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a worldwide leader in electronics products, says that we compete against market transitions ( ' , 过渡), not competitors.

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

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

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.

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

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

Veiseh, for instance, travelled a lot in his youth.

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

Toilet paper manufacturers are facing a great challenge in promoting its sales.

This is hard to achieve when, as is now the case in many big firms, a large proportion of staff are temporary contractors.

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

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

They feel much less pain in the process.

They are heavily painted in red.

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

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

The millennials ( ' , 千禧一代) who will soon make up half the workforce in rich countries were raised from nursery school onwards to work in groups.

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 continuing economic recession in the country.

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.

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

That's a big education in art by itself.

Teamwork improves with time: America's National Transportation Safety Board found that 73% of the incidents in its civil-aviation database occurred on a crew's first day of flying together.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Seventy-four percent of the respondents surveyed report a good to excellent expectation of real-estate profitability in 2015.

Profound changes in the workforce are making teams trickier to manage.

Product transitions take much less time now than in the past.

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

People are in harmony with the environment.

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

Others elevate the egg into a fancy art, like the heavily jewel-covered eggs that were favored by the Russians starting in the 19th century.

One in 10 buyers rank toilet rolls made from recycled paper among their top considerations, highlighting how overall the environment is much less of a consideration for shoppers than product quality.

Often the best ideas for big changes come from unexpected places—it's just a matter of tuning in.

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

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.

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

Leah's interest in yoga prompted her to make a firm decision to reshape her life.

Karl Barth described midlife in precisely this way.

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

It should not cause any alarm in any way.

It originated in the eastern part of Europe.

It is their major source of protein in winter.

It is likely to be a critical turning point in one's life.

It contributes to their success in life.

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

Instead of just crowding in, old information is sometimes pushed out of the brain for new memories to form.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

In many companies, the conventional form of organisation is giving way to a network of teams.

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

In his book, Team of Teams, General Stanley McChrystal describes how the army's hierarchical structure hindered its operations during the early stages of the Iraq war.

In her study, participants were randomly ( ' , 随机地) assigned to two groups.

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

In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago, Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, Life Reimagined.

In daily life, forgetting actually has clear advantages.

In a study of 120 teams of senior executives, he discovered that less than 10% of their supposed members agreed on who exactly was on the team.

In a sense, forgetting is our brain's way of sorting memories, so the most relevant memories are ready for retrieval.

In a challenge for manufacturers, 81% of paper product users said they would consider buying recycled toilet tissue if it were comparable in quality to standard paper.

Imagine being able to remember every painting, on every wall, in every gallery space, between nearly 40 countries, he says.

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

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

However, organisations need to learn something bigger than how to manage teams better: they need to be in the habit of asking themselves whether teams are the best tools for the job.

Highly superior autobiographical memory' ( ' , or HSAM for short), first came to light in the early 2000s, with a young woman named Jill Price.

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

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.

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

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

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

Decentralisation of authority was also found to be more effective in military operations.

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

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

Chast's designs, such as a worried man alone in a tiny rowboat, reflect that delicateness.

But there's an appeal in that vulnerability.

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

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.

Business schools grade their students in part on their performance in group projects.

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

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

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.

Another trend that looks significant in 2015 is that America's largest population group, Millennials ( ' , 千禧一代), will continue to put off buying a house.

Another issue affecting real estate in the coming year will be America's failing infrastructure.

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

After 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.

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

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

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

19 billion in 2011 to £1.

12 billion in 2015, according to a new report from market research company Mintel.

11 billion in 2016.

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

deprive colleges of the right to manage their facilitiesmake workers less motivated in performing dutiesrender a number of campus workers joblesslead to the privatization of campus facilitiesThe outsourcing plan is not yet finalized.

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

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

Winners of local contests will participate in the national math competition for free.

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

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

To be more competitive in sales of beauty products.

They were versed in literature and interested in art.

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

They join the storks from Germany on rubbish dumps in Morocco.

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

They found inspiration in the world's greatest masterpieces.

They developed an interest in the origin of modern art forms.

They came up with a brand-new set of design proceduresThey made originality a top priority in their fashion design.

They are not as serious in its online stores.

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.

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

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

The retailer also announced the locations of 36 stores it will close in early 2016.

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

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

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

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

The involvement of more women in fashion design.

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

The genetic change in the stork species.

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

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

The company pledged to cut 600 back-office positions, though some 150 workers in those roles would be reassigned to other jobs.

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

The class differences in child rearing are growing—a symptom of widening inequality with far-reaching consequences.

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

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

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

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

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

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

That relative strength would be consistent with what was seen in the wider retail industry during the early part of the holiday season.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sales dropped sharply in its physical stores.

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

Progress in the development of renewables could be fragile, however, if fossil fuel prices remain low for long.

Private companies play a big role in campus management.

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

Open data sharers are still in the minority in many fields.

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

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

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

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

None of the chain's stores in the Washington metropolitan area are to be closed.

Nearly half of high-earning, college-graduate parents enrolled their children in arts classes before they were 5, compared with one-fifth of low-income, lesseducated parents.

Nearly all members of last year's winning U.S.IMO team took part in MathCounts as middle school students, as did Loh, the coach.

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

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

Ms.Lareau doesn't believe participating in fewer after-class activities will negatively affect children's development.

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

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

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

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

Morgan notified the Haslam administration of his decision to opt out in a letter sent last week.

More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.

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

Middle school is a crucial period when students may become keenly interested in advanced mathematics.

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.

Many scientists believe that El Ni o events, caused by warming in the Pacific, are becoming more intense as a result of climate change.

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

Last year, the Royal Society in London said in its report that scientists need to shift away from a research culture where data is viewed as a private preserve.

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.

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

It's no secret in the advanced-math community that diversity is a problem.

It's also pushing ahead in 2016 with an expansion of Bluemercury, the beauty chain it bought last year.

It reflects a shift of their interest in consumer goods.

It poses a potential threat to the retail business in the U.S.

Interestingly, parents' attitudes toward education do not seem to reflect their own educational background as much as a belief in the importance of education for upward mobility.

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

Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.

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

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 the short-term, the birds seem to benefit from overwintering ( ' , 过冬) on rubbish dumps.

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

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

In the Pew survey, middle-class families earning between $30,000 and $75,000 a year fell right between working-class and high-earning parents on issues like the quality of their neighborhood for raising children, participation in extracurricular activities and involvement in their children's education.

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

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.

In his resignation letter, Morgan called the reorganization unworkable.

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

In an email statement from the state's Office of Customer Focused Government, which is examining the possibility of outsourcing, spokeswoman Michelle R.

In an email sent Monday to college presidents in the Tennessee Board of Regents system, outgoing Chancellor John Morgan said an internal analysis showed that each campus' spending on facilities management fell well below the industry standards identified by the state.

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

In addition, other factors are putting downward pressure on oil prices: change in the strategic behavior of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, the projected increase in Iranian exports, the scaling-down of global demand ( ' , especially from emerging markets), the long-term drop in petroleum consumption in the United States, and some displacement of oil by substitutes.

In England, where architecture was increasingly seen as an aristocratic pursuit, noblemen often applied what they learned from the villas of Palladio in the Veneto and the evocative ( ' , 唤起回忆的) ruins of Rome to their own country houses and gardens.

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.

Higher-income families and working-class families now tend to live in different neighborhoods.

"Staying with a native speaker is better for children than simply sitting in a classroom, " says Suzanne Flynn, a professor in language education of children.

A build-it-yourself solar still is one of the best ways to obtain drinking water in areas where the liquid is not readily available.

A century ago, the resource in question was oil.

A coin is put into the cake, which signifies 预示 success in the new year for the person who receives it.

A disaster can change everything in life.

A few daring survived, though, along with a few stay-in-the-cave types.

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

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

A friend of mine owns an area of land in western victoria.

A good neighbor is also one who likes to help out in small ways.

A grasp of how to manage color in your spaces is one of the first steps to creating rooms you'll love to live in.

A great decline in young work force is likely to occur in China, for instance.

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

A home environment in blue can help people reduce food intake.

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

A listener in China, Wang ming, who is about to get an engineering degree, wants to know how American college graduates find jobs.

A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one advertised as lost in the local paper.

A multi-year drought (干旱) in south-east Brazil is becoming worse.

A new commodity brings about a highly profitable, fast-growing industry, urging antitrust反垄断regulators to step in to check those who control its flow.

A new report found 46 percent of meals are eaten alone in America.

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

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

A railway link to Amsterdam in 1874 attracted rich traders from Amsterdam to Hilversum.

A recent study of public opinion shows that in modern Britain people regard themselves socially different.

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

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

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

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

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

A smoke detector is on the ceiling in your room.

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

A study found that a strong nifio in 1997-98 helped America's economy grow by 15 billion, partly because of better agricultural harvest, farmers in the midwest gained from extra rain.

A study from California polytechnic university found more hummingbirds in areas with heavy industrial machinery.

A study of travelers conducted by the website tripadvisor names Yangshuo as one of the top 10 destinations in the world.

A study shows the students who are engaged in after-school activities are happier than those who are not.

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

A tool developed just a couple of years ago by a young farmer, Jonathan Dysinger, in Tennessee, with a small loan from a local slow money group.

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

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

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

Absorbed in painting, john didn't notice evening approaching.

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

According to a review of evidence in a medical journal, runners live three years longer than non-runners.

According to life in likes, as children grew, they became more anxious to get more public approval.

According to the author, fish are most likely to be found in shallow water under waterside trees.

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

According to the passage, human being are used to living in the day light.

According to the passage, why did snowmen become a phenomenon in the middle ages?

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

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

Actually, children learn early the psychology of characters in TV shows.

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

After all, a dollar was a tidy sum for an 11-year-old boy in 1961.

After all, if we adapt in that way, we may avoid the need to change in so many others.

After all, the scientist is engaged in serious research to uncover the very nature of the physical world.

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

After he was put on disability for a bad back, he bought a small farm in the country, just enough to grow food for the family.

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

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

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

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

After spotting a wallet on the front seat inside a parked car with its window down, he stood guard in the rain for about two hours waiting for the owner to return.

After staying overnight in London, we travel on day 2 to northern France to visit the World War I battlefields.

After ten years of living in one, I can't imagine ever living in a small town again.

After that, feeling the need to explore further, I decided to drop in on one of ASL club's meetings.

After the trip, my family became quite interested in camping.

After they were given an invitation to appear live on BBC, the Beatles quickly became famous in Britain with nationwide tours.

After two days stuck in the snow, Nicholas was saved.

Agricultural harvests in rich countries fall.

Albert einstein was born in 1879.

Alia baker is a librarian in Iraq.

Alice Moore is a teenager entrepreneur, who in may 2015 set up her business ailiecandy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Although she founded her company early on in life, she wasn't driven primarily by profit.

Although the drills are used in deliberate practice might not be the most enjoyable, they might be the most relevant to improving performance.

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

Always keep in mind that your main task is to get this company running smoothly.

Always remember that your best ideas might come when your head is actually in the clouds.

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

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

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

An hour later, I woke up suddenly with the solution clearly in mind.

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

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

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

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

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

And in modern day consumer society everyone is considered to be middle class.

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

And it won't help if you're stuck in traffic.

And mp3 players, smart phones, and LCD TVs entered homes in 2002, before tablets and e-readers showed up in 2007.

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

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

And the good morning Britain presenter says she's been able to put a lot of what she's learnt into practice in her own home, preparing meals for sons, Sam, 14, finn, 13.

While it is easy to ignore in our contact with them the effect of our acts upon their disposition, it is not so easy as in dealing with adults.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

When the competitive environment pushed our ancestors to achieve that potential, they could in turn afford more education.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Only when humanity began to get its food in a more productive way was there time for other things.

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

More than two dozen companies sell DNA tests Directly to the public , ranging in price from a few hundred dollars to more than $2500.

More recently, while examining housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English- speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building industry’s work.

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

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

Ironically, the first evidence for this idea appeared in the United States.

In the early 1900s in North America, German-born American anthropologist Franz Boas developed a new theory of culture known as historical particularism.

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

In his work, he attempted to show how all aspects of culture changed together in the evolution of societies.

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

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

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

Historical particularism became a dominant approach to the study of culture in American anthropology, largely through the influence of many students of Boas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

American social scientist Lewis Henry Morgan introduced another theory of cultural evolution in the late 1800s.

Also in the early 1900s, French sociologist Emile Durkheim developed a theory of culture that would greatly influence anthropology.

All of us work through problems in ways of which we're unaware, she says.

According to the standard history of American philosophy, nowhere else in colonial America was “So much important attached to intellectual pursuits.”

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

A tailor named John Dane, who emigrated in the late 1630s, left an account of his reasons for leaving England that is filled with signs.

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

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

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

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

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

In Europe, where forestry is ecologically more advanced, the noncommercial tree species are recognized as members of the native forest community, to be preserved as such, within reason.

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

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

“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'.

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

Yet a considerable number of the most significant collections of criticism published in the 20th century consisted in large part of newspaper reviews.

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

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

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

This development is boosting wholesale demand from the food service segment by 4 to 5 percent a year across Europe, compared with growth in retail demand of 1 to 2 percent.

These men believed in journalism as a calling,and were proud to be published in the daily press.

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

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

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

The Bilski case involves a claimed patent on a method for hedging risk in the energy market.

That ruling produced an explosion in business-method patent filings, initially by emerging internet companies trying to stake out exclusive rights to specific types of online transactions.

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.

Similarly, some Wall Street investment films armed themselves with patents for financial products, even as they took positions in court cases opposing the practice.

Retailers that master the intricacies of wholesaling in Europe may well expect to rake in substantial profits thereby.

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

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

Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975,is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket.

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

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

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

It is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers.

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

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

In re Bilski, as the case is known, is.

In other words, it is up to the buyer, rather than the seller, to decide what to buy.

In his book The Tipping Point,Malcolm Aladuell argues that social epidemics are driven in large part by the acting of a tiny minority of special individuals,often called influentials,who are unusually informed,persuasive,or well-connected.

In fact,they don’t seem to be required of all.

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

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

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.

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

He was knighted in 1967, the first music critic to be so honored.

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

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

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

Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with is 1998 decision in the so-called state Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets.

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

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

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