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is something few can accomplishneeds some practice firstrequires a lot of patienceis a challenge at the beginningThey find it even more difficult.

While consumers are spending less on toilet paper, they remain fussy – in theory at least – when it comes to paper quality.

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

Veiseh can even put a date on when those tapes started recording: 15 December 2000, when he met his first girlfriend at his best friend's 16th birthday party.

There's part of this sickening horror of knowing you're walking on the edge with this, that I kind of like, knowing that it could all fall apart at any second.

The question is, how?Lawrence Patihis at the University of Southern Mississippi recently studied around 20 people with HSAM and found that they scored particularly highly on two measures: fantasy proneness ( ' , 倾向) and absorption.

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 .

One of the reasons I find this topic very interesting is because my mom was a smoker when I was younger, says Lindson-Hawley, who studies tobacco and health at the University of Oxford.

Nor are they necessarily better at remembering a round of drinks, say.

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.

Interestingly, their memories are highly self-centred: although they can remember autobiographical life events in extraordinary detail, they seem to be no better than average at recalling impersonal information, such as random ( ' , 任意选取的) lists of words.

In spring, chickens start laying again, bringing a welcome source of protein at winter's end.

I've broken eggs at every stage of the process—from the very beginning to the very, very end.

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.

Hackman ( ' , who died in 2013) noted that teams are hindered by problems of co-ordination and motivation that chip away at the benefits of collaboration.

Donohue, now a history teacher, agrees that it helped during certain parts of her education: I can definitely remember what I learned on certain days at school.

Consider trying to remember where you parked your car in the same car park you were at a week earlier.

But at least, she says, they can maximize the odds of success.

Barbara Hagerty looks at some of the features of people who turn midlife into a rebirth.

At some point, almost all of us will experience a period of radical professional change.

At middle age, he wrote, the sowing is behind; now is the time to reap.

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.

When dogs looked at expressions of angry dogs, their eyes rested more on the mouth, perhaps to interpret the threatening expressions.

When Katherine joined Facebook, some of her classmates at high school started to add her as a friend.

Tom Moses, who works at a nearby national park, noticed a brown patch on the back of the car after the owner parked it to do some shopping.

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

On February 14th, the self-driving car, travelling at 2 miles per hour, pulled out in front of a public bus going 15 miles per hour.

In fact, we seemed to be out all the time! I don’t really remember working— of course, I was a student—or sitting around at home very much.

Hi, Susan! You’re looking very smart today! There is new data out today that confirms that many Americans are not good at math, and when it comes to everyday technology skills, we are dead last when compare to other developed countries.

Dogs in the study looked most at the eyes of humans and other dogs to sense their emotions.

At first, this didn’t bother her.

And when looking at angry humans, they tended to turn away their gaze.

A tour boat turned o v e r o f f t h e c o a s t o f Nicaragua, killing at least 13 people and leaving more passengers missing, official said.

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.

When you look at attitudes toward driverless cars, there doesn't seem to be a clear generational divide.

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

We thought we would see differences based on the housing types, said the lead author of the study, Julie Robison, an associate professor of medicine at the university.

We must cut carbon emissions by 80% from their 2006 levels by 2020, stabilize the world's population at eight billion by 2040, completely remove poverty, and restore forests and soils.

Trigger its built-in alarm system at once.

They reach a peak at the age of 20 for most people.

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

They ate three meals regularly every dayThey were expert at cooking meals.

They are better at negotiating an agreement.

The study included healthy, educated adults who took standard tests of memory, reasoning and perception at the outset and at some point over the next seven years.

The big meal came at around 1 p.

That study looked at nearly 28,000 Norwegian mothers and found that those moms who were more anxious, depressed and angry were more likely to feed their kids unhealthy diets.

Some show up ready, but many do not at this critical time when young brains are developing rapidly.

So what Epictetus would say is sitting at home worrying about that would be wrong and wasteful and irrational.

So the formerly small supper after sundown becomes the big meal of the day, the only one at which the family has a chance to get together.

Since industrialization, maintaining such a slow cultural metabolism has been much harder, with the long midday meal shrinking to whatever could be stuffed into a lunch bucket or bought at a food stand.

Philip Sloane, a geriatrician ( ' , 老年病学专家 ) at the University of North Carolina: In a way, that could be liberating for families.

Most people's minds function at a high level even in their later years, according to researcher Timothy Salthouse.

Meals are the foundation of the family, says Carole Counihan, a professor at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, so there was a very important interconnection between eating together and strengthening family ties.

Later, at 5 or 6, you'd have a smaller supper.

It was based on concepts developed at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College by Susan Gray, the legendary pioneer in early childhood education research.

Indeed, we have made substantial progress in some parts of the world on at least one of these—the distribution of family-planning services and the associated shift to smaller families.

In agrarian ( ' , 农业的 ), pre-industrial Europe, you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work, says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.

If the food situation continues to worsen, entire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate.

For this purpose, our schools need both the talent and the organization to educate each child who arrives at the schoolhouse door.

Even if there is no concrete benefit paid in response to your good deed, at the very least, the doer of the good deed has the opportunity to enjoy a kind of spiritually enlightened moment.

But what effect does your personality have on your longevity ( ' , 长寿)? Do some kinds of personalities lead to longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the personality characteristics of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.

At first the researchers of the most recent study found residents in assisted living facilities gave higher scores on social interaction.

As water tables have fallen and irrigation wells have gone dry, China's wheat crop, the world's largest, has declined by 8% since it peaked at 123 million tons in 1997.

You probably think college students are experts at sleeping, but parties, preparations for tests, personal problems and general stress can wreck a student’s sleep habits, which can be bad for the body and the mind.

The report warns that 200 million poor workers are at risk of joining the ranks of people living on less than two dollars per day in the past three years.

Some, like Mr.Azar’s plastic bag, are open to argument as to how they work, or whether they really work at all.

People suffering from sleep loss are at an increased risk from obesity, psychological problems and car crashes.

Parents and teachers will tell you not to worry when applying for a place at a university.

Much of the criticism is directed at the British Airports Authority, which runs seven major airports, including the three main ones serving in London.

Meanwhile, there are complaints that poor service at London’s major airports is discouraging foreigners from doing business in Britain.

Long queues, delayed flights and over - crowding at airports have become almost as much a topic for conversation in Britain as the traditional complaining about the weather.

It was actually a tricycle with a petrol motor at the rear.

In some departments, either the chairman or the director of graduate studies serves for at least the first semester as a new student adviser.

I don’t know about perfecting but they want at least to be able to communicate decently.

And are there any rules or regulations that you’d like to change?Behind the cash register at a store in downtown San Francisco, Sam Azar swiped his credit card to pay for a pack of cigarettes.

116 brands were looked at for this study.

We are at a point where in much of the developed world the vast majority of young people grew up playing video games, and an increasingly high percentage of adults play these video games too, Werbach says.

They're also only a single layer in what should ideally be a many-sided approach to securing your home, one that includes common sense things like sound locks and proper exterior lighting at night.

The team at Frontpoint addresses the issue in a blog on its site, citing their own jam protection software and claiming that there aren't any documented cases of successful jam attack since the company began offering wireless security sensors in the 1980s.

The emotional component of the prizes is at work.

Teaching is an art and a craft, talent and practice; it is not something that just anyone can be good at.

Teachers are not people who are great at and consumed by research and happen to appear in a classroom.

Presumably, you keep your doors locked at night and while you're away, so the thief will still need to break in.

Manufacturers can produce consumer goods at a much lower cost.

If you have a sign in your yard declaring what setup you use, that'd point them in the right direction, though at that point, we're talking about a highly targeted, semi-sophisticated attack, and not the sort of forced-entry attack that makes up the majority of burglaries.

If we are designing for engineers, I'm not talking about a ‘game' at all, Cornetti says.

I first began to investigate the basis of human motivation—and how people persevere after setbacks—as a psychology graduate student at Yale University in the 1960s.

He'll need to be jamming you at this point, as a broken window or opened door would normally release the alarm.

Gamification is about understanding what it is that makes games engaging and what game designers do to create a great experience in games, and taking those learnings and applying them to other contexts such as the workplace and education, explains Kevin Werbach, a gamification expert who teaches at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.

For them, the right kind of gamification might be turning their sales pitches into a competition with other team members, complete with a digital leaderboard showing who is winning at all times.

Consumers, in the U.S. at least, are acting cautiously with the savings they're getting at the gas pump, as the memory of the recent great recession is still fresh in their mind.

Consumers have more money in their pockets when they're paying less at the pump.

At the start of junior high, the math achievement test scores of the students with a growth mind-set were comparable to those of students who displayed a fixed mind-set.

At the end of the day, these kinds of systems are primarily designed to protect against the sort of opportunistic smash-and-grab attack that makes up the majority of burglaries.

At the beginning of seventh grade, we assessed the students' mind-sets by asking them to agree or disagree with statements such as Your intelligence is something very basic about you that you can't really change.

Any device that's built to receive a wireless signal at a specific frequency can be overwhelmed by a stronger signal coming in on the same frequency.

Animal experiments by psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania had shown that after repeated failures, most animals conclude that a situation is hopeless and beyond their control.

And in my position as a professor at three different colleges, the actual problems in educating our young people and older students have deepened, while the number of people hired—not to teach but to hold meetings—has increased significantly.

Rescue efforts were underway Thursday morning for 17 miners who were stuck in an elevator below ground at Cargill rock salt mine near Lansing, New York, according to Marcia Lynch, Public Information Officer at Tompkins County’s Emergency Response Department.

Plus, on-campus jobs eliminate commuting time, and could be a great way to connect with academic and professional resources at your university.

Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead of migrating to the Sahel.

They gradually lose the habit of migrating in winterThey prefer rubbish dumps far away to those at home.

They can multiply at an accelerating rate.

They are more likely to be at risk of dying.

There is no best parenting style or philosophy, researchers say, and across income groups, 92% of parents say they are doing a good job at raising their children.

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 reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal cost—are depleted.

The nations participating at COP 21 are focusing on quantitative emissions-reduction commitments.

The consumer was ultimately to be mentioned as well, especially by the likes of Dorothy Shaver, who could point to the sales figures at Lord & Taylor.

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.

The German traveler Johann Winckelmann pioneered the field of art history with his comprehensive study of Greek and Roman sculpture; he was portrayed by his friend Anton Raphael Mengs at the beginning of his long residence in Rome.

The British traveler Charles Thompson spoke for many Grand Tourists when in 1744 he described himself as being impatiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which once gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with cabinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relics.

Tennessee's technical and community colleges will not outsource ( ' , 外包) management of their facilities to a private company, a decision one leader said was bolstered by an analysis of spending at each campus.

Students use forums to chat, play games, and solve problems together at no cost, or they can pay a few hundred dollars to take courses with trained teachers.

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.

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

Only about 50 students are invited based on their performance on written tests and at the USA Math Olympiad.

Morgan said last week that he would retire at the end of January because of the governor's proposal to split off six universities of the Board of Regents system and create separate governing boards for each of them.

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

Many schools don't place academic competitions at the top of their priority list.

Its flagship stores in major U.S. cities depend heavily on international tourist spending, which shrank at many retailers due to a strong dollar.

It's important to allow readers and reviewers to see exactly how you arrive at your results.

It will slash staffing at its fleet of 770 stores, a move affecting some 3,000 employees.

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 poor families, meanwhile, children tend to spend their time at home or with extended family.

If you look at a lot of low-income communities in the United States, there are programs that are serving them, but they're primarily centered around ‘Let's get these kids' grades up,' and not around ‘Let's get these kids access to the same kinds of opportunities as more-affluent kids,' said Daniel Zaharopol, the founder and executive director of the program.

Ease of care was most important: summer dresses and outfits, in particular, were chiefly cotton, readily capable of being washed and pressed at home.

Early childhood experiences can be very consequential for children's long-term social, emotional and cognitive development, said Sean Reardon, professor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford University.

Data on management expenses at the college system and in other state departments will be part of a business justification the state will use as officials deliberate the specifics of an outsourcing plan.

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

At a time when young beauty shoppers are often turning to Sephora or Ulta instead of department store beauty counters, Macy's hopes Bluemercury will help strengthen its position in the category.

After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national MathCounts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math Video Challenge took the stage to show their videos.

According to Richard Rusczyk, the company founder, the six U.S.team members who competed at the IMO last year collectively took more than 40 courses on the site.

A New York City-based nonprofit called Bridge to Enter Mathematics runs a residential summer program aimed at getting underserved students, mostly black and Hispanic, working toward math and science careers.

2% in November and December at stores open more than a year, a disappointing holiday season performance that capped a difficult year for a department store chain facing wideranging challenges.

So recently, I’ve looked at young people’s drinking and it’s obviously a major concern to government at the moment.

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.

And in today’s program, we’re looking at the results of two recently published surveys, which both deal with the same topic—happiness at work.

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.

They seem to be turning inward—generally in a pro-social manner, certainly with positive benefits for intimate relationships, but too often at the expense of a connection with the present and future world beyond, including the society they will one day inherit.

The roots of his speech, given in March at the roundtable meeting of environment and energy ministers from the G20 group of nations, stretch back to 1972, and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.

The revisions come at a time when green marketing is on the rise.

Still, it is true that American families are growing closer at the dawn of this new millennium ( ' , 千年).

Southern states without strong teachers' unions have schools at least as awful as those in union states.

Some are turning to the Internet, which is cheaper and offers concrete measurements like click-through rates— especially important at a time when marketing budgets are tight.

One recent study attempted to calculate the extent of this ecological overshoot of the human economy, and found that we are using 1.2 Earth's-worth of environmental goods and services—the implication being that at some point the debt will be called in, and all those services—the things which the planet does for us for free—will grind to a halt.

My own research at the Stanford Center on Adolescence uses in-depth interviews with small samples of youngsters rather than large-scale surveys.

Just having a strong teacher for one elementary year left pupils a bit less likely to become mothers as teenagers, a bit more likely to go to college and earning more money at age 28.

It protects incompetent teachers at the expense of students.

It has placed TV advertising at a great disadvantage.

In October 2000, the same month the survey was taken, the Washington-based Center for Media and Public Affairs wrote in its publication Media Monitor that, in a recent month of TV news coverage of American youth, just 2% of teens were shown at home, and just 1% were portrayed in a work setting.

I've been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; it was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now.

For almost five centuries a very large supply of cod ( ' , 鳕鱼) provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

During commercials, an overlay will appear at the bottom of the screen, prompting viewers to press a button to request a free sample or order a catalogue.

As I said, structural unemployment isn't a real problem, it's an excuse—a reason not to act on America's problems at a time when action is desperately needed.

And the World Resources Institute ( ' , WRI) in its World Resources 2005 report, issued at the end of August, produced several such examples from Africa and Asia; it also demonstrated that environmental degradation affects the poor more than the rich, as poorer people derive a much higher proportion of their income directly from the natural resources around them.

According to a new study, the number of advertisements with green messages in mainstream magazines has risen since 1987, and peaked in 2008 at 10.

So Mike, you managed the innovation project at CucinTech.

Researchers at Duke University scrutinized more than 160 published studies and found an absence of strong evidence that any of these approaches can make a big difference.

In fact, they are prescribed and they’regiven at a certain level, a dosage that is understood by a practitioner who’s been trained.

A lot of times people are not really aware of the impact they have, or the fact that taking them in combination with other medications might put you at increased risk for something that you wouldn’t otherwise being countering or be at risk for.

There is an incompatibility in the rate at which these are advancing relative to the way we're digesting it, he said.

The researchers found that telepressure is a major cause of stress at work, which over time contributes to physical and mental burnout.

The old days of the Antarctic being dominated by the interests and wishes of white men from European, Australasian and North American states are over, said Klaus Dodds, a politics scholar at the University of London who specialises in Antarctica.

That, too, explains the heavy Washington presence at this year's show, as these new technologies intrude upon heavily regulated areas.

Teenagers at risk of depression, anxiety and suicide often wear their troubles like a neon ( ' , 霓虹灯 ) sign.

Studying at university will only become less attractive if employers shift their focus away from where someone went to university--and there is no sign of that happening anytime soon.

Students do not merely benefit while at university; studies show- they go on to be healthier and happier than non-graduates, and also far more likely to vote.

Students at university also meet those likely to be in leading jobs in the future, forming contacts for life.

Researchers recently found kimberlite ( ' , 金伯利岩) deposits hinting at the existence of diamonds.

Putting in effect the policies in the agreement at once.

Perhaps the reason why so many universities offer their students so little is they know studying at a top university remains a brilliant investment even if you don't learn anything.

More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining.

Michael Yudell, a professor of public health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said that modern genetics research is operating in a paradox: on the one hand, race is understood to be a useful tool to illuminate human genetic diversity, but on the other hand, race is also understood to be a poorly defined marker of that diversity.

Many top firms will not even look at applications from those who lack a 2.1

It is about the flashiness and the gadgets, said John Curran, managing director of research at Accenture.

In some ways they're at greater risk of falling through the cracks, says researcher Vladimir Carli.

In other words, a few countries are benefiting enormously from the consumption of fossil fuels, while at the same time contributing disproportionately to the global burden of climate change.

In a 2011 study, she investigated the effects of implementing a Results Only Work Environment ( ' , ROWE) on the productivity and well-being of employees at Best Buy's corporate headquarters.

His attitude to state intervention has looked confused ever since his bizarre 2006 lament ( ' , 叹惜) that chocolate oranges placed seductively at supermarket checkouts fueled obesity.

Fewer innovative products were found at this year's electronic products show.

Few students are willing to bear the burden of debt incurred at university.

Dr.Donald Sadoway at MIT started his own battery company with the hope of changing the world's energy future.

But now these segments are looking at slower growth curves – or shrinking markets in some cases – as consumers are not as eager to spend money on new gadgets.

Being stationed in Antarctica involves adapting to life on the planet's driest, windiest and coldest continent, yet each nation manages to make itself at home.

Bearded Russian priests offer regular services at the Orthodox church for the 16 or so Russian speakers who spend the winter at the base, largely polar scientists in fields like glaciology and meteorology.

At least three Russian stations are already operating in Antarctica, part of its effort to challenge the dominance of the American GPS, and new stations are planned for sites like the Russian base, in the shadow of the Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity.

As some countries expand operations in Antarctica, the United States maintains three year-round stations on the continent with more than 1,000 people during the southern hemisphere's summer, including those at the Amundsen-Scott station, built in 1956 at an elevation of 9,301 feet on a plateau at the South Pole.

Annual fees have risen from ￡1,000 to ￡9,000 in the last decade, but contact time at university has barely risen at all.

And while assessments vary widely, geologists estimate that Antarctica holds at least 36 billion barrels of oil and natural gas.

A study of employees at health insurance provider Aetna revealed that roughly one quarter of those taking in-office yoga and mindfulness classes reported a 28% reduction in their stress levels and a 20% improvement in sleep quality.

8 hours at work daily, and the majority of working professionals spend additional hours checking in with work during evenings, weekends and even vacations.

Today, I’d like to talk about what happens when celebrity role models get behind healthyhabits, but at the same time promote junk food.

The third element of love in Sternberg’s theory is what he calls decision commitment, the decision that one is in a love relationship, the willingness to label it as such and the commitment to maintain that relationship at least for some period of time.

The purpose of today’s lecture, as you have seen from the title and the abstract, is to examine in more detail the problems facing small- and medium-sized enterprises which arise at least in part from having to adapt to rapid advances in technology.

Some 10,000 pairs of the birds, called fulmars, a kind of Arctic seabird, make their nests on Devon Island, north at the Arctic circle.

She’s figured out that it will take her another three years to pay it off at 30 dollars a month.

Now what’s interesting about the theory is what do you have if you only have one out of three or two out of three? What do you have and how is it different if you have a different two out of three? What’s interesting about this kind of theorizing is it gives rise to many different combinations that can be quite interesting when you break them down and start to look at them carefully.

Later in these series, you will hear from Stacy Collins and Mill Wilson, fellow social workers at the National Association of Social Workers.

I’m a social worker, a lobbyist and a special assistant to the executive director at the National Association of Social Workers.

"I thought it would be useful for him to learn Chinese at an early age" Joseph Stocke, the managing director of a company, says of his 2-year old son.

A few hours before, I'd been at home in Hong gonk, with its choking smog.

A free schedule of events for each term is available by calling the box office at 556-4183.

A group of people sitting in the hall stopped talking and stared at us.

A quick review of successes and failures at the end of year will help shape your year ahead.

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

A six-month trial will be introduced at Holborn station from mid-April, eliminating the rule of standing on the right and walking on the left.

A story showing people's generosity should be emailed to the editor at susan@sws.

A sudden stop can be a very frightening experience, especially if you are travelling at high speed.

A three-week trial at Holborn last year found that the number of people using escalators at any time of could be raised by almost a third.

A typical lion tamer in people's mind is an entertainer holding a whip at a chair.

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 London underground, only 40 percent of travelers walk the full length of long escalators, leaving the majority at the bottom as they wait to get on to the "standing "side.

Actually I'm going to meet with professor smith at ten past two.

Admission is at normal charges and you don't need to book.

After a while she seemed content to leave her husband over at the cemetery.

After her mother read the poem to her, the writer felt sad at first.

After questioning 1, 000 mothers with children under 18, it found that , on most days, mums started their routine work at 7am and finished at around 11pm.

After you've tried a new method for a week, take a look at your record.

All of a sudden, I started making money because I was really good at math.

All right, I'll finish school at five o'clock, and I'm free after that.

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.

Americans eat only about fifteen pounds of fish per person per year, but we eat twice as much fish in restaurants as at home.

An active reader looks at each part of the graph before trying to interpret the data.

An assumption behind UK insurance for driverless cars, introduced earlier this year, insists that a human "be watchful and monitoring the road" at every moment.

An example at hand is the involvement of parents in the lives of their children who are attending college.

An old joke that was popular at the time went something like this: a man is stuck up to his waist in a muddy Chicago street.

And at that moment, I made the decision: I will develop and follow a personal growth plan for my life.

And now when I look at it, I think her presence in the photo is what makes the image interesting.

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 the more birds are exposed to light, the more active they are at night.

And while plastic bags may be ugly to look at, they represent a small percentage of all garbage on the ground today.

And while you're at it, actually sit down to eat.

Animals are built of many different materials----skin, fat, and more----and light moves through each at a different speed.

Another study of 302 volunteers at hospitals in Chicago focused on individual differences in the degree to which people view "volunteer" as an important social role.

Anxious all the time, I was unable to keep focused for more than an hour at a time.

Anxiously I went to bed dreaming about what I would find at the top of this magical mountain.

Any child must be accompanied by at least one paying adult.

Apple days are being held at all sorts of places with an interest in fruit, including stately gardens and commercial orchards.

As a matter of fact, we can see this principle at work in people of all ages.

As always, you should stretch at least ten minutes before each run to prevent injuries.

As for crowds, a Hong Kong study found that they increased a restaurant's reputation, suggesting great food at fair prices.

I couldn't reach anyone at the phone number on the cat's tag.

As I squeezed back into my car, I saw the same lady looking in at me.

As she looked up at the three new humans in her life small, medium, and large, she calculated, "the medium one is the sucker in the pack.

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.

Ask about today's activities at the great hall information desk.

At 5:30 am on February 2, Kaasen and his dog arrived in Nome.

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

At a time of limited means of expression, snow was like free art supplies dropped from the sky.

At age 68, he retired from the post office, but he never stopped serving the community.

At age five, this dull task brought me such joy.

At college, Barack Obama didn't know that he was to become the first black president of the united states of America.

At first Robert wouldn't let his daughter go diving, but eventually he gave in as she was so confidence about her skills.

At first the price of single copies was seldom a penny-usually two or three cents was charged-and some of the older well-known papers charged five or six cents.

At first, john spent his time hunting for fun.

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

At last I ended up hitting the set with my first, and it stopped working altogether.

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 the weather is similar, and the people aren't much different.

At least there is enough good news, so it remains a good place for the residents to enjoy their life.

At least until spring arrived, by which time they were dealing with damaging floods.

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

At long last, in a comfortable home, with a generous pension, he should learn to take things easy.

At mile 3, I passed a sign:" go for it, runners!".

At my heaviest I weighed 370 pounds.

At my high school, there were about only four active club and organizations that students could be a part of.

At one point, huge piles of snow blocked his way.

At one time, daydreaming was thought to be a cause of some mental illnesses.

At present, the world has about 6800 languages.

At present, these technologies are still expensive, though.

At Pullman's signal, each man turned his Jackscrew the same amount at the same time, thereby raising the building slowly and evenly.

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 space camp, trainees can earn their space exploration badge as they build and fire model rockets, learn about space tasks and try simulated (模拟) flying to space with the crew from all over the world.

At that moment, I remembered that my father once said, " the classroom is a place for learning and that include leaning from textbooks, and mistake as well."

At that time the Beatles entered the world of music from Liverpool.

At the age of 18, he moved to the united states.

At the base is a rainforest.

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 Beijing Olympic she swept away any doubts about her ability to perform consistently by becoming the first Jamaican woman ever to win the 100 metres Olympic gold.

At the bottom of the paper were these words:" see what you can do when you keep trying? "

At the end of the story, my mind continued the final scene of reunion, on and on, until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together.

At the events, you can meet expert growers and discuss which ones will best suit your conditions, and because these are family affairs, children are well catered for with apple-themed fun and games.

At the heart of the phenomenon lie tiny marine microorganisms (海洋微生物) called phytoplankton.

At the start of this year, foreigners living in italy amounted to 4.56 million of a total population of 60.6 million, or 7.5 percent, with immigrants’ children accounting for an ever larger percentage of births in italy.

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.

At thirteen, I was diagnosed (诊断) with a kind of attention disorder.

At this point, when all the children were willing to share their experiences, I began to learn how to teach.

At what age did Emily start learning ballet?

At what time does metrorail stop service on Saturday?

At which place can people of different ages enjoy a good laugh?

Back at the camp, you can kick off your boots and enjoy excellent food and wine.

Basically, it's "I've got to produce this product and then, at the end of year, present it to NASA".

Because of the way light reflects off the organisms, these phytoplankton create colourful patterns at the ocean surface.

Bechtel, who works in downtown west palm beach, has lunch with coworkers sometimes, but like many of us, too often works through lunch at her desk.

Begin keeping track of the time, and try to make dinner last at 30 minutes.

Being better at those things meant a greater chance of survival.

Not long ago, with the country entering a recession and Japan at its pre-bubble peak.

It is a wise father that knows his own child, but today a man can boost his paternal ( ' , fatherly) wisdom - or at least confirm that he's the kid's dad.

In fact, all of these cultural developments occurred separately at different times in many parts of the world.

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.

All he needs to do is shell our $30 for paternity testing kit ( ' , PTK) at his local drugstore - and another $120 to get the results.

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.

At the beginning of the century songbirds were supposed to be disappearing.

wegner, a patent attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper review published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War Ⅱ, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared.

To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.

They tend to keep a tighter hold on their purse and consider eating at home a realistic alternative.

These rules say they must value some assets at the price a third party would pay, not the price managers and regulators would like them to fetch.

The judges on the Federal circuit are “reacting to the anti-patient trend at the supreme court” ,says Harole C.

Retail sales of food and drink in Europe’s largest markets are at a standstill, leaving European grocery retailers hungry for opportunities to grow.

Overall, Europe’s wholesale market for food and drink is growing at the same sluggish pace as the retail market, but the figures, when added together, mask two opposing trends.

Moreover, average overall margins are higher in wholesale than in retail; wholesale demand from the food service sector is growing quickly as more Europeans eat out more often; and changes in the competitive dynamics of this fragmented industry are at last making it feasible for wholesalers to consolidate.

In those far-off days, it was taken for granted that the critics of major papers would write in detail and at length about the events they covered.

Demand comes mainly from two sources: independent mom-and-pop grocery stores which, unlike large retail chains, are too small to buy straight from producers, and food service operators that cater to consumers when they don’t eat at home.

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

At least, that is how it looks as a whole.

At any rate, this change will ultimately be acclaimed by an ever-growing number of both domestic and international consumers, regardless of how long the current consumer pattern will take hold.

And, unless banks carry toxic assets at prices that attract buyers, reviving the banking system will be difficult.

This seems a justification for neglect of those in need， and a rationalization of exploitation， of the superiority of those at the top and the inferiority of those at the bottom.

“Hooray! At last!” wrote Anthony Tommasini, a sober-sided classical-music critic.

There recordings are cheap, available everywhere, and very often much higher in artistic quality than today’s live performances; moreover, they can be “consumed” at a time and place of the listener’s choosing.

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.

Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.

In recent weeks the No.2 executives at Avon and American Express quit with the explanation that they were looking for a CEO post.

If that happens, passionate consumers would try to persuade others to boycott products, putting the reputation of the target company at risk.

He finally took that post at a major financial institution three years later.

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

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.

Academic inquiry, at least in some fields, may need to become less exclusionary and more holistic.

That, at least, is the hope.

Russell Gray at the University of Auckland and his colleagues consider the evolution of grammars in the light of two previous attempts to find universality in language.

Take a moment or two to wonder at those marvels.

Rosenberg argues convincingly that public-health advocates ought to take a page from advertisers, so skilled at applying peer pressure.

John Donahue at Harvard’s Kennedy School points out that the norms of culture in Western civil services suit those who want to stay put but is bad for high achievers.

First, most people do not realise that there are strong commercial agendas at work to keep them in passive consumption mode.

Dare to be different, please don’t smoke!” pleads one billboard campaign aimed at reducing smoking among teenagers-teenagers, who desire nothing more than fitting in.

At the state level their influence can be even more fearsome.

There is no doubt that gardens evidence an impossible urge to create, express, fashion, and beautify and that self-expression is a basic human urge; yet when one looks at the photographs of the garden created by the homeless, it strikes one that , for all their diversity of styles, these gardens speak of various other fundamental urges, beyond that of decoration and creative expression.

On display here are various fantasy elements whose reference, at some basic level, seems to be the natural world.

This top-down conception of the fashion business couldn’t be more out of date or at odds with the feverish would described in Overdressed, Elizabeth Cline’s three-year indictment of “fast fashion”.

The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years - so why shouldn't we? Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.

The European Union Framework funding programs have long had a category specifically targeted at social scientists.

That should create more collaborative endeavors and help to develop projects aimed directly at solving global problems.

In the internet age, at least in theory ,this fraction can be much reduced.

By watching what people search for, click on and say online, companies can aim “behavioural” ads at those most likely to buy.

By offering on-trend items at dirt-cheap prices, Cline argues, these brands have hijacked fashion cycles, shaking an industry long accustomed to a seasonal pace.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

Unfortunately, despite years in the making, “The Heart of the Matter” never gets to the heart of the matter: the illiberal nature of liberal education at our leading colleges and universities.

They often include a certain amount of digging to test for buried materials at selected points across a landscape.

There is just one path for a lawyer in most American states: a four-year undergraduate degree in some unrelated subject, then a three-year law degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the bar exam.

Sadly, the spirit of inquiry once at home on campus has been replaced by the use of the humanities and social sciences as vehicles for publicizing “progressive,” or left- liberal propaganda.

Only if the jobless arrive at the jobcentre with a CV, register for online job search, and start looking for work will they be eligible for benefit—and then they should report weekly rather than fortnightly.

Losing a job is hurting: you don’t skip down to the jobcentre with a song in your heart, delighted at the prospect of doubling your income from the generous state.

Instead, the claimant receives a time-limited “allowance,” conditional on actively seeking a job; no entitlement and no insurance, at ￡71.

Evans’s interpretations of those engravings eventually led him to find the Minoan palace at Knossos ( ' , Knosós), on the island of Crete, in 1900.

At its peak around AD 600, this city was one of the largest human settlements in the world.

” said one recorder of events, “The air at twelve leagues’ distance smelt as sweet as a new-blown garden.

These changes were gradual and at first scarcely visible.

If you are unfamiliar with words or idioms, you guess at their meaning, using clues presented in the contest.

Giovanni Parmigiani, a biostatistician at the Harvard School of Public Health, a member of the SBoRE group.

Factors such as the place and period in which we are reading, our gender ethnicity, age and social class will encourage us towards certain interpretation but at the same time obscure or even close off others.

California has asked the justices to refrain from a sweeping ruling particularly one that upsets the old assumption that authorities may search through the possessions of suspects at the time of their arrest.

At a time when Thomas Piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states.

It allows us to have perspective on our lives - the ability to not take ourselves too seriously, to laugh at ourselves, to see the bigger picture, and to see that things will work out.

Then increase it at a higher rate each year and essentially try to generate additional revenue.

The infrastructure required to make a physical newspaper—printing presses, delivery trucks—isn’t just expensive; it’s excessive at a time when online-only competitors don’t have the same set of financial constraints.

Look at your work environment like an anthropologist.

Buy all your clothes once with a stylist instead of shopping alone, one article of clothing at a time.

But at least they have demonstrated that when companies get into trouble with the law, evidence of good character can win them less costly punishment.

At the next election none of the big parties seem likely to endorse this sentiment.

And if Peretti were in charge at the Times? “I wouldn’t pick a year to end print,” he said, “I would raise prices and make it into more of a legacy product.

A recent study attempts to separate them by looking at bribery prosecutions under America’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act( ' , FCPA).

To limit the number of telescopes on Mauna Kea, old ones will be removed at the end of their lifetimes and their sites returned to a natural state.

The high court’s decision said the judge in Mr.McDonnell’s trial failed to tell a jury that it must look only at his “official acts,” or the former governor’s decisions on “specific” and “unsettled” issues related to his duties.

The first published sketch, “A Dinner at Poplar Walk” brought tears to Dickens’s eyes when he discovered it in the pages of The Monthly Magazine.

The family’s increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren’s Blacking Warehouse, a shoe-polish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as "the young gentleman."

First two hours , now three hours—this is how far in advance authorities are recommending people show up to catch a domestic flight , at least at some major U.airports with increasingly massive security lines.

But it did so while holding its nose at the ethics of his conduct, which included accepting gifts such as a Rolex watch and a Ferrari automobile from a company seeking access to government.

At the same time, Dickens, who had a reporter’s eye for transcribing the life around him especially anything comic or odd, submitted short sketches to obscure magazines.

At issue is the TMT’s planned location on Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano worshiped by some Hawaiians as the piko , that connects the Hawaiian Islands to the heavens.

We are amazed today at the mere number of plays produced, as well as by the number of dramatists writing at the same time for this London of two hundred thousand inhabitants.

These new forms were at first mainly written by scholars and performed by amateurs, but in England, as everywhere else in western Europe, the growth of a class of professional actors was threatening to make the drama popular, whether it should be new or old, classical or medieval, literary or farcical.

Plays aiming at literary distinction were written for school or court, or for the choir boys of St.

Paul’s and the royal chapel, who, however, gave plays in public as well as at court.

By the time Shakespeare was twenty-five, Lyly, Peele, and Greene had made comedies that were at once popular and literary; Kyd had written a tragedy that crowded the pit; and Marlowe had brought poetry and genius to triumph on the common stage - where they had played no part since the death of Euripides.

A native literary drama had been created, its alliance with the public playhouses established, and at least some of its great traditions had been begun.

jobs are at high risk of being automated, according to a University of Oxford study, with the middle class disproportionately squeezed.

Young people who are digital natives are indeed becoming more skillful at separating fact from fiction in cyberspace.

We are still at the beginning of this revolution and small choices now may turn out to have gigantic consequences later.

This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.

There's no change to collective bargaining at the USPS, a major omission considering that personnel accounts for 80 percent of the agency's costs.

The emerging consensus around the bill is a sign that legislators are getting frightened about a politically embarrassing short-term collapse at the USPS.

But postal special-interest groups seem to have killed it, at least in the House.

"Carry a book with you at all times" can actually work, too-providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down.

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