随笔分类 - 休闲充电
摘要：As overnight temperatures fell to the 40s, power crews in more than a dozen states navigated a tangle of fallen trees, downed power lines and dangerous floodwaters in the painstaking, house-by-house work of reconnecting millions of customers left in the dark by Sandy.Power was restored by late Thurs
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摘要：Chinese has a word for the people whose names don't make it into the history books - the Laobaixing or "old 100 names". They have witnessed history, even if they have only played a bit part. They have also inherited their community's folk memory and will pass it on to their childre
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摘要：Judging from the onslaught of books, articles, and blog posts extolling Steve Jobs' virtues and condemning his vices, the question of whether leaders can replicate Jobs' results by emulating his methods is an important one. Since most managers quantitatively analyze the factors that affect t
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摘要：Beijing, China (CNN)-- Jonathon Levine was a fiercely ambitious 25-year-old with a Masters degree -- but stuck in a dead end job.This is not how it was meant to be for a boy raised in New York City, nourished on the American dream that hard work and a good education would bring rewards and riches.So
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摘要：Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) spent billions of dollars and more than three years remodeling its flagship product. Now the hard work begins: Getting consumers, software developers and other allies excited about Windows software again.The software giant on Thursday formally introduced the touch-oriented ove
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摘要：Picture a hospice: walls painted soothing colors, landscapes hanging in the rooms, compassionate nurses at bedsides. And patients living out their last days in relative comfort—not at home, true, but also not in the cold, impersonal, constantly beeping confines of a hospital. With the patients are t
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摘要：Investors and companies are increasingly pulling money out of China and its currency in a vote of concern over its growth prospects, a development that could hinder Beijing's efforts to spark a turnaround.New data published by China's central bank Tuesday showed China's banks were net se
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摘要：Could you pack more into each day if you did everything at the optimal time?pack into：塞进，挤进 A growing body of research suggests that paying attention to the body clock, and its effects on energy and alertness, can help pinpoint the different times of day when most of us perform our best at specif...
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摘要：In the latest issue of the journalNature, science writer Alison Abbottsurveys recent researchthat tests the link between urban stress and psychosis. The association makes sense — cities are stressful places, and stress plays a known role in mental health problems — but remains hard to isolate for ob
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摘要：Even as China's economy slows from efforts to fight a bubble in high-end housing, waiting in the wings with potential to revive growth is a different housing market: the low end.Some 50 million of China's 230 million urban households live in substandard quarters often lacking their own toile
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摘要：At the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi -- one of the best engineering academies in the country -- we met Shriram, a 21-year-old man who ranked 19 out of 485,000 on the school's very demanding entrance exam. We call him Mr. Number 19.Shriram can tell you the date and time when he found ou
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摘要：A July 2012 Gallup poll puts the percentage of American adults who say they consider themselves vegetarian at 5%, and those who consider themselves vegans─who eat no meat or dairy products─at 2%.Do they know something everyone else doesn't?Far more Americans in a 2006 Gallup poll said they eat r
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摘要：Although science insists that crying is natural, culture still sends messages that strong men don’t cry.Many parents raise their sons to cry privately, if at all. It is ingrained in many men that masculine identity means holding back the tears except during times of extreme grief. Although women hav
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摘要：College student Liu Qikun recently went into debt to buy a $280 cellphone─and that is potentially good news for the unbalanced Chinese economy.Ms. Liu, 22 years old, took out a loan in an electronics store from a kiosk run by Home Credit BV, a consumer-lending unit of Amsterdam-based investment comp
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摘要：On Weibo, China’s Twitter, this week, the second most popular topic—right behind “Tourist stabbed for returning ticket!” and above breaking news of a pop star’s divorce—was “Are you happy?” Over three million bloggers were discussing this question at once. It had been posed by a popular state-sancti
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摘要：Selling to China's diverse 1.34 billion has long been a challenge for many companies, but the difficulties are mounting as China's population of consumers divides even further along class lines.mounting：逐渐增加，爬上，装备 According to new research from consultancy McKinsey & Co., a dichotomy is
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摘要：It is hard to see the euro-zone crisis from the top of the Eiffel Tower these days: There are too many foreign tourists blocking the view.downturn:衰退，下降，低迷时期 Eiffel Tower：埃菲尔铁塔 While many Europeans have cut back on vacations this year, one part of the tourist economy has held up better against...
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摘要：IntroIn terms of evolution, the speciesHomo sapiensis extremely successful. The populations of other species positioned at a similar level on the food chain tend to max out at about 20 million. We, by contrast, took just 120,000 years to achieve our first billion members, and then needed only anothe
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