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This type of memory ( ' , where you are trying to remember new, but similar information) is particularly vulnerable to interference.

The report's writers state that America's failure to invest in infrastructure impacts not only the health of the real-estate market, but also our ability to remain globally competitive.

The middle-aged person, Barth continued, can see death in the distance, but moves with a measured haste to get big new things done while there is still time.

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

The bulk of the research shows that there may be a pause, or a shifting of gears in the 40s or 50s, but this shift can be exciting, rather than terrifying.

Some people are absorbed in the past but not open to new memories, but that's not the case for me.

Only a few months later Leah opened her first yoga studio, but success was not instant.

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.

In some ways, you probably go through that process after a big event like your wedding day – but the difference is that thanks to their other psychological tendencies, the HSAM subjects are doing it day in, day out, for the whole of their lives.

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

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

But there's an appeal in that vulnerability.

But that wasn't the case.

But is there a point where it reaches capacity?The answer is no, because brains are more sophisticated than that.

But in a new study, researchers demonstrated for the first time how this effect occurs in the brain.

But current studies are beginning to place greater emphasis on the conditions under which we forget, as its importance begins to be more appreciated.

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

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

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

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

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

We were beginning to be adventurous about food, but we were more interested in meeting people than in eating or drinking.

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

They suggest this indicates that dogs aren’t sensing emotions from a single feature, but piecing together information from all facial features just as humans do.

Some passengers remain missing, the Costa Rican foreign ministry said, but did not specify how many.

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

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

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

In the 1600s, people in China used carrots as medicine, but they also ate carrots boiled in soup.

But those surveyed by AAA say they trust their own driving skills.

But people still mostly fed carrots to horses, donkeys and pigs, and didn’t eat them themselves.

But carrots got their biggest boost during the two world wars when food shortages forced people to eat them and governments told everyone how healthy carrots were.

But 75% of drivers say they wouldn’t feel safe in such a vehicle.

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

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

Such moves may eliminate the fears of those living in the exporting countries, but they are creating panic in importing countries that must rely on what is then left for export.

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

Obviously there are cultural differences, but if you were talking to another person and they came up close in your personal space, you wouldn't think that's the kind of thing a properly brought-up person would do.

It's no secret that the Mediterranean diet is healthy, but it was also a joy to prepare and eat.

I mean, there are some cautious steps I can take, but ultimately I can not guarantee myself that.

Declining mental function is often seen as a problem of old age, but certain aspects of brain function actually begin their decline in young adulthood, a new study suggests.

But when the researchers plugged in a number of other variables, such differences disappeared.

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.

But water shortages are even more worrying in India.

But unlike the modern definition of Epicureanism as a life of indulgence ( ' , 放纵 ) and luxury, for the ancient Greeks, it meant finding a state of calm, peace and mental ease.

But this and other price shocks were event-driven—drought in the Soviet Union, crop-shrinking heat in the U.S.Corn Belt.

But the new paper suggests that if you want long life, you should strive to be as outgoing as possible.

But that potential pales beside the never-ending demand for crop-based fuels.

But perhaps they don't have to turn themselves into private investigators or Congressional subcommittees.

But nobody greeted the daughter and mother when they arrived, though the visit has been planned; nobody introduced them to the other residents.

But it gets complicated.

But if we come up with an answer, robots could be good for humanity.

But both studies show that long life isn't just a matter of your physical health but of your mental health.

But an accumulating body of research indicates that some distinctions between one type of elder care and another have little real bearing on how well residents do.

But according to Aristotle—a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great—most relationships don't qualify as true friendships.

A new Peabody study of the Tennessee Voluntary Pre-K program reports that pre-K works, but the gains are not sustained through the third grade.

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.

She primarily speaks to students in health classes, but sometimes the school will arrange for her to speak to several different groups of girls.

Jody has a Ph.D.in nutrition, but more important, she has personal experience—her mother taught her to diet when she was only eight years old.

Jody has a Ph.D. in nutrition, but more important, she has personal experience—her mother taught her to diet when she was only eight years old.

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

But they did much better after getting a good night sleep.

But not many are able to integrate innovation into their business.

But many tech home remedies can be explained by a little science.

But it’s one of many low- tech fixes for high-tech failures that people without engineering degrees have discovered, often out of desperation and shared.

But in the same breath we’ll remind you that it is the most important decision of your life.

Sometimes this involves technology, but often it does not.

Snow White is available for everyone to use, but the dwarfs are still under copyright, so Cornetti invented sound-alike characters ( ' , Grumpy Gus, Dopey Dan) to illustrate specific pay roll law principles.

Oil prices may rise or fall but economic laws are not subject to change.

It is but a matter of personal taste.

In the past, falling oil prices have given a boost to the world economy, but recent forecasts for global growth have been toned down, even as oil prices sink lower and lower.

I realized these different types of students not only explain their failures differently, but they also hold different theories of intelligence.

Good teaching and research are not exclusive, but they are also not automatic companions.

For instance, talking about mathematical geniuses who were more or less born that way puts students in a fixed mind-set, but descriptions of great mathematicians who fell in love with math and developed amazing skills produce a growth mind-set.

For example, having salt on the outside, but none on the inside, reduces the salt content without changing the taste.

But with the new rules in France, U.S. support could make a difference.

But the word gamification and the widespread, conscious application of the concept only began in earnest about five years ago, Werbach says.

But not all oil producers have big reserves.

But mostly, I hate tipping because I believe I would be in a better place if pay decisions regarding employees were simply left up to their employers, as is the custom in virtually every other industry.

But how probable is it that someone will successfully jam their way into your home and steal your stuff?Let's imagine that you live in a small home with a wireless security setup that offers a functional anti-jamming system.

But doesn't the extra money in the pockets of those countries' consumers mean an equal loss in oil-producing countries, cancelling out the gains? Not necessarily, says economic researcher Sara Johnson.

But as the work became more difficult, the students with a growth mind-set showed greater persistence.

But as it turns out, waiters see only a tiny bump in tips when they do an exceptional job compared to a passable one.

But I can tell you that I like this guy.

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.

And Record and Austin are worried not just about the models themselves, but about the vast number of girls and women their images influence.

A gamification strategy that is not sufficiently thought through or well tailored to its players may engage people for a little while, but it will not motivate people in the long term.

This means that rivers will rise more slowly, but then stay high for much longer, the environmental agency said.

This boosts the local economy considerably because tourists not only buy crafts, but they also use the restaurants and hotels and other services of the area.

These are private bills, but there are also public bills to be paid.

It’s a pretty easy job, but one with lots of downtime, which means you will have plenty of time to catch up on reading, do homework or study for an exam.

If you are a college student looking for work but worry you won’t have enough time to devote to academic subjects, consider working as a study hall or library monitor.

But Mr.Kibara says he has not received a higher price for his purple tea crop.

All appears to be well, but the farmers who planted the bushes are worried.

Whereas Pittsburgh has the opposite problem: plenty of nerds, but no rich people.

This might be a small change to the way we view work and the office, but the researchers argue that it challenges a widespread characteristic of the economy: work organized by clock time.

They found clock timers to be more efficient but less happy because they felt little control over their lives.

These days, the time is everywhere: not just on clocks or watches, but on cell-phones and computers.

There's no need to go out and find people you hate, but you need to do some self-assessment to determine where you have become stale in your thinking.

There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating.

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

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

The Math Video Challenge is a competition, but a collaborative one.

Some intensive summer programs are very expensive but most of them provide scholarships.

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.

Most people would love to get students from more underserved populations, but they just can't get them in the door.

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

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

In order to maximize global welfare, every country's carbon pricing should reflect not only the purely domestic damage from emissions, but also the damage to foreign countries.

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.

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

Children grow up learning the skills to succeed in their socioeconomic stratum（阶层） but not necessarily others.

But will such contests, which are overwhelmingly dominated by Asian and white students from middle-class and affluent families become any more diverse? Many social and cultural factors play roles in determining which promising students get on the path toward international math recognition.

But there are initiatives in place to try to get more underrepresented students involved in accelerated math.

But the barriers are disappearing, in part because journals and funding agencies worldwide are encouraging scientists to make their data public.

But that's not the only uncertainty.

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

But efforts are in place to expose more black, Hispanic, and low-income students to advanced math, in the hope that the demographic pool of high-level contenders will eventually begin to shift and become less exclusive.

But 50% of poor parents say it is extremely important to them that their children earn a college degree, compared with 39% of wealthier parents.

A number of factors are driving down the global oil prices not just for now but in the foreseeable future.

Sweden was the first European country to print and use paper money, but it may soon do away with physical currencies.

It concerns not only us sociologists, but also economists, politicians and business people.

We, of course, need to pay attention to youngsters who are filled with discontent and hostility, but we should not allow these extreme cases to distort our view of most young people.

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.

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

The final legislation might throw a public plan into the competition, but thanks to the fierce opposition of the insurance industry and Republican critics, it might not save much money.

The central figures in the Chicago schools strike are neither strikers nor managers but 350,000 children.

The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen, but contributes about half as much to climate change.

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable in the short term, but certainly brings long-term rewards.

That statement comes not, as you might imagine, from a stereotypical tree-hugging, save-the-world greenie ( ' , 环保主义者), but from Gordon Brown, a politician with a reputation for rigour, thoroughness and above all, caution.

Teaching is so important that it should be like other professions, with high pay and good working conditions but few job protections for bottom performers.

Saying that there're no easy answers sounds wise, but it's actually foolish: our unemployment crisis could be cured very quickly if we had the intellectual clarity and political will to act.

It's true that the main reason inner-city schools do poorly isn't teachers' unions, but poverty.

It's not just about education, but about poverty and justice.

In other words, poor and rich both over-exploit the natural world, but for different reasons.

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be eliminated and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced—not just in this generation but in succeeding generations—we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

Clickthrough rates have been high so far ( ' , around 3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% online), but that may be a result of the novelty.

But, instead, the Chicago union seems to be using its political capital primarily to protect weak performers.

But while the number of advertisements may have dipped, there has been a rapid spread of eco-labeling.

But we also found little interest in civic life beyond the tight circles of their family and immediate friends.

But there is also a place in a young life for noble purposes that include a dedication to the broader society, a love of country and an aspiration to make their own leadership contributions.

But there are also many examples of growing wealth by trashing the environment, in rich and poor parts of the world alike, whether through unregulated mineral extraction, drastic water use for agriculture, slash-and-burn farming, or fossil-fuel-guzzling ( ' , 大量消耗) transport.

But the data is exact enough for a clear trend to be easily discernible.

But researchers are improving systems to measure a teacher's performance throughout the year, and, with three years of data, it's usually possible to tell which teachers are failing.

But overall, we suspect that spending would come down through elimination of a lot of unnecessary or even dangerous tests and treatments.

But now, as then, powerful forces are ideologically opposed to the whole idea of government action on a sufficient scale to jump-start the economy.

But missing from all these data is the sense that today's young care very much about their country, about the broader civic and political environment, or about the future of their society.

But is this right? Do things get better or worse as we get richer? Here the Stockholm declaration is ambiguous.

But frequently untreated human waste harvested from lavatories is delivered to farms and spread as fertilizer.

But finding hard evidence to support the thesis is not so easy.

But don't bother asking for evidence that justifies this bleak view.

But could Norway keep its standard of living and yet cut its emissions to Moroccan or even Ethiopian levels? That question, repeated across a dozen environmental issues and across our diverse planet, is what will ultimately determine whether the human race is living beyond its ecological means as it pursues economic revival.

But as the working classes prospered and the servant shortage set in, housekeeping became a matter of interest to the educated classes.

But Pay Drechsel, an environmental scientist, argues that the social and economic benefits of using untreated human waste to grow food outweigh the health risks.

But DirecTV, Comcast and Time Warner Cable have all invested in it.

You know, one of the first things I like to tell people when they ask me about the supplements, is that a lot of them are promoted as a cure for your memory, but your memory doesn’t need a cure.

We need more funding and more effort to return these languages to everyday use, says Fred Nowuski of the National Museum of the American Indian, We are making progress but money needs to be spent on revitalising languages, not just documenting them.

But the president may be giving the financial sector too much credit.

But now Israeli researchers are reporting that even sleeping in the same room can have negative consequences: not for the child,but for the mother.

What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build, as more and more people become prosumers, who produce and consume their own energy on-site?No one knows which – if any – battery technology will ultimately dominate, but one thing remains clear: The future of energy is in how we store it.

We've held on to this workday structure – but thanks to our digital devices, many employees never really clock out.

This might not be right, but school-leavers who fail to acknowledge as much risk making the wrong decision about going to university.

The wireless age is expanding to include not just our phones, tablets, and laptops, but also our cars, homes, and even whole communities.

The problem isn't the technology itself, but that the technology is being used to create more flexibility for the employer rather than the employee.

The government has moved reluctantly into a sensible public health policy, but with such obvious over- cautiousness that any political credit due belongs to the opposition.

The goal of keeping global temperature rise well below 2 ℃ is commendable but the emissions-reduction pledges submitted by countries leading up to the Paris talks are very unlikely to deliver on this.

The researchers also acknowledged that there are a few areas where race as a construct might still be useful in scientific research: as a political and social, but not biological, variable.

Schoololeavers may moan, but they have little choice but to embrace university and the student debt that comes with it.

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.

It's not only unsustainable for workers, but also for the companies that employ them.

In-office wellness programs may help reduce stress levels, but they are hardly an ultimate solution to the problem.

Companies are pushing it hard but make it almost overwhelming even to dip a toe in the water for the average consumer, because there are so many compatibility issues to think about.

Chinese officials say the expansion in Antarctica prioritises scientific research, but they also acknowledge that concerns about resource security influence their moves.

But this third group was not only unexpected, it was so distinct and so large—nearly one third of our sample—that it became a key finding of the study.

But the study warns that it is teenagers who engage in all three of these practices in the extreme who are truly in jeopardy.

But the plan was suspended in July 2013.

But the invisible group wasn't far behind the high-risk set, with more than 13% of them exhibiting depression.

But that isn't why the government—under pressure from cancer charities, health workers and the Labour party—has agreed to legislate for standardised packaging.

But strength of will is the missing ingredient where Mr.

But over the last couple of years, and in this one in particular, we are starting to see companies shift from what is the largest screen size, the smallest form factor or the shiniest object and more into what all of these devices do that is practical in a consumer's life.

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.

But even when employees are given paid time off, workplace norms and expectations that pressure them to overwork often prevent them from taking it.

But an array of countries are rushing to assert greater influence here, with an eye not just towards the day those protective treaties expire, but also for the strategic and commercial opportunities that already exist.

But advances in technology might make Antarctica a lot more accessible three decades from now.

But US researchers quietly complain about budget restraints and having far fewer icebreakers than Russia, limiting the reach of the United States in Antarctica.

But Sadoway isn't alone in trumpeting energy storage as a missing link to a cleaner, more efficient, and more equitable energy future.

But a new study finds that there's another group of adolescents who are in nearly as much danger of experiencing the same psychiatric symptoms: teens who use tons of media, don't get enough sleep and have a sedentary ( ' , 不爱活动的 ) lifestyle.

Brazil opened a research station in 1984, but it was largely destroyed by a fire that killed two members of the navy in 2012, the same year that a diesel-laden Brazilian barge sank near the base.

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

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

People who live, hunt or fish near bird coloniesneed to be careful, the researchers say, The birds don’t mean to cause harm, but the chemicals they carry can cause major problems.

I’m going to define what love is, but then most of the experiments I’m going to talk about are really focused more on attraction than love.

It’s no surprise that high-profile athletes can influence children’s eating behaviors, but the scientists were able to quantify how prevalent these endorsements are in the children’s environment.

I looked through my suitcase but couldn’t find anything to wear.

But those two beverages aren’t the same.

But by 2014, the death rate from Alzheimer’s Disease for this age group have more than doubled, increasing from 3.8% to 8.5%, making the progressive brain disease the second leading cause of death for centenarians.

But because this population is getting larger, the number of deaths in this group is also increasing.

And I’m going to pick a definition from a former colleague, Robert Sternberg, who is now the dean at Tufts University, but was here on our faculty at Yale for nearly 30 years.

There should be forces in society who should be concerned about the budget, but they shouldn't be functioning simultaneously as doctors, said Dr.

The shift, little noticed outside the medical establishment but already controversial inside it, suggests that doctors are starting to redefine their roles, from being concerned exclusively about individual patients to exerting influence on how healthcare dollars are spent.

A chimpanzee can't win an argument with a modern man, but it can tear the man apart like a rag doll.

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

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

A politician may read an account of his latest successful public meeting, not for its delayed reward, but very much as his wife reads an account of a party.

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

A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

Adolescents enter high school with great excitement but are soon looking forward to graduation.

After all, "patty poem" gave me my love for poetry not because it was the poem that lifted my spirits, but because it was the one that hurt me the most.

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.

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

Altogether there are some ten thousand of these volcanoes on earth, all but a few hundred of them extinct.

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

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.

An A-team may require A balance—not just A players, but a few generous B players as well.

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.

Anger seems simple when we are feeling it, but the causes of anger are various.

As a parent, I hated seeing my daughter playing her best, but still defeated.

As an inexperienced teacher, I tried every means to get them to be quiet, but in vain.

As expected, I got a roasting, but I now understand why I need discipline.

As some psychologists put it, "It is not that children are little scientists but that scientists are big children."

As their world expanded, she said, children compared themselves to others online in a way that was "hugely damaging in terms of their self-identity, in terms of their confidence, but also in terms of their ability to develop themselves".

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.

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

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

Athens lost freedom forever, but freedom was not lost forever for the world.

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

Bach died in 1750, but it was not until the early 19th century that his musical gift was fully recognized.

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.

Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated.

Big cities generally have heavy traffic and expensive parking, but there you have a choice of taking public transport, which is cheaper than driving.

Bob thought he couldn't go to the party because he had to write a report, but he went after all.

Both of us had the qualities and virtues that are typical of American actors: humorous, aggressive, and making fun of each other - but always with an underlying affection.

But a new study suggests they used a little rock 'n' roll.

But a transparent animal doesn't have pigments, so its tissues won't absorb light.

But a transparent object doesn't absorb or scatter light, at least not very much, light can pass through it without bending or stopping.

But above all, we want to spend some time with you and your family.

But according to Anderson, the amount of time spent watching television is not related to reading ability.

But after all, those years, I found that dance was gradually becoming something that felt like more of a burden than a joy.

But alternative explanations are hard to find.

But arts groups bring broader value to our communities.

But as the 200th anniversary of his birth approaches, it is possible—and important for our own culture—to understand how he made himself a lasting one.

But at union station in Los Angeles last month, a board went up with dollar bills attached to it with pins and a sign that read, "give what you can, take what you need".

But be sure to come back to work next week.

But before I go, I'd like to invite you out for dinner — just to thank you for all the help you gave me during my three-month research work here.

But before they can be assured, more efforts must be made, because the population of the crane in the wild is on the decline, and many other species appear headed toward extinction.

But being the parent of a motorhead is itself an experience in education.

But beyond that, even very young children want to be part of a shared purpose.

But beyond the minimum requirements as social beings, they have little instinct (本能) to help one another.

But Brooks has structured his book in an unorthodox (非常规的), and perhaps unfortunate way.

But Cathy woke me up early next morning, wearing her swimsuit ready to go! I told her she shouldn't swim after a whole night's coughing, but she refused to give up and insisted she go.

But Christiansen couldn't find the Yellowstone volcano anywhere.

But compared with previous studies, she finds the speed of breaking down in this one exciting.

But compensating on the weekends actually feeds into your sleepiness the following week, a recent study found.

But consumers do have a choice.

But daydreamers are also responsible for some of the greatest ideas and achievements in human history.

But discovering freedom is not like discovering computers.

But distinctions that were sharp to us as children become unclear; we are numb to new stimulation, new ideas.

But do you know that every year a lot of useless computers and cellphones will ruin the soil?

But doing any ordinary job as well as one can is in itself an admirable commitment.

But don't expect it to show up in too many driveways.

But driverless car ownership could increase as the prices drop and more people become comfortable with the technology.

But during the next week, set a goal of at least a mile and a half per run.

But during the past decade declining rainfall has allowed him to plant highly profitable crops.

But eventually Henry ford would build fifteen million of them.

But every day, we would sit by the lake, looking at the house and dreaming of what it would be like to live there.

But footsteps can be muddied and they can go off in different directions.

But for tourists like me, pandas are its top attraction.

But gold was discovered there in 1897, and two years later, it was one of the largest cities in the west, with a population of 30, 000.

But good news is that there're really only three kinds of decisions you need to make about color in your home: the small ones, the medium ones, and the large ones.

But he argued that this did not prove parental involvement was the root cause of that success.

But he did not know about brushes before a visitor told him he needed one.

But he is also working at a far more fundamental level: his staff show people how to make floating gardens and fish ponds prevent starvation during the wet season.

But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.

But he is providing a few years during which the farmers will, perhaps, be able to find other means of adapting.

But he later said, "those two books were my companions by day, and under my pillow at night."

But he quickly found that he loved playing this instrument, and was committed to practicing it so that within a couple of months he was playing reasonably well.

But he said that they were all nice people and he couldn't imagine any of them had done that.

But her cold voice really annoyed me.

But herd immunity works only when nearly the whole herd joins in.

But here, too, Anderson notes that no studies have proved it.

But how they're doing it is still unknown.

But however long it takes, the technology has the potential to change our transportation systems and our cities, for better or for worse, depending on how the transformation is regulated.

But humans enjoyed all of these advantages for a full 2 million years during which they remained weak and marginal creature.

But I could not help thinking about that silly poem.

But I don't like the idea of paying three months for an empty apartment, either.

But I don't think we can get the tickets this late.

But I haven't finished even half of it.

But I homed in, with uncertainty, on one particular table at the brown's grove farm's stand, full of fresh and soft tomatoes the size of my fist.

But I hope to move the family out there in a couple of months' time.

But I like all kinds of fish and vegetables.

But I will have to ask my friend first and we will come together.

But if the damage is caused by the user, you will have to pay for the repair.

But if you have a membership card, I can give you a 20% discount.

But in agriculture, small farmers can get the best of the major players.

But in all, only 150 cans will be used up over the cat's lifetime-and we'll still have 100 left over for the next cat.

But in Chicago's early history, every engineering solution seemed to create a new problem.

But in Indonesia extremely dry forests are in flames.

But in many cafés in Korea, you can do more than that.

But in order to stay in business, arts groups must produce returns.

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

But in dealing with the young, the fact of association itself as an immediate human fact, gains in importance.

This increasingly high level of education is probably a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for the complex political systems required by advanced economic performance.

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.

Databases used by some companies don't rely on data collected systematically but rather lump together information from different research projects.

But some observers are skeptical, “There is a kind of false precision being hawked by people claiming they are doing ancestry testing,” says Trey Duster, a New York University sociologist.

But in keeping with our examination of southern intellectual life, we may consider the original Puritans as carriers of European culture adjusting to New world circumstances.

But don't bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the hippocampus, they're there to stay.

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.

But a number of anthropologists in the early 1900s also rejected the particularist theory of culture in favor of diffusionism.

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.

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.

They found that the principal requirement for what is called “global cascades” -the widespread propagation of influence through networks -is the presence not of a few influentials but, rather, of a critical mass of easily influenced people.

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 details may be unknowable, but the independence of standard-setters, essential to the proper functioning of capital markets, is being compromised.

The IASB says it does not want to act without overall planning, but the pressure to fold when it completes it reconstruction of rules later this year is strong.

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.

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.

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 by giving in to critics now they are inviting pressure to make more concessions.

But bank’s shares trade below their book value, suggesting that investors are skeptical.

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.

Big retailers must understand these differences before they can identify the segments of European wholesaling in which their particular abilities might unseat smaller but entrenched competitors.

” Achievement happens because you as a person embody the external achievement； you don‘t “ get” success but become it.

However， Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind， and while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone， in reality we are continually faced with a question： “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that？ ”Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire， Allen concluded ： “ We do not attract what we want， but what we are.

“The traditional rule was it’s safer to stay where you are, but that’s been fundamentally inverted,” says one headhunter.

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

To be sure, he performs an impressive variety of interesting compositions, but it is not necessary for me to visit Avery Fisher Hall, or anywhere else, to hear interesting orchestral music.

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

So disciplines acquire a monopoly not just over the production of knowledge, but also over the production of the producers of knowledge.

Menand, is that “the knowledge and skills needed for a particular specialisation are transmissible but not transferable.

For the time, attention, and money of the art-loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the 20th century.

But what will be the nature of that difference? Merely expanding the orchestra’s repertoire will not be enough.

But the regular time it takes to get a doctoral degree in the humanities is nine years.

But the key idea behind professionalisation, argues Mr.

But most find it difficult to agree on what a “general education” should look like.

But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “ the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

But in some cases, one marketer’s owned media become another marketer’s paid media – for instance, when an e-commerce retailer sells ad space on its Web site.

But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor’s degrees in 1970-1971 than they did 20 years later.

But a comparative study of linguistic traits published online today supplies a reality check.

We aim to be objective, but we cannot escape the context of our unique life experience.

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

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

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.

In Britain, more than half of public-sector workers but only about 15% of private-sector ones are unionized.

Humans are unique in their capacity to not only make tools but then turn around and use them to create superfluous material goods - paintings, sculpture and architecture - and superfluous experiences - music, literature, religion and philosophy.

Downloading and consuming culture requires great skills, but failing to move beyond downloading is to strip oneself of a defining constituent of humanity.

But, unlike with mining claims, the community takes control of what happens next.

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

But there should be consequences.

But the real gains come in benefits and work practices.

But on the general effectiveness of the social cure, Rosenberg is less persuasive.

But many within the public sector suffer under the current system, too.

But it takes collective scrutiny and acceptance to transform a discovery claim into a mature discovery.

But in the everyday practice of science, discovery frequently follows an ambiguous and complicated route.

But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the word.

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

But for all the reasons there are to celebrate the computer, we must also tread with caution.

But as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( ' , NRC) reviews the company’s application, it should keep it mind what promises from Entergy are worth.

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

All animals download, but only a few upload.

Two of the three objecting Justice-Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas-agreed with this Constitutional logic but disagreed about which Arizona rules conflicted with the federal statute.

Few switch DNT on now, but if tracking is off it will stay off.

But we are now knowledgeable enough to reduce many of the risks that threatened the existence of earlier humans, and to improve the lot of those to come.

But the intention is not to neglect social science; rather, the complete opposite.

But take a longer view and there is a surprising amount that we can say with considerable assurance.

But such gloominess is misplaced.

But on the more important matter of the Constitution,the decision was an 8-0 defeat for the federal government and the states.

But if Congress wanted to prevent states from using their own resources to check immigration status,it could.

But as Cline is the first to note, it took Beaumont decades to perfect her craft; her example can’t be knocked off.

One could interpret much of the work of Beethoven by saying that suffering is inevitable, but the courage to fight it renders life worth living.

It might be poetic, philosophical, sensual, or mathematical, but in any case it must, in my view, have something to do with the soul of the human being.

It is not by chance that the Funeral March is not the last movement of the Eroica Symphony, but the second, so that suffering does not have the last word.

Hence it is metaphysical; but the means of expression is purely and exclusively physical: sound.

He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behavior and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.

There is pressure for change from within the profession, but opponents of change among the regulators insist that keeping outsiders out of a law firm isolates lawyers from the pressure to make money rather than serve clients ethically.

The researchers mapped not only the city’s vast and ornate ceremonial areas, but also hundreds of simpler apartment complexes where common people lived.

Sensible ideas have been around for a long time, but the state-level bodies that govern the profession have been too conservative to implement them.

But these sites are exceptions to the norm.

But there are few places where clients have more grounds for complaint than America.

But the Nobel Foundation’s limit of three recipients per prize, each of whom must still be living, has long been outgrown by the collaborative nature of modern research—as will be demonstrated by the inevitable row over who is ignored when it comes to acknowledging the discovery of the Higgs boson.

But most law graduates never get a big-firm job.

But in Osborneland, your first instinct is to fall into dependency—permanent dependency if you can get it—supported by a state only too ready to indulge your falsehood.

But, the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused significant changes.

But the result was a new social pattern which, although it resembled European society in many ways, had a character that was distinctly American.

Vaux says that Science’s idea to pass some papers to statisticians “has some merit, but a weakness is that it relies on the board of reviewing editors to identify ‘the papers that need scrutiny’ in the first place”.

This impact will not only be through the publications in Science itself, but hopefully through a larger group of publishing places that may want to model their approach after Science.

Researchers should improve their standards, he wrote in2012, but journals should also take a tougher line, “engaging reviewers who are statistically literate and editors who can verify the process”.

Professional scientists are expected to know how to analyze data, but statistical errors are alarmingly common in published research, according to David Vaux, a cell biologist.

Precisely because readers from different historical periods, places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the page-including for texts that engage with fundamental human concerns-debates about texts can play an important role in social discussion of beliefs and values.

Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave no instructions—nor received traceable, recorded answers.

In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place.

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.

But “it’s us ,human beings ,we the people who create the society we want ,not profit ”.

But unlike their absolutist counterparts in the Gulf and Asia, most royal families have survived because they allow voters to avoid the difficult search for a non-controversial but respected public figure.

But they show comprehension to consist not just passive assimilation but of active engagement inference and problem-solving.

But the justices should not swallow California’s argument whole.

But keeping sensitive information on these devices is increasingly a requirement of normal life.

But he noted that biomedical journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancetpay strong attention to statistical review.

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

2. A miracle is something that seems impossible but happens anyway.: 奇迹就是看似不可能，却发生了。

3. 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。

4. English has hurt me a thousand times, but I still regard it as my first love.: 英语伤我千百遍，我待英语如初恋。

5. The happiest are not those who own all the best things, but those who can appreciate the beauty of life.: 最幸福的人们并不一定什么都是最好，只是他们懂得欣赏生活的美好。

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