She briefly left, took off her wig and wiped off her bald head with a paper napkin.

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She unfolded her white paper napkin and began to dab her straw on it, leaving faint tea-colored dots.

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Upshot: Satellite photo applications that could revolutionize existing industries and create new ones never even reach the paper napkin stage.

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It was a chance meeting in 1952 with a BBC TV producer and a demonstration of his quick art skills on a paper napkin that secured his on-screen career.

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His core discovery, of how to get spatial information about atoms in a magnetic field, was scribbled on a paper napkin over dinner in a Big Boy restaurant in Pittsburgh, between two bites of a hamburger.

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Instead, Barcelona, who had been made aware of his talents, offered to pay the medical bills of a boy who stood just 4ft 6in as long as he was prepared to move to Spain, a decision which Messi confirmed when signing his first contract with the club on the back of a paper napkin.

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By switching to Perseco, the buyer for McDonald's paper goods worldwide, Chipotle has cut its napkin and packaging costs by 20% .

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Use foreign comics as unusual wrapping paper, or use a furoshiki cloth, Japanese-style (try a napkin, scarf or handkerchief).

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