\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.

As you make reading a regular part of your life, you'll make more connections, stay more focused and understand the text better.

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

A California builder designed the structure of its houses smartly.

A city is the product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's intelligence and creativity.

A college classmate of mine, tim, was an excellent football player, even though he weighed much less than the average player.

A common memory they all have of their school days is the school uniform.

A cup of coffee costs about three dollars and fifty cents, but the fun is free.

A decade of data breaches (数据侵入) of personal information has led to a situation where scammers can easily learn your mother's name, and far more.

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

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

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

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

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

A kind of \green thinking \ has become part of practices.

A line graph looks similar to a bar graph, but instead of bars, it plots points and connects them with a line.

A list of references must be included.

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 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 neighborhood girl I'd played with millions of times appeared with the exact same basket fixed to her shiny, new bike that already had all the bells and whistles.

A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful antArctic voyage back to life.

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

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

A 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.

A quick review of successes and failures at the end of year will help shape your year ahead.

A reader can enjoy an indirect experience without any of the dangers or stresses involved.

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

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

A safe number of interviews to conduct is about six to ten.

A school boy or girl is unpunctual because he or she does not have the necessary human virtue of self-discipline.

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

A son of immigrants, Chris stared learning English a little over three years ago.

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

A study of British accents during 1970s found that a voice sounding like a BBC newsreader was viewed as the most attractive voice.

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

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

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

A team of researchers trained three rhesus monkeys to associate 26 clearly different symbols consisting of numbers and selective letters with 0-25 drops of water or juice as a reward.

A third will remain a mix of walking and standing.

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 three-week trial at Holborn last year found that the number of people using escalators at any time of could be raised by almost a third.

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

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

A week-long celebration leads up to an exciting tomato battle as the highlight of the week's events.

A winner is one with a great effort of will.

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.

A young English teacher saved the lives of 30 students when he took control of a bus after its driver suffered a serious heart attack.

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

About thirty percent of the world's exports of tea makes its way to London.

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 a recent study, four out of ten people under 35 years old are planning to downshift from stressful jobs to a slower pace of life.

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

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

According to Jennifer Debruyn, the next step of the study is to find out the source of the enzyme.

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 sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet.

According to the analysis of Babbitt's team, old desktop monitors and box TVs with cathode ray tubes are the worst devices with their energy consumption and contribution to greenhouse gas emissions more than doubling during the 1992 to 2007 window.

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, children's fear and dislike of books may result from being made to read aloud before others.

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.

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

Acts of generosity can change lives or just give you that warm feeling full of love.

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

Actually, one may start his journey of modern architecture by walking or biking.

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

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.

Advanced lights, motors, and building designs have helped save a lot of energy and therefore prevented pollution.

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

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

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

After less than a week, I started noticing that the groceries were running out pretty quickly — we were always suddenly out of something.

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

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

After what seemed like a safe amount of time, I read the poem again and was confused.

After years of heated debate, gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone national park.

After years of regular treatment, she finally became healthy.

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.

All around the world, we can see the consequences of this throwaway lifestyle.

All of a sudden, I started making money because I was really good at math.

All of this makes the actions of the homeless tom smith even more remarkable.

All our projects aim to promote the development of poor and remote communities.

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

All these elements of office design are related.

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

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

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

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

Already well over 400 of the total of 6, 800 languages are close to extinction, with only a few elderly speakers left.

Also, you need to check the accuracy of it.

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

\Carry a book with you at all times\ can actually work, too-providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down.

\Further contradicting conventional wisdom, we found that women as well as men have lower levels of stress at work than at home.\ writes one of the researchers, Sarah Damaske .

\Hugging protects people who are under stress from the increased risk for colds that's usually associated with stress,\ notes Sheldon Cohen, a professor of psychology at Carnegie.

\I don't think the findings that we have are any evidence of personal delusion,\ says Epley.

\I still grew up in an upper middle-class home with parents who didn't have college degrees,\ Schneider said. \I don't think people are capable of that anymore. \

\If we were really bold, we might even begin to think of high-calorie fast food in the same way as cigarettes—by setting strict limits on advertising, product placement and sponsorship of sport events,\ he said.

\Many jobs are boring, degrading, unhealthy, and a waste of human potential,\ says John Danaher, a lecturer at the National University of Ireland in Galway.

\Many young people assume a great deal of personal responsibility for educating themselves and actively seeking out opposing viewpoints,\  the survey concluded.

\My father was an RAF pilot and my cousin the skipper of a Lancaster lost over Berlin,\ he adds.

\Our products succeed when they become part of daily or weekly patterns,\ said Carol Berning, a consumer psychologist who recently retired from Procter and Gamble, the company that sold $76 billion of tide, Crest and other products last year.

\School in the family of vocational education have that stereotype...that it's for kids who can't make it academically,\ he says.

\Short-termism\ or the desire for quick profits, has worsened in publicly traded companies, says the Bank of England's top economist Andrew Haldane.

\Tech is designed to really suck you in,\ says Jenny Radesky in her study of digital play, \and digital products are there to promote maximal engagement.\

\The first thing needed for innovation is a fascination with wonder,\ says Dawna Markova, author of \The Open mind\.

\The gap is between the jobs that take no skills and those that require a lot of skill,” says Rob Spohr, a business professor at Montcalm Community College.

\The Heart of the Matter,\ the just-released report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, deserves praise for affirming the importance of the humanities and social sciences to the prosperity and security of liberal democracy in America.

\The history of all hitherto existing history is the history of class struggles,\ wrote Marx and Engels in The Communist Manifesto.

\The valuable examples which they furnish of the power of self-help, of patient purpose, resolute working and steadfast integrity, issuing in the formation of truly noble and manly character, exhibit,\ wrote Smiles, \ what it is in the power of each to ac

\There has been a kind of revival or a rethinking about what guilt is and what role guilt can serve,\ says Amrisha Vaish, a psychology researcher at the University of virginia, adding that this revival is part of a larger recognition that emotions aren't

\There is a kind of false precision being hawked by people claiming they are doing ancestry testing,\ says Trey Duster, a New York University sociologist.

\There seems to be a predominance of short-term thinking at the expense of long-term investing,\ said Commissioner Daniel Gallagher of the US Securities and Exchange Commission in speech this week.

\They blame it on the manufacturing recession,\ says birgit Klohs, chief executive of The right Place, a business development agency for western michigan.

\They love Chip and Joanna Gaines just as much as the rest of us,\ he said.

\They're harder to find and they have job offers,\ says Jay Dunwell, president of Wolverine Coil Spring, a family owned firm.

\Thinking about long-term consequence is key to reducing the possible negative effects of curiosity,\ Hsee says.

\We'd assumed we'd have to give it a moving head and tail, facial features, and put a scene on it to make it smell like a real rat, but that wasn't necessary,\ says Janet wiles at the University of Queensland in Australia, who helped with the research.

\Whenever decisions are based on masses of data, you quickly get into a lot of ethical questions,\ notes Tan kiat How, chief executive of a singapore-based agency that is helping the government develop a voluntary code for the ethical use of ai.

A \southern\camp headed by French wants something different: \European economic government\ within an inner core of euro-zone members.

A \town of culture\ could be not just about the arts but about honoring a town's peculiarities-helping sustain its high street, supporting local facilities and above all celebrating its people and turn it into action.

A 2014 survey conducted in Australia, Britain, and the United States by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that young people's reliance on social media led to greater political engagement.

A badly run \year of culture\ washes in and out of a place like the tide, bringing prominence for a spell but leaving no lasting benefits to the community.

A calm, rule-following child might respond better to a different sort of parenting than, for example, a younger sibling.

A couple of Christmases ago, my youngest stepdaughter, who was 9 years old at the time, got a Superman T-shirt for Christmas.

A cynic might speculate that the UK is on the verge of disappearing into an endless fever of self-celebration in its desperation to reinvent itself for the post-Brexit world: after town of culture, who knows that will follow-village of culture?

A Department of Health spokesperson said: \We need to create a new vision for public health where all of society works together to get healthy and live longer.\

A different and not mutually exclusive prediction holds that the future will be a wasteland of a different sort, one characterized by purposelessness\: without jobs to give their lives meaning, people will simply become lazy and depressed.

A federal appeals court overturned the prior decision, ruling that Myriad Genetics could indeed hold patents to two genes that help forecast a woman's risk of breast cancer.

A few decades ago, many people didn't drink water outside of a meal.

A further concern is that the use of electronic means of payment leaves an electronic trail that contains a large amount of personal data.

A group of labour MPs, among them Yvette Cooper, are bringing in the new year with a call to institute a UK \town of culture\ award.

A growing number of researchers and organisations are now thinking seriously about that question.

A Knight Foundation focus-group survey of young people between ages 14 and 24 found they use \distributed trust\ to verify stories.

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

A large part of evaluation is calling out bad arguments, but we also need to admit good arguments by opponents and to apply the same critical standards to ourselves.

A long struggle will be needed to avoid a future of digital feudalism.

A moralist, satirist, and social reformer Dickens crafted complex plots and striking characters that capture the panorama of English society.

A more practical goal is to try, to the best of your ability, to be as tolerant and composed as you can when faced with trying situations involving your children.

A new survey by Harvard University finds more than two-thirds of young Americans disapprove of President Trump's use of Twitter.

A number of studies have concluded that normal-weight people are in fact at higher risk of some diseases compared to those who are overweight.

A pair of bills sponsored by Massachusetts state Senator Jason Lewis and House Speaker Pro Tempore Patricia Haddad, to ensure \gender parity\ on boards and commissions, provide a case in point.

A passenger peering out of the window might not even see the other planes.

A quarter of America's public-sector workers have a university degree.

A recent annual study of countries and their ability to convert growth into well-being sheds some light on that question.

A recent paper, titled \The Natural Selection of Bad Science\, published on the Royal Society's open science website, attempts to answer this intriguing and important question.

A report last year pointed out that the costs both of subscriptions and of these \article preparation costs\ had been steadily rising at a rate above inflation.

A series of fires and overcrowded conditions led to the construction of the existing Treasury Building.

A smartphone may contain an arrestee's reading history, financial history, medical history and comprehensive records of recent correspondence.

A string of accidents, including the partial collapse of a cooling tower in 2007 and the discovery of an underground pipe system leakage, raised serious questions about both Vermont Yankee's safety and Entergy's management– especially after the company ma

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 town of culture award could, it is argued, become an annual event, attracting funding and creating jobs.

A turbulent business environment also has senior managers cautious of letting vague pronouncements cloud their reputations.

A typical work, such as Seven Days, consists of a single beautiful black-and-white photograph taken on an epic walk, with the mileage and number of days taken listed beneath.

A young man can decide on a likely spouse on his own and then ask his parents to arrange the marriage negotiations, or the young man's parents may make the choice of a spouse, giving the child little to say in the selection.

About a quarter of all Italian immigrants, for example, eventually returned to Italy for good.

About a third say the problem of fake news lies in \misinterpretation or exaggeration of actual news\ via social media.

Above all, they would hope to study a fundamental question: Are humans actually aware of the world they live in?

Accommodating this new world of people in motion will require new attitudes on both sides of the immigration battle.

According to a study by Catalyst, between 2010 and 2015 the share of women on the boards of global corporations increased by 54 percent.

According to accounts of the experiments, their hourly output rose when lighting was increased, but also when it was dimmed.

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

According to one classical theory of emotion, our feelings are partially rooted in physical reactions.

According to research from Princeton University, people assess your competence, trustworthiness, and like ability in just a tenth of a second, solely based on the way you look.

According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 80 percent of college students end up changing their majors at least once.

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

According to the World Social Science Report 2010, the number of social-science students worldwide has swollen by about 11% every year since 2000.

Across generational lines, Americans continue to prize many of the same traditional milestones of a successful life, including getting married, having children, owning a home, and retiring in their sixties.

Across the 163 countries measured, the UK is one of the poorest performers in ensuring that economic growth is translated into meaningful improvements for its citizens.

Across the country, factory owners are now grappling with a new challenge: Instead of having too many workers, they may end up with too few.

Aerial surveys locate general areas of interest or larger buried features, such as ancient buildings or fields.

After all, four decades of evidence has now shown that corporations in Europe as well as the US are evading the meritocratic hiring and promotion of women to top position—no matter how much \soft pressure\ is put upon them.

After bills, Tony has ￡60 a week to spend, ￡40 of which goes on food, but 10 years ago he was earning ￡130,000 a year working in corporate communications and eating at London's best restaurants at least twice a week.

Against a backdrop of drastic changes in economy and population structure, younger Americans are drawing a new 21st-century road map to success, a latest poll has found.

ai \vision\ today is not nearly as sophisticated as that of humans.

airborne technologies, such as different types of radar and photographic equipment carried by airplanes or spacecraft, allow archaeologists to learn about what lies beneath the ground without digging.

All around the world, lawyers generate more hostility than the members of any other profession—with the possible exception of journalism.

All citizens who meet minimal qualifications of age and literacy are equally competent to serve on juries.

All in all, this clearly seems to be a market in which big retailers could profitably apply their gigantic scale, existing infrastructure, and proven skills in the management of product ranges, logistics, and marketing intelligence.

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

All of which would, of course, have a positive effect on our happiness levels.

Almost all of the interior detail is of cast iron or plaster; the use of wood was minimized to insure fire safety.

Almost everyone who was interviewed for this special report said that the biggest problem at the moment is not a lack of demand but a lack of good work to sell.

Already, since 2010, drought and insects have killed over 100 million trees in California, most of them in 2016 alone, and wildfires have burned hundreds of thousands of acres.

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

Also missing is any discussion of eliminating Saturday letter delivery.

Also, some research suggests that the explanation for rising rates of mortality, mental-health problems, and addiction among poorly-educated middle-aged people is shortage of well-paid jobs.

Although electronic means of payment may be more efficient than a payments system based on paper, several factors work against the disappearance of the paper system.

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.

Although women first served on state juries in Utah in 1898,It was not until the 1940s that a majority of states made women eligible for jury duty.

Amazon.com, with its network of warehouses, also collects sales tax in every state that charges it, though third-party sellers who use the site don't have to.