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However, thanks to "yubi tenji," a finger-tapping system -- based on six-dot braille -- devised by his mother, Reiko, he passed an entrance examination for Tokyo Metropolitan University, becoming the first blind and deaf person in Japan to enter a university.

First deaf-blind person to receive doctorate in Japan BA Haller 2008

Sorry, heavy-sexters: All that finger-tapping is turning you into a moron.

eSarcasm: Read This Story, Get Way Smarter 2009

(A new study by George Bartzokis and his colleagues at UCLA suggests that some fine motor abilities, such as finger-tapping speed, don't start declining until age 40, but this is more relevant to pianists than presidents.)

Dr. Robert Epstein: McCain, Obama, and Some Painful Truths About Aging 2008

Consequently I forgot the shower cap, the neck, the decolleté and the finger-tapping.

Cheap things to put on your face (and a cautionary tale of a little black dress) « knitnut.net 2008

He has caught my American-style optimism, with none of the existential dilly-dallying and impatient finger-tapping on the way from point A to point B.

Elizabeth Bard: Pow, Right In the Kisser: The American Dream Comes to France 2008

The 5 million finger-tapping e-mailers who use the RIM BlackBerry are known for being famously addicted to their devices.

BlackBerry Smackdown 2007

After an hour, we reached the Yountville exit, and my anticipation grew from a slight finger-tapping on the steering wheel, to an accelerated heart-rate.

Archive 2006-02-01 e d b m 2006

After an hour, we reached the Yountville exit, and my anticipation grew from a slight finger-tapping on the steering wheel, to an accelerated heart-rate.

San Francisco Good Eats #3: Where's Thomas Keller? - Bouchon, Yountville, Napa Valley e d b m 2006

The 37-year-old actor/director/producer has a preternatural stillness about him, a concentrated containment that leaves no room for finger-tapping, napkin-ripping or foot-jiggling.

Norton Finally Paints Veil 2006

These 2 patients also had Tinel's sign, whereby a reproducible tingling sensation was elicited when the lateral femoral cutaneous nerve was stimulated by finger-tapping close to the anterior superior iliac spine.

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