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

A desk dictionary is medium-sized, generally containing over 170, 000 entries as well as extra features.

A local farmer told them the dog sounded like one advertised as lost in the local paper.

A photography exhibition held by Han Media to celebrate its founding in New York city on April 24, featuring three emerging Chinese photographers; yingxi Michael Shi, Haiyin lin and liming Guan, whose works have appeared in publications such as Vogue.

A 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 rethink is required - and as a new approach starts to become apparent, two ideas stand out.

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

Abridged dictionaries, such as pocket and desk dictionaries, are shortened.

According to life in likes, as children grew, they became more anxious to get more public approval.

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 Dallas area cultural advocacy coalition, arts agencies employ more than 10, 000 people as full-or part-time employees or independent contractors.

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.

After he steadied himself, he shook Glenn's mother's hand, and the inspection continued as though nothing had happened.

After sharing the story online, I heard from someone, who identified the lady as Erin Smith.

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 special exhibitions, as well as films, lectures, guided tours, concerts, gallery talks, and.

Although it doesn't taste of anything special, it's still worth a try, as is the knobbly cat's head which is more of a curiosity than anything else.

Americans eat only about fifteen pounds of fish per person per year, but we eat twice as much fish in restaurants as at home.

Amy, as well as her brothers, was given a warm welcome when returning to the village last week.

An A-team may require A balance—not just A players, but a few generous B players as well.

An endless number of books and movies qualify as love stories in popular culture.

And both Helena Bonham-Carter, who plays the part of lady Tottington, and Ralph finesse as victor are really funny.

And they are as clear as glass.

Another argument against television is that it replaces reading as a form of entertainment.

Another patient noticed what I was reading and struck up a conversation with me because he had one of his books with him as well.

Another simple way of building some savings is by depositing as little as two percent of your monthly income into a savings account.

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

Arts as an economic driver\tour communities benefit from arts in terms of economy.

As a child, Adeline couldn't understand why the medal was so significant.

As a child, few people guessed that he was going to be a famous scientist whose theories would change the world.

As a first-year, I was afraid to make any noise towards campus issues that I noticed.

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

As a matter of fact, I'm feeling a bit cold.

As a matter of fact, we can see this principle at work in people of all ages.

As a parent, I hated seeing my daughter playing her best, but still defeated.

As a result it's likely to see a rise in the size of its working-age population and to witness strong economic growth over the longer term.

As a result, humans can perform very complex tasks with their hands.

As a result, humans developed a range of character types that still exists today.

As a result, in the last twenty years or so, many people have come to believe that whatever change is happening today is the result of great technological progress, going against which will be like trying to turn the clock back.

As a result, I've always kept up with the newspapers, faithfully read news magazines and learned to really enjoy books, all of which have been an invaluable help to me in radio and television reporting.

As a result, many special are quickly dying out.

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

As a retired ear doctor, I heartily recommend TV ears to people with normal hearing as well as those with hearing loss.

As a senior next year, I think extra periods should be used to take optional subjects.

As a third generation native of Brownsville, Texas, mildred Garza never pleased move away.

As always, you should stretch at least ten minutes before each run to prevent injuries.

As an inexperienced teacher, I tried every means to get them to be quiet, but in vain.

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

As Cancandy's success grows, so does Moore's credibility as a young entrepreneur.

As children, we thought very little about these educational wonders.

As cultural symbols go, the American car is quite young.

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 early as 1966, biologists asked the government to consider reintroducing wolves to Yellowstone park.

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

As expected, I got a roasting, but I now understand why I need discipline.

As experts continue to study the science of risk-seeking, we'll continue to hit the mountains, the waves or the shallow end of the pool.

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

As he grows you also age, and your ambitions become more unachievable.

As he was purchasing it, the salesgirl said, \oh, look, the game box hasn't even been opened yet.

As I approached mile 23, I could see my wife waving a sign.

As I began my own personal weight program, I was filled with the fear that I would.

As I got a little older, I began to understand what my dad really meant.

As I sat in my own personal heaven, I started thinking about having more.

As I squeezed back into my car, I saw the same lady looking in at me.

As I type this, I am in my university dorm room.

As I was in a good mood, I let her have it.

As I watch her chase after a squirrel, throwing her whole being into the here-and-now of an exercise that has never once ended in victory.

As it happened, the bite was virtually painless: more the kind of small bite you might get from a naughty child.

As it turned out, their initial judgments often held true.

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

As long as there have been codes, people have tried to break them.

As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing.

As Muhammad Ali puts it, \champions aren't made in gyms.\

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

As 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 one would expect, his writing is mostly clear and, to be fair, some chapters stand out above the rest.

As our society grows old, we need the contributions of our older citizens.

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

As recently reported in The Auk: ornithological advances, some mother birds may teach their young to sing even before they hatch?

As sad as it was, I couldn't help smiling.

As she looked up at the three new humans in her life small, medium, and large, she calculated, \the medium one is the sucker in the pack.

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

While it is easy to ignore in our contact with them the effect of our acts upon their disposition, it is not so easy as in dealing with adults.

Only gradually was the by-product of the institution noted, and only more gradually still was this effect considered as a directive factor in the conduct of the institution.

Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the world's work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output.

But in dealing with the young, the fact of association itself as an immediate human fact, gains in importance.

Thus, in his view, diverse aspects of culture, such as the structure of families, forms of marriage, categories of kinship, ownership of property, forms of government, technology, and systems of food production, all changed as societies evolved.

This theory was known as diffusionism.

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

The findings of a research institution have consistently shown that workers in all countries can be trained on the job to achieve radical higher productivity and, as a result, radically higher standards of living.

The U.workforce was derided as poorly educated and one of primary cause of the poor U.economic performance.

Supporters of the theory viewed culture as a collection of integrated parts that work together to keep a society functioning.

So it seems antithetical to talk about habits in the same context as creativity and innovation.

Rather than dismissing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we can instead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits.

Other anthropologists believed that cultural innovations, such as inventions, had a single origin and passed from society to society.

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.

In the early 1900s in North America, German-born American anthropologist Franz Boas developed a new theory of culture known as historical particularism.

In order to study particular cultures as completely as possible, he became skilled in linguistics, the study of languages, and in physical anthropology, the study of human biology and anatomy.

Critics also argue that commercial genetic testing is only as good as the reference collections to which a sample is compared.

But in keeping with our examination of southern intellectual life, we may consider the original Puritans as carriers of European culture adjusting to New world circumstances.

Boas felt that the culture of any society must be understood as the result of a unique history and not as one of many cultures belonging to a broader evolutionary stage or type of culture.

As education improved, humanity's productivity potential increased as well.

We have no land ethic yet, but we have at least drawn nearer the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of intrinsic right,regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us.

Some species of trees have been\read out of the party\by economics-minded foresters because they grow too slowly, or have too low a sale value to pay as timber crops.

In Europe, where forestry is ecologically more advanced, the noncommercial tree species are recognized as members of the native forest community, to be preserved as such, within reason.

“So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote,“that I am tempted to define‘journalism’ as‘a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are'.

These men believed in journalism as a calling,and were proud to be published in the daily press.

Such food service operators range from snack machines to large institutional catering ventures, but most of these businesses are known in the trade as “horeca”： hotels, restaurants and cafes.

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

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.

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.

Meanwhile, as the recession is looming large, people are getting anxious.

Later, move established companies raced to add such patents to their files, if only as a defensive move against rivals that might bent them to the punch.

In re Bilski, as the case is known, is.

Closer inspection reveals important differences among the biggest national markets, especially in their customer segments and wholesale structures, as well as the competitive dynamics of individual food and drink categories.

At least, that is how it looks as a whole.

” Achievement happens because you as a person embody the external achievement； you don‘t “ get” success but become it.

With its theme that “Mind is the master weaver，” creating our inner character and outer circumstances， the book As a Man Thinking by James Allen is an in-depth exploration of the central idea of self-help writing.

Nevertheless， as any biographer knows， a person’s early life and its conditions are often the greatest gift to an individual.

However， Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind， and while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone， in reality we are continually faced with a question： “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that？ ”Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire， Allen concluded ： “ We do not attract what we want， but what we are.

While traditional “paid” media – such as television commercials and print advertisements – still play a major role, companies today can exploit many alternative forms of media.

When Liam McGee departed as president of Bank of America in August, his explanation was surprisingly straight up.

We define such sold media as owned media whose traffic is so strong that other organizations place their content or e-commerce engines within that environment.

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.

This trend ,which we believe is still in its infancy, effectively began with retailers and travel providers such as airlines and hotels and will no doubt go further.

There are also stories about newly adoptive – and newly single – mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant” news.

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 of the New York Philharmonic to hire Alan Gilbert as its next music director has been the talk of the classical-music world ever since the sudden announcement of his appointment in 2009.

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.

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 of the reasons why the appointment came as such a surprise, however, is that Gilbert is comparatively little known.

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

In the third quarter, CEO turnover was down 23% from a year ago as nervous boards stuck with the leaders they had, according to Liberum Research.

Gilbert’s own interest in new music has been widely noted: Alex Ross, a classical-music critic, has described him as a man who is capable of turning the Philharmonic into “a markedly different, more vibrant organization”.

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

Ellen Marram quit as chief of Tropicana a decade age, saying she wanted to be a CEO.

As the first signs of recovery begin to take hold, deputy chiefs may be more willing to make the jump without a net.

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

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

As a description of the next music director of an orchestra that has hitherto been led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and Pierre Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least some Times readers as faint praise.

Just as the bewildering variety of human courtship rituals might all be considered forms of sexual selection, perhaps the world’s languages, music, social and religious customs and even history are governed by universal features.

Within the complex social structure of the scientific community, researchers make discoveries; editors and reviewers act as gatekeepers by controlling the publication process; other scientists use the new finding to suit their own purposes; and finally, the public ( ' , including other scientists) receives the new discovery and possibly accompanying technology.

What counts as meaningful uploading? My definition revolves around the concept of.

The second half of the 20th century saw a collection of geniuses, warriors, entrepreneurs and visionaries labour to create a fabulous machine that could function as a typewriter and printing press, studio and theatre, paintbrush and gallery, piano and radio, the mail as well as the mail carrier.

The networked computer is an amazing device, the first media machine that serves as the mode of production, means of distribution, site of reception, and place of praise and critique.

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

Nobel Laureate and physiologist Albert Azent-Gyorgyi once described discovery as “seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

In the end, credibility “happens” to a discovery claim - a process that corresponds to what philosopher Annette Baier has described as the commons of the mind.

In South Africa, an HIV-prevention initiative known as LoveLife recruits young people to promote safe sex among their peers.

First, scientific work tends to focus on some aspect of prevailing Knowledge that is viewed as incomplete or incorrect.

Consequently, discovery claims should be thought of as protoscience.

But as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( ' , NRC) reviews the company’s application, it should keep it mind what promises from Entergy are worth.

Britain’s Labor Party, as its name implies, has long been associated with trade unionism.

As the cost to everyone else has become clearer, politicians have begun to clamp down.

As a discovery claim works it through the community, the interaction and confrontation between shared and competing beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual’s discovery claim into the community’s credible discovery.

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

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

An emerging body of research shows that positive health habits-as well as negative ones-spread through networks of friends via social communication.

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

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.

The gardens of the homeless which are in effect homeless gardens introduce from into an urban environment where it either didn’t exist or was not discernible as such.

In most of the homeless gardens of New York City the actual cultivation of plants is unfeasible, yet even so the compositions often seem to represent attempts to call arrangement of materials, an institution of colors, small pool of water, and a frequent presence of petals or leaves as well as of stuffed animals.

A sacred place of peace, however crude it may be, is a distinctly human need, as opposed to shelter, which is a distinctly animal need.

This is an adequate amount so long as it is aimed in the right direction.

These labels encourage style-conscious consumers to see clothes as disposable-meant to last only a wash or two, although they don’t advertise that –and to renew their wardrobe every few weeks.

These issues all have root causes in human behavior: all require behavioral change and social innovations, as well as technological development.

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

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

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

Now utopia has grown unfashionable, as we have gained a deeper appreciation of the range of threats facing us, from asteroid strike to epidemic flu and to climate change.

It could be that we are evolving two communities of social scientists: one that is discipline-oriented and publishing in highly specialized journals, and one that is problem-oriented and publishing elsewhere, such as policy briefs.

In the last decade or so ,advances in technology have allowed mass-market labels such as Zara ,H&M, and Uniqlo to react to trends more quickly and anticipate demand more precisely.

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

But as Cline is the first to note, it took Beaumont decades to perfect her craft; her example can’t be knocked off.

As so often, the past holds the key to the future: we have now identified enough of the long-term patterns shaping the history of the planet, and our species, to make evidence-based forecasts about the situations in which our descendants will find themselves.

As of 2005, there were almost half a million professional social scientists from all fields in the world, working both inside and outside academia.

The music is abrupt and seemingly disconnected, as in the last piano sonata.

Beethoven’s music tends to move from chaos to order as if order were an imperative of human existence.

You cannot buy class, as the old saying goes, and these upstart entrepreneurs cannot buy their prizes the prestige of the Nobels.

Today, professors routinely treat the progressive interpretation of history and progressive public policy as the proper subject of study while portraying conservative or classical liberal ideas —such as free markets, self-reliance—as falling outside the boundaries of routine, and sometimes legitimate, intellectual investigation.