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vt. 有；让；拿；从事；允许
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Your identity has been formed; you've built up your resources; and now you have the chance to take the big risks precisely because your foundation is already secure.

While excessive optimism can promote bad investment patterns, resulting in a real-estate bubble, the report's writers downplay that potential outcome in that it has not yet occurred.

Where do the seeds of change come from? The Native American Indians have a saying: Pay attention to the whispers so you won't have to hear the screams.

When Leah made the commitment to change, she primed herself to new opportunities she may otherwise have overlooked.

What could have been considered the beginning of a descent is now a potential turning point—the turning point you are most equipped to take full advantage of.

We have presidential candidates running for their first term in office at age 68, 69 and 74.

Up until that point, Leah had followed traditional measures of success.

This means they often have to make a special effort to lay the past to rest.

This has wiped 6% off the value of the soft tissue paper market in the UK.

They need to rid their minds of sentimentalism ( ' , 感情用事): the most successful teams have leaders who are able to set an overall direction and take immediate action.

They also had talk therapy with a nurse before and after quit day.

There's an ancient legend that as long as these eggs are made, evil will not prevail in the world, says Joan Brander, a Canadian egg-painter who has been painting eggs for over 60 years, having learned the art from her Ukrainian relatives.

The worst fear Leah ever had was the prospect of losing her yoga business.

The run has been taken; now is the time to leap.

The majority of previous research has focused on how we learn and remember new information.

The late Richard Hackman of Harvard University once argued, I have no question that when you have a team, the possibility exists that it will generate magic, producing something extraordinary… But don't count on it.

The US Army has gone the same way.

The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality ( ' , 专业) and rank.

Teams work best if their members have a strong common culture.

Teams have become the basic building-blocks of organisations.

Teams are as old as civilisation, of course: even Jesus had 12 co-workers.

Soon after, she knew she had to make a bold move to fully commit to her new future.

Six months out, more people who had quit abruptly had stuck with it—more than one-fifth of them, compared to about one-seventh in the other group.

Since then, she has founded two yoga studios, met a new life partner, and formed a new community of people.

Shoppers in the UK are spending less money on toilet paper to save money, research has shown.

She recalls:One day a man I worked with, Ryan, who had his office next to mine, said, Leah, let's go look at this space on Queen Anne .

Previous behavioural studies have shown that learning new information can lead to forgetting.

Preparation has been made; now is the time for the venture of the work itself.

People with HSAM often have to make efforts to avoid focusing on the past.

People with HSAM have the same memory as ordinary people when it comes to impersonal information.

One had to quit abruptly on a given day, going from about a pack a day to zero.

Of course I was scared, yet I had this strong sense of I have to do this.

Not everyone with a tendency to fantasise will develop HSAM, though, so Patihis suggests that something must have caused them to think so much about their past.

Not everyone with HSAM has experienced these benefits, however.

Most people do not have clear memories of past events.

Leah reflects on one incident that triggered her fears, when her investors threatened to shut her down: I was probably up against the most fear I've ever had, she says.

Leah reflects on a time she listened to the whispers: About the time my daughter was five years old, I started having a sense that ‘this isn't right.

Leah easily could have fallen into a trap of feeling content; instead, her energy sparked a period of experimentation and renewal.

It has shrunk from £1.

It has led to a lot of debate.

It has a history of over two thousand years.

It didn't take long for magazines and documentary film-makers to come to understand her total recall, and thanks to the subsequent media interest, a few dozen other subjects ( ' , including Veiseh) have since come forward and contacted the team at the University of California, Irvine.

In search of a meaningful life, Leah gave up what she had and set up her own yoga studios.

In daily life, forgetting actually has clear advantages.

I'm extremely sensitive to sounds, smells and visual detail, explains Nicole Donohue, who has taken part in many of these studies.

I remember sitting on a bench with my aunt at a yoga studio, she said, and having a moment of clarity right then and there: Yoga is saving my life.

I have no desire to make millions of dollars.

I had spent two years cultivating this community, and it had become successful very fast, within six months, but I was facing the prospect of losing it all.

He knew my love for yoga and had seen a space close to where he lived that he thought might be good to serve as a yoga studio.

He had always had a good memory, but the thrill of young love seems to have shifted a gear in his mind: from now on, he would start recording his whole life in detail.

For centuries, Ukrainians have been drawing complicated patterns on eggs.

Either way, we have choices about how we respond to it when it comes.

Eggs have an oval shape appealing to artists.

Contemporary artists have followed this tradition to create eggs that speak to the anxieties of our age: Life is precious, and delicate.

But a new report by Deloitte, Global Human Capital Trends, based on a survey of more than 7,000 executives in over 130 countries, suggests that the fashion for teamwork has reached a new high.

Britons have cut their spending on itits prices have gone up over the yearsits quality has seen marked improvementBritons have developed the habit of savingIt will expand in time.

Bill, for instance, often gets painful flashbacks, in which unwanted memories intrude into his consciousness, but overall he has chosen to see it as the best way of avoiding repeating the same mistakes.

And the quit rates were particularly convincing given that before the study started, most of the people had said they'd rather cut down gradually before quitting.

And most of us may sometimes feel the frustration of having old memories interfere with new, relevant memories.

After graduating with a degree in business and accounting, she joined a public accounting firm, married, bought a house, put lots of stuff in it, and had a baby.

A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steelcase, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are engaged is to give them more control over where and how they do their work—which may mean liberating them from having to do everything in collaboration with others.

A couple of recent papers have finally opened a window on these people's extraordinary minds.

With this comprehensive knowledge of the history of art, he has since become a professional painter.

Veiseh agrees: It is like having these open wounds – they are just a part of you, he says.

With wild carrots, the roots are white, small and skinny, so you’d have to pick a lot of wild carrots to get enough to eat.

Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn’t wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.

We didn’t have much money, but it didn’t matter.

This behaviour may have evolved as dogs gradually learned they could benefit from avoiding conflicts with humans.

The snake has been named silver boa because it is metal-coloured and the first specimen found was climbing a silver palm tree.

She loved finding out people were getting married, having babies and traveling.

She looked at the list of over 500 friends she had on Facebook and realized some of them were not really friends at all.

People in cold places live in warm houses and have learned to adapt.

Nicaraguan naval authorities had banned sea travel in the area because of bad weather and strong winds, but the tour boat proceeded anyway.

Mules have strong muscles like horses; but they eat less, can work longer, and are gentler, like donkeys.

It was like living in an age you could never have imagined, and that never has come back.

It is not the first time one of Google’s famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused one.

He estimated that the comfort level will increase considerably in five to ten years3) One dog has been killed and multiple dogs have been injured by a snowmobile driver in what appears to be an intentional attack on competitors in the Iditarod Race in Alaska.

Dogs, man’s best friends, have a clear strategy for dealing with angry owners—they look away.

Dogs may have learned to detect threat signs from humans and respond by trying to make peace, according to researcher Sanni Somppi.

Blandon, the boat’s owner, has been arrested by Nicaraguan authorities, the state-run news agency said.

Avoiding conflicts may have helped dogs develop better bonds with humans.

Another thing Katherine loved about Facebook was that she didn’t have to think about time zones when updating family.

A snowmobile driver had repeatedly attempted to harm her and her team, and one of Zircle’s dogs had received a non-lifethreatening injury.

A new species of snake has been discovered on a remote island in the Bahamas.

to see whether people's personality affects their life span to find out if one's lifestyle has any effect on their health to investigate the role of exercise in living a long lifeto examine all the factors contributing to longevity They have a good understanding of evolution.

may be better at solving puzzlescan memorize things with more easemay have greater facility in abstract reasoningcan put what they have learnt into more effective usefind ways to slow down our mental declinefind ways to boost our memoriesunderstand the complex process of mental functioningunderstand the relation between physical and mental healthThe most important thing in the news last week was the rising discussion in Nashville about the educational needs of children.

Yet I, too, have resisted the idea that food shortages could bring down not only individual governments but also our global civilization.

Whether residents felt involved in the decision to move and how long they had lived there also proved significant.

When your elderly relative needs to enter some sort of long-term care facility—a moment few parents or children approach without fear—what you would like is to have everything made clear.

When they had lunch in the dining room, they sat alone at the table.

What people were like when they came in had greater consequence than what happened once they were there.

What government has not yet found is the political will to put that understanding into full practice with a sequence of smart schooling that provides the early foundation.

We all have our own ideas about what would bring our parents happiness.

Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway.

This is, in any case, the right conversation to be having now as Mayor Megan Barry takes office.

They have their ideas, too.

They had to work from early morning till late at night.

These patterns suggest that some types of mental flexibility decrease relatively early in adulthood, but that the amount of knowledge one has, and the effectiveness of integrating it with one's abilities, may increase throughout all of adulthood if there are no diseases, Salthouse said in a news release.

The federal Head Start program, launched 50 years ago, has served more than 30 million children.

The concept has multiple forms, and scholars and policymakers argue about the shape, scope and cost of the ideal program.

Workers' advocates have criticized Haslam's plan, saying it would mean some campus workers would lose their jobs or benefits.

Will parents be damaging children if they have one fewer organized activity? No, I really doubt it.

They may have trouble getting adequate food.

They have seriously polluted the places where birds spend winter.

They have led some birds to give up on migration.

They have forced white storks to search for safer winter shelters.

They have changed the previous migration habits of certain birds.

They have accelerated the reproduction of some harmful insects.

They had much geographic knowledge.

They had enough travel and outdoor-life experience.

These math circles cost nothing, or they're very cheap for students to get involved in, but you have to know about them, said Rusczyk.

The summer program run by a nonprofit organization has helped many underserved students learn advanced math.

The state's facilities management project team is still in the process of developing its business justification and expects to have that completed and available to the public at the end of February, Martin said.

The retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400 million in cost-cutting measures.

The recent discovery of the giant Zohr gas field off the Egyptian coast will eventually have impact on pricing in the Mediterranean region and Europe, and there is significant development potential in many other places, notably Argentina.

The cycle continues: Poorer parents have less time and fewer resources to invest in their children, which can leave children less prepared for school and work, which leads to lower earnings.

The company had previously announced the planned closures, but had not said which locations would be affected.

The advent of new technologies has added about 4.

The North American shale gas boom has resulted in record low prices there.

The Los Angeles Math Circle, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, began in 2007 with 20 students and now has more than 250.

That letter, which includes several concerns Morgan has with the plan, was originally obtained by The Commercial Appeal in Memphis.

Technological innovations have unleashed the power of renewables such as wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal ( ' , 地热).

Teachers in low-income urban and rural areas with no history of participating in math competitions may not know about advanced-math opportunities like MathCounts—and those who do may not have support or feel trained to lead them.

Students in university towns may also have access to another lever for involvement in accelerated math: math circles.

Some socioeconomic differences in child rearing have shrunk in the past ten years.

Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository ( ' , 库), and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has observed some 500 million objects—but these remain the exception, not the rule.

Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events.

Public policies aimed at young children have helped, including public preschool programs and reading initiatives.

Parenting approaches of working-class and affluent families both have advantages.

Oil prices have dropped by over 60% since June 2014.

Of families earning more than $75,000 a year, 84% say their children have participated in organized sports over the past year, 64% have done volunteer work and 62% have taken lessons in music, dance or art.

Of families earning less than $30,000, 59% of children have done sports, 37% have volunteered and 41 % have taken arts classes.

Of course these practical, insightful designers have determined the course of late twentieth-century fashion.

Nations from around the world have gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, with the goal of a universal and potentially legally-binding agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Morgan's comments on outsourcing mark the second time this month that he has come out against one of Haslam's plans for higher education in Tennessee.

Migrating birds affect ecosystems both at home and at their winter destinations, and disrupting the traditional routes could have unexpected side effects.

Middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives, said Loh.

Meanwhile, growing income inequality has coincided with the increasing importance of a college degree for earning a middle-class wage.

Meanwhile, Macy's has simply struggled to lure consumers who are more interested in spending on travel or dining out than on new clothes or accessories.

Massive rubbish dumps and sprawling landfills constitute one of the more uncomfortable impacts that humans have on wildlife.

Many have argued that the women designers of this time were able to project their own clothing values into a new style.

Macy's has been moving aggressively to try to remake itself for a new era of shopping.

Landfill sites on the Iberian Peninsula have long attracted local white storks, but all of the Spanish birds tagged in the study flew across the Sahara Desert to the western Sahel.

It is estimated that extreme weather conditions have endangered the lives of millions of African children.

It has plans to open more locations of Macy's Backstage, a newly-developed off-price concept which might help it better compete with ambitious T.J.Maxx.

It has neglected their faculty's demands.

It has been flatly rejected by the governor.

Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad ( ' , IMO)—the first for an American team in more than two decades— the trend is likely to continue.

In the past decade, even as income inequality has grown, some of the socioeconomic differences in parenting, like reading to children and going to libraries, have narrowed.

In fact, in line with past experience, capital expenditure in the oil sector has dropped sharply in many producing countries, including the United States.

In an earlier time, American fashion had also followed the dictates of Paris, or even copied and pirated specific French designs.

I'd much prefer to have my data used by the maximum number of people to ask their own questions, she says.

Historically, scientists have objected to sharing for many reasons: it is a lot of work; until recently, good databases did not exist; grant funders were not pushing for sharing; it has been difficult to agree on standards for formatting data; and there is no agreed way to assign credit for data.

He had lost confidence in the Tennessee state government.

Haslam has said colleges would be free to opt in or out of the outsourcing plan, which has not been finalized.

For example, the United Arab Emirates has endorsed an ambitious target to draw 24% of its primary energy consumption from renewable sources by 2021.

For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; it has been downloaded 5,700 times.

Facilities management has greatly improved in recent years.

Even major fossil fuel exporting countries have great potential to develop renewable energies.

Even Africa and the Middle East, home to economies that are heavily dependent on fossil fuel exports, have enormous potential to develop renewables.

Europe hardly had any museums before the 19th century.

Do you know who we have to beat? asked Saul.

Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases without regard to the collateral ( ' , 附带的) costs.

Designer sportswear would have to be verified by a standard other than that of pure beauty; the emulation of a designer's life in designer sportswear was a crude version of this relationship.

Children from higher-income families are likely to have the skills to navigate bureaucracies and succeed in schools and workplaces, Ms.

But renewable energy will have to displace fossil fuels to a much greater extent in the future to avoid unacceptable climate risks.

At this time there is nothing to take action on since the analysis has yet to be completed.

Aristocrats' country houses all had Roman-style gardens.

Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.

Another example is reading aloud, which studies have shown gives children bigger vocabularies and better reading comprehension in school.

American parents, whether rich or poor, have similar expectations of their children despite different ways of parenting.

American parents want similar things for their children, the Pew report and past research have found: for them to be healthy and happy, honest and ethical, caring and compassionate.

About 250 students so far have gone through the program, which receives funding from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation.

You will face problems in the aging of the population that have never been faced before.

This lawyer had fallen victim to the don’ts syndrome—a form of negative goals setting.

Poverty has been understood in many different ways.

Poverty has become a critical issue in today’s world.

Mr.Ishiguro, have you ever found one of your books at a secondhand bookstore? According to a study of race and equity in education, black athletes are dropping out of college across the country at alarming rates.

It's not a chance you're going to have throughout your lifetime.

In fact, you may have heard about the new superbugs, which are antibiotic-resistant bacteria that have developed as a result of overprescribed antibiotics.

For years, many of us have relied on antibiotic use to treat various infections.

For the next few years, you have a chance to focus on thinking.

And, apparently, that day has come because seemingly routine operations such as knee replacements are now much more hazardous due to the looming threat of these infections.

And the reality is that antibiotics have been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin, one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical basis 70 years ago.

Young people should have lofty ideals in life and strive to be leaders.

Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

Why, then, has this claim become so popular?Part of the answer is that this is what always happens during periods of high unemployment—in part because experts and analysts believe that declaring the problem deeply rooted, with no easy answers, makes them sound serious.

Which makes it odd that the kitchen has become the heart of the modern house: what the great hall was to the medieval castle, the kitchen is to the 21stcentury home.

When I was in high school, dozens in my class alone would have answered differently.

We have everything to gain by encouraging them to explore the world beyond their immediate experience and to prepare themselves for their turn at shaping that world.

We are very proud of our accomplishments under the Greenlist system and we believe that we will prevail in these cases, Christopher Beard, director of public affairs for SC Johnson, said, while acknowledging that this has been an area that is difficult to navigate.

Unemployment has surged in every major occupational category.

To get access to millions of new customers, insurers would have a strong incentive to sell on the exchange.

This is really about trying to cut through the confusion that consumers have when they are buying a product and that businesses have when they are selling a product, said Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the commission.

They speak with Mom or Dad when they have a problem.

They have to spend lots of time choosing products.

They have doubt about current green certification.

They have been somewhat exaggerated.

There's work to be done, but workers aren't ready to do it—they're in the wrong places, or they have the wrong skills.

The survey shows us that today's teens are affectionate, sensible and far happier than the angry and tortured souls that have been painted for us by stereotypes.

A 90-year-old has been awarded "woman of the year" for being Britain's oldest full-time employee-still working 40 hours a week.

A bar graph has two axes and uses bars to show amounts.

A coach may read a sports story for its threat value: he may have to play that team next week.

A common memory they all have of their school days is the school uniform.

A decade of data breaches (数据侵入) of personal information has led to a situation where scammers can easily learn your mother's name, and far more.

A kind of "green thinking " has become part of practices.

A local driving school has also offered him six free driving lessons.

A machine with a specific purpose has another quality, one that we usually associate with living things: a wish to preserve its own existence.

A musher named Kaasen had to brave this storm.

A neighborhood girl had bought a new bike.

A neighborhood girl I'd played with millions of times appeared with the exact same basket fixed to her shiny, new bike that already had all the bells and whistles.

A photography exhibition held by Han Media to celebrate its founding in New York city on April 24, featuring three emerging Chinese photographers; yingxi Michael Shi, Haiyin lin and liming Guan, whose works have appeared in publications such as Vogue.

A recent trend has been to encourage employees to use their own initiative, to make decisions on their own without asking managers first.

A rescue worker risked his life saving two tourists who have been trapped in the mountains for two days.

A retired engineer, 76-year-old Wilson has been offering free rides to college students for the past eight years.

A school boy or girl is unpunctual because he or she does not have the necessary human virtue of self-discipline.

A scientist working at her lab bench and a six-old baby playing with his food might seem to have little in common.

A seminar leader shared her success story —she had not only 125 pounds, but also raised $25, 000 for homeless children.

A war injury has made his left hand stop functioning, and he has often been in prison.

A warm drink of milk before bed has long been the best choice for those wanting a good night's sleep.

According to a new survey (调查) by the national sleep foundation, 51% of kids aged 10 to 18 go to bed at 10 pm or later on school nights, even though they have to get up early.

According to Anderson, before 1970, Americans had little idea about environmental problems.

According to the Overseas Development Institute Odi, however, just 12% of disaster-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards.

According to the report's key findings, the proportion who say they ‘hardly ever' read for fun has gone from 8 percent of 13-year-olds.

According to US government reports, emissions (排放) from cars and trucks have dropped from 10.

Adjusting to an upright position was quite a challenge, especially when the bones had to support an extra-large skull.

Advanced lights, motors, and building designs have helped save a lot of energy and therefore prevented pollution.

After 75 years the plaza theater has shown its last movie.

After all, not everyone has realized that wildlife has thoughts, feelings, and most importantly, equal rights to survive.

After having taught fifth-grade classes for four years, I decided to try all costs to rid them of their fear and dislike of books, and to get them to read oftener and more adventurously.

After he steadied himself, he shook Glenn's mother's hand, and the inspection continued as though nothing had happened.

After paying the clerk,I still had 5 cents.

After reading some history books on how the first group of Chinese immigrants survived in America of the 19th century, she has become keen on her own family history and that of others.

After receiving the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, Anne Benedict went on to thank all the people who had helped in her career.

After that, I'll have a meeting with him over lunch.

After the meetings, you will have some time for afternoon tea.

Again, not a move, the next time, I had my camera ready to record what you see here, one of several dozen such pictures, so long as she had a slice to eat, she never bothered the one on her head.

Aggressive wildfire control has left California forests crowded with small trees that compete with big trees for resources.

All across the country, recovery centers have begun building healing gardens.

All participants must address how communication or transportation technology has promoted the quality of life for Americans throughout history.

All the work has to be your own.

Already this year, 115 measles cases have been reported in the USA, compared with 189 for all of last year.

Also explores philosophy and wellbeing to make sure young readers have a balanced take on life.

Also, sometimes pre-anger does not have to do with a lasting condition, but rather a temporary state before a triggering event has occurred.

Although Dr Dominoni has only studied light pollution, other research concluded that robins living in noisy cities have started to sing at night to make themselves heard over loud noise.

Although I'd like to go to Denmark, I have to go with my parents.

Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together.

Although they would still have to actually read them.

Amazingly, Taylor had just taken a CPR course the day before.

An engineer named Ellis Chesbrough convinced the city that it had no choice but to build the pipes above ground and then cover them with dirt.

And besides, he or she has seen many students stupider than you, so nothing you're gong to ask will set the record for stupidity.

And dinner time seemed perfect for sharing what we had learned.

And I'd love to have a drink there.

And if you have your lecture notes or the article in hand, you and the professor will be able to examine specific points that are confusing to you, rather than just talking in a general way about the contents.

And it was accompanied in the nest by the greatest sight of all — lunch! the parents had done their duty and would probably continue to do so.

And people have been warned not to go out of their homes — not if you walk on foot, at least — between 11 in the morning and 7 in the evening.

And that's precisely why one garbage-eating Frenchman has caught our attention.

And the more frequently mothers had called to their eggs, the more similar were the babies' begging calls.

And though one of the executives acknowledged that Brutus had the good of the republic in mind, Caesar was nevertheless his superior.

And unplanned human activities have proved the idea of top-down control by top predators to be true.

And years later, she was proud that her son had read thousands of books, was awarded a PhD in literature, and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction.

And yet, people in this area are in fact French citizens because it has been a colony of the French republic since 1946.

Anger is a particularly strong feeling and Maybe people think that they have reasons to feel angry.

Another block to awareness is the obsession many of us have with naming things.

Another important design goal is communication, which designers have improved by lowering the walls that separate workstations.

Another patient noticed what I was reading and struck up a conversation with me because he had one of his books with him as well.

Anyone who has ever been helped by a social worker has Jane Addams to thank.

Are we still going to have group study tonight?

Art students making a good living with these statistics/data/analyses in mind, art students need not worry about their career and have an alternative plan.

Arts have a gradually spreading effect.

As a result, in the last twenty years or so, many people have come to believe that whatever change is happening today is the result of great technological progress, going against which will be like trying to turn the clock back.

As a result, I've always kept up with the newspapers, faithfully read news magazines and learned to really enjoy books, all of which have been an invaluable help to me in radio and television reporting.

As for the bad news, a new bank has been built.

As for the USA, it is almost unique among developed nations in having a population that is expected to grow by 20% from 2010—2030.

As I sat in my own personal heaven, I started thinking about having more.

As I was in a good mood, I let her have it.

As I watch her chase after a squirrel, throwing her whole being into the here-and-now of an exercise that has never once ended in victory.

As long as there have been codes, people have tried to break them.

As soon as Christiansen saw the photos, he realized why he had failed to spot the caldera.

As the ceremony was nearing the end, I suddenly heard the head coach announcing, "the highest honor goes to Cathy!" looking around, he continued, "Cathy has inspired us with her will and enthusiasm."

As the co-founder of the National Young Farmers Coalition NYFC (美国青年农会) and a family farmer myself, I have a front-row seat to the innovations among small farmers that are transforming the industry.

As the number of tourists has grown, so has the amount of traffic on the roads.

As they left student life behind, many had a last drink at their cheap but friendly local bar, shook hands with longtime roommates, and moved out of small apartments into high buildings.

As we move away from an industrial-based economy to a knowledge-based one, office designers have come up with alternatives to the traditional work environments of the past.

As you go through this book, you will find that each of the millions of people who lived through world war ii had a different experience.

At a local school a successful charity supper has been held.

At last - she never knew how long it had taken her - she felt solid ground under her feet.

At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.

At least, workers wouldn't have needed to carry cattle fat or water to smooth the paths.

At present, the world has about 6800 languages.

At some point in all of our lives, we'll have our trust tested or violated.

At some time in the past Yellowstone must have blown up with a violence far beyond the scale of anything known to humans.

At the beginning, when friends offered to take her through her paces, I declined because I knew they had their own households to deal with.

At the time, people did not have dishwashers in their homes.

At the university of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials-including photographs, films, tape recordings, and field notes—which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.

Athens was more and more looked on as a cooperative business possessed of great wealth in which all citizens had a right to share.

Athens was not in the farthest background of his mind, but once man has a great and good idea, it is never completely lost.

Athens would cease to have freedom.

We are thus led to distinguish, within the broad educational process which we have been so far considering, a more formal kind of education -- that of direct tuition or schooling.

If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.

When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10,000 years ago, they didn’t have time to wonder much about anything besides finding food.

What is the real relationship between education and economic development? We have to suspect that continuing economic growth promotes the development of education even when governments don’t force it.

This DNA can reveal genetic information about only one or two ancestors, even though, for example, just three generations back people also have six other great-grandparents or, four generations back, 14 other great-great-grandparents.

Their thinking often had a traditional superstitions quality.

The findings of a research institution have consistently shown that workers in all countries can be trained on the job to achieve radical higher productivity and, as a result, radically higher standards of living.

Other anthropologists believed that cultural innovations, such as inventions, had a single origin and passed from society to society.

More than 60,000 people have purchased the PTKs since they first become available without prescriptions last years, according to Doug Fog, chief operating officer of Identigene, which makes the over-the-counter kits.

Mean while , many settles had slighter religious commitments than Dane’s, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion.

He notes that each individual has many ancestors-numbering in the hundreds just a few centuries back.

But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.

At puberty, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.

We have no land ethic yet, but we have at least drawn nearer the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of intrinsic right,regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us.

The evidence had to be economic in order to be valid.

Some species of trees have been"read out of the party"by economics-minded foresters because they grow too slowly, or have too low a sale value to pay as timber crops.

One basic weakness in a conservation system based wholly on economic motives is that most members of the land community have no economic value.

Moreover, some have been found to have a valuable function in building up soil fertility.

It is only in recent years that we hear It is only in recent years that we hear the more honest argument that predators are members of the community, and that no special interest has the right to exterminate them for the sake of a benefit ,real or fancied ,to itself.

Here again, evidence had to be economic in order to be valid.

“So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote,“that I am tempted to define‘journalism’ as‘a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are'.

Their rules, moan the banks, have forced them to report enormous losses, and it’s just not fair.

The first and more important is the consumer's growing preference for eating out: the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000 and is expected to approach 38 percent by 2005.

The Federal Circuit’s action comes in the wake of a series of recent decisions by the supreme Count that has narrowed the scope of protections for patent holders.

The FASB and IASB have been exactly that, cleaning up rules on stock options and pensions, for example, against hostility form special interests.

Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods Amazon.

Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century,perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.

Most leading retailers have already tried e-commerce, with limited success, and expansion aboard.

Moreover,the amateur tradition in music criticism has been in headlong retreat.

Marketers have embraced the two-step flow because it suggests that if they can just find and influence the influentials,those selected people will do most of the work for them.

Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern reader shave little use for the richly upholstered Vicwardian prose in which he specialized.

In their recent work,however,some researchers have come up with the finding that influentials have far less impact on social epidemics than is generally supposed.

In a move that has intellectual-property lawyers abuzz, the U.

In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.

For a social epidemic to occur,however,each person so affected,must then influence his or her own acquaintances,who must in turn influence theirs,and so on;and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initial influential.

Despite variations in detail, wholesale markets in the countries that have been closely examined— France, Germany, Italy and Spain—are made out of the same building blocks.

But almost all have ignored the big, profitable opportunity in their own backyard: the wholesale food and drink trade, which appears to be just the kind of market retailers need.

Behind the scenes, they have been taking aim at someone else: the accounting standard-setters.

Bankers have been blaming themselves for their troubles in public.

The sobering aspect of Allen‘s book is that we have no one else to blame for our present condition except ourselves.

In fat， circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us and if we feel that we have been “wronged” then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation.

If circumstances always determined the life and prospects of people， then humanity would never have progressed.

Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.

The widespread availability of such recordings has thus brought about a crisis in the institution of the traditional classical concert.

The same dramatic technological changes that have provided marketers with more ( ' , and more diverse) communications choices have also increased the risk that passionate consumers will voice their opinions in quicker, more visible, and much more damaging ways.

The growth in public money for academic research has speeded the process: federal research grants rose fourfold between 1960 and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its toll.

The financial crisis has made it more acceptable to be between jobs or to leave a bad one.

The decision of the New York Philharmonic to hire Alan Gilbert as its next music director has been the talk of the classical-music world ever since the sudden announcement of his appointment in 2009.

So, at the end of a decade of thesis-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.

Says Korn/Ferry senior partner Dennis Carey:”I can’t think of a single search I’ve done where a board has not instructed me to look at sitting CEOs first.

Professionalism has turned the acquisition of a doctoral degree into a prerequisite for a successful academic career: as late as 1969 a third of American professors did not possess one.

No disciplines have seized on professionalism with as much enthusiasm as the humanities.

Johnson & Johnson, for example, has created BabyCenter, a stand-alone media property that promotes complementary and even competitive products.

In the third quarter, CEO turnover was down 23% from a year ago as nervous boards stuck with the leaders they had, according to Liberum Research.

In such a case, the company’s response may not be sufficiently quick or thoughtful, and the learning curve has been steep.

In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing ? It doesn’t seem quite fair,then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the children.

However, many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should possess.

Gilbert’s own interest in new music has been widely noted: Alex Ross, a classical-music critic, has described him as a man who is capable of turning the Philharmonic into “a markedly different, more vibrant organization”.

For years executives and headhunters have adhered to the rule that the most attractive CEO candidates are the ones who must be poached.

For the most part, the response has been favorable, to say the least.

For something curious has been happening in American universities, and Louis Menand, a professor of English at Harvard University, captured it skillfully.

For my part, I have no idea whether Gilbert is a great conductor or even a good one.

Even Tommasini, who had advocated Gilbert’s appointment in the Times, calls him “an unpretentious musician with no air of the formidable conductor about him”.

Besides professionalising the professions by this separation, top American universities have professionalised the professor.

At Harvard, Mr.Menand notes, “the great books are read because they have been read”—they form a sort of social glue.

As a description of the next music director of an orchestra that has hitherto been led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and Pierre Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least some Times readers as faint praise.

All I have to do is to go to my CD shelf, or boot up my computer and download still more recorded music from iTunes.

A turbulent business environment also has senior managers cautious of letting vague pronouncements cloud their reputations.

This tendency in the natural sciences has long been evident in the social sciences too.

Since the days of Aristotle, a search for universal principles has characterized the scientific enterprise.

Gray and his colleagues have put them to the test by examining four family trees that between them represent more than 2,000 languages.

com, which allow users to combine pictures, words and other media in creative ways and then share them, have the potential to add stickiness by amusing, entertaining and enlightening others.

This is because the networked computer has sparked a secret war between downloading and uploading - between passive consumption and active creation - whose outcome will shape our collective future in ways we can only begin to imagine.

The legal issues in the case are obscure: whereas the Supreme Court has ruled that states do have some regulatory authority over nuclear power, legal scholars say that Vermont case will offer a precedent-setting test of how far those powers extend.

The hardest task that television asks of anyone is to turn the power off after he has turned it on.

The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont’s only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.

The company seems to have concluded that its reputation in Vermont is already so damaged that it has noting left to lose by going to war with the state.

Reform has been vigorously opposed, perhaps most egregiously in education, where charter schools, academies and merit pay all faced drawn-out battles.

Politicians have repeatedly “backloaded” public-sector pay deals, keeping the pay increases modest but adding to holidays and especially pensions that are already generous.

Pledging to run Pilgrim safely, the company has applied for federal permission to keep it open for another 20 years.

One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium - television - and television is defined by downloading.

Now the company is suddenly claiming that the 2002 agreement is invalid because of the 2006 legislation, and that only the federal government has regulatory power over nuclear issues.

Not only did they develop such a device but by the turn of the millennium they had also managed to embed it in a worldwide system accessed by billions of people every day.

Nobel Laureate and physiologist Albert Azent-Gyorgyi once described discovery as “seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

In the end, credibility “happens” to a discovery claim - a process that corresponds to what philosopher Annette Baier has described as the commons of the mind.

In Wisconsin the unions have rallied thousands of supporters against Scott Walker, the hardline Republican governor.

Even though there is plenty of evidence that the quality of the teachers is the most important variable, teachers’ unions have fought against getting rid of bad ones and promoting good ones.

But thinking what nobody else has thought and telling others what they have missed may not change their views.

But had Entergy kept its word, that debate would be beside the point.

Britain’s Labor Party, as its name implies, has long been associated with trade unionism.

Bankers’ fat pay packets have attracted much criticism, but a public-sector system that does not reward high achievers may be a much bigger problem for America.

As the cost to everyone else has become clearer, politicians have begun to clamp down.

A quarter of America’s public-sector workers have a university degree.

One of these urges had to do with creating a state of peace in the midst of turbulence, a “still point of the turning world,” to borrow a phrase from T.

You might even be tempted to assume that humanity has little future to look forward to.

Towards the end of Overdressed, Cline introduced her ideal, a Brooklyn woman named Sarah Kate Beaumont, who since 2008 has made all of her own clothes – and beautifully.

Though several fast-fashion companies have made efforts to curb their impact on labor and the environment – including H&M, with its green Conscious Collection line –Cline believes lasting change can only be effected by the customer.

This year, it was proposed that the system be changed: Horizon 2020, a new program to be enacted in 2014, would not have such a category.

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