us-get-better-grip-wet-things-study-says
2. News - World - BRAZIL

   Doctor clocks in using fake fingers at Brazil hospital

   Posted Mar 13th 2013, 03:56pm by AFP

   ... News World Silicone fingers Ferraz de Vasconcelos Agence France-Presse in Sao Paulo Doctors at a Brazilian hospital covered for absentee colleagues by using fake silicone fingers with their prints to fool biometric machines. Globo television showed footage of a doctor touching her finger to the device, then using two fake digits to do the same for colleagues, and taking delivery ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1189848/doctor-clocks-using-fake-fingers-brazil-hospital
3. Paws for thought

   Posted Jun 01st 2012, 12:00am

   ... lots of hand gestures - paw gestures in my case, hee hee. It sounds like Italians have a gesture for everything! The most common one seems to be when you touch your fingers and thumb together ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/1002685/paws-thought
4. Magazines - Post Magazine - FOR MEN

   Dandy & Dapper

   Posted Dec 16th 2012, 12:00am by Sofia Suarez

   ... Burberry and Belstaff.   I've been through the fads such as barefoot running, Five Fingers shoes, etc. However, nothing's really felt right. Now I hear there's a mythical shoe ...

   http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1103650/dandy-dapper
5. All fingers and thumbs

   Posted Oct 25th 2010, 12:00am by John Millen

   ... Gestures Fingers American Sign Language Compiled by John Millen Fingers and thumbs What is ...? 1 a finger bowl a. small bowl filled with water that you use to wash your fingers during a meal b. a large dish used to beat eggs 2 your index finger a. the smallest finger on your hand b. the finger next to your thumb 3 finger food a. miniature pizzas b. food you can eat without ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/728443/all-fingers-and-thumbs
6. Restaurant worker cuts off end of finger

   Posted Sep 29th 2007, 12:00am by Danny Mok

   ... Gestures Fingers Grouper Danny Mok Danny Mok A kitchen worker sliced off the top of his right forefinger while trying to cut an 18kg grouper at a Sha Tin restaurant yesterday. The man, in his 40s, was working with three others on the 92cm fish in the Lei Garden Restaurant in New Town Plaza when the accident happened at about 10.25am. His colleagues helped stem the bleeding ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/609601/restaurant-worker-cuts-end-finger
7. An insult to Hong Kong

   Posted Oct 15th 2003, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

   ... or willingness to apologise for his gesture of raising a finger as he went through the crowd. It is as if he is above the need to be respectful and tolerant of other people's points of view or even ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/431114/insult-hong-kong
8. Philip Wong, pioneer of the digital age

   Posted Sep 27th 2003, 12:00am by Alex Lo

   ... a little too early. The one-fingered salute may have become more socially acceptable than we thought. If The Economist, that venerable and highly conservative British publication, could put ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/429234/philip-wong-pioneer-digital-age
9. Body language says it all

   Posted Oct 28th 2002, 12:00am by Nicolette Mark

   ... do this when you want to say that something is beautiful such as a woman, a wine, a particular dish or anything else! 7. Finger circle: In most European and some Latin American ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/395759/body-language-says-it-all
10. Comment - Insight & Opinion

    A sorry truth in faulty racism survey

    Posted May 21st 2013, 12:00am by Alex Lo

    ... "fat-fingered" the original data. As a result, in both cases, the World Values Survey erroneously posted the incorrect data on its website, which The Washington Post then used to create the map. ...

    http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1242237/sorry-truth-faulty-racism-survey

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