\I thought it would be useful for him to learn Chinese at an early age\ Joseph Stocke, the managing director of a company, says of his 2-year old son.

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

A 90-year-old has been awarded \woman of the year\ for being Britain's oldest full-time employee-still working 40 hours a week.

A better plan for sleep can help.

A coach may read a sports story for its threat value: he may have to play that team next week.

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

A free schedule of events for each term is available by calling the box office at 556-4183.

A great American, James Madison, referred to: \the capacity of mankind for self-government.\

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

A month before my first marathon, one of my ankles was injured and this meant not running for two weeks, leaving me only two weeks to train.

A politician may read an account of his latest successful public meeting, not for its delayed reward, but very much as his wife reads an account of a party.

The Internet can help make up for our mental and emotional deficiencies as a wooden leg can compensate for a bodily deficiency.

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

A retired engineer, 76-year-old Wilson has been offering free rides to college students for the past eight years.

A salesman who is not punctual may not make a sale if he arrives late for an appointment.

A seminar leader shared her success story —she had not only 125 pounds, but also raised $25, 000 for homeless children.

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

A taste for meat is actually behind the change: an important part of its corn is used to feed chickens, pigs, and cattle.

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 warm drink of milk before bed has long been the best choice for those wanting a good night's sleep.

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.

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

About 100 of these stayed rich men for the rest of their lives.

According to Hume, some works of art can exist for centuries because they appeal to unchanging features of human nature.

According to the report's key findings, the proportion who say they ‘hardly ever' read for fun has gone from 8 percent of 13-year-olds.

According to the world bank, China accounts for about 30 percent of total global fertilizer consumption.

Addams helped the poor and worked for peace.

After all, \patty poem\ gave me my love for poetry not because it was the poem that lifted my spirits, but because it was the one that hurt me the most.

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

After climbing up a hill for a panoramic view of the blue sea, white buildings and green olive trees, I paused to catch my breath and then positioned myself to take the best photo of this panorama.

After having taught fifth-grade classes for four years, I decided to try all costs to rid them of their fear and dislike of books, and to get them to read oftener and more adventurously.

After he got home, Peter went online to several auction websites looking for his game.

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

After running hundreds of tests, the researchers noted that the monkeys would go for the higher values more than half the time, indicating that they were performing a calculation, not just memorizing the value of each combination.

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 the meetings, you will have some time for afternoon tea.

After you've tried a new method for a week, take a look at your record.

Aggressive wildfire control has left California forests crowded with small trees that compete with big trees for resources.

All bookings made before 12 September will receive free travel insurance for.

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

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

All this fun is available for ages 9 to 18.

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

Although birds use their feathers for flight, some of their feathers are for other purposes.

Although the main attraction was the soup, Roze's chain shops also set a new standard for dining out.

Among the items provided by the school for a visual presentation are a desktop computer and loudspeakers.

An assumption behind UK insurance for driverless cars, introduced earlier this year, insists that a human \be watchful and monitoring the road\ at every moment.

An example for parents' expectations of their children.

And at that moment, I made the decision: I will develop and follow a personal growth plan for my life.

And besides, he or she has seen many students stupider than you, so nothing you're gong to ask will set the record for stupidity.

And dinner time seemed perfect for sharing what we had learned.

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

And it wasn't easy for me to register for international trade.

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

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

And the town is fast becoming a popular weekend destination for people in Asia.

And then , weeks later , I counted , re-counted and jumped for joy.

And when you do, you'll get back your enthusiasm and love for life.

And, like the child in January, they go searching for new toys.

Another challenge for more than a million of the most qualified farm workers and managers is a non-existent path to citizenship.

Another reason for corn's rise: the government encourages farmers to grow corn instead of rice to improve water quality.

Another thing to do for safety is cleaning up.

Another way to hide a message is to use symbols to stand for specific letters of the alphabet.

Ants can use pheromones for communication.

Anxious all the time, I was unable to keep focused for more than an hour at a time.

Are you prepared for a bigger one?

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 result, people will eat more food to try to make up for that something missing.

As busy people, we are always looking for ways to save time and make our lives easier.

As data and identity theft becomes more and more common, the market is growing for biometric technologies to keep others out of private e-spaces.

As for crowds, a Hong Kong study found that they increased a restaurant's reputation, suggesting great food at fair prices.

As for driverless cars, what is the author's major concern?

As for me, I shared none of their canine lust.

As for the bad news, a new bank has been built.

As for the USA, it is almost unique among developed nations in having a population that is expected to grow by 20% from 2010—2030.

As for the working environment, Tains prefers working by herself.

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

As one group of workers carried out the rubbish, another group began removing seats and other theater equipment in preparation for the building's end.

As perfect as it was, the price remained too high for us.

As the average age of the population increases, there are more and more old people to care for.

As the Kennedy center's artistic adviser for Jazz, Moran hopes to widen the audience for Jazz, make the music more accessible.

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 the smallest child of his family, Alex is always longing for the time when he should be able to be independent.

As Tolstoy once said, \one can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work.\

As usual, the voice of Peter Sallis is absolutely perfect for the role of Wallace, and Gromit is so beautifully brought to life, he can express a huge range of emotions without saying a word.

At first, john spent his time hunting for fun.

At least there is enough good news, so it remains a good place for the residents to enjoy their life.

At mile 3, I passed a sign:\ go for it, runners!\.

At that moment, I remembered that my father once said, \ the classroom is a place for learning and that include leaning from textbooks, and mistake as well.\

At the events, you can meet expert growers and discuss which ones will best suit your conditions, and because these are family affairs, children are well catered for with apple-themed fun and games.

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

Athens lost freedom forever, but freedom was not lost forever for the world.

Au pair in Stamford, Conn, for example, has got increasing numbers of request for Chinese Au pairs from zero to around 4, 000 since 2004.

Authentic fire gear is provided for your warmth as you get into the holiday spirit.

Authentic fire gear (服装) is provided for your warmth as our entertainers take you to some of the most thrilling parts of San Francisco.

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.

Bacteria are an annoying problem for astronauts.

Because less preparation on paths is needed for rolling.

Because more force is needed for sliding.

These groups mainly rely for instilling needed dispositions into the young upon the same sort of association which keeps the adults loyal to their group.

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

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

This increasingly high level of education is probably a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for the complex political systems required by advanced economic performance.

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

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

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

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

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

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

For example, British anthropologists Grafton Elliot Smith and W.

DNA testing is also the latest rage many passionate genealogists-and supports businesses that offer to search for a family's geographic roots.

Among the most popular : paternity and kinship testing , which adopted children can use to find their biological relatives and families can use to track down kids put for adoption.

All he needs to do is shell our $30 for paternity testing kit ( ' , PTK) at his local drugstore - and another $120 to get the results.

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

A lack of formal education, however, doesn't constrain the ability of the developing world's workforce to substantially improve productivity for the forested future.

The interdependence of the forest and its constituent tree species, ground flora, and fauna is taken for granted.

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

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

They found that the principal requirement for what is called “global cascades” -the widespread propagation of influence through networks -is the presence not of a few influentials but, rather, of a critical mass of easily influenced people.

The truth will not be known for years.

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

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

The 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.

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

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

Overall, Europe’s wholesale market for food and drink is growing at the same sluggish pace as the retail market, but the figures, when added together, mask two opposing trends.

Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods Amazon.

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

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

Marketers have embraced the two-step flow because it suggests that if they can just find and influence the influentials,those selected people will do most of the work for them.

Last April, for example the justices signaled that too many patents were being upheld for “inventions” that are obvious.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said it would use a particular case to conduct a broad review of business-method patents.

Bankers have been blaming themselves for their troubles in public.

And dead markets partly reflect the paralysis of banks which will not sell assets for fear of booking losses, yet are reluctant to buy all those supposed bargains.

This seems a justification for neglect of those in need， and a rationalization of exploitation， of the superiority of those at the top and the inferiority of those at the bottom.

The sobering aspect of Allen‘s book is that we have no one else to blame for our present condition except ourselves.

Each set of circumstances， however bad， offers a unique opportunity for growth.

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.

To be sure, he performs an impressive variety of interesting compositions, but it is not necessary for me to visit Avery Fisher Hall, or anywhere else, to hear interesting orchestral music.

The rough guide to marketing success used to be that you got what you paid for.

The growth in public money for academic research has speeded the process: federal research grants rose fourfold between 1960 and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its toll.

The decision to quit a senior position to look for a better one is unconventional.

So, at the end of a decade of thesis-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.

Professionalism has turned the acquisition of a doctoral degree into a prerequisite for a successful academic career: as late as 1969 a third of American professors did not possess one.

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

Menand, is that “the knowledge and skills needed for a particular specialisation are transmissible but not transferable.

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

Many recruiters say the old disgrace is fading for top performers.

Johnson & Johnson, for example, has created BabyCenter, a stand-alone media property that promotes complementary and even competitive products.

In recent weeks the No.2 executives at Avon and American Express quit with the explanation that they were looking for a CEO post.

For years executives and headhunters have adhered to the rule that the most attractive CEO candidates are the ones who must be poached.

For the time, attention, and money of the art-loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the 20th century.

For the most part, the response has been favorable, to say the least.

For something curious has been happening in American universities, and Louis Menand, a professor of English at Harvard University, captured it skillfully.

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

For earned media , such marketers act as the initiator for users’ responses.

Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with professorships for which they entered graduate school.

Devoted concertgoers who reply that recordings are no substitute for live performance are missing the point.

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.

Besides generating income, the presence of other marketers makes the site seem objective, gives companies opportunities to learn valuable information about the appeal of other companies’ marketing, and may help expand user traffic for all companies concerned.

As the economy picks up, opportunities will abound for aspiring leaders.

Since the days of Aristotle, a search for universal principles has characterized the scientific enterprise.

In some ways, this quest for commonalities defines science.

In physics, one approach takes this impulse for unification to its extreme, and seeks a theory of everything-a single generative equation for all we see.

Here, Darwinism seems to offer justification for it all humans share common origins it seems reasonable to suppose that cultural diversity could also be traced to more constrained beginnings.

Yet for the most part, the animal kingdom moves through the world downloading.

There are three reasons for the public-sector unions’ thriving.

The most glaring flaw of the social cure as it’s presented here is that it doesn’t work very well for very long.

Sometimes years are required for truly novel discovery claims to be accepted and appreciated.

Pledging to run Pilgrim safely, the company has applied for federal permission to keep it open for another 20 years.

Opportunities for misinterpretation, error, and self-deception abound.

One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium - television - and television is defined by downloading.

John Donahue at Harvard’s Kennedy School points out that the norms of culture in Western civil services suit those who want to stay put but is bad for high achievers.

I call it a secret war for two reasons.

Her critique of the lameness of many pubic-health campaigns is spot-on: they fail to mobilize peer pressure for healthy habits, and they demonstrate a seriously flawed understanding of psychology.

For all the possibilities of our new culture machines, most people are still stuck in download mode.

But for all the reasons there are to celebrate the computer, we must also tread with caution.

Bankers’ fat pay packets have attracted much criticism, but a public-sector system that does not reward high achievers may be a much bigger problem for America.

As a condition of receiving state approval for the sale, the company agreed to seek permission from state regulators to operate past 2012.

This distinction is so much so that where the latter is lacking, as it is for these unlikely gardens, the foremer becomes all the more urgent.

There is no doubt that gardens evidence an impossible urge to create, express, fashion, and beautify and that self-expression is a basic human urge; yet when one looks at the photographs of the garden created by the homeless, it strikes one that , for all their diversity of styles, these gardens speak of various other fundamental urges, beyond that of decoration and creative expression.

It is speculated that gardens arise from a basic need in the individuals who made them: the need for creative expression.

In them we can see biophilia - a yearning for contact with nonhuman life-assuming uncanny representational forms.

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.

The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years - so why shouldn't we? Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.

Stemming climate change, for example, is as much about changing consumption patterns and promoting tax acceptance as it is about developing clean energy.

Science and technology would cure all the ills of humanity, leading to lives of fulfillment and opportunity for all.

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.

In the 2006 film version of The Devil Wears Prada ,Miranda Priestly, played by Meryl Streep, scolds her unattractive assistant for imagining that high fashion doesn’t affect her, Priestly explains how the deep blue color of the assistant’s sweater descended over the years from fashion shows to departments stores and to the bargain bin in which the poor girl doubtless found her garment.