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We have presidential candidates running for their first term in office at age 68, 69 and 74.
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Veiseh, for instance, travelled a lot in his youth.
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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.
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The fashion for teams is driven by a sense that the old way of organising people is too rigid for both the modern marketplace and the expectations of employees.
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The fashion for teams is also spreading from the usual corporate suspects ( ' , such as GE and IBM) to some more unusual ones.
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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.
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Some people are absorbed in the past but not open to new memories, but that's not the case for me.
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Some of us will seek it out; for others it will feel like an unwelcome intrusion into otherwise stable careers.
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She then realized that her life no longer matched her vision for it.
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Recruitment advertisements routinely call for team players.
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Preparation has been made; now is the time for the venture of the work itself.
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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.
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Often the best ideas for big changes come from unexpected places—it's just a matter of tuning in.
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Most roads, bridges, transit, water systems, the electric grid, and communications networks were installed 50 to 100 years ago, and they are largely taken for granted until they fail.
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Leah's growth spurred her to open her second studio—and it wasn't for the money.
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Jeff Bezos, Amazon's boss, says that If I see more than two pizzas for lunch, the team is too big.
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It's not about that; it's about growth for me.
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It makes for the best part of one's life.
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It gives them the encouragement, I think, to really go for it, Ferreira says.
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It didn't take long for magazines and documentary film-makers to come to understand her total recall, and thanks to the subsequent media interest, a few dozen other subjects ( ' , including Veiseh) have since come forward and contacted the team at the University of California, Irvine.
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It can be terrifying for the unprepared.
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Instead of just crowding in, old information is sometimes pushed out of the brain for new memories to form.
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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.
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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.
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In a sense, forgetting is our brain's way of sorting memories, so the most relevant memories are ready for retrieval.
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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.
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Imagine, for instance, that you lost your bank card.
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If you're training for a marathon, you wouldn't expect to turn up and just be able to run it.
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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.
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However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use team as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.
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Highly superior autobiographical memory' ( ' , or HSAM for short), first came to light in the early 2000s, with a young woman named Jill Price.
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He knew my love for yoga and had seen a space close to where he lived that he thought might be good to serve as a yoga studio.
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For most of us, memory is a mess of blurred and faded pictures of our lives.
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For most of us, letting go of the safety and security of the past gives us great fear.
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For centuries, Ukrainians have been drawing complicated patterns on eggs.
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Digital technology also makes it easier for people to co-ordinate their activities without resorting to hierarchy.
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But in a new study, researchers demonstrated for the first time how this effect occurs in the brain.
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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.
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But I know if you don't grow, you stand still, and that doesn't work for me.
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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.
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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.
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Apartments will retain their appeal for a while for Millennials, haunted by what happened to home-owning parents.
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And such research might even suggest ways for us all to relive our past with greater clarity.
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And I think people see that for smoking as well.
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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.
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A decorated egg with a bird on it, given to a young married couple, is a wish for children.
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A decorated egg thrown into the field would be a wish for a good harvest.
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There is lots of snow around, and the ground freezes, which can make life difficult for animals.
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The red color was popular for Chinese New Year celebrations.
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Facial photos of dogs and humans were displayed on the screen for 1.5 seconds.
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Dogs, man’s best friends, have a clear strategy for dealing with angry owners—they look away.
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Doctors used carrot seeds and roots as medicine, on the theory that foods that taste bad must be good for you.
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Both he and a crew member are being investigated for unintentional murder and exposing people to danger, according to police.
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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.
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Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.
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Vietnam banned its exports for several months for the same reason.
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Today, when time zones have less and less meaning, there is little tolerance for offices' closing for lunch, and worsening traffic in cities means workers can't make it home and back fast enough anyway.
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Though it helps for children to investigate care facilities, involving their parents in the decision-making process may prove very important.
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Those who were more self-disciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old.
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This was the highest and most desirable form of pleasure and happiness for the ancient Epicureans, Soupios says.
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They were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities, for instance, and less likely to be bored or lonely.
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They reach a peak at the age of 20 for most people.
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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.
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The important thing is for all of us to keep in mind the real goal and the longer, bigger picture.
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The cost for saving our civilization would be considerably less than the world's current military spending.
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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.
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She was the first candidate to speak out for strong pre-K programming.
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Set rules for man-machine interaction.
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Philip Sloane, a geriatrician ( ' , 老年病学专家 ) at the University of North Carolina: In a way, that could be liberating for families.
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Once driverless cars are actually for sale, the early adopters will be the people who can afford to buy them.
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Older adults, especially those with limited mobility or difficulty driving on their own, are one of the classic use-cases for driverless cars.
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Modern techniques for producing and shipping food led to greater variety and quantity, including a tremendous increase in the amount of animal protein and dairy products available, making us more vigorous than our ancestorsYet plenty has been lost too, even in cultures that still live to eat.
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Many people feel guilty when they cannot find a place other than a nursing home for their parents.
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In a multi-state study of assisted living , for instance, University of North Carolina researchers found that a host of variables—the facility's type, size or age; whether a chain owned it; how attractive the neighborhood was—had no significant relationship to how the residents fared in terms of illness, mental decline, hospitalizations or mortality.
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In 1972, for instance, the Soviets, recognizing their poor harvest early, quietly cornered the world wheat market.
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If the robot is unsure whether an animal is suitable for the microwave, it has the opportunity to stop, send out beeps ( ' , 嘟嘟声 ), and ask for directions from a human.
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I can not control whether or not I wind up getting the disease swine flu, for example, he says.
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Golden Rule No.10 for a good life is that kindness toward others tends to be rewarded.
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For this purpose, our schools need both the talent and the organization to educate each child who arrives at the schoolhouse door.
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For many years I have studied global agricultural, population, environmental and economic trends and their interactions.
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For many in the development community, the four objectives were seen as positive, promoting development as long as they did not cost too much.
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For example, mobile robots have been programmed to keep a comfortable distance from humans.
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For example, if a robot does chores around the house, you wouldn't want it to put the pet cat in the oven to make dinner for the hungry children.
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Families can look a bit more for where the residents are going to be happy, Dr.Sloane said.
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College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school diploma or lessWhere a person lives matters, toIt will not necessarily reduce road accidents.
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But unlike the modern definition of Epicureanism as a life of indulgence ( ' , 放纵 ) and luxury, for the ancient Greeks, it meant finding a state of calm, peace and mental ease.
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But that potential pales beside the never-ending demand for crop-based fuels.
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But if we come up with an answer, robots could be good for humanity.
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As incomes rise among low-income consumers, the potential for further grain consumption is huge.
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As demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing, the resulting food-price inflation puts severe stress on the governments of many countries.
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And that the characteristics adult children look for when they begin the search are not necessarily the things that make a difference to the people who are going to move in.
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According to an ancient Greek philosopher, it is impossible for us to understand every aspect of our life.
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A quarter of this year's American grain harvest will be used to produce bio-fuel for cars.
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You probably think college students are experts at sleeping, but parties, preparations for tests, personal problems and general stress can wreck a student’s sleep habits, which can be bad for the body and the mind.
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There were no petrol pumps and few garages, so every driver had to be his own engineer for the frequent breakdowns.
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She primarily speaks to students in health classes, but sometimes the school will arrange for her to speak to several different groups of girls.
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Parents and teachers will tell you not to worry when applying for a place at a university.
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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.
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Long queues, delayed flights and over - crowding at airports have become almost as much a topic for conversation in Britain as the traditional complaining about the weather.
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In some departments, either the chairman or the director of graduate studies serves for at least the first semester as a new student adviser.
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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.
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Working-class parents, meanwhile, believe their children will naturally thrive, and give them far greater independence and time for free play.
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Winners of local contests will participate in the national math competition for free.
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Unless renewables become cheap enough that substantial carbon deposits are left underground for a very long time, if not forever, the planet will likely be exposed to potentially catastrophic climate risks.
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Unfortunately, the current low prices for oil, gas, and coal may provide little incentive for research to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels.
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Travel was arduous and costly throughout the period, possible only for a privileged class—the same that produced gentlemen scientists, authors, antique experts, and patrons of the arts.
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Thus was born the idea of the Grand Tour, a practice which introduced Englishmen, Germans, Scandinavians, and also Americans to the art and culture of France and Italy for the next 300 years.
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This prompted the company to cut its forecasts for the full fourth quarter.
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They were the pioneers of gender equity, in their useful, adaptable clothing, which was both made for the masses and capable of self-expression.
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They have forced white storks to search for safer winter shelters.
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They call for increased investments.
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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.
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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.
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These likely persistent forces, like the growth of shale ( ' , 页岩) oil, point to a low for long scenario.
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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.
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The summer after 7th grade, students spend three weeks on a college campus studying advanced math for seven hours a day.
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The same is true for new technologies for alleviating fossil fuel emissions.
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The football team, the basketball team—that's our competition for resources, student time, attention, school dollars, parent efforts, school enthusiasm.
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The ever-growing demand for big data.
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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.
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The challenge is if certain types of people are doing something, it's difficult for other people to break into it, said Po-Shen Loh, the head coach of last year's winning U.S.Math Olympiad team.
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The Math Olympiad Summer Training Program is a three-week math camp held by the Mathematical Association of America that leads straight to the international championship and is free for those who make it.
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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.
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Students in university towns may also have access to another lever for involvement in accelerated math: math circles.
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Students attend after-school clubs, summer camps, online forums and classes and university-based math circles, to prepare for the competitions.
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Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository ( ' , 库), and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has observed some 500 million objects—but these remain the exception, not the rule.
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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.
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Schools or teachers who sign up for the National Math Club receive a kit full of activities and resources, but there's no special teacher training and no competition attached.
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Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels—30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas.
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Progress in the development of renewables could be fragile, however, if fossil fuel prices remain low for long.
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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.
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One of the largest feeders for high school math competitions—including those that eventually lead to the IMO—is a middle school program called MathCounts.
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Oil prices are expected to remain lower for longer.
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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.
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Most of the training for advanced-math competitions happens outside the confines of the normal school day.
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Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.
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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.
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Morgan said last week that he would retire at the end of January because of the governor's proposal to split off six universities of the Board of Regents system and create separate governing boards for each of them.
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Meanwhile, growing income inequality has coincided with the increasing importance of a college degree for earning a middle-class wage.
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Macy's has been moving aggressively to try to remake itself for a new era of shopping.
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London was a frequent starting point for Grand Tourists, and Paris a compulsory destination; many traveled to the Netherlands, some to Switzerland and Germany, and a very few adventurers to Spain, Greece, or Turkey.
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It was unaffordable for ordinary people.
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It is urgent for governments to increase the cost of using fossil fuels to an appropriate level to lessen the catastrophic effects of climate change.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Higher fossil fuel prices prove to be conducive to innovation and application of cleaner technologyIf fossil fuel prices remain low for a long time, it may lead to higher emissions of greenhouse gases.
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High-earning parents are much more likely to say they live in a good neighborhood for raising children.
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Greenhouse gas emissions, if not properly dealt with, will pose endless risks for mankind.
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Funding agencies note that data paid for with public money should be public information, and the scientific community is recognizing that data can now be shared digitally in ways that were not possible before.
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Fossil fuel prices are likely to stay low for long.
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For the birds, it's a very convenient way to get food.
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For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El Ni o ( ' , 厄尔尼诺) weather phenomenon in decades.
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For example, the United Arab Emirates has endorsed an ambitious target to draw 24% of its primary energy consumption from renewable sources by 2021.
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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.
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Economic reasoning shows that the least expensive way for each country is to put a price on carbon emissions.
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Early childhood experiences can be very consequential for children's long-term social, emotional and cognitive development, said Sean Reardon, professor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford University.
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Do all parents want the most success for their children? Absolutely, she said.
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Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases without regard to the collateral ( ' , 附带的) costs.
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Coal and natural gas are mainly used for electricity generation, whereas oil is used mostly to power transportation, yet the prices of all these energy sources are linked.
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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.
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By raising relative demand for clean energy sources, a carbon price would also help align the market return to clean-energy innovation with its social return, spurring the refinement of existing technologies and the development of new ones.
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Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice, Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination ( ' , 终极) of their classical education.
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Another influential feeder for advanced-math students is an online school called Art of Problem Solving, which began about 13 years ago and now has 15,000 users.
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And it would raise the demand for technologies such as carbon capture and storage, spurring their further development.
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American parents want similar things for their children, the Pew report and past research have found: for them to be healthy and happy, honest and ethical, caring and compassionate.
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After the high-pressure Countdown round at this year's national MathCounts competition, in which the top 12 students went head to head solving complex problems in rapid fire, the finalists for the Math Video Challenge took the stage to show their videos.
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According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or Hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.
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A search for balance between tradition and novelty.
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A number of factors are driving down the global oil prices not just for now but in the foreseeable future.
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A commonly held view in the oil industry is that the best cure for low oil prices is low oil prices.
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2% in November and December at stores open more than a year, a disappointing holiday season performance that capped a difficult year for a department store chain facing wideranging challenges.
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In the past, health experts warned us that the day would come in which it would become very difficult to provide medical care for even common problems such as lung infection or severe sour throat.
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For years, many of us have relied on antibiotic use to treat various infections.
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For the next few years, you have a chance to focus on thinking.
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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.
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While the practice carries serious health risks for many, those dangers are outweighed by the social and economic gains for poor urban farmers and consumers who need affordable food.
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When this water is used for agricultural irrigation, farmers risk absorbing disease-causing bacteria, as do consumers who eat the produce raw and unwashed.
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When the health insurance industry was still cooperating in reform efforts, its trade group offered to provide standardized forms for automated processing.
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We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.
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We have everything to gain by encouraging them to explore the world beyond their immediate experience and to prepare themselves for their turn at shaping that world.
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We are very proud of our accomplishments under the Greenlist system and we believe that we will prevail in these cases, Christopher Beard, director of public affairs for SC Johnson, said, while acknowledging that this has been an area that is difficult to navigate.
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Virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system—doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness—is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.
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Unilever recently ran an interactive campaign for its Axe deodorant ( ' , 除臭剂), which kept viewers engaged for more than three minutes on average.
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Unfortunately, the union in Chicago is insisting that teachers who are laid off—often for being ineffective— should get priority in new hiring.
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To show the urgent need for the government to take action.
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To alert American workers to the urgency for adaptation.
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They seem to be turning inward—generally in a pro-social manner, certainly with positive benefits for intimate relationships, but too often at the expense of a connection with the present and future world beyond, including the society they will one day inherit.
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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.
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There were no longer enough fish in the sea for the stock to maintain itself, let alone an industry.
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There is a large potential for wastewater agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers, said Liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.
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The survey shows us that today's teens are affectionate, sensible and far happier than the angry and tortured souls that have been painted for us by stereotypes.
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The study found that strong teachers in the fourth through eighth grades raised the skills of their students in ways that would last for decades.
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The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcase for the modem family tells the story of a century of social change.
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The changes would have to be approved or rejected as a whole by Congress, making it hard for narrow-interest lobbies to bend lawmakers to their will.
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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.
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The answer is that no one has an easy fix for rising medical costs.
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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.
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