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摘要：The conference call is one of the most familiar rituals of office life -- and one of the most hated.ritual：典礼，宗教仪式Abuses are rife. People on the line interrupt others, zone out or multitask, forgetting to hit 'mute' while talking to kids or slurping drinks.zone out：头昏脑涨，开小差 mute：静音键 slurp：啜食
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摘要：If you find yourself needing to sit down to take off your shoes, it might be time to start paying attention to your sense of balance.People don't usually think about balance until they fall, but little signs such as relying on handrails to go up and down stairs can be early warnings that stabili
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摘要：When her husband died of cancer 10 years ago, Becky Aikman says she experienced grief and adapted to her loss -- but not in the way some people seemed to expect.proactive：有前瞻性的，主动地 About a year after his death, when Ms. Aikman felt it was time to start rebuilding her life, she attended a widows su..
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摘要：In the war for the Chinese Internet, messaging giant Tencent is taking the battle to rival Alibaba's territory as never before.Tencent, a leader in online messaging and gaming, said Monday it will pay $215 million for a 15% stake in online retailer JD.com, in advance of JD.com's planned U.S.
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摘要：Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, with 239 people aboard, lost contact early Saturday with the airline shortly into the flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. Government and airline officials said they weren't ready to speculate about what caused the Boeing 777-200 to disappear from radar. Here are
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摘要：For much of the last year, intellectuals and officials in China -- land of world-beating students and, in a bygone age, the scholar official -- have been wringing their hands over the country's declining interest in reading.bygone：过去的 wringing：湿透的，扭绞 Earlier this week, the anxiety surfaced in th
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摘要：AS AUTO MAKERS ADD far-out features to the latest cars at warp speed--everything from futuristic heads-up displays to simple perks like hands-free calling--the appeal of the newest showroom tech can be hard to resist. But a car, unlike a smartphone, doesn't need to be replaced every two years. I
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摘要：The mass uprisings this summer in Egypt, Turkey and Brazil are powerful reminders that the middle classes drive history. What remains unclear, however, is where they are driving it.uprising：起义，升起 The world today is witnessing its third great surge of middle-class growth. The first was brought ab...
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摘要：The problem: Every night, your workaholic boss is still glued to the computer when you need to leave. How to go home without looking like a slacker?slacker：懒鬼Should you sneak out, hoping to avoid a six o'clock showdown in the hall? Guiltily apologize, promising to be on email all night? Or just
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摘要：Several years ago, while observing a parenting group in Minnesota, I was struck by a confession one of the women made to her peers: She didn't really care that her husband did the dishes after dinner. Sure, it was swell of him, and she had friends whose husbands did less. But what she really wan
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摘要：Daifailluh al-Bugami was just a year old when his parents noticed that his lips turned blue as he slept at night. It was his weight, doctors said, putting pressure on his delicate airways.delicate：精致的，微妙的，易碎的 Now Daifailluh is 3, and at 61 pounds he is nearly double the typical weight of a child hi.
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摘要：The hottest showcase for new technology at this year's Mobile World Congress wasn't in the event's cavernous exhibition halls. It was actually about two miles away, at an affiliated show for startups and venture capitalists.showcase：展示，作品欣赏 cavernous：洞穴状的，空洞的 affiliated：附属的，联营的In a makes
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摘要：I grew up in an affluent area. Most kids owned multiple Cabbage Patch dolls and Gear bags and pairs of Jordache jeans (not to mention the beloved Atari 2600). I certainly had enough, but it felt like all of my peers possessed more. I wanted Benetton sweaters and a cool bike. I wanted to take trips t
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摘要：Where are Chinese tourists going to next? Pop culture may hold some clues, from blockbuster rom-com 'Finding Mr. Right' to U.S. sitcom 'The Big Bang Theory.'blockbuster：轰动，巨型炸弹China is the source of most of the world's tourists as well as its biggest-spending travelers. In 2012 a
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摘要：Sam Su for years ran one of the highest-flying foreign business operations in China. These days, he's trying to pull it out of a tailspin.tailspin：混乱As China head for Yum Brands Inc. for the past 16 years, Mr. Su built its KFC arm into the biggest foreign restaurant chain -- and one of the most
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摘要：'What's celebrity sex, Dad?' It was my 7-year-old son, who had been looking over my shoulder at my computer screen. He mispronounced 'celebrity' but spoke the word 'sex' as if he had been using it all his life. 'Celebrity six,' I said, abruptly closing my AOL scre
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摘要：Detroit is beautiful-though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it. As you may have heard, the city is in trouble. At the end of the 2013 fiscal year, Detroit had a balance sheet with liabilities of $9.05 billion. The city's emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, es
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摘要：The American political class has long held that higher education is vital to individual and national success. The Obama administration has dubbed college 'the ticket to the middle class,' and political leaders from Education Secretary Arne Duncan to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have
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摘要：China's high-tech companies have made their mark on the nation's economy. Now, with growing cash and investment at their disposal, they are beginning to have an impact on its skylines.Many of China's technology giants got their starts in cheap, half-empty office space often near the coun
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