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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.

Within two years, Leah shed the safety of her accounting job and made the switch complete.

Why learning and forgetting are complementary.

Where are you in the cycle of renewal: Are you actively preserving the present, or selectively forgetting the past, or boldly creating the future? What advice would Leah give you to move you ahead on your journey? Once we're on the path of growth, we can continually move through the seasons of transformation and renewal.

When it's time to make the leap, they take action and immediately drop what's no longer serving their purpose.

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

Viewing the past in high definition can make it very difficult to get over pain and regret.

Urbanization – migration away from the suburbs and to the city center – will be the biggest real estate trend in 2015, according to a new report.

Top of Britons' toilet paper wish list is softness ( ' , 57%) followed by strength ( ' , 45%) and thickness ( ' , 36%).

To ensure employees' commitment, it is advisable to give them more flexibility as to where and how they work.

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 need to keep teams small and focused: giving in to pressure to be more inclusive is a guarantee of dysfunction.

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

The report says America's urbanization will continue to be the most significant issue affecting the industry, as cities across the country imitate the walkability and transit-oriented development making cities like New York and San Francisco so successful.

The report refers to this as the coming of the 18-hour city, and uses the term to refer to cities like Houston, Austin, Charlotte, and Nashville, which are positioning themselves as highly competitive, in terms of livability, employment offerings, and recreational and cultural facilities.

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.

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

The fashion for teams is driven by a sense that the old way of organising people is too rigid for both the modern marketplace and the expectations of employees.

The fashion for teams is also spreading from the usual corporate suspects ( ' , such as GE and IBM) to some more unusual ones.

The absorption helps them to establish strong foundations for recollection, says Patihis, and the fantasy proneness means that they revisit those memories again and again in the coming weeks and months.

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.

Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross-functional teams.

Successful team leaders know exactly where the team should go and are able to take prompt action.

Strength, softness and thickness remain the leading indicators of toilet paper quality, with just a small proportion of consumers preferring more luxurious alternatives, such as those with flower patterns or perfume,said Mintel analyst Jack Duckett.

Steering through change and facing obstacles brings us face to face with our fears.

Some team members find it hard to agree on questions like membership and the team's purpose.

Small signs may indicate great changes to come and therefore merit attention.

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

She succeeded in quitting smoking abruptlyShe was also a researcher of tobacco and health.

She connected with her sense of purpose and dug deep, cultivating a tremendous sense of strength.

Several years ago, she became interested in eggs and learned the traditional Ukrainian technique to draw her very modern characters.

People are healthy and energetic longer.

Penny-pinching UK consumers choose cheaper products from discounters such as Aldi and Lidl rather than luxury alternatives.

Overall, almost three in five people say they try to limit their usage of paper – including facial tissue and kitchen roll – to save money.

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.

On the plus side, it allows you to relive the most transformative and enriching experiences.

Most roads, bridges, transit, water systems, the electric grid, and communications networks were installed 50 to 100 years ago, and they are largely taken for granted until they fail.

More and more Britons buy recycled toilet paper to protect the environment.

Maybe some experience in their childhood meant that they became obsessed ( ' , 着迷) with calendars and what happened to them, says Patihis.

Leigh Thompson of Kellogg School of Management in Illinois warns that, Teams are not always the answer—teams may provide insight, creativity and knowledge in a way that a person working independently cannot; but teamwork may also lead to confusion, delay and poor decision-making.

Leah gained confidence by laying out her fears and confronting them directly.

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

It's the stage in the middle of the journey when people feel youth vanishing, their prospects narrowing and death approaching.

It will experience ups and downs.

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.

It can bring wealth and honor to them.

Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings ( ' , 瘾) and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.

In the process, she built a radically new life and career.

In the last year alone, despite an increase in the UK population and a subsequent rise in the number of households, sales of toilet paper fell by 2%, with the average household reducing their toilet roll spending from £43 in 2014 to £41 in 2015.

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

In his spare time, he visited the local art galleries, and the paintings are now lodged deep in his autobiographical memories.

In her search to live a life of purpose, Leah left her high-paying accounting job, her husband, and her home.

If you're training for a marathon, you wouldn't expect to turn up and just be able to run it.

I'm not happy and I want to change and I'm done with this.

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

I was feeling so intentional and strong that I wasn't going to let fear just take over.

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 look forward to the each day and experiencing something new.

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.

However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use team as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.

High-flyers ( ' , 能干的人) who are forced to work in teams may be undervalued and free-riders empowered.

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.

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.

HSAM can be both a curse and a blessing.

For most of us, memory is a mess of blurred and faded pictures of our lives.

For most of us, letting go of the safety and security of the past gives us great fear.

First trying physical exercise and dieting, she lost some weight and discovered an inner strength.

Feeling the need to change, Leah started playing with future possibilities by exploring her interests and developing new capabilities.

Fantasy proneness could be considered a tendency to imagine and daydream, whereas absorption is the tendency to allow your mind to become absorbed in an activity – to pay complete attention to the sensations ( ' , 感受) and the experiences.

Even in the age of open-plan offices and social networks some work is best left to the individual.

Emailing the neuroscientist and memory researcher Jim McGaugh one day, she claimed that she could recall every day of her life since the age of 12.

Could he help explain her experiences?McGaugh invited her to his lab, and began to test her: he would give her a date and ask her to tell him about the world events on that day.

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

Companies are abandoning conventional functional departments and organising employees into crossdisciplinary teams that focus on particular products, problems or customers.

By studying about 700 adult smokers, she found out that her mom quit the right way—by stopping abruptly and completely.

By naming her fears and facing them head-on, Leah gained confidence.

But I know if you don't grow, you stand still, and that doesn't work for me.

Ask Nima Veiseh what he was doing for any day in the past 15 years, however, and he will give you the details of the weather, what he was wearing, or even what side of the train he was sitting on his journey to work.

As she explored new interests and developed new potentials, Leah felt powerful internally.

Apart from the specific trends highlighted above, which cause some investors to worry, the report portrays an overall optimism borne by the recent healthy real-estate upcycle and improving economy.

And when we retrieve ( ' , 检索) information, both the desired and associated but irrelevant information is recalled.

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 such research might even suggest ways for us all to relive our past with greater clarity.

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

And although their memories are vast, they are still likely to suffer from false memories.

And I think people see that for smoking as well.

And I knew it was a negotiation scheme, so I was able to say to myself, ‘This is not real.

Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on ( ' , 开始) it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

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 recent study of people with HSAM reveals that they are liable to fantasy and full absorption in an activity.

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 good rule of thumb is that as soon as generals and hospital administrators jump on a management bandwagon ( ' , 追随一种管理潮流), it is time to ask questions.

In that moment of clarity Leah made an important leap, conquering her inner resistance to change and making a firm commitment to take bigger steps.

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.

They showed threatening, pleasant and neutral expressions.

There is lots of snow around, and the ground freezes, which can make life difficult for animals.

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

The man in the Google vehicle reported that he assumed the bus would slow down to let the car out, and so he did not switch to the manual mode.

The boat, traveling between Nicaragua’s Big Corn Island and LittleCorn Island turned over Saturday near the larger island.

The boat was carrying 32 people—25 Costa Ricans, four Americans and three Nicaraguans.

is becoming increasingly popularbenefits sharers and users alikemakes researchers successfulsaves both money and laborMacy's reported its sales plunged 5.

Yet later on, the more affluent children end up in college and on the way to the middle class, while working-class children tend to struggle.

Working-class parents, meanwhile, believe their children will naturally thrive, and give them far greater independence and time for free play.

Working-class parents teach their children to be obedient and show respect to adults.

Working-class children are happier, more independent, complain less and are closer to family members, Ms.

Within Italy, the great focus was Rome, whose ancient ruins and more recent achievements were shown to every Grand Tourist.

White storks feed on locusts ( ' , 蝗虫) and other insects that can become pests if their numbers get out of hand.

While many birds travelled along well-known routes to warmer climates, others stopped short and spent the winter on landfills, feeding on food waste, and the multitudes of insects that thrive on the dumps.

While alternative estimates of the damage from carbon emissions differ, and it's especially hard to reckon the likely costs of possible catastrophic climate events, most estimates suggest substantial negative effects.

While Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday all saw record spending online, in-store sales plunged over the holiday weekend.

Well-off families are ruled by calendars, with children enrolled in ballet, soccer and after-school programs, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

Wealthy parents are concerned about their children's mental health and busy schedules.

We live today indebted to McCardell, Cashin, Hawes, Wilkins, and Maxwell, and other women who liberated American fashion from the confines of Parisian design.

Unfortunately, the current low prices for oil, gas, and coal may provide little incentive for research to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels.

Travel was arduous and costly throughout the period, possible only for a privileged class—the same that produced gentlemen scientists, authors, antique experts, and patrons of the arts.

To match the growing demand, services are springing up to make it easier to publish research products online and enable other researchers to discover and cite them.

Thus was born the idea of the Grand Tour, a practice which introduced Englishmen, Germans, Scandinavians, and also Americans to the art and culture of France and Italy for the next 300 years.

They were versed in literature and interested in art.

They were the pioneers of gender equity, in their useful, adaptable clothing, which was both made for the masses and capable of self-expression.

They were courageous and venturesome.

They try to develop their skills through close supervision and organized activities, and teach children to question authority figures and navigate elite institutions.

They might eat something toxic and damage their health.

They had enough travel and outdoor-life experience.

They gained some knowledge of classical art and architecture.

They are taught to be compliant and respectful to adults.

They are more likely to grow up in neighborhoods that their parents say aren't great for raising children, and their parents worry about them getting shot, beaten up or in trouble with the law.

They advocated equity between men and women.

These designers established the modem dress code, letting playsuits and other activewear outfits suffice for casual clothing, allowing pants to enter the wardrobe, and prizing rationalism and versatility in dress, in contradiction to dressing for an occasion or allotment of the day.

There is strong evidence that both innovation and adoption of cleaner technology are strongly encouraged by higher fossil fuel prices.

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.

There are usually two parents, who spend a lot of time reading to children and worrying about their anxiety levels and hectic schedules.

There appeared more and more Roman-style buildings.

The trend of social and economic development.

The survey also probed attitudes and anxieties.

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 scientists tracked white storks from different colonies in Europe and Africa.

The result would be higher emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

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 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 prices of coal are low as a result of over-supply and decreasing demand.

The most successful sharers—those whose data are downloaded and cited the most often—get noticed, and their work gets used.

The most recent one took place last week in Washington, D.C.Students join a team through their schools, which provide a volunteer coach and pay a nominal fee to send students to regional and state competitions.

The lives of children from rich and poor American families look more different than ever before.

The increasing differences in child rearing between rich and poor families reflect growing social inequality.

The design objective and the business commitment were to sportswear, and the distinctive traits were problemsolving ingenuity and realistic lifestyle applications.

The demographics of that group looked quite different from those in the competition round—of the 16 video finalists, 13 were girls and eight were African-American students.

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 blamed much of the poor performance in November and December on unseasonably warm weather.

The changing attitude of journals and funders.

The birds can easily eat pieces of plastic or rubber hands and they can die, said Flack.

The achievement gap between children from high- and lowincome families is 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than those born 25 years earlier, according to Mr.

The Russian, Greek and Polish storks flew as far as South Africa, while those from Spain, Tunisia and Germany flew only as far as the Sahel.

The Math Olympiad Summer Training Program is a three-week math camp held by the Mathematical Association of America that leads straight to the international championship and is free for those who make it.

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 International Monetary Fund calculates that countries can generate substantial fiscal revenues by eliminating fossil fuel subsidies and levying carbon charges that capture the domestic damage caused by emissions.

The Grand Tourist was typically a young man with a thorough grounding in Greek and Latin literature as well as some leisure time, some means, and some interest in art.

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.

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

Teams of four students make a video illustrating a math problem and its real-world application.

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 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.

Students attend after-school clubs, summer camps, online forums and classes and university-based math circles, to prepare for the competitions.

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.

Since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco-Roman and Italian art for their own collections.

Schools or teachers who sign up for the National Math Club receive a kit full of activities and resources, but there's no special teacher training and no competition attached.

Researchers who share get plenty of personal benefits, including more connections with colleagues, improved visibility and increased citations.

Researchers in Germany used miniature GPS tags to track the migrations of 70 white storks ( ' , 鹳) from different sites across Europe and Asia during the first five months of their lives.

Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels—30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas.

Publishing data and code allows your science to be reproducible.

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

Participation grows through friends and networks and if you realize that's how they're growing, you can start to take action and bring in other students, he said.

Parents of advanced-math students and MathCounts coaches say the children are on the website constantly.

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

Panini's Ancient Rome and Modern Rome represent the sights most prized, including celebrated Greco-Roman statues and views of famous ruins, fountains, and churches.

Over the next five years, the group helps the students get into other elite summer math programs, high-performing high schools, and eventually college.

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

One relative bright spot for Macy's during the holiday season was the online channel, where it rang up double-digit increases in sales and a 25% increase in the number of orders it filled.

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.

Notwithstanding important recent progress in developing renewable fuel sources, low fossil fuel prices could discourage further innovation in, and adoption of, cleaner energy technologies.

Natural gas and coal—also fossil fuels—have similarly seen price declines that look to be long-lived.

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.

Much of the waste is discarded rotten meat, mixed in with other human debris such as plastic bags and old toys.

Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.

Morgan said those findings—which included data from the system's 13 community colleges, 27 technical colleges and six universities—were part of the decision not to move forward with Governor Bill Haslam's proposal to privatize management of state buildings in an effort to save money.

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.

Middle-class and higher-income parents see their children as projects in need of careful cultivation, says Annette Lareau, whose groundbreaking research on the topic was published in her book Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life.

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

London was a frequent starting point for Grand Tourists, and Paris a compulsory destination; many traveled to the Netherlands, some to Switzerland and Germany, and a very few adventurers to Spain, Greece, or Turkey.

Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe that there is no such thing as too much involvement in a child's education.

Italian architects were hired to design houses and gardens.

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

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.

Independence came in tying, wrapping, storing, harmonizing, and rationalizing that wardrobe.

In the past few years, MathCounts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—the National Math Club and the Math Video Challenge.

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.

As you make reading a regular part of your life, you'll make more connections, stay more focused and understand the text better.

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

A child's day is filled with fascination, newness and wonder.

A city is the product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's intelligence and creativity.

A computer analysis blindly compared calls produced by mothers and chicks, ranking them by similarity.

A cup of coffee costs about three dollars and fifty cents, but the fun is free.

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 desktop computer, screen, projector, and loudspeakers will be available.

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

A legend, also called a key, is a guide to the symbols and colors used in the graph.

A line graph looks similar to a bar graph, but instead of bars, it plots points and connects them with a line.

A lot of business is still done over the phone, and much of it is based on trust and existing relationships.

A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles was injured and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train.

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 nurse who understands the healing (治愈) value of silence can use this understanding to assist in the care of patients from their own and from other cultures.

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.

The Internet can help make up for our mental and emotional deficiencies as a wooden leg can compensate for a bodily deficiency.

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

A restaurant in Spain uses a foodie to "re-create forms and pieces" of food that are "exactly the same, " freeing cooks to complete other tasks.

A rethink is required - and as a new approach starts to become apparent, two ideas stand out.

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 software engineer by profession, Steve was a keen lover of the piano, and the only musician in his family.

A Swiss study reported that while the weight of electronic goods represented by precious metals was relatively small in comParison to total waste, the concentration of gold and other precious metals was higher in so-called e-waste than in nature.

A taste for meat is actually behind the change: an important part of its corn is used to feed chickens, pigs, and cattle.

A team of researchers trained three rhesus monkeys to associate 26 clearly different symbols consisting of numbers and selective letters with 0-25 drops of water or juice as a reward.

A third will remain a mix of walking and standing.

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

A woman excused the interruption and handed me an envelope.

A year later, I reached my goal: I lost 150 pounds and raised $50,000! I feel that I've been given a second life to devote to something that is meaningful and enormous.

Abercrombie & Kent, a travel company in Hong gonk, says it regularly arranges quick getaways here for people living in Shanghai and Hong gonk.

Above 4, 000 meters is the highland desert: gravel (砾石), stones and rocks.

Abridged dictionaries, such as pocket and desk dictionaries, are shortened.

According to a paper in 2011 by Mr Hsiang and co-authors, civil conflict is related to El nino's harmful effects.

According to the analysis of Babbitt's team, old desktop monitors and box TVs with cathode ray tubes are the worst devices with their energy consumption and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions more than doubling during the 1992 to 2007 window.

According to the code, visitors should act with care and respect.

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 passage, children's fear and dislike of books may result from being made to read aloud before others.

According to the passage, the Adelmans set up "movers and Shakespeares" to give advice on leadership by analysing Shakespeare's plays.

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

Across Britain, burnt toast will be served to mothers in bed this morning as older sons and daughters rush to deliver their supermarket bunches of flowers.

Actually, there's something interesting to see in every corner of Paris: the old buildings, neighborhoods, and the historical monuments.

Adam and Galinsky tested the effect of simply wearing a white lab coat on people's powers of attention.

Adam and Galinsky's experiment tested the effect of clothes on their wearers' attention.

Addams helped the poor and worked for peace.

Additionally, group exercise creates a community feel and the shared common goal motivates participants to work hard.

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

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

Advertisements persuade us that newer is better and that we will be happier with the latest products.

After all, many older people don't begin to experience physical and mental decline until after age 75.

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

After climbing up a hill for a panoramic view of the blue sea, white buildings and green olive trees, I paused to catch my breath and then positioned myself to take the best photo of this panorama.

After de-layering in this way, a company may be left with just a top level of senior managers, front-line managers and employees with direct contact with the public.

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 hours in the cold and wet, he reached inside and pulled the wallet out hoping to find some id so he could contact the driver, only to discover it contained ￡400 in notes, with another ￡50 in spare change beside it.

After investing more than $1 million in reconstructing the building, we began producing a full season of theater performances, Jazz concerts, and year-round arts education programs in 2008.

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 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 the concert, Naomi told the family that Steve's music was beautiful and professional.

After what seemed like a safe amount of time, I read the poem again and was confused.

Afterwards, she and her father secured their first business meeting with a supermarket owner, who finally agreed to sell Moore's product—cancandy.

All our projects aim to promote the development of poor and remote communities.

All riders are equipped with reflective vests and safety lights.

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

All special exhibitions, as well as films, lectures, guided tours, concerts, gallery talks, and.

All the dogs sit, play, or run around while people drink coffee and eat sandwiches.

All through the night, Alia, Anis, his brothers and neighbours took the books from the library, passed them over the seven-foot wall and hid them in the restaurant.

Almost every grandparent wants to be with his or her grandchildren and is willing to make sacrifices, but sometimes it is wiser to say no and visit frequently instead.

Almost half of that winds up in landfills, and up to 12 million tons pollute the oceans.

Along the way are tales of kings and queens, hot air balloons...and monkeys in space.

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

Although neither of the Adelmans is academically trained in literature, the programmes, contain plenty of Shakespeare tradition and background.

Although serious problems still remain and need to be dealt with, the world is a safer and healthier place.

Although skills and talents bring great success, the most valuable asset one can hold is the heart.

Although the programme asks the members only to drive students to and from their classes, Wilson often goes beyond to ensure the welfare and safety of the students.

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

Although we may not be aware of chemicals like pheromones consciously, we give and receive loads of information through smell in every interaction with other people.

Always get rid of your rubbish properly and recycle waste.

Among the bag makers' arguments: many cities with bans still allow shoppers to purchase paper bags, which are easily recycled but require more energy to produce and transport.

Among the items provided by the school for a visual presentation are a desktop computer and loudspeakers.

Among the works and masterworks on exhibition the visitor will find the best pieces, most importantly the persistence of memory.

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 endless number of books and movies qualify as love stories in popular culture.

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.

An inspiring story sent to the magazine should be real and original.

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

And Athenians willingly obeyed the written laws which they themselves passed, and the unwritten, which must be obeyed if free men live together.

And because the process of recycling steel is less polluting than making new steel, we've also achieved the following significant savings; in energy use—47% to 74%; in air pollution—85%; in water pollution—35%; in water use—40%.

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 both Helena Bonham-Carter, who plays the part of lady Tottington, and Ralph finesse as victor are really funny.

And Britain is by far the largest importer of tea in the world.

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

And doubling a buffet's price led customers to say that its pizza was 11 percent tastier.

And every week he cleaned old man Mccolgin's chicken house in exchange for manure

And he saw a date of 1973 on the back of the box.

And how about some more onions too?

There is a marked difference between the education which every one gets from living with others, and the deliberate educating of the young.

The need of training is too evident; the pressure to accomplish a change in their attitude and habits is too urgent to leave these consequences wholly out of account.

Religious associations began, for example, in the desire to secure the favor of overruling powers and to ward off evil influences; family life in the desire to gratify appetites and secure family perpetuity; systematic labor, for the most part, because of enslavement to others, etc.

Only gradually was the by-product of the institution noted, and only more gradually still was this effect considered as a directive factor in the conduct of the institution.

It may be said that the measure of the worth of any social institution is its effect in enlarging and improving experience; but this effect is not a part of its original motive.

In undeveloped social groups, we find very little formal teaching and training.

In the former case the education is incidental; it is natural and important, but it is not the express reason of the association.

Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the world's work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output.

sexual confusion, economic frustrations , and religious hope-all name together in a decisive moment when he opened the Bible, told his father the first line he saw would settle his fate, and read the magical words:.

factories of Honda Nissan, and Toyota achieved about 95 percent of the productivity of their Japanese countere pants a result of the training that U.

While few crafts men or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views less fully intellectualized.

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.

We reach for them mindlessly, setting our brains on auto-pilot and relaxing into the unconscious comfort of familiar routine.

We are fortunate that is it, because new educational systems there and putting enough people through them to improve economic performance would require two or three generations.

To take this approach to the New Englanders normally mean to start with the Puritans’ theological innovations and their distinctive ideas about the church-important subjects that we may not neglect.

Thus, in his view, diverse aspects of culture, such as the structure of families, forms of marriage, categories of kinship, ownership of property, forms of government, technology, and systems of food production, all changed as societies evolved.

There men wrote and published extensively, reaching both New World and Old World audiences, and giving New England an atmosphere of intellectual earnestness.

The relationship between formal education and economic growth in poor countries is widely misunderstood by economists and politicians alike.

The most thoroughly studied in the history of the new world are the ministers and political leaders of seventeenth-century New England.

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.

The early settlers of Massachusetts Bay included men of impressive education and influence in England.

The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought.

The U.workforce was derided as poorly educated and one of primary cause of the poor U.economic performance.

The New England colonies were the scenes of important episodes in the pursuit of widely understood ideals of civility and virtuosity.

So it seems antithetical to talk about habits in the same context as creativity and innovation.

Researchers in the late 1960 covered that humans are born with the capacity to approach challenges in four primary ways: analytically, procedurally, relationally ( ' , or collaboratively) and innovatively.

Progress in both area is undoubtedly necessary for the social, political and intellectual development of these and all other societies; however, the conventional view that education should be one of the very highest priorities for promoting rapid economic development in poor countries is wrong.

Perry incorrectly suggested, on the basis of inadequate information, that farming, pottery making, and metallurgy all originated in ancient Egypt and diffused throughout the world.

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

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

Most tests require collecting cells by webbing saliva in the mouth and sending it to the company for testing.

Morgan helped found modem anthropology--the scientific study of human societies, customs and beliefsthus becoming one of the earliest anthropologists.

Japan was, and remains, the global leader in automotive-assembly productivity.

In order to study particular cultures as completely as possible, he became skilled in linguistics, the study of languages, and in physical anthropology, the study of human biology and anatomy.

In facts, the more new things we try- the more we step outside our comfort zone - the more inherently creative we become, both in the workplace and in our personal lives.

In addition, the computer programs a company uses to estimate relationships may be patented and not subject to peer review or outside evaluation.

He argued that human evolution was characterized by a struggle he called the “survival of the fittest,” in which weaker races and societies must eventually be replaced by stronger, more advanced races and societies.

For example, British anthropologists Grafton Elliot Smith and W.

Coinciding with the groundbreaking theory of biological evolution proposed by British naturalist Charles Darwin in the 1860s, British social philosopher Herbert Spencer put forward his own theory of biological and cultural evolution.

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.

Boas felt that the culture of any society must be understood as the result of a unique history and not as one of many cultures belonging to a broader evolutionary stage or type of culture.

Besides the ninety or so learned ministers who came to Massachusetts church in the decade after 1629,There were political leaders like John Winthrop, an educated gentleman, lawyer, and official of the Crown before he journeyed to Boston.

An interest in the relationship between the function of society and culture became a major theme in European, and especially British, anthropology.

Among the most popular : paternity and kinship testing , which adopted children can use to find their biological relatives and families can use to track down kids put for adoption.

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.

According to many books and articles, New England’s leaders established the basic themes and preoccupations of an unfolding, dominant Puritan tradition in American intellectual life.

Yet these creatures are members of the biotic community and, if its stability depends on its integrity, they are entitled to continuance.

When one of these noneconomic categories is threatened and, if we happen to love it, we invent excuses to give it economic importance.

To sum up: a system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest is hopelessly lopsided It tends to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate, many elements in the land community that lack commercial value, but that are essential to its healthy functioning.

The interdependence of the forest and its constituent tree species, ground flora, and fauna is taken for granted.

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.

A parallel situation exists in respect of predatory mammals and fish-eating birds.

” Yet bank shares rose and the changes enhance what one lobby group politely calls “the use of judgment by management.

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

Yet only one of his books is now in print, and his vast body of writings on music is unknown save to specialists.

Yet it is precisely these non-celebrity influentials who,according to the two-step-flow theory,are supposed to drive social epidemics by influcencing their friends and colleagues directly.

Will such variations bring about a change in the overall structure of the food and drink market? Definitely not.

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 get the system working again, losses must be recognized and dealt with.

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.

These gave banks more freedom to use models to value illiquid assets and more flexibility in recognizing losses on long-term assets in their income statement.

Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly,like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman,could be trusted to know what they were about.

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

The theory also seems to explain the sudden and unexpected popularity of people was wearing, promoting or developing whatever it is before anyone else paid attention.

The supposed importance of influentials derives from a plausible sounding but largely untested theory called the “two step flow of communication”: Information flows from the media to the influentials and from them to everyone else.

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 issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the court’s judges, rather than a typical panel of three, and that one issue it wants to evaluate is weather it should” reconsider” its state street Bank ruling.

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

Such food service operators range from snack machines to large institutional catering ventures, but most of these businesses are known in the trade as “horeca”： hotels, restaurants and cafes.

Successful markets require independent and even combative standard-setters.

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.

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.

New skills and unfamiliar business models are needed too.

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

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.

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 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.

However, none of these requirements should deter large retailers ( ' , and even some large food producers and existing wholesalers) from trying their hand, for those that master the intricacies of wholesaling in Europe stand to reap considerable gains.

For example, wholesale food and drink sales came to $268 billion in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom in 2000—more than 40 percent of retail sales.

During his lifetime, though, he was also one of England's foremost classical-music critics, and a stylist so widely admired that his Autobiographybecame a best-seller.

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.

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.

Closer inspection reveals important differences among the biggest national markets, especially in their customer segments and wholesale structures, as well as the competitive dynamics of individual food and drink categories.

Charlie McCreevy, a European commissioner, warned the IASB that it did “not live in a political vacuum” but “in the real word” and that Europe could yet develop different rules.

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.

Building on the basic truth about interpersonal influence,the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations manipulating a number of variables relating to people’s ability to influence others and their tendency to be influenced.

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.

And dead markets partly reflect the paralysis of banks which will not sell assets for fear of booking losses, yet are reluctant to buy all those supposed bargains.

All in all, this clearly seems to be a market in which big retailers could profitably apply their gigantic scale, existing infrastructure, and proven skills in the management of product ranges, logistics, and marketing intelligence.

With its theme that “Mind is the master weaver，” creating our inner character and outer circumstances， the book As a Man Thinking by James Allen is an in-depth exploration of the central idea of self-help writing.

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.

There is no gap between mind and matter.

Nevertheless， as any biographer knows， a person’s early life and its conditions are often the greatest gift to an individual.

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.

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1. " And " , " but " and " whereas " are conjunctions.: and, but 和whereas是连词.

2. Remember, keep a positive attitude and good things will happen.: 记住：保持乐观的心态，好事自然会发生。

3. The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are stronger at the broken places.: 生活总是让我们遍体鳞伤，但到后来，那些受伤的地方会变得更坚强。

4. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?: 我们活着是为了什么？不就是给邻居当笑柄，再反过来笑他们。

5. When life gets hard and you want to give up, remember that life is full of ups and downs, and without the downs, the ups would mean nothing.: 当生活很艰难，你想要放弃的时候，请记住，生活充满了起起落落，如果没有低谷，那站在高处也失去了意义。

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