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摘要：For more than three decades, Chinese women have been subjected to their country's brutal one-child policy. Those who try to have more children have been subjected to fines and forced abortions. Their houses have been razed and their husbands fired from their jobs. As a result, Chinese women have
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摘要：I spent the last week trying to write a column that proved Twitter wasn't worth $10 billion. Then the facts intervened.column：专栏 intervene：干涉，调停，插入Stubbornly, they arranged themselves into a most unexpected conclusion, one that seems almost blasphemy to type: Twitter has the potential to match s
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摘要：'I'm like a proud son of China,' Taiwan-born director Ang Lee says.China certainly seems fond of Mr. Lee. His movies, including 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,' 'The Ice Storm' and 'Eat Drink Man Woman,' have earned him world-wide applause, and his films have won
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摘要：On fostering entrepreneurship: The data would say about one-third of our creative capacity is DNA. The other two-thirds is the world we grow up in and work in. So there are things I can do to foster it in children.unleashing：释放 Entrepreneur：企业家 foster：养育，培养 entrepreneurship：企业家精神，创业Young ki...
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摘要：Here's something that's keeping the researchers at Harvard Medical School awake at night: They've just found that sleep deprivation is now costing U.S. businesses $63.2 billion a year in lost productivity. As The Wall Street Journal reported this week, the research showed that chronic ex
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摘要：As stores stock shelves with youth-targeted products and malls lease to retailers such as Forever 21 Inc., China’s seniors are feeling left out.seniors：年长者，老年人 According to a new report from global market research firm Mintel, only 8% of elderly Chinese consumers feel that marketers adequately ta...
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摘要：China's top national statistician on Friday called for changing the country's one-child policy because of the nation's shrinking pool of workers, adding to a chorus of opponents who say the policy will have long-lasting effects on the country's economic stability.a chorus of：异口同声地 Th
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摘要：It's the latest R&D trend: penciling in tinkering time on the company clock. The current craze started with Google's GOOG -0.96%well-known '20% Time' initiative, which encouraged employees to spend 20% of their time at work on a project not related to their job description.Then c
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摘要：With Beijing suffering its fourth bout of heavy smog this month, figures ranging from Chinese premier Wen Jiabao to real estate mogul Pan Shiyi have issued calls for the government and industry to get serious about pollution. But the government's flagship English-language newspaper China Daily i
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摘要：Touring around China, journalist Bianca Bosker says she heard more than once that the ideal life is, 'to eat Chinese food, drive an American car and live in a British house.'She tested the residential principle, finding not only English estates but French chateaus, Dutch townhouses and Germa
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摘要：The holiday season poses a psychological conundrum. Its defining sentiment, of course, is joy -- yet the strenuous effort to be joyous seems to make many of us miserable. It's hard to be happy in overcrowded airport lounges or while you're trying to stay civil for days on end with relatives
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摘要：Entirely new product categories seem scarce as America's largest gadget show convenes here this week. But there is plenty of action in making today's products smarter.gadget：小玩意，小工具，小配件 convene：集合，召集，聚集The push exploits more-sophisticated computer chips and software that are rapidly arriving
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摘要：Food is a go-to holiday gift for many people. But the wrong choices can come off as tasteless.Elisabeth Holder, managing director of Laduree USA, the French bakery known for its macarons, often gives food as presents to in-laws, grandparents and business associates. But she first does some research
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摘要：Major Chinese cities in recent days rolled out plans to loosen restrictions on gaokao, the famously competitive college entrance exams for a nation that treasures education, to meet a New Year's Eve deadline set by the central government. But they might not be as far-reaching as critics had hope
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摘要：China's army of migrant workers more than 250 million at last count is one of the most important but least understood factors in the world economy.In recent years, surging wages and fears the stock of rural workers is drying up have raised red flags about China's future growth.drying up：干涸，枯
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摘要：Google Inc. is gaining ground against Facebook Inc. thanks to a controversial tactic: requiring people to use the Google+ social network.Google over the past year has boosted the Google+ operation by integrating it with the company's top-tier properties, including its Web search engine, Gmail, Y
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摘要：Convincing consumers to trade in bulky old-school televisions for slim, high-definition models was a huge success story for the TV industry. Now manufacturers are angling to kick off another buying spree.bulky：体积大的，庞大的，笨重的 angling：调整...的角度，钓鱼 kick off：开始 spree：狂欢They are gearing up to promo...
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摘要：A low-budget Chinese comedy that has become a dark-horse hit on China's movie screens has sparked intense discussion of what Chinese filmgoers should be watching.Sober：冷静，清醒 filmgoers：影迷' Lost in Thailand,' which cost only 30 million yuan ($4.8 million) and was made by actor-turned green
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摘要：Migrant worker Zhang Kang has a full-time job at an auto factory in this southern Chinese city─and a drive to sell socks.Linger：徘徊，消磨Mr. Zhang, an employee at a BYD Co. assembly plant, sells socks on his off hours to its thousands of employees, as well as to anyone else who wants them. 'Socks ar
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摘要：Technology allows us a "read later" mentality. We don't seem to want it.mentality：心态，智力This morning, the save-for-later service Pocket (formerly Read It Later) posted some highlights from a year's worth of user data. Among the stats: Users -- who now number at 7.4 million -- saved
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