Take a piece of foil about 25 inches long, fold it into thirds lengthwise, and fasten the ends with a paper clip.

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You could lock Bill Belichick in a closet with a paper clip and velociraptors, and he'd come back 15 minutes later with 80 pounds of veloci-steaks and six draft picks from the Raiders.

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She could barely throw out a twisted paper clip or a fridge magnet that had lost its attraction, let alone the dish of Irish coins that she and Rich had brought home from a trip fifteen years ago.

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To snap a typical paper-clip in tension by clamping one end and tugging on the other would require a force of 50lbs or so.

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There are a few more inventive tactics that are increasingly becoming popular among thieves, such as constructing a rubber band and paper clip hook that sucks up products under the sleeve.

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Do that half a dozen times or so and the paper-clip will snap in two.

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The sense of the century unfurling is heightened by chronological order in which the inventions are presented, from the first (the paper clip, devised in 1900 by a Norwegian, Johann Vaaler, living in Germany) to the last (Prozac, which was introduced commercially in Belgium in 1986).

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Also, in contrast to the tiny clips on the Scribe receiver, the large clipboard-style clip on the ZPen is capable of gripping onto whole pads of paper and affixing it to a new piece of sheet starts a new page in the virtual pad, another thoughtful touch.

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