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an accelerating speeda shift to city centersa new focus on small citiesan ever-increasing demandPeople can live without private cars.

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.

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

These extra features are deemed unnecessary by the majority of shoppers, which probably reflects how these types of products are typically more expensive than regular toilet paper, even when on special offer.

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

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

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

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

The lack of confidence on the part of investors.

The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality ( ' , 专业) and rank.

Technological innovation places greater value on agility ( ' , 灵活性).

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.

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

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

She recalls:One day a man I worked with, Ryan, who had his office next to mine, said, Leah, let's go look at this space on Queen Anne .

People with HSAM often have to make efforts to avoid focusing on the past.

One had to quit abruptly on a given day, going from about a pack a day to zero.

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

Leah reflects on one incident that triggered her fears, when her investors threatened to shut her down: I was probably up against the most fear I've ever had, she says.

Leah reflects on a time she listened to the whispers: About the time my daughter was five years old, I started having a sense that ‘this isn't right.

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.

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

If it is hard enough to define a team's membership, agreeing on its purpose is harder still.

I remember sitting on a bench with my aunt at a yoga studio, she said, and having a moment of clarity right then and there: Yoga is saving my life.

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.

For centuries, Ukrainians have been drawing complicated patterns on eggs.

Eggs provide a unique surface to paint on.

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

Deloitte argues that a new organisational form is on the rise: a network of teams is replacing the conventional hierarchy ( ' , 等级体制).

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

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

Clearly, there is no such thing as a perfect memory – their extraordinary minds are still using the same flawed tools that the rest of us rely on.

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

But 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.

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

As much as we would like to cling on to our past, even the saddest moments can be washed away with time.

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.

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

A decorated egg with a bird on it, given to a young married couple, is a wish for children.

A couple of recent papers have finally opened a window on these people's extraordinary minds.

With Facebook she could keep her relatives up to date on what she was doing.

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

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

Thousands of bees left a town after landing on the back of a car when their queen got stuck in its boot.

The researchers also note that dogs scan faces as a whole to sense how people are feeling, instead of focusing on a given feature.

Soon however, Katherine found herself comparing herself with the people she was reading about on Facebook.

She was also spending a lot of time on Facebook.

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

One of the creatures made a dramatic appearance by moving on to the head of the team leader as he slept.

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

His teacher said if he went on like that, his face would get stuck when the winds changed.

He faces trial on several charges.

He estimated that the comfort level will increase considerably in five to ten years3) One dog has been killed and multiple dogs have been injured by a snowmobile driver in what appears to be an intentional attack on competitors in the Iditarod Race in Alaska.

Facial photos of dogs and humans were displayed on the screen for 1.5 seconds.

Doctors used carrot seeds and roots as medicine, on the theory that foods that taste bad must be good for you.

Although this incident very much alters the race of the two participants competing for a win, both are going to continue on their way toward the finish line.

A new species of snake has been discovered on a remote island in the Bahamas.

to see whether people's personality affects their life span to find out if one's lifestyle has any effect on their health to investigate the role of exercise in living a long lifeto examine all the factors contributing to longevity They have a good understanding of evolution.

When governments lose their control on power, law and order begin to disintegrate.

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

This is especially interesting when you consider that younger people are generally more interested in travelrelated technologies than older onesWhen it comes to driverless cars, differences in attitude are more pronounced based on factors not related to age.

They scored higher on social interaction.

There is no shelf life on intelligence.

There is no expiration ( ' , 失效 ) date on wisdom, he says.

The weight of the evidence is on the side of pre-K that early intervention ( ' , 干预) works.

The shorthand ( ' , 简写) educators use for this is pre-K —meaning instruction before kindergarten—and the big idea is to prepare 4-year-olds and even younger kids to be ready to succeed on their K-12 journey.

The public overall is spilt on whether they'd like to use a driverless car.

The findings shed light on normal age-related changes in mental function, which could aid in understanding the process of dementia ( ' , 痴呆), according to the researchers.

That is, generally, younger people tend to outnumber older people on the front end of a technological shift.

Such personality characteristics as self-discipline have no effect on longevity.

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

Soupios says that it is based on Plato's observation that the unexamined life is not worth living.

Soupios say following the 10 Golden Rules based on ancient wisdom can guide us to the path of the good life where we stop living as onlookers and become engaged and happier human beings.

Russell argues that as robots take on more complicated tasks, it's necessary to translate our morals into AI language.

Robots could also learn values from drawing patterns from large sets of data on human behavior.

On the other hand, indicators of a person's accumulated knowledge—like performance on tests of vocabulary and general knowledge—kept improving with age, according to findings published in the journal Neurobiology of Aging.

On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume -72- highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion ( ' , 转向) of U.S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.

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

Mothers' influence on children may last longer than fathers'.

More on this study and the star ratings will appear in a subsequent post.

Its production depends too much on technologyThey enjoyed cooking as well as eating.

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

Is it possible to enjoy a peaceful life in a world that is increasingly challenged by threats and uncertainties from wars, terrorism, economic crises and a widespread outbreak of infectious diseases? The answer is yes, according to a new book The 10 Golden Rules: Ancient Wisdom from the Greek Philosophers on Living a Good Life.

Interestingly, however, other characteristics that you might consider advantageous had no impact on whether study participants were likely to live longer.

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

I do not think that we spend nearly enough time trying to concentrate on achieving a sort of calmness, a sort of contentment in a mental and spiritual way, which was identified by these people as the highest form of happiness and pleasure.

How a resident feels depends on an interaction between themselves and the care facility they live in.

By picking up patterns from massive data on human behavior.

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

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

Based on what is emerging from some of this research, that might have been as rational a way as any to reach a decision.

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

As demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing, the resulting food-price inflation puts severe stress on the governments of many countries.

Then students select adviser based on shared academic interests.

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

On top of all that, a new study published in the journal Learning and Memory finds you are probably better off sleeping than making last- minute preparations for a test.

Lindsey, do you like to text message on your cell phone? Good morning, Mr.Johnson.

cut the salary of senior executivesrelocate some of its chain storesadjust its promotion strategiesreduce the size of its staffTo experiment on its new business concept.

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.

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

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

We need very broad participation to fully address the global tragedy that results when countries fail to take into account the negative impact of their carbon emissions on the rest of the world.

To focus more on beauty products than clothing.

They made some improvements on the traditional Parisian design.

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

They have led some birds to give up on migration.

They are not attracted to the rubbish dumps on their migration routes.

There are huge clusters of organic waste they can feed on, said Flack.

The video challenge does not put individual students on the hot seat—so it's less intimidating by design.

The summer after 7th grade, students spend three weeks on a college campus studying advanced math for seven hours a day.

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

The hope is that the success of COP 21 opens the door to future international agreement on carbon prices.

The damaging effect on bio-diversity.

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

System institutions are operating very efficiently based on this analysis, raising the question of the value of pursuing a broad scale outsourcing initiative.

Some math training programs primarily focus on raising students' math scores.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 laid emphasis on women's beauty.

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 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 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 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.

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

Historically, scientists have objected to sharing for many reasons: it is a lot of work; until recently, good databases did not exist; grant funders were not pushing for sharing; it has been difficult to agree on standards for formatting data; and there is no agreed way to assign credit for data.

He disagreed with the governor on higher education policies.

For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; it has been downloaded 5,700 times.

Flack said it was too early to know whether the benefits of plentiful food outweighed the risks of feeding on landfills.

Even Africa and the Middle East, home to economies that are heavily dependent on fossil fuel exports, have enormous potential to develop renewables.

Economic reasoning shows that the least expensive way for each country is to put a price on carbon emissions.

Different upbringings set children on different paths and can deepen socioeconomic divisions, especially because education is strongly linked to earnings.

Designer sportswear was not modeled on that of Europe, as modern art would later be; it was genuinely invented and developed in America.

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

Co-author Amy Zanne thinks that users probably range from climate-change researchers wanting to estimate how much carbon is stored in biomass, to foresters looking for information on different grades of timber.

Closings were simple, practical, and accessible, as the modern woman depended on no personal maid to dress her.

By making the effort to organize and label files so others can understand them, scientists become more organized and better disciplined themselves, thus avoiding confusion later on.

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

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

Andrea Flack of the Max Planck Institute found that birds following traditional migration routes were more likely to die than German storks that flew only as far as northern Morocco, and spent the winter there on rubbish dumps.

Although calls to share data often concentrate on the moral advantages of sharing, the practice is not purely altruistic ( ' , 利他的).

Agreement on an international carbon-price floor would be a good starting point in that process.

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

A tax on upstream carbon sources is one easy way to put a price on carbon emissions, although some countries may wish to use other methods, such as emissions trading schemes.

I asked what impression she wanted to make on the jury.

Good morning! America’s holiday shopping season starts on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.

For years, many of us have relied on antibiotic use to treat various infections.

For the next few years, you have a chance to focus on thinking.

And the reality is that antibiotics have been responsible for saving millions of lives since penicillin, one of the earliest antibiotics, was first used on a clinical basis 70 years ago.

About 183.8 million people will shop on Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving.

With a tax imposed on expensive health insurance plans, most employers will likely transfer money from health expenses into wages.

Unilever recently ran an interactive campaign for its Axe deodorant ( ' , 除臭剂), which kept viewers engaged for more than three minutes on average.

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.

To get access to millions of new customers, insurers would have a strong incentive to sell on the exchange.

They include such measures as accountable care organizations to take charge of a patient's needs with an eye on both cost and quality, and chronic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible for the bulk of all health care costs, are treated properly.

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

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

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

The money spent on kitchens has risen with their status.

The bills in both chambers would create health insurance exchanges on which small businesses and individuals could choose from an array of private plans and possibly a public option.

The average budget for a major kitchen overhaul in 2006, calculates Remodeling magazine, was a staggering $54,000; even a minor improvement cost on average $18,000.

The amount spent on interactive advertising on television is still small.

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

Teenagers of today often turn to their parents for advice on such important matters as career choice.

So the news that Cablevision, an American cable company, was rolling out interactive advertisements to all its customers on October 6th was greeted with some skepticism.

She borrowed the principle of efficiency on the factory floor and applied it to domestic tasks on the kitchen floor.

Recently, we examined more than 400 essays on the laws of life that teens from two communities had written as part of an educational program initiated by the John Templeton Foundation in Radnor, Pa.

One recent study warns us of the danger of the exhaustion of natural resources on Earth.

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

On the contrary, all the facts suggest that high unemployment in America is the result of inadequate demand.

Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of Friends, a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

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

Marketers must qualify their claims on the product packaging and limit them to a specific benefit, such as how much of the product is recycled.

Manufacturers of products that claim to be environmentally friendly will face tighter rules on how they are advertised to consumers under changes proposed by the Federal Trade Commission.

It will make the farm produce less competitive on the market.

It had, apparently, been fished out of existence; and the once mighty Newfoundland fleet now gropes about frantically for crab on the sea floor.

Interactive television advertising, which allows viewers to use their remote controls to click on advertisements, has been pushed for years.

In most cases, the human waste is used on grain crops, which are eventually cooked, minimizing the risk of transmitting water-borne diseases.

In 2008 and 2009, class-action lawsuits ( ' , 集体诉讼) were filed against SC Johnson for using Greenlist labels on its cleaning products.

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

I'd be sympathetic if the union focused solely on higher compensation.

Her 1919 work, Household Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home, was based on detailed observation of a housewife's daily routine.

He echoes Pay Drechsel's opinion on the issue.

For the most part, these experiments rely on incentive payments to get doctors to try them.

Families graze on high-cholesterol take-aways and microwaved readymeals.

A birdwatcher, armed with a telescope, found the pet sitting desperately on a rock.

A boy on a bike caught my attention.

A kitemark scheme would be workable on a nationwide scale.

A latest study on the college job market showed that employers wanted to hire 22% fewer graduates this year than last.

A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on.

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

A lunchtime escape allows her to keep a boss from tapping her on the shoulder.

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 recent trend has been to encourage employees to use their own initiative, to make decisions on their own without asking managers first.

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

A smoke detector is on the ceiling in your room.

A teacher who wants to learn on-line teaching is expected to arrive by 2:00 pm.

A thoughtful official passed on some of the copies to the park authorities on the assumption that they might make a nice blow-up for one of the visitors' centers.

A t-shirt like this is much cheaper on the Internet.

A year ago, when I was awaiting to hear the results of my college applications, I often went to websites for some type of insider look on what college would be like.

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

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

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

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

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

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 my graduation, dad's business was getting back on track.

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

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

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

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

Again, not a move, the next time, I had my camera ready to record what you see here, one of several dozen such pictures, so long as she had a slice to eat, she never bothered the one on her head.

Almost a month ago, he bought popular word game that used little pieces of wood with different letters on them.

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

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

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

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

An experiment on ways of moving blocks to the pyramid site.

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

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

And if a predator can move on to another species that is easier to find when a prey species becomes rare, the switch allows the original prey to recover.

And on Friday, the music group will meet to prepare for the school performance.

And on Sunday, we're going to do some shopping.

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 we reached the top on June 5th.

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

Another possibility is that when there is a lot of talent on a team, some players may make less effort.

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

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.

Anytime you find the world waving a chair in your face, remember this: all you need to do is focus on one thing?

Appear on the student's report upon completion.

Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.

As a general rule, all forms of activity lead to boredom when they are performed on a routine basis.

As executives with banks, consulting firms, established law firms, and major corporations, many are now well on their way to impressive careers.

As he got closer, he found another vehicle upside down on the road.

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

As long as one doesn't come to rely on it, wishing for a few good things to happen never hurts anybody.

As natural architects, the pueblo Indians figured out exactly how thick the adobe walls needed to be to make the cycle work on most days.

As shown here, Lainey can become excited about reading when presented with literature on topics that interest her, and when the people around her model involvement in the reading process.

As soon as you get the answer you need, move on to the next person.

As the number of tourists has grown, so has the amount of traffic on the roads.

As the quality of risk-taking was passed from on ration to the next, humans ended up with a sense of adventure and a tolerance for risk.

As you can see, it is on the north bank of the river Thames.

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

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

At what time does metrorail stop service on Saturday?

Athens was more and more looked on as a cooperative business possessed of great wealth in which all citizens had a right to share.

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.

Baptiste Dubanchet is biking across Europe,surviving entirely on discarded food.

Barbara has asked me to a party on new year's eve.

Be sure to stay on topic and not offer irrelevant information.

Beatlemania hit New York on February 7, 1964.

Because less preparation on paths is needed for rolling.

Because sliding on smooth roads is more dangerous.

Before I knew it an hour had passed and it was time to move on to lunch.

Before the school year ended, I gave the kids a special gift, t-shirts with the words "verbs are your friends" on them.

Before we finish, can you offer any tips on becoming a better songwriter?

Behaving in this selfless and devoted manner, these little creatures have survived on earth, for more than 140 million years, far longer than dinosaurs.

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

Believing in such a world, many governments have put an end to some of the very necessary regulations on cross-border flows of capital, labour and goods, with poor results.

Berger explains in his new book, "contagious: why things catch on."

Berger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories: thousands of articles on the New York time's website.

Bradford sold the building and land to a local development firm, which plans to build a shopping complex on the land where the theater is located.

Bruce Peterson says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to gather dust on a shelf at home.

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

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

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

But just now how much warmer it will get depends on how deeply countries cut carbon emissions.

But Moore was sick of missing out on candies.

But my connection with pandas goes back to my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s, when I was the first western TV reporter permitted to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild.

But never ever give up on your dream! Never let anyone tell you, "you can't".

But other books require a bit more work on your part.

But she expects using the chemical in some kind of industrial process-not simply "millions of worms thrown on top of the plastic".

But Simon decided to risk his life and try to lower Joe down the mountain on a rope.

But soon, the gold that Dawson depended on had all been found.

But Steve pressed on, playing for the first time in his life for a stranger.

But the urge would no doubt be greater if you were living on the streets with little food and money.

But the world bank has included the project on its of "100 ideas to save the planet".

But we do not open on Mondays.

But when I arrived at the check-in desk at providence, the lady on the desk said: "well, I'm really sorry, I've got some bad news for you-there are no fights from Washington.

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.

workers received on the job.

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

This means that a DNA database may differ depending on the company that processes the results.

They also focused on important rituals that appeared to preserve a people’s social structure, such as initiation ceremonies that formally signify children’s entrance into adulthood.

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

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.

On the contrary, constraints on improving productivity explain why education isn't developing more quickly there than it is.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

The functioning of the market is based on flexible trends dominated by potential buyers.

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

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

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.

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.

It was banks that were on the wrong planet, with accounts that vastly overvalued assets.

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.

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.

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.

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

Within two weeks, he was talking for the first time with the board of Hartford Financial Services Group, which named him CEO and chairman on September 29.

Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitter and the social-news site Digg.

The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week.

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

One possible response is for classical performers to program attractive new music that is not yet available on record.

No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their “own” ( ' , read: with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.

No disciplines have seized on professionalism with as much enthusiasm as the humanities.

Members of social networks, for instance, are learning that they can hijack media to apply pressure on the businesses that originally created them.

McGee says leaving without a position lined up gave him time to reflect on what kind of company he wanted to run.

His concern is mainly with the humanities: literature, languages, philosophy and so on.

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

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

As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don’t get the nod also may wish to move on.

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.

There’s no doubt that our peer groups exert enormous influence on our behavior.

The teachers’ unions keep an eye on schools, the CCPOA on prisons and a variety of labor groups on health care.

The hardest task that television asks of anyone is to turn the power off after he has turned it on.

The company, a major energy supplier in New England, provoked justified outrage in Vermont last week when it announced it was reneging on a longstanding commitment to abide by the strict nuclear regulations.

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.

Come on -Everybody’s doing it.

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

And that’s the problem with a social cure engineered from the outside: in the real world, as in school, we insist on choosing our own friends.

When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, most of us give into a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological conditions, until one day we find ourselves in garden and feel the expression vanish as if by magic.

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

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.

When social scientists do tackle practical issues, their scope is often local: Belgium is interested mainly in the effects of poverty on Belgium, for example.

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.

Today, the social sciences are largely focused on disciplinary problems and internal scholarly debates, rather than on topics with external impact.

Though several fast-fashion companies have made efforts to curb their impact on labor and the environment – including H&M, with its green Conscious Collection line –Cline believes lasting change can only be effected by the customer.

The 8-0 objection to President Obama trues on what Justice Samuel Alito describes in his objection as “a shocking assertion assertion of federal executive power”.

On the overturned provisions the majority held the congress had deliberately.

On a five to three vote,the Supreme Court knocked out much of Arizona's immigration law Monday-a modest policy victory for the Obama Aministration.

On May 31st Microsoft Set off the row: It said that Internet Explorer 10,the version due to appear windows 8, would have DNT as a default.

If it is trying to upset Google, which relies almost wholly on default will become the norm.

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

During the late 1990s，national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds-including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate—varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, it is about 15%.

DNT does not seem an obviously huge selling point for windows 8-though the firm has compared some of its other products favourably with Google's on that count before.

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

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

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

95 knit miniskirt in all its 2,300-pius stores around the world, it must rely on low-wage overseas labor, order in volumes that strain natural resources, and use massive amounts of harmful chemicals.

“We’re doing these things because we know they help people stay off benefits and help those on benefits get into work faster” Help? Really? On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with “reforms” to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.

“Those first few days should be spent looking for work, not looking to sign on,” he claimed.

To find their sites, archaeologists today rely heavily on systematic survey methods and a variety of high-technology tools and techniques.

To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students’ ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teachers and the encouragement of scholars to bring their learning to bear on the great challenges of the day.

This leaves today’s average law-school graduate with $100, 000 of debt on top of undergraduate debts.

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.

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

In response, the American Academy formed the Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences.

In one case, many researchers working around the ancient Maya city of Copan, Honduras, have located hundreds of small rural villages and individual dwellings by using aerial photographs and by making surveys on foot.

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms’ efficiency.

How do archaeologists know where to find what they are looking for when there is nothing visible on the surface of the ground? Typically, they survey and sample ( ' , make test excavations on) large areas of terrain to determine where excavation will yield useful information.

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

During the decade before the economic crisis, spending on legal services in America grew twice as fast as inflation.

During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they subsisted on barely enough food allotted to them.

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

This is hacking on an industrial scale ,as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking.

So, does the Spanish crisis suggest that monarchy is seeing its last days? Does that mean the writing is on the wall for all European royals, with their magnificent uniforms and majestic lifestyle?.

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 ( ' , so especially its language structures) and various kinds of background, social knowledge, belief and attitude that we bring to the text.

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

One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, wow little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired wow the stories arrived.

On the assumption that they will become relevant later, you make a mental note of discourse entities as well as possible links between them.

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.

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

How we read a given text also depends to some extent on our particular interest in reading it.

How does your reading proceed? Clearly you try to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them, drawing on your explicit knowledge of English grammar ( ' , 41) you begin to infer a context for the text, for insta4ce, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.

Citizens still have a right to expect private documents to remain private and protected by the Constitution’s prohibition on unreasonable searches.

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

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.

It gives us patience for ourselves and toward others as well as patience while driving,catching a fish,working on our car,or raising a child.

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