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While consumers are spending less on toilet paper, they remain fussy – in theory at least – when it comes to paper quality.

When it's time to make the leap, they take action and immediately drop what's no longer serving their purpose.

To ensure employees' commitment, it is advisable to give them more flexibility as to where and how they work.

This means they often have to make a special effort to lay the past to rest.

They were offered nicotine replacements.

They were looked after by physicians.

They were given physical training.

They were encouraged by psychologists.

They think, ‘Well, if I gradually reduce, it's like practice,' says Lindson-Hawley.

They show fewer withdrawal symptoms.

They reject using toilet paper with unnecessary features.

They prefer cheap toilet paper to recycled toilet paper.

They need to rid their minds of sentimentalism ( ' , 感情用事): the most successful teams have leaders who are able to set an overall direction and take immediate action.

They need to keep teams small and focused: giving in to pressure to be more inclusive is a guarantee of dysfunction.

They need to immunise teams against group-think: Hackman argued that the best ones contain deviants ( ' , 离经叛道者) who are willing to do something that may be upsetting to others.

They give priority to relationships, as careers often recede ( ' , 逐渐淡化).

They feel much less pain in the process.

They feel attached to the suburban environment.

They emphasize the strength of toilet paper the most.

They choose purpose over happiness—having a clear sense of purpose even reduces the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

They can only afford small apartments.

They break routines, because autopilot is death.

They are simply unable to make it.

They are shaped like jewel cases.

They are particular about the quality of toilet paper.

They are heavily painted in red.

They are favored as a form of art.

They are cherished by the rich.

They are also spending more time working with each other rather than reporting upwards.

They also had talk therapy with a nurse before and after quit day.

The question is, how?Lawrence Patihis at the University of Southern Mississippi recently studied around 20 people with HSAM and found that they scored particularly highly on two measures: fantasy proneness ( ' , 倾向) and absorption.

The absorption helps them to establish strong foundations for recollection, says Patihis, and the fantasy proneness means that they revisit those memories again and again in the coming weeks and months.

Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross-functional teams.

Product transitions used to take five or seven years; now they take one or two.

People rarely manage to quit the first time they try.

People in both groups used nicotine ( ' , 尼古丁) patches before they quit, in addition to a second form of nicotine replacement, like gum or spray.

Overall, almost three in five people say they try to limit their usage of paper – including facial tissue and kitchen roll – to save money.

Nor are they necessarily better at remembering a round of drinks, say.

Most roads, bridges, transit, water systems, the electric grid, and communications networks were installed 50 to 100 years ago, and they are largely taken for granted until they fail.

Maybe some experience in their childhood meant that they became obsessed ( ' , 着迷) with calendars and what happened to them, says Patihis.

Loosely managed teams can become hotbeds of distraction—employees routinely complain that they can't get their work done because they are forced to spend too much time in meetings or compelled to work in noisy offices.

Interestingly, their memories are highly self-centred: although they can remember autobiographical life events in extraordinary detail, they seem to be no better than average at recalling impersonal information, such as random ( ' , 任意选取的) lists of words.

Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings ( ' , 瘾) and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.

In a challenge for manufacturers, 81% of paper product users said they would consider buying recycled toilet tissue if it were comparable in quality to standard paper.

However, organisations need to learn something bigger than how to manage teams better: they need to be in the habit of asking themselves whether teams are the best tools for the job.

However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use team as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.

But at least, she says, they can maximize the odds of success.

And the quit rates were particularly convincing given that before the study started, most of the people had said they'd rather cut down gradually before quitting.

And although their memories are vast, they are still likely to suffer from false memories.

A recent study of people with HSAM reveals that they are liable to fantasy and full absorption in an activity.

A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steelcase, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are engaged is to give them more control over where and how they do their work—which may mean liberating them from having to do everything in collaboration with others.

Veiseh agrees: It is like having these open wounds – they are just a part of you, he says.

With Facebook she could stay connected with her family no matter how far away they were.

Whenever she called her parents or other relatives, she always had to think about the time difference so that she wouldn’t wake someone up or call when she knew they were at church.

This behaviour may have evolved as dogs gradually learned they could benefit from avoiding conflicts with humans.

They suggest this indicates that dogs aren’t sensing emotions from a single feature, but piecing together information from all facial features just as humans do.

They showed threatening, pleasant and neutral expressions.

Still, 60% of drivers would like to get some kind of self-driving feature, such as automatic braking or self-parking the next time they buy a new car.

So they’re cheap almost everywhere.

Mules have strong muscles like horses; but they eat less, can work longer, and are gentler, like donkeys.

In the 1600s, people in China used carrots as medicine, but they also ate carrots boiled in soup.

He also believes they will be more likely to trust selfdriving cars as they become more familiar with features such as automatic braking or parking.

But those surveyed by AAA say they trust their own driving skills.

But 75% of drivers say they wouldn’t feel safe in such a vehicle.

And when looking at angry humans, they tended to turn away their gaze.

Alaska State Troopers released a statement saying they’ve arrested Arnold Demoski, 26.

Advocates of selfdriving cars argue they will be safer than in cars driven by humans because they wouldn’t get distracted or drive when tired.

to see whether people's personality affects their life span to find out if one's lifestyle has any effect on their health to investigate the role of exercise in living a long lifeto examine all the factors contributing to longevity They have a good understanding of evolution.

may be better at solving puzzlescan memorize things with more easemay have greater facility in abstract reasoningcan put what they have learnt into more effective usefind ways to slow down our mental declinefind ways to boost our memoriesunderstand the complex process of mental functioningunderstand the relation between physical and mental healthThe most important thing in the news last week was the rising discussion in Nashville about the educational needs of children.

Whether residents felt involved in the decision to move and how long they had lived there also proved significant.

When they had lunch in the dining room, they sat alone at the table.

What people were like when they came in had greater consequence than what happened once they were there.

What matters, she added, is a combination of what people bring in with them, and what they find there.

They were so busy working that they only ate simple meals.

They were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities, for instance, and less likely to be bored or lonely.

They tend to decline in people's later years.

They scored higher on social interaction.

They reach a peak at the age of 20 for most people.

They have their ideas, too.

They had to work from early morning till late at night.

They generally appear more resourceful They are more likely to get over hardship.

They function quite well even in old age.

They ate three meals regularly every dayThey were expert at cooking meals.

They ate big dinner late in the evening.

They are outgoing.

They are ill-bred.

They are ignorant.

They are dangerous only if programmers are careless.

They are closely related to physical and mental exercise.

They are better at negotiating an agreement.

They are aggressive.

The surge in world grain prices in 2007 and 2008—and the threat they pose to food security—has a different, more troubling quality than the increases of the past.

The public overall is spilt on whether they'd like to use a driverless car.

The nice thing about ancient philosophy as offered by the Greeks is that they tended to see life clear and whole, in a way that we tend not to see life today.

The doer of a good deed can feel spiritually rewarded even when they gain no concrete benefits.

The combined effects of those trends and the political tensions they generate point to the breakdown of governments and societies.

The biggest concern with robots going against human values is that human beings fail to do sufficient testing and they've produced a system that will break some kind of taboo ( ' , 禁忌 ).

The amount of training they received.

Such moves may eliminate the fears of those living in the exporting countries, but they are creating panic in importing countries that must rely on what is then left for export.

Obviously there are cultural differences, but if you were talking to another person and they came up close in your personal space, you wouldn't think that's the kind of thing a properly brought-up person would do.

search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.

Yet they are doing it quite differently.

Will parents be damaging children if they have one fewer organized activity? No, I really doubt it.

While these numbers are still being validated by the state, we feel any adjustments they might suggest will be immaterial, Morgan wrote to the presidents.

They were versed in literature and interested in art.

They were the pioneers of gender equity, in their useful, adaptable clothing, which was both made for the masses and capable of self-expression.

They were courageous and venturesome.

They try to develop their skills through close supervision and organized activities, and teach children to question authority figures and navigate elite institutions.

They radically changed people's concept of beauty.

They provide a useful service, said Flack.

They often get hooked then.

They might eat something toxic and damage their health.

They may have trouble getting adequate food.

They may evolve new feeding habits.

They may end up staying there permanently.

They may eat something harmful.

They made some improvements on the traditional Parisian design.

They join the storks from Germany on rubbish dumps in Morocco.

They help humans kill harmful insects.

They have seriously polluted the places where birds spend winter.

They have led some birds to give up on migration.

They have forced white storks to search for safer winter shelters.

They have changed the previous migration habits of certain birds.

They have accelerated the reproduction of some harmful insects.

They had much geographic knowledge.

They had enough travel and outdoor-life experience.

They gradually lose the habit of migrating in winterThey prefer rubbish dumps far away to those at home.

They got a better understanding of early human civilization.

They gained some knowledge of classical art and architecture.

They found the antiques there more valuable.

They found inspiration in the world's greatest masterpieces.

They formulated a dress code with distinctive American features.

They developed an interest in the origin of modern art forms.

They could buy unique souvenirs there to take back home.

They catered to the taste of the younger generation.

They cannot be attributed to weather only.

They can multiply at an accelerating rate.

They can better pull through the winter.

They can be solved with better management.

They came up with a brand-new set of design proceduresThey made originality a top priority in their fashion design.

They call for increased investments.

They became rivals of their Parisian counterparts.

They are taught to be compliant and respectful to adults.

They are not attracted to the rubbish dumps on their migration routes.

They are not as serious in its online stores.

They are more worried about their children being depressed or anxious.

They are more likely to grow up in neighborhoods that their parents say aren't great for raising children, and their parents worry about them getting shot, beaten up or in trouble with the law.

They are more likely to be at risk of dying.

They advocated equity between men and women.

These math circles cost nothing, or they're very cheap for students to get involved in, but you have to know about them, said Rusczyk.

There is no best parenting style or philosophy, researchers say, and across income groups, 92% of parents say they are doing a good job at raising their children.

There are huge clusters of organic waste they can feed on, said Flack.

The birds can easily eat pieces of plastic or rubber hands and they can die, said Flack.

Students use forums to chat, play games, and solve problems together at no cost, or they can pay a few hundred dollars to take courses with trained teachers.

Participation grows through friends and networks and if you realize that's how they're growing, you can start to take action and bring in other students, he said.

Nearly half of high-earning, college-graduate parents enrolled their children in arts classes before they were 5, compared with one-fifth of low-income, lesseducated parents.

Most people would love to get students from more underserved populations, but they just can't get them in the door.

Most American parents say they are not concerned about their children's grades as long as they work hard.

Middle school is an important age because students have enough math capability to solve advanced problems, but they haven't really decided what they want to do with their lives, said Loh.

Instead of flying thousands of miles in search of food, they make the waste sites their winter feeding grounds.

In England, where architecture was increasingly seen as an aristocratic pursuit, noblemen often applied what they learned from the villas of Palladio in the Veneto and the evocative ( ' , 唤起回忆的) ruins of Rome to their own country houses and gardens.

If you look at a lot of low-income communities in the United States, there are programs that are serving them, but they're primarily centered around ‘Let's get these kids' grades up,' and not around ‘Let's get these kids access to the same kinds of opportunities as more-affluent kids,' said Daniel Zaharopol, the founder and executive director of the program.

High-earning parents are much more likely to say they live in a good neighborhood for raising children.

Do some strategies give children more advantages than others in institutions? Probably they do.

Discipline techniques vary by education level: 8% of those with a postgraduate degree say they often beat their children, compared with 22% of those with a high school degree or less.

Direct subsidies to research and development have been adopted by some governments but are a poor substitute for a carbon price: they do only part of the job, leaving in place market incentives to over-use fossil fuels and thereby add to the stock of atmospheric greenhouse gases without regard to the collateral ( ' , 附带的) costs.

71% of parents with a college degree say they do it every day, compared with 33% of those with a high school diploma or less.

When we ask teens to choose a hero, they usually select an older family member rather than a remote public figure.

This is really about trying to cut through the confusion that consumers have when they are buying a product and that businesses have when they are selling a product, said Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the commission.

They will be minimized with new technology.

They think of their parents with affection and respect.

They speak with Mom or Dad when they have a problem.

They signify the popularity of interactive advertising.

They seem to be turning inward—generally in a pro-social manner, certainly with positive benefits for intimate relationships, but too often at the expense of a connection with the present and future world beyond, including the society they will one day inherit.

They point to the growing curiosity of TV viewers.

They need to know if reform will help solve the problem.

They may be due to the novel way of advertising.

They indicate the future direction of media reform.

They include such measures as accountable care organizations to take charge of a patient's needs with an eye on both cost and quality, and chronic disease management to make sure the seriously ill, who are responsible for the bulk of all health care costs, are treated properly.

They have to spend lots of time choosing products.

They have doubt about current green certification.

They have been somewhat exaggerated.

They can easily see through the businesses' tricks.

They can be dealt with through education.

They can be addressed by improved sanitation.

They are not clear which products are truly green.

They also, however, use far more natural resources—fuel, water ( ' , all those baths and golf courses) and building materials.

There's work to be done, but workers aren't ready to do it—they're in the wrong places, or they have the wrong skills.

Some Chicago teachers seem to think that they shouldn't be held accountable until poverty is solved.

Results of USA WEEKEND's Teens & Parents survey reveal a generation of young people who get along well with their parents and approve of the way they're being raised.

Parents are concerned that their children may get involved in criminal offences once they reach their teens.

No wonder parents worry their own kids might spin out of control once they hit the turbulent waters of adolescence.

Mr.Wilhelm said the excess of labels made it difficult for businesses and consumers to know which labels they should pay attention to.

Most teens say they enjoy the company of both parents and friends.

Most feel that their parents understand them, and they believe their family is the No.

Many even think their parents are cool! Although more than a third have an object in their rooms they would like to keep secret from their parents, rarely is it anything more alarming than a diary or offcolor ( ' , 低俗的) book or CD.

Manufacturers of products that claim to be environmentally friendly will face tighter rules on how they are advertised to consumers under changes proposed by the Federal Trade Commission.

Malpractice awards do drive up insurance premiums for doctors in high-risk specialties, and there is some evidence that doctors engage in defensive medicine by performing tests and treatments primarily to prove they are not negligent should they get sued.

It makes students feel that they are discriminated against in many ways.

It is clear that consumers don't always know what they are getting.

A common memory they all have of their school days is the school uniform.

A thoughtful official passed on some of the copies to the park authorities on the assumption that they might make a nice blow-up for one of the visitors' centers.

According to a new survey (调查) by the national sleep foundation, 51% of kids aged 10 to 18 go to bed at 10 pm or later on school nights, even though they have to get up early.

According to Hume, some works of art can exist for centuries because they appeal to unchanging features of human nature.

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 the report's key findings, the proportion who say they ‘hardly ever' read for fun has gone from 8 percent of 13-year-olds.

After nine weeks, they reported what happened.

After running hundreds of tests, the researchers noted that the monkeys would go for the higher values more than half the time, indicating that they were performing a calculation, not just memorizing the value of each combination.

After they were given an invitation to appear live on BBC, the Beatles quickly became famous in Britain with nationwide tours.

Alia knew that if the books were to be safe, they must be moved again while the city was quiet.

Also, don't wear loose clothes, long scarves, big necklaces, or loose belts — they get caught in something or fall into liquid.

Although the drills are used in deliberate practice might not be the most enjoyable, they might be the most relevant to improving performance.

Although they began with a small restaurant, they had big dreams, and they worked together.

Although they would still have to actually read them.

And Athenians willingly obeyed the written laws which they themselves passed, and the unwritten, which must be obeyed if free men live together.

And the meetings, when do they begin?

And the more birds are exposed to light, the more active they are at night.

And they are as clear as glass.

And they come to Lehanne's group just to learn to say what they feel.

And they don't often make school honor rolls.

And while plastic bags may be ugly to look at, they represent a small percentage of all garbage on the ground today.

And, like the child in January, they go searching for new toys.

Anger is a particularly strong feeling and Maybe people think that they have reasons to feel angry.

Approaching the vehicle, they saw that a woman was trying to get out of the broken window.

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

As for crowds, a Hong Kong study found that they increased a restaurant's reputation, suggesting great food at fair prices.

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

As they left student life behind, many had a last drink at their cheap but friendly local bar, shook hands with longtime roommates, and moved out of small apartments into high buildings.

As they went down, the weather got worse.

At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.

At least until spring arrived, by which time they were dealing with damaging floods.

At space camp, trainees can earn their space exploration badge as they build and fire model rockets, learn about space tasks and try simulated (模拟) flying to space with the crew from all over the world.

At the beginning, when friends offered to take her through her paces, I declined because I knew they had their own households to deal with.

Aunt Dede, a teacher, had read the book to her students, and they loved it.

Based upon their expressed thoughts and actual "musicking" behaviours, this text examines the songs they sing, the rhythms....

Because sleepiness is such a problem for teenagers, some school districts have decided to start high school classes later than they used to.

Because they think as one, they have a collective 集体的 intelligence greater than you would expect from its individual parts.

Because unabridged dictionaries contain nearly all English words, they are large and heavy.

Before people retire, they usually plan to do a lot of great things, which they never had time to do while working.

But a new study suggests they used a little rock 'n' roll.

But before they can be assured, more efforts must be made, because the population of the crane in the wild is on the decline, and many other species appear headed toward extinction.

But beyond the minimum requirements as social beings, they have little instinct (本能) to help one another.

But footsteps can be muddied and they can go off in different directions.

But he is not content to simply record these voices before they disappear without record.

But he said that they were all nice people and he couldn't imagine any of them had done that.

But humans enjoyed all of these advantages for a full 2 million years during which they remained weak and marginal creature.

But no matter how rich they were, Dawson was never comfortable.

But now, with the combination of a better price point and a generally fresher product, they can stay in business.

But soon after retirement, the golfing, the fishing, the reading and all of the other pastimes become as boring as the jobs they left.

But such Ninos come with months of warning, and so much is known about how they happen that governments can prepare.

But they are more important than physical ones.

But they do come to the text with a few biases (偏向): their reading of Henry v minimizes his misuse of power.

But they will have to find the were-rabbit before gun-crazy hunter victor Quartermaine who is desperate to kill it.

But when you share a story with your friends, you care a lot more how they react.

By doing that hundreds of dollars are wasted on classes that they would have never needed to take.

By society's standards, they seem to have it made.

By the day of the show, more than 300 people had said they would attend.

By the time they started secondary school—at age 11—children were already far more aware of their image online and felt under huge pressure to ensure their posts were popular, the report found.

California condors attract researchers' interest because they almost died out in the 1980s.

California condors attract researchers' interest because they had to be bred in the wild.

Can you tell me where they are?

Champions are made from something they have deep inside them.

Cities usually have a good reason for being where they are, like a nearby port or river.

Cojochru, the moldovan caregiver, hoped obtaining permanent residence (居住权) would help her bring her two children to italy; they live with her sister in moldova, where salaries are among the lowest in Europe.

Companies could be forced to consumers what information they hold and how many money they make form it.

Data collected from the device could be used to recognize different participants based on how they typed, with very low error rates.

David Dominoni, of Glasgow university, said that light from street lamps, takeaway signs and homes is affecting the birds' biological clocks, leading to them being wide awake when they should be asleep.

Daydreaming means people think about something pleasant, especially when this makes them forget what they should be doing.

Despite the serious nature of inspections, they resulted in some funny moments.

During the breeding (繁殖) season, between April and June, they are very active at night and very noisy and people can't sleep.

Each individual (个体的) ant hardly weighs anything, but put together they weigh roughly the same as all of mankind.

Each person, no matter who they are, has psychological imbalances.

Even more amazing is how they achieve this level of organization.

Even though family members sometimes disagreed with each other, they worked together to make the business successful.

Even though there is a common spirit among all music groups, they make very different music.

Eventually, the couple found that their bodies turned for the better, with re-found strong muscles that they.

Everything they know about you came through this device, sometimes from hundreds of miles away.

Excuse yourself and let the person know you're busy so they can get the hint than when the door is closed, you're not to be disturbed.

Failing to find any other way out, they decided to make a walking journey, as they caught sight of an old.

First they collected sound data from 67 nests in four sites in queensland before and after hatching.

Firstly, they spent more time in search food.

For the local family in need of help, what did they get?

For the past two years, Gordon's students have been studying ways to kill bacteria in zero gravity, and they think they're close to a solution.

For them, they are just too small.

For this purpose, select ripe bananas for freezing as they are much sweeter.

Frank Hurley's pictures would be outstanding―undoubtedly first-rate photo-journalism―if they had been made last week.

From 2004 to 2013, agricultural land values doubled, and they continue to rise in many regions.

From the earliest ages, they desire to help others, to share information and to participate in achieving common goals.

From the moment a child is born, they interact with the world, looking at colours, feeding textures; constructing mental and physical images of what they see and experience.

Governments' incentive to require producers to take responsibility for the packaging they produce is usually based on money.

Gray wolves once were seen here and there in the Yellowstone area and much of the continental united states, but they were gradually displaced by human development.

Guests staying at plaza hotel will be given meal tickets worth $36 once they have produced 10 watt hours of electricity.

Guy Harvold, 24, had picked up the students and three course leaders from Gatwick Airport, and they were travelling to Bournemouth to meet their host families.

He keeps telling us things they do together.

He made a bad decision, they said—at least as it was presented by Shakespeare—to take the lead in murdering julius caesar.

He told people at a conference, "there have been a couple of studies suggesting they are increasing their song output at night and during the day they are still singing."

Her parents had carefully sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign addresses on most of the documents.

Her times were not exactly impressive, but even so, he sensed there was something trying to get out, something the other coaches had overlooked when they had assessed her and found her lacking.

Here they are learning to get in touch with their true feelings.

When the competitive environment pushed our ancestors to achieve that potential, they could in turn afford more education.

When our ancestors were hunters and gatherers 10,000 years ago, they didn’t have time to wonder much about anything besides finding food.

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.

More than 60,000 people have purchased the PTKs since they first become available without prescriptions last years, according to Doug Fog, chief operating officer of Identigene, which makes the over-the-counter kits.

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.

But some observers are skeptical, “There is a kind of false precision being hawked by people claiming they are doing ancestry testing,” says Trey Duster, a New York University sociologist.

But don't bother trying to kill off old habits; once those ruts of procedure are worn into the hippocampus, they're there to stay.

Yet these creatures are members of the biotic community and, if its stability depends on its integrity, they are entitled to continuance.

Time was when biologists somewhat overworked the evidence that these creatures preserve the health of game by killing the physically weak, or that they prey only on "worthless"species.

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.

Today they argue that market prices overstate losses, because they largely reflect the temporary illiquidity of markets, not the likely extent of bad debts.

They tend to keep a tighter hold on their purse and consider eating at home a realistic alternative.

They found that the principal requirement for what is called “global cascades” -the widespread propagation of influence through networks -is the presence not of a few influentials but, rather, of a critical mass of easily influenced people.

These rules say they must value some assets at the price a third party would pay, not the price managers and regulators would like them to fetch.

Theirs was a serious business, and even those reviewers who wore their learning lightly,like George Bernard Shaw and Ernest Newman,could be trusted to know what they were about.

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

Now the nation's top patent court appears completely ready to scale back on business-method patents, which have been controversial ever since they were first authorized 10 years ago.

Marketers have embraced the two-step flow because it suggests that if they can just find and influence the influentials,those selected people will do most of the work for them.

In those far-off days, it was taken for granted that the critics of major papers would write in detail and at length about the events they covered.

Demand comes mainly from two sources: independent mom-and-pop grocery stores which, unlike large retail chains, are too small to buy straight from producers, and food service operators that cater to consumers when they don’t eat at home.

But by giving in to critics now they are inviting pressure to make more concessions.

Big retailers must understand these differences before they can identify the segments of European wholesaling in which their particular abilities might unseat smaller but entrenched competitors.

Behind the scenes, they have been taking aim at someone else: the accounting standard-setters.

Part of the fame of Allen‘s book is its contention that “Circumstances do not make a person， they reveal him.

Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.

They may then decide to go elsewhere.

There recordings are cheap, available everywhere, and very often much higher in artistic quality than today’s live performances; moreover, they can be “consumed” at a time and place of the listener’s choosing.

So, at the end of a decade of thesis-writing, many humanities students leave the profession to do something for which they have not been trained.

Otherwise, academics will continue to think dangerously alike, increasingly detached from the societies which they study, investigate and criticise.

One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools.

Members of social networks, for instance, are learning that they can hijack media to apply pressure on the businesses that originally created them.

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.

In recent weeks the No.2 executives at Avon and American Express quit with the explanation that they were looking for a CEO post.

If Gilbert and the Philharmonic are to succeed, they must first change the relationship between America’s oldest orchestra and the new audience it hops to attract.

Equally unsurprisingly, only about half end up with professorships for which they entered graduate school.

But fewer students want to study humanities subjects: English departments awarded more bachelor’s degrees in 1970-1971 than they did 20 years later.

At Harvard, Mr.Menand notes, “the great books are read because they have been read”—they form a sort of social glue.

Third, they now dominate left-of-centre politics.

Similar to newly staked mining claims, they are full of potential.

Second, they are mostly bright and well-educated.

Second, the majority of people who use networked computers to upload are not even aware of the significance of what they are doing.

Not only did they develop such a device but by the turn of the millennium they had also managed to embed it in a worldwide system accessed by billions of people every day.

Her critique of the lameness of many pubic-health campaigns is spot-on: they fail to mobilize peer pressure for healthy habits, and they demonstrate a seriously flawed understanding of psychology.

First, they can shut things down without suffering much in the way of consequences.

But thinking what nobody else has thought and telling others what they have missed may not change their views.

In so doing they give composure to a segment of the inarticulate environment in which they take their stand.

Vanity is a constant; people will only start shopping more sustainably when they can’t afford not to.

Unable to tell whether someone really objects to behavioural ads or whether they are sticking with Microsoft’s default, some may ignore a DNT signal and press on anyway.

They’ll get less meaningful, less targeted ads.

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.

In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertisers assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioural ads? Or should they have explicit permission?.

Americans, she finds, buy roughly 20 billion garments a year – about 64 items per person – and no matter how much they give away, this excess leads to waste.

“We’re doing these things because we know they help people stay off benefits and help those on benefits get into work faster” Help? Really? On first hearing, this was the socially concerned chancellor, trying to change lives for the better, complete with “reforms” to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work, and subsidises laziness.

They perpetuate the myth of the lone genius.

They often include a certain amount of digging to test for buried materials at selected points across a landscape.

They do not fund peer-reviewed research.

They could distort the achievement-based system of peer-review-led research.

They could cement the status quo of peer-reviewed research.

These benefactors have succeeded in their chosen fields, they say, and they want to use their wealth to draw attention to those who have succeeded in science.

Only if the jobless arrive at the jobcentre with a CV, register for online job search, and start looking for work will they be eligible for benefit—and then they should report weekly rather than fortnightly.

Law-school debt means that they have to work fearsomely hard.

It is fair to criticize and question the mechanism—that is the culture of research, after all—but it is the prize-givers’ money to do with as they please.

How do archaeologists know where to find what they are looking for when there is nothing visible on the surface of the ground? Typically, they survey and sample ( ' , make test excavations on) large areas of terrain to determine where excavation will yield useful information.

First, most researchers would accept such a prize if they were offered one.

Ask anyone newly unemployed what they want and the answer is always: a job.

During their six- to twelve-week voyage, they subsisted on barely enough food allotted to them.

Together, they make up the reading component of your overall literacy or relationship to your surrounding textual environment.

They should start by discarding California’s lame argument that exploring the contents of a smart phone — a vast storehouse of digital information — is similar to, say, rifling through a suspect’s purse.

They could still invalidate Fourth Amendment protections when facing severe, urgent circumstances, and they could take reasonable measures to ensure that phone data are not erased or altered while a warrant is pending.

The court, though, may want to allow room for police to cite situations where they are entitled to more freedom.

The court has ruled that police don’t violate the Fourth Amendment when they sift through the wallet or pocketbook of an arrestee without a warrant.

Symbolic of national unity as they claim to be, their very history—and sometimes the way they behave today – embodies outdated and indefensible privileges and inequalities.

Orin Kerr, a law professor, compares the explosion and accessibility of digital information in the 21st century with the establishment of automobile use as a virtual necessity of life in the 20th: The justices had to specify novel rules for the new personal domain of the passenger car then; they must sort out how the Fourth Amendment applies to digital information now.

On the assumption that they will become relevant later, you make a mental note of discourse entities as well as possible links between them.

Most journals are weak in statistical review, and this damages the quality of what they publish.

King Juan Carlos of Spain once insisted “kings don’t abdicate, they dare in their sleep.

In today’s world, title has become normal that well—paid executives should not be accountable for what happens in the organizations that they run perhaps we should not be so surprised.

He has failed to understand that monarchies have largely survived because they provide a service – as non-controversial and non-political heads of state.

But unlike their absolutist counterparts in the Gulf and Asia, most royal families have survived because they allow voters to avoid the difficult search for a non-controversial but respected public figure.

But they show comprehension to consist not just passive assimilation but of active engagement inference and problem-solving.

Mental health allows us to view others with sympathy if they are having troubles ,with kindness if they are in pain,and with unconditional love no matter who they are.

They suggest beauty should not be defined by looks that end up impinging on health.

They don’t make countryside any more，and every year concrete consumes more of it.

They do so best where building sticks to their edges and respects their character.

The most loyal customers would still get the product they favor, the idea goes, and they’d feel like they were helping sustain the quality of something they believe in.

The bans, if fully enforced, would suggest to women ( ' , and many men) that they should not let others be arbiters of their beauty.

Peretti says the Times shouldn’t waste time getting out of the print business, but only if they go about doing it the right way.

Nor does it reveal how much companies are banking on the halo effect, rather than the other possible benefits, when they decide their do-gooding policies.

New research suggests that CSR may create monetary value for companies—at least when they are prosecuted for corruption.

It was specifically to provide city dwellers with spaces for leisure where they could experience “a refreshing air”.

It tells the fashion industry that it must take responsibility for the signal it sends women, especially teenage girls, about the social tape-measure they must use to determine their individual worth.

It argues that since prosecutors do not consume a company’s products as part of their investigations, they could be influenced only by the halo effect.

In all, the study concludes that whereas prosecutors should only evaluate a case based on its merits, they do seem to be influenced by a company’s record in CSR.

For someone moving from finance to advertising, maybe they want to look more “SoHo”.

But at least they have demonstrated that when companies get into trouble with the law, evidence of good character can win them less costly punishment.

And perhaps faintly, they hint that people should look to intangible qualities like character and intellect rather than dieting their way to size zero or wasp-waist physiques.

They did not always prioritize the protection of Mauna Kea’s fragile ecosystems or its holiness to the island’s inhabitants.

Last year, the Transportation Security Administration ( ' , TSA) found in a secret check that undercover investigators were able to sneak weapons---both fake and real—past airport security nearly every time they tried.

In their eagerness to build bigger telescopes, they forgot that science is the only way of understanding the world.

He could not confide them even to his wife, although they provide the unacknowledged foundation of his fiction.

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