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

The second trip was made in October last year.

One of Google’s self-driving cars crashed into a bus in California last month.

Hi, Susan! You’re looking very smart today!  There is new data out today that confirms that many Americans are not good at math, and when it comes to everyday technology skills, we are dead last when compare to other developed countries.

may be better at solving puzzlescan memorize things with more easemay have greater facility in abstract reasoningcan put what they have learnt into more effective usefind ways to slow down our mental declinefind ways to boost our memoriesunderstand the complex process of mental functioningunderstand the relation between physical and mental healthThe most important thing in the news last week was the rising discussion in Nashville about the educational needs of children.

Pre-K achievements usually do not last long.

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

In a study last year, of all people surveyed, 48 percent said they wanted to ride in one, while 50 percent did notThe fact that attitudes toward self-driving cars appear to be so steady across generations suggests how transformative the shift to driverless cars could be.

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.

It's an administrative sham ( ' , 欺诈) of the kind that has multiplied over the last 30 years.

The  Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued more than 35 flood warnings  covering several regions, as Scotland continues to clean up after Storm Frankhit the country last Wednesday.

Last week, for example, Postmaster General Pat Donahoe announced plans to stop mail delivery on Saturdays, a move he says could save three billion dollars annually.

Genuine criticism, the type that leaves a lasting mark on you as a writer, also leaves an existential imprint ( ' , 印记 ) on you as a person.

Last July, the Somali group al- Shabab said it was behind theblasts in the Ugandan capital which killed more than 70people.

A lot has changed since we were last in school.

A New Jersey black bear that walks upright on its two back legs and has become a social media darling has re- emerged and has been captured on video months after its last sighting.

After Hurricane Florence and Hurricane Michael last fall, USPS worked with state and local election boards to make sure that absentee ballots were available and received or time.

Americans drove more miles last year than any other year on record.

And,on top of that, I'd specifically asked if I could leave early last Friday as I'd done a lot of overtime during the week.

Defense minister Farhat Horchani said last week that German and American security experts were expected to come to help Tunisia devise a new electronic video-supervision system on its border with Libya.

figures show the number of male nurses has fallen in the last three years.

From the last three graduating classes, 16 seniors were admitted to MIT.

In the last seven years, Americans have grown more pessimistic about the power of education to lead to success.

It's an administrative sham of the kind that has multiplied over the last 30 years.

I've just finished my last exam.

Last April, the council created a Stitch Away Stress campaign in honor of National Stress Awareness Month.

Last July, the Somali group al- Shabab said it was behind the blasts in the Ugandan capital which killed more than 70 people.

Last October, the company pledged $1 million in cash and transportation support for Hurricanes Florence and Michael.

Last week, France announced that the country will pave 621 miles of road with solar panels over the next five years, with the goal of providing cheap, renewable energy to five million people.

Last year, a study from Aston University in the UK used nearly identical parameters to our study and found similar results.

Last year, supporters pushed for Pedals to be moved to a shelter, but New Jersey officials have said they won't allow the bear to be captured and transferred to the facility.

Officials of the Tunisian government are especially worried after dozens of tourists were killed in the attack in Tunisia last year.

One of Google's self-driving cars crashed into a bus in California last month.

People have grown taller over the last century, with South Korean women shooting up by more than 20cm on average, and Iranian men gaining 16.5cm.

PepsicCo's plan for its foods and drinks is based on guidelines from the World Health Organization, which last week backed using taxes on sparkling drinks to reduce sugar consumption.

Starting last Saturday, chains big enough to fall under the rule will face penalties of up to 2, 000 dollars for not showing calorie information in a prominent spot on their menus, preferably next to the price.

Storms and floods in its main potato growing region last year caused the worst harvest in more than 3 decades.

That presentation you gave last week was excellent.

That was my last economics lecture of the week, and here's the weekend again.

The alternative, he suggested, was to face the prospect of becoming another Palo Alto, California, where outsize stress on teenage students is believed to have contributed to a number of suicides in the last six years.

The company spent the last five years developing solar panels that are only about a quarter of an inch thick and are strong enough to stand up to heavy highway traffic without breaking or making the roads more slippery.

The competition only happens every four years and the last time the team went, they won the third place in the nation.

The journalist Ian Leslie, in his new and enjoyable book Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends on it, insists that the answer to that last question is "Yes".

The manager told me that Jack Green's been very active around the shop the last few days.

The most important thing in the news last week was the rising discussion in Nashville about the educational needs of children.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued more than 35 flood warnings covering several regions, as Scotland continues to clean up after Storm Frank hit the country last Wednesday.

The Texas A&M Travel Institute found that rush-hour travelers spent extra 42 hours on the road last year because of travel delays.

There are people who always wait until the last minute, and make it much harder than it needs to be.

There is new data out today that confirms that many Americans are not good at math, and when it comes to everyday technology skills, we are dead last when compare to other developed countries.

Tunisia was targeted last year by three attacks that left 70 people dead and were claimed by Islamic State.

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

The 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

With fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.

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.

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

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

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

Even during the turbulent years of last century, youth rebellion was often exaggerated in the media.

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

Today, my guest is Dana Ivanovich, who has worked for the last twenty years as an interpreter.

The Paris climate agreement finalised in December last year heralded a new era for climate action.

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

MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Labour amendments to the children and families bill last February that included the 118 power to regulate for plain packaging.

It opened its fourth station last year and is pressing ahead with plans to build a fifth.

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

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

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

When Nijay Williams entered college last fall as a first-generation student and Jamaican immigrant, he was academically unprepared for the rigors of higher education.

Unfortunately for them ( ' , and often the taxpayers), our energy systems are a bit like an aircraft carrier: they are unbelievably expensive, they are built to last for a very long time, they have a huge amount of inertia ( ' , meaning it takes a lot of energy to set them moving), and they have a lot of momentum once they are set in motion.

The current situation in American higher education may not last long.

The Love Food, Hate Waste campaign entered into a collaboration last year with another such network — the Women's Institute.

President Barack Obama declared in a speech last month to the Center for American Progress.

Matt Rubinoff directs I'm First, a nonprofit organization launched last October to reach out to this specific population of students.

In one of the study's experiments, subjects were given a brief description of a man from Chicago with the last name Williams.

But respondents ranked it last on a list of priorities.

A year on, the meetings have made lasting changes to what she throws away in her kitchen.

For all their troubles, the United States’ 3,500 institutions were flooded with more than half a million students from 193 countries last year.

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

4 million working days were lost to work related stress last year, a jump of nearly a quarter.

A nice video published online last month sheds light on expertise and the conscious mind.

A study published last year in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that people who sleep more tend to eat less unhealthy food than their peers who don't get as much rest.

After all, the percentage of Americans who say a college degree is "very important" has fallen drastically in the last 5-6 years.

Also last year, Farrant and colleagues published a detailed molecular study of another candidate, Xerophyta viscosa, a tough-as-nail South African plant with lily-like flowers, and she says that a genome is on the way.

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

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

Farrant and others in the resurrection business got together last year to discuss the best species of resurrection plant to use as a lab model.

However, the last such increase in temperature took place two years ago.

I spent all last week end researching what topics are popular, what words to use in captions and similar accounts to follow.

I was lucky that my last desperate attempt led to a job.

I was shopping in your store last Sunday afternoon.

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

In an interview last year with The Economist, George Whitesides, chief executive of space-tourism firm virgin Galactic, was placing his company in the latter category.

In last week's lecture, we discussed the characteristics of the newly born offspring of several mammals.

In the last few decades of the 20th century, living standards went up and economic depressions were largely averted in the US.

Industrial fishing for krill in the unspoilt waters around Antarctica is threatening the future of one of the world's last great wildernesses, according to a new report.

Last summer, Massachusetts grass-fed beef advocate John Smith launched Big Picture Beef, a network of small grass-fed beef farms in New England and New York that is projected to bring to market 2,500 head of cattle from 125 producers this year.

Last week, I attended a research workshop on an island in the South Pacific.

Last year, a child was born at a hospital in the UK with her heart outside her body.

Last year, MATTEL also gave Barbie a flat foot rather than forcing her to be in heels all the time like the original Barbie is.

Last year, MATTEL, the company that makes Barbie dolls, added some Barbies to its line that have different skin tones and hair textures.

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

Last year, we did slightly over 50,000 and this year we hope to do more than 60,000.

Longevity statistics reveal that the average person doesn't last very long after retirement.

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

Matt Rubinoff directs I'm first, a nonprofit organization launched last October to reach out to this specific population of students.

MPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of Labour amendments to the children and families bill last February that included the power to regulate for plain packaging.

My idea was to photograph this beautiful and very unique coastline, rich in history, before it's too late—as a last witness.

Next week, we'll be looking at this last study more closely.

Of course, sometimes things happen at the last moment and I don't have a chance.

Over the last 50 years, economic losses have increased by a factor of 50.

Perhaps my expectations of lunches, water-cooler gossip and caring, deep-and-meaningful conversations were a legacy of the last time I was in that kind of office environment.

Perhaps with the tools of this new technological revolution, we will be able to undo some of the damage done to the natural world by the last one—industrialization.

President Abraham Lincoln, during the Civil War, issued a proclamation setting aside the last Thursday in November for the holiday.

risk taking in an educational context is a vital skill that enables progress and creativity, wrote Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, a cognitive neuroscientist at University College London, in a review published last year.

Rosen says he'll use the last of his savings to try to hang onto the home he worked for more than 20 years to buy.

Sales of grass-fed yogurt and kefir(发酵乳饮品) on the other hand, have in the last year increased by over 38%.

Ships last a lot longer when they go to sea than when they stay in the harbor.

since 2010, the couple has helped 125 small dairy farms convert to grass-fed, with more than 80% of those farms coming on board during the last two years.

The " Love Food, Hate Waste " campaign entered into a collaboration last year with another such network — the Women's Institute.

The last time a major earthquake occurred along the Cascadia fault was in 1700, so officials worry that another event could occur any time.

The most recent one took place last week in Washington, D.C.

The Queensland rock violet is one of the best studied resurrection plants so far, with a draft genome(基因图谱) published last year by a Chinese team.

The study's report states that as global warming transforms the environment in the world's last great wilderness, 70 percent of king penguins could either disappear or be forced to find new breeding grounds.

The surface formed mostly in the last billion years, which makes it fresher and more recently active than any rocky planet other than Earth.

This last finding would appear to contradict another popular hypothesis that it is our burdening of students with assignment that is causing all the problems.

Underwriters Laboratories issued a report last week that found 48% of consumers "feel high-tech manufacturers bring new products to market faster than people need them.

Unfortunately for them and often the taxpayers, our energy systems are a bit like an aircraft carrier : they are unbelievably expensive, they are built to last for a very long time, they have a huge amount of inertia meaning it takes a lot of energy to se

We just wrapped up a project with a difficult client last week.

We're unlikely to spend our last moments regretting that we didn't spend enough of our lives slaving away at work.

We've only been working together the last six months, but we quickly became good friends.

While human achievements in mathematics continue to reach new levels of complexity, many of us who aren't mathematicians at heartor engineers by trad may struggle to remember the last time we used calculus.

with fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.