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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.

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.

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.

Product transitions used to take five or seven years; now they take one or two.

People in both groups used nicotine patches before they quit, in addition to a second form of nicotine replacement, like gum or spray.

Loosely managed teams can become hotbeds of distraction—employees routinely complain that they can't get their work done because they are forced to spend too much time in meetings or compelled to work in noisy offices.

I could imagine what the teacher was saying or what it looked like in the book.

Highly superior autobiographical memory' , first came to light in the early 2000s, with a young woman named Jill Price.

Great leaders recognize the weak signals or slight signs that point to big changes to come.

Consider the current moment in your own life, your team or your organization.

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

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.

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

After that, survey respondents disagree over whether this generation will follow in their parents' footsteps, moving to the suburbs to raise families, or will choose to remain in the city center.

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

What do animals do? There are three main ways that animals survive the cold in winter: sleep, adapt or migrate.

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

Still, 60% of drivers would like to get some kind of self-driving feature, such as automatic braking or self-parking the next time they buy a new car.

He also believes they will be more likely to trust selfdriving cars as they become more familiar with features such as automatic braking or parking.

Advocates of selfdriving cars argue they will be safer than in cars driven by humans because they wouldn’t get distracted or drive when tired.

[The most recent of these studies, published in The Journal of Applied Gerontology, surveyed 150 Connecticut residents of assisted living, nursing homes and smaller residential care homes .

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

Unable to buy grain or grow their own, hungry people take to the streets.

To lower domestic food prices, some countries limited or stopped their grain exports.

They were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities, for instance, and less likely to be bored or lonely.

The trend began in 2007, when leading wheat-exporting countries such as Russia and Argentina limited or banned their exports, in hopes of increasing local food supplies and thereby bringing down domestic food prices.

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

Older adults, especially those with limited mobility or difficulty driving on their own, are one of the classic use-cases for driverless cars.

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

It is an interaction between the person and the place, not the sort of place in itself, that leads to better or worse experiences.

In a multi-state study of assisted living , for instance, University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of variables—the facility's type, size or age; whether a chain owned it; how attractive the neighborhood was—had no significant relationship to how the residents fared in terms of illness, mental decline, hospitalizations or mortality.

I can not control whether or not I wind up getting the disease swine flu, for example, he says.

Food-import anxiety is even leading to new efforts by food-importing countries to buy or lease farmland in other countries.

Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home, or has the industry simply hired better interior designers? Are nursing homes as bad as people fear, or is that an out-moded stereotype ? Can doing one's homework really steer families to the best places? It is genuinely hard to know.

College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school diploma or lessWhere a person lives matters, toIt will not necessarily reduce road accidents.

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

As I was considering all this, a press release from a respected research firm crossed my desk, announcing that the five-star rating system that Medicare developed in 2008 to help families compare nursing home quality also has little relationship to how satisfied its residents or their family members are.

Verifone, the company that makes the store’s card reader would not confirm or deny that the plastic bag trick worked.

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

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

In any case, new graduate students can learn who their advisers or temporary advisers are by visiting or emailing the departmental office and asking for the information.

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

You may have heard some of the fashion industry horror stories: models eating tissues or cotton balls to hold off hunger, and models collapsing from hunger-induced heart attacks just seconds after they step off the runway.

They thought that a person with talent or intelligence did not need to work hard to do well.

They are effectively tackling real or imagined problems.

The team behind the article and video in question make no mention of the system, or whether or not it detected them.

The most likely type of burglary by far is the unsophisticated crime of opportunity, usually involving a broken window or some forced entry.

That means defeating the lock somehow, or breaking a window.

Support Bill Perry's pub, and any other bar or restaurant that doesn't ask you to do drunken math.

Setting a limit on the amount of sugar or salt in their products.

Research shows that managers who have a fixed mind-set are less likely to seek or welcome feedback from their employees than are managers with a growth mind-set.

Replacing sugar or salt with alternative ingredients.

Pay a little more upfront for your beer or burger.

Or maybe the reward of a half-sized portion could be a half-sized dessert to be claimed only on a future date.

One of the prizes used was a lottery ticket , with a $10, $50 or $100 payout, and this was as effective as a tangible gift in persuading people to eat less.

One of the main theoretical home-security concerns is whether or not a given system is vulnerable to being blocked from working altogether.

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

Many of the reductions over the past 30 years have been achieved either by reducing the amount of sugar, salt or fat in a product, or by finding an alternative ingredient.

It seems higher education has become an industry of meeting-holders whose task it is to solve problems— real or imagined.

It might mean monitoring employee productivity on a digital leaderboard and offering prizes to the winners, or giving employees digital badges or stars for completing certain activities.

In her experience, people in positions of power or people in finance or engineering do not tend to like the sound of the word.

If we replaced half of our administrative staff with classroom teachers, we might actually get a majority of our classes back to 20 or fewer students per teacher.

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

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.

Confronted by a setback such as a disappointing test grade, students with a growth mind-set said they would study harder or try a different strategy.

Companies, marketers and teachers have long looked for fun ways to engage people's reward-seeking or competitive spirits.

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

As a person who writes about food and drink for a living, I couldn't tell you the first thing about Bill Perry or whether the beers he sells are that great.

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.

A fixed mind-set can also hinder communication and progress in the workplace and discourage or ignore constructive criticism and advice.

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.

Check with your school’s career service or employment office for help to find a campus job.

You can force a child to stay in his or her seat, fill out a worksheet, or practice division.

Why not instead think of learning as if it were food—something so valuable to humans that they have evolved to experience it as a pleasure?Joy should not be trained out of children or left for after-school programs.

Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money.

What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities—from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga—by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under clock time vs task time.

Think of a 3-year-old lost in the pleasures of finding out what he can and cannot sink in the bathtub, a 5-year- old beside herself with the thrill of putting together strings of nonsensical words with her best friends, or an 11-year-old completely absorbed in a fascinating comic strip.

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

There are plenty of recipes , how-to videos and cooking classes available to anyone who has a computer, smartphone or television.

The point is not to excuse or forget the crime.

The opposite of a wallet is a smartphone or an iPad.

The more difficult a child's life circumstances, the more important it is for that child to find joy in his or her classroom.

The kind of shopping—where you hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a corner shop.

So we're eating out or taking in, and we don't sit down—or we do, but we hurry.

Shouldn't preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans? Why would we want to outsource this basic task, especially when outsourcing it is so harmful? When I talk about cooking, I'm not talking about creating elaborate dinner parties or three-day science projects.

Should a woman who possessed a small amount of drugs years ago be permanently unable to be licensed as a nurse?These laws are also counterproductive, since they make it harder for people with criminal records to find housing or land a job, two key factors that reduce backsliding.

Rich people don't want to live in Pittsburgh or Ithaca.

My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves.

Many of these penalties are imposed regardless of the seriousness of the offense or the person's individual circumstances.

Laws can restrict or ban voting, access to public housing, and professional and business licensing.

Just make sure you're getting real food without tons of added salt or sugar.

I have visited some of the newer supposedly effective schools, where children shout slogans in order to learn self-control or must stand behind their desk when they can't sit still.

I am not sure if she was more upset by my hubris or by the fact that my English teacher had let my ego get so out of hand.

Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family.

Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something unique about it?It wouldn't be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in other countries, because you couldn't reproduce it in most of the US either.

But you can't force the child to think carefully, enjoy books, digest complex information, or develop a taste for learning.

But this doesn't necessarily translate to real cooking, and the result of this survey shouldn't surprise anyone: 52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.

But earning money isn't quick or easy for most of us.

Before you brush this argument aside as rubbish, or think of joy as an unaffordable luxury in a nation where there is awful poverty, low academic achievement, and high dropout rates, think again.

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

They are more worried about their children being depressed or anxious.

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.

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.

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

The meals are not particularly appetizing, or even safe.

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

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.

Some are pricey—a three-week intensive program can cost $4,500 or more—but most offer scholarships.

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.

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.

Parents who are white, wealthy or college-educated say too much involvement can be bad.

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 course, much of this argument in the 1930s-40s was advanced because there was little or no experience in justifying apparel on the basis of utility.

Most affluent parents enroll their children in preschool or day care, while low-income parents are more likely to depend on family members.

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.

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

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.

In these groups, which came out of an Eastern European tradition of developing young talent, professors teach promising K-12 students advanced mathematics for several hours after school or on weekends.

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

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

Implicitly or explicitly, American fashion addressed a democracy, whereas traditional Paris-based fashion was prescriptive and imposed on women, willing or not.

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

Discipline techniques vary by education level: 8% of those with a postgraduate degree say they often beat their children, compared with 22% of those with a high school degree or less.

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

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

According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or Hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

71% of parents with a college degree say they do it every day, compared with 33% of those with a high school diploma or less.

Most Americans don’t eat enough fruits, vegetables or whole grains.

In the past, health experts warned us that the day would come in which it would become very difficult to provide medical care for even common problems such as lung infection or severe sour throat.

What can be done about mass unemployment? All the wise heads agree: there're no quick or easy answers.

We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.

Today's teenagers admire their parents and welcome parental guidance about important matters such as career choice—though certainly not Mom and Dad's advice on matters of personal taste, such as music or fashion.

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

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 report focused on poor urban areas, where farms in or near cities supply relatively inexpensive food.

The good news is that a bill just approved by the House and a bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee would implement or test many reforms that should help slow the rise in medical costs over the long term.

The gold standard study by Harvard and Columbia University scholars found that even in high-poverty schools, teachers consistently had a huge positive or negative impact.

The changes would have to be approved or rejected as a whole by Congress, making it hard for narrow-interest lobbies to bend lawmakers to their will.

The Senate Finance bill would impose an excise tax on health insurance plans that cost more than $8,000 for an individual or $21,000 for a family.

That is far less likely to happen if Congress also adopts strong pay-go rules requiring that any increase in payments to providers be offset by new taxes or budget cuts.

Right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible.

Or so the industry hopes.

One boy said, I'd rather be concentrating on artistic efforts than saving the world or something.

Not many young people eligible for voting are interested in local or national elections these days.

Most of these operations draw irrigation water from local rivers or lakes.

Most agree that the solution is to push doctors to accept fixed payments to care for a particular illness or for a patient's needs over a year.

Many even think their parents are cool! Although more than a third have an object in their rooms they would like to keep secret from their parents, rarely is it anything more alarming than a diary or offcolor book or CD.

It's been the year of interactive television advertising for the last ten or twelve years, says Colin Dixon of a digital-media consultancy.

Is surgery, radiation or careful monitoring best for prostate cancer? Is the latest and most expensive cholesterol-lowering drug any better than its common competitors? The pending bills would spend additional money to accelerate this effort.

Interactive television advertising has been under debate for the last decade or so.

In the last five years or so, there has been an explosion of green claims and environmental claims.

In fact, other recent studies have found there has never been a time in American history when so small a proportion of young people have sought or accepted leadership roles in local civic organizations.

Get a teacher from the top 20%, and it's as if a child has gone to school for an extra month or two.

Enrollees would have to pay more money for many services out of their own pockets, and that would encourage them to think twice about whether an expensive or redundant test was worth it.

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

David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product claims.

Changes in policy would be approved or rejected as a whole so that lobbyists would find it hard to influence lawmakers.

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 transport.

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

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 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.

Any doctor who has wrestled with multiple forms from different insurers, or patients who have tried to understand their own parade of statements, know that simplification ought to save money.

And the head-to-head competition might give them a strong incentive to lower their prices, perhaps by accepting slimmer profit margins or demanding better deals from providers.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented , and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.

To reduce or avoid it, researchers have examined the effect of smoking, diet, brain-challenging games, exercise and other strategies.

Is there really a magic memory pill or a herbal recall remedy? I have been frequently asked if these memory supplements work.

Cognitive decline is the loss of ability to learn new skills, or recall words, names, and faces that is most common as we age.

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

Yet the persistent question of Why do I need that? – or, perhaps more tellingly, Why do you need to know that? – dogs the steps of many new ventures.

While we argue phasing out racial terminology in the biological sciences, we also acknowledge that using race as a political or social category to study racism, although filled with lots of challenges, remains necessary given our need to understand how structural inequities and discrimination produce health disparities between groups, Yudell said.

While most parents, teachers and clinicians would react to an adolescent using drugs or getting drunk, they may easily overlook teenagers who are engaging in inconspicuous behaviors.

Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.

They slept six hours a night or less.

There is also very little detail on who will provide the funds or, importantly, who is responsible for their provision.

The market demand for electronic devices is now either declining or not growing as fast as before.

So what other variables could be used if the racial concept is thrown out? Yudell said scientists need to get more specific with their language, perhaps using terms like ancestry or population that might more precisely reflect the relationship between humans and their genes, on both the individual and population level.

Scholars warn that Antarctica's political drift could blur the distinction between military and civilian activities long before the continent's treaties come up for renegotiation, especially in parts of Antarctica that are ideal for intercepting signals from satellites or retasking satellite systems, potentially enhancing global electronic intelligence operations.

No average person wants to figure out whether their favorite calendar software works with their fridge or whether their washing machine and tablet get along.

Many teenagers resort to drugs or alcohol for mental relief.

Many of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries, the majority of which are African or small island states, produce a very small quantity of emissions.

Many of the coolest gadgets this year are the same as the coolest gadgets last year – or the year before, even.

It is hard to say whether it is good or bad.

It has little to do with the quality or taste of cigarettes.

It has little impact on their decision whether or not to quit smoking.

In a study published last year, psychologists coined the term workplace telepressure to describe an employee's urge to immediately respond to emails and engage in obsessive thoughts about returning an email to one's boss, colleagues or clients.

For better or worse, batteries make possible our mobile-first lifestyles, our screen culture, our increasingly globalized world.

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.

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

And it is clearly up to the current generation of leaders from high-emitting nations to decide whether they want to be remembered as climate change tyrants or pioneers.

And 29%, the invisible risk group, scored high on three in particular: They spent five hours a day or more on electronic devices.

About 58% of the students demonstrated none or few of the risk behaviors.

There are more than 600,000 professional social workers in the country, and we all either have a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree or a Ph D in social work.

That’s what hard-working men and women say to justify their lavish vacations, big stereo systems or regular restaurant meals.

So what I’ve done is I’ve taken Sternberg’s three elements of love: intimacy, passion and commitment, and I’ve listed out the different kinds of relationships you would have if you had zero, one, two or three out of the three elements.

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.

A code uses symbols to replace words, phrases, or sentences.

A pie graph might include a legend, or it might use icons or labels within each slice.

A reader can enjoy an indirect experience without any of the dangers or stresses involved.

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

A silence in a conversation may also show stubbornness, or worry.

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.

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

According to the Dallas area cultural advocacy coalition, arts agencies employ more than 10, 000 people as full-or part-time employees or independent contractors.

Accordingly, newspapers were read almost only by rich people in politics or the trades.

Acts of generosity can change lives or just give you that warm feeling full of love.

Actually, one may start his journey of modern architecture by walking or biking.

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

All the competitors are served with beer or port wine, the traditional accompaniment for Stilton cheese.

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

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, don't wear loose clothes, long scarves, big necklaces, or loose belts — they get caught in something or fall into liquid.

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 I could not understand the news on the television or movies or anything like this.

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

Another trend is off-site or virtual management, where teams of people linked by e-mail and the Internet work on projects from their own houses.

Any fishy or strong smell means the fish isn't fresh.

Any given performance takes a tour bus full of artists, technical experts, managers, musicians, or writers to create an appealing piece of art.

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

As experts continue to study the science of risk-seeking, we'll continue to hit the mountains, the waves or the shallow end of the pool.

As the end of school approaches, and school vacation reading lists loom ahead, parents might take this chance to step in and make their own summer reading list and plan a family trip to the library or bookstore.

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

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

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

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

Axani wrote in his post that he is not looking for anything in return and that the woman who uses the looking for ticket can choose to either travel with him or take the ticket and travel on her own.

Because of changes to methods of working, new designs allow for expansion or movement of desks, storage, and equipment within the workstation.

Before he knew it, Nicholas was lost, all alone! he didn't have food, water, a phone, or other supplies.

Being a good neighbor is more or less about considerate behavior.

Believe it or not, he or she is on your side and is eager to see you do well.

Big ideas for little kids includes everything a teacher, a parent or a college student needs to teach philosophy to elementary school children from picture books.

Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street level.

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 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 the amount of time spent in reading each session has declined, from closer to an hour or more to closer to a half hour per session.

But the new national sleep foundation survey found that 35% of 10- to 12-year-olds get only seven or eight hours.

But the river wasn't changed in a few days or even a few months.

Chopsticks are usually two long, thin pieces of wood or bamboo.

Cities usually have a good reason for being where they are, like a nearby port or river.

Complete mastery demands continued learning until the age of 10 or 12.

Compliment (赞美) the other person to make him or her feel comfortable, and ask questions to show interest.

Dartmoor has 1, 000 or so ponies, who play a critical role in creating the diversity of species in this area.

Data can be turned into new services or products.

Dawson did not have any of the natural conveniences of cities like London or Paris.

Depending on the type of allergies and/ or dietary requirements, an extra charge may be made for providing special food.

Depending on which role you choose, you could help to increase a community's access to safe drinking water, or help to protect valuable local cultures.

Documentary: a visual presentationsuch as a video,slide show,or computer projectno more than 10 minutes long.

Don't forget to stop by pacific science center's store while you are here to pick up a wonderful science activity or remember your visit.

Dreaming about whether you would want to read minds, see through walls, or have superhuman strength may sound silly, but it actually gets to the heart of what really matters in your life.

East or west, home is best.

Even though you might feel more comfortable going with a friend or partner, the office hour will go better if it's just you and the professor.

Everyone has taken a not-so-great class at one time or another.

Experts say the way you design your home could play a role in whether you pack on the pounds or keep them off.

Farmers in many countries are also adapting like this—either by growing new produce, or by growing the same things differently.

On February 5, submit a first draft of your essay, performance script, or documentary highlights.

Few people I know seem to have much desire or time to cook.

Few want to live without search engines or a quick delivery.

First, I want to get a job as a computer programmer, and then after five years or so, I'd like to start my own business.

Food can also have a specific meaning, and play a significant role in a family or culture's celebrations or traditions.

For example, the backhand skills in tennis could be learned and improved over time by playing matches or by creating fun practice situations.

For example, these robots will be able to distinguish when someone is happy or sad.

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Fortunately, I didn't get any channels showing all-night movies or I would never have gotten to bed.

Give your body and brain a rest by stepping outside for a while, exercising, or dong something you enjoy.

Grandma's rose garden and Dad's vegetable garden might be good or bad, but that's not what's important.

Happy and calm is the man who takes all these possibilities into consideration and arrives at the appointment either early or on time.

He had no food or water and he was in terrible pain.

He is a shy man, but he is not afraid of anything or anyone.

He likes that he can sit and check his phone in peace or chat up the barkeeper with whom he's on a first-name basis if he wants to have a little interaction.

He sold or exchanged some of the milk in the towns nearby for other food and made cheese and butter for the family with what was left.

Hospital patients who see tree branches out their window are likely to recover at a faster rate than patients who see buildings or sky instead.

However, 110 years is probably the longest that anyone could hope to live—if he or she is extremely healthy and lucky.

However, Mexicans may use silence when instructions are given by a person in authority rather than be rude to that person by arguing with him or her.

However, they still did not know how to cope with mean-spirited jokes, or the sense of incompetence they might feel if they compared themselves to celebrities or more brilliant friends online.

However, we can achieve meaning only if we have made a commitment to something larger than our own little egos, whether to loved ones, or to some moral concept.

I am not going to ask you questions to find out whether you understand the books or not.

I come here once a week, mostly Friday or Saturday.

I didn't come from a family with wealth or position, but I did manage to get a master's degree in fine arts.

I didn't hear the bell, or I would have left earlier.

I don't have to write down what happened or what technique the author was using when he or she wrote this.

I don't know how many people would have done that; they would have listened to their agents or the studio powers.

I guess that there's probably some demanding work schedule, or social anxiety around stepping up to help for an unknown sport.

I need to be in my office in fifteen minutes, or I'll be late for a meeting.

I suppose about two or three times a week.

I was now fascinated by the idea of poetry, words that had the power to make or break a person's world.

I was very proud that I was going to a college because no one in my family ever went to any college or to any university.

If acceptable social behavior is too strictly defined and controlled, the insensitive or aggressive behavior that administrators are seeking to minimize may actually be encouraged.

If children often participate in deliberate play or deliberate practice activities, they are more likely to participate in sports during adulthood.

If I have a "new idea", I now quickly look to see whether somebody else has already thought of it, or something similar—and I then compare what I think with what others have thought.

If the copyright date of your current dictionary shows that it was published five or more years ago, consider investing in a more recent edition.

If the monkeys touched the left side of the screen they would be rewarded with seven drops of water or juice; if they went for the circle, they would be rewarded with the sum of the numbers—17 in this example.

If the plot, characters, or word usage is confusing for you, likely won't be able to remember what you read.

If there is truly a concern about a professor's professionalism or ability, be sure to use online course evaluations to calmly offer your comments.

If you are a fruit grower — or would like to become one — take advantage of apple day to see what's around.

If you are arriving from overseas, bring no food, animal or plant material into the country.

If you are planning to do exercise regularly, or you're doing it now, then listen up! working out in the morning provides additional benefits beyond being physically fit.

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

Since our chief business with them is to enable them to share in a common life we cannot help considering whether or no we are forming the powers which will secure this ability.

Yet most ancestry testing only considers a single lineage, either the Y chromosome inherited through men in a father’s line or mitochondrial DNA, which a passed down only from mothers.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Time was when biologists somewhat overworked the evidence that these creatures preserve the health of game by killing the physically weak, or that they prey only on "worthless"species.

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

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.

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

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.

If people in the network just two degrees removed from the initial influential prove resistant,for example from the initial influential prove resistant,for example the cascade of change won’t propagate very far or affect many people.

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

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.

We define such sold media as owned media whose traffic is so strong that other organizations place their content or e-commerce engines within that environment.

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

Such hijacked media are the opposite of earned media: an asset or campaign becomes hostage to consumers, other stakeholders, or activists who make negative allegations about a brand or product.

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.

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

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

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

Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study a non- specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.

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

To filter out what is unique from what is shared might enable us to understand how complex cultural behavior arose and what guides it in evolutionary or cognitive terms.

Chomsky’s grammar should show patterns of language change that are independent of the family tree or the pathway tracked through it.

Take a moment or two to wonder at those marvels.

Now think of your laptop, thinner than a brown-paper envelope, or your cellphone in the palm of your hand.

Not surprisingly, newly published discovery claims and credible discoveries that appear to be important and convincing will always be open to challenge and potential modification or refutation by future researchers.

First, scientific work tends to focus on some aspect of prevailing Knowledge that is viewed as incomplete or incorrect.

Even after the advent of widespread social media, a pyramid of production remains, with a small number of people uploading material, a slightly larger group commenting on or modifying that content, and a huge percentage remaining content to just consume.

Either Entergy never really intended to live by those commitments, or it simply didn’t foresee what would happen next.

The gardens of the homeless which are in effect homeless gardens introduce from into an urban environment where it either didn’t exist or was not discernible as such.

It is this implicit or explicit reference to nature that fully justifies the use of word garden though in a “liberated” sense, to describe these synthetic constructions.

In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call arrangement of materials, an institution of colors, small pool of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.

Another urge or need that these gardens appear to respond to, or to arise from is so intrinsic that we are barely ever conscious of its abiding claims on us.

Unable to tell whether someone really objects to behavioural ads or whether they are sticking with Microsoft’s default, some may ignore a DNT signal and press on anyway.

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

These labels encourage style-conscious consumers to see clothes as disposable-meant to last only a wash or two, although they don’t advertise that –and to renew their wardrobe every few weeks.

She exhibits the idealism common to many advocates of sustainability, be it in food or in energy.

In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertisers assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioural ads? Or should they have explicit permission?.

In the last decade or so ,advances in technology have allowed mass-market labels such as Zara ,H&M, and Uniqlo to react to trends more quickly and anticipate demand more precisely.

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.

For him, order does not result from forgetting or ignoring the disorders that plague our existence; order is a necessary development, an improvement that may lead to the Greek ideal of spiritual elevation.

Today, professors routinely treat the progressive interpretation of history and progressive public policy as the proper subject of study while portraying conservative or classical liberal ideas —such as free markets, self-reliance—as falling outside the boundaries of routine, and sometimes legitimate, intellectual investigation.

Surveys can cover a single large settlement or entire landscapes.

Some want to shock, others to draw people into science, or to better reward those who have made their careers in research.

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

Even the very phrase “jobseeker’s allowance” is about redefining the unemployed as a “jobseeker” who had no fundamental right to a benefit he or she has earned through making national insurance contributions.

Airborne technologies, such as different types of radar and photographic equipment carried by airplanes or spacecraft, allow archaeologists to learn about what lies beneath the ground without digging.

Aerial surveys locate general areas of interest or larger buried features, such as ancient buildings or fields.

You make further inferences, for instance, about how the test may be significant to you, or about its validity—inferences that form the basis of a personal response for which the author will inevitably be far less responsible.

What is in question is not the retrieval of an absolute, fixed or “true” meaning that can be read off and clocked for accuracy, or some timeless relation of the text to the world.

Together, they make up the reading component of your overall literacy or relationship to your surrounding textual environment.

This doesn’t, however, make interpretation merely relative or even pointless.

They could still invalidate Fourth Amendment protections when facing severe, urgent circumstances, and they could take reasonable measures to ensure that phone data are not erased or altered while a warrant is pending.

The purpose of editing the News of the World was not to promote reader understanding to be fair in what was written or to betray any common humanity.

The most successful monarchies strive to abandon or hide their old aristocratic ways.

The court has ruled that police don’t violate the Fourth Amendment when they sift through the wallet or pocketbook of an arrestee without a warrant.

Rather, we ascribe meanings to test on the basis of interaction between what we might call textual and contextual material: between kinds of organization or patterning we perceive in a text’s formal structures and various kinds of background, social knowledge, belief and attitude that we bring to the text.

Princes and princesses have day-jobs and ride bicycles, not horses .

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.

Manuscript will be flagged up for additional scrutiny by the journal’s internal editors, or by its existing Board of Reviewing Editors or by outside peer reviewers.

Just how much does the Constitution protect your digital data? The Supreme Court will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.

It doesn’t then necessarily follow that one kind of reading is fuller, more advanced or more worthwhile than another.

In effect, you try to reconstruct the likely meanings or effects that any given sentence, image or reference might have had: These might be the ones the author intended.

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

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.

Driving her point home, she continued: “It’s increasingly apparent that the absence of purpose, of a moral language within government, media or business could become one of the most dangerous foals for capitalism and freedom“.

But exploring one’s smart phone is more like entering his or her home.

Are we studying that text and trying to respond in a way that fulfils the requirement of a given course? Reading it simply for pleasure? Skimming it for information? Ways of reading on a train or in bed are likely to differ considerably from reading in a seminar room.

We don’t have to learn how to be mentally healthy ;it it built into us that our bodies know how to heal a cut or mend a broken bone.

Mental health is the source of creativity for solving problems, resolving conflict, making our surroundings more beautiful,managing our home life, or coming up with a creative business idea or invention to make our lives easier.

It’s a form of innate or unlearned optimism.

It is like the immune system of the body, which under stress or through lack of nutrition or exercise can be weakened, but which never leaves us.

“We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials,” says one researcher.

Work with a professional photographer instead of your spouse or friend.

There is no doubt of the alternative–the corrupted landscapes of southern Portugal, Spain or Ireland.

The point of a style upgrade isn’t to become more vain or to spend more time passing over what to wear.

Pick a standard work uniform or a few go-to options.

No matter how formal or informal the work environment, the way you present yourself has an impact.

In some settings, red sneakers or dress T-shirts can convey status; in others not so much.

If you’re in a period of change or just feeling stuck and in a rut, now may be a good time.

Hire a personal stylist, or use the free styling service of a store like J.

For another, it may be to be perceived as more approachable, or more modern and stylish.

Chances are, your headshots are seen much more often now than a decade or two ago.

As an executive coach, I’ve seen image upgrades be particularly helpful during transitions---when looking for a new job, stepping into a new or more public role, or changing work environments.

Are you looking to refresh your image or pivot it? For one person, the goal may be to be taken more seriously and enhance their professional image.

And perhaps faintly, they hint that people should look to intangible qualities like character and intellect rather than dieting their way to size zero or wasp-waist physiques.

If left to themselves, such trends will diminish the relative strength of the English language in international education markets as the demand for educational resources in languages, such as Spanish ,Arabic or Mandarin grows and international business process outsourcing in other language such as Japanese, French and German, spreads.

They did not always prioritize the protection of Mauna Kea’s fragile ecosystems or its holiness to the island’s inhabitants.

There is one step the TSA could take that would not require remodeling airports or rushing to hire: Enroll more people in the PreCheck program.

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