10 2013 档案
摘要：The Wolff family of Paramus, N.J., was eyeing the gathering clouds and debating whether to cancel a planned park trip when 6-year-old Leora piped up with an idea: 'Let's call Grandma. Her knees always know when it's going to rain!'Leora's grandmother, Esther Polatsek, says she st
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摘要：Chinese investors have been snapping up real estate in the world's most important cities this year. While it's easy to dismiss rich foreign buyers as the dumb money in any market, these investors are taking a sensible approach.Real-Estate：不动产，房地产 snap up：抢购 After earning big profits at home,
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摘要：I'm not a hugger. When I see a registered personal-space invader coming my way at a party, the music from 'Jaws' plays in my head. And there are lots of people like me -- reasonably comfortable in social situations, no particular phobias, just a bit reserved in expressions of physical in
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摘要：More Americans are eating lunch at their desks or even forgoing it altogether. Is passing up a proper midday break bad for one's health? Chris Cunningham, professor of Industrial-Organizational and Occupational Health Psychology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, offers one view.Brai
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摘要：What's the most destructive force in the tech world, the thing that has nearly killed BlackBerry, pushed Dell to go private, and made a mess of Microsoft?Conventional wisdom in Silicon Valley would finger one of the following technologies: smartphones, tablets, social networks, 'the cloud,&#
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摘要：Apple Inc. 's answer to the increasingly cutthroat tablet-computer market: more product choices and free software.cutthroat：残酷的，剧烈的，凶手 At an event here Tuesday, Apple showed off a new full-size tablet--now called iPad Air--that is thinner and slimmed down to one pound. It also revealed an update
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摘要：Daimler AG's flagship Mercedes-Benz often gets the rap for being an 'old man's car.' More unusual is to hear it from the lips of Gorden Wagener, the luxury brand's youngest-ever design chief.'The perception was, 'no question, you are the old guy in this game,'' th
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摘要：The world is a fast and dangerous place. To survive a company must innovate. Many organizations look to their innovation teams, but to thrive, the whole of an organization needs to become an innovation engine. Businesses that understand that dedicated innovation teams are grossly insufficient to mai
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摘要：How can you decide whether to have a child? It's a complex and profound question -- a philosophical question. But it's not a question traditional philosophers thought about much. In fact, the index of the 1967 'Encyclopedia of Philosophy' had only four references to children at all -
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摘要：A newly discovered 1.8 million-year-old skull offers evidence that humanity's early ancestors emerged from Africa as a single adventurous species, not several species as believed, drastically simplifying human evolution, an international research team said Thursday.skull：颅骨 drastically：彻底地，激烈地 .
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摘要：We spend a full five hours and 16 minutes a day in front of a screen, and that's without even turning on a television.So says a statistic from eMarketer, a research firm that focuses on digital media and marketing. It says that for the first time we are devoting more attention each day to smartp
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摘要：Many students cruise along just fine in math until fourth grade or so. Then, they hit a wall -- fractions.cruise：巡航，巡游，漫游 fraction：分数，片段The wall is about to get taller. With mastery of the topic seen as a crucial stepping stone to progressing in math, federal standards are stepping up emphasis on f.
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