A chimpanzee can't win an argument with a modern man, but it can tear the man apart like a rag doll.

A cup of coffee costs about three dollars and fifty cents, but the fun is free.

A line graph looks similar to a bar graph, but instead of bars, it plots points and connects them with a line.

A politician may read an account of his latest successful public meeting, not for its delayed reward, but very much as his wife reads an account of a party.

A seminar leader shared her success story —she had not only 125 pounds, but also raised $25, 000 for homeless children.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

Adolescents enter high school with great excitement but are soon looking forward to graduation.

After all, \patty poem\ gave me my love for poetry not because it was the poem that lifted my spirits, but because it was the one that hurt me the most.

Almost every grandparent wants to be with his or her grandchildren and is willing to make sacrifices, but sometimes it is wiser to say no and visit frequently instead.

Also, sometimes pre-anger does not have to do with a lasting condition, but rather a temporary state before a triggering event has occurred.

Altogether there are some ten thousand of these volcanoes on earth, all but a few hundred of them extinct.

Americans eat only about fifteen pounds of fish per person per year, but we eat twice as much fish in restaurants as at home.

Among the bag makers' arguments: many cities with bans still allow shoppers to purchase paper bags, which are easily recycled but require more energy to produce and transport.

An A-team may require A balance—not just A players, but a few generous B players as well.

An engineer named Ellis Chesbrough convinced the city that it had no choice but to build the pipes above ground and then cover them with dirt.

Anger seems simple when we are feeling it, but the causes of anger are various.

As a parent, I hated seeing my daughter playing her best, but still defeated.

As an inexperienced teacher, I tried every means to get them to be quiet, but in vain.

As expected, I got a roasting, but I now understand why I need discipline.

As some psychologists put it, \It is not that children are little scientists but that scientists are big children.\

As their world expanded, she said, children compared themselves to others online in a way that was \hugely damaging in terms of their self-identity, in terms of their confidence, but also in terms of their ability to develop themselves\.

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.

At age 68, he retired from the post office, but he never stopped serving the community.

At first Robert wouldn't let his daughter go diving, but eventually he gave in as she was so confidence about her skills.

Athens lost freedom forever, but freedom was not lost forever for the world.

Athens was not in the farthest background of his mind, but once man has a great and good idea, it is never completely lost.

Bach died in 1750, but it was not until the early 19th century that his musical gift was fully recognized.

Bechtel, who works in downtown west palm beach, has lunch with coworkers sometimes, but like many of us, too often works through lunch at her desk.

Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated.

Big cities generally have heavy traffic and expensive parking, but there you have a choice of taking public transport, which is cheaper than driving.

Bob thought he couldn't go to the party because he had to write a report, but he went after all.

Both of us had the qualities and virtues that are typical of American actors: humorous, aggressive, and making fun of each other - but always with an underlying affection.

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

But a transparent animal doesn't have pigments, so its tissues won't absorb light.

But a transparent object doesn't absorb or scatter light, at least not very much, light can pass through it without bending or stopping.

But above all, we want to spend some time with you and your family.

But according to Anderson, the amount of time spent watching television is not related to reading ability.

But after all, those years, I found that dance was gradually becoming something that felt like more of a burden than a joy.

But alternative explanations are hard to find.

But arts groups bring broader value to our communities.

But as the 200th anniversary of his birth approaches, it is possible—and important for our own culture—to understand how he made himself a lasting one.

But at union station in Los Angeles last month, a board went up with dollar bills attached to it with pins and a sign that read, \give what you can, take what you need\.

But be sure to come back to work next week.

But before I go, I'd like to invite you out for dinner — just to thank you for all the help you gave me during my three-month research work here.

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 being the parent of a motorhead is itself an experience in education.

But beyond that, even very young children want to be part of a shared purpose.

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

But Brooks has structured his book in an unorthodox (非常规的), and perhaps unfortunate way.

But Cathy woke me up early next morning, wearing her swimsuit ready to go! I told her she shouldn't swim after a whole night's coughing, but she refused to give up and insisted she go.

But Christiansen couldn't find the Yellowstone volcano anywhere.

But compared with previous studies, she finds the speed of breaking down in this one exciting.

But compensating on the weekends actually feeds into your sleepiness the following week, a recent study found.

But consumers do have a choice.

But daydreamers are also responsible for some of the greatest ideas and achievements in human history.

But discovering freedom is not like discovering computers.

But distinctions that were sharp to us as children become unclear; we are numb to new stimulation, new ideas.

But do you know that every year a lot of useless computers and cellphones will ruin the soil?

But doing any ordinary job as well as one can is in itself an admirable commitment.

But don't expect it to show up in too many driveways.

But driverless car ownership could increase as the prices drop and more people become comfortable with the technology.

But during the next week, set a goal of at least a mile and a half per run.

But during the past decade declining rainfall has allowed him to plant highly profitable crops.

But eventually Henry ford would build fifteen million of them.

But every day, we would sit by the lake, looking at the house and dreaming of what it would be like to live there.

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

But for tourists like me, pandas are its top attraction.

But gold was discovered there in 1897, and two years later, it was one of the largest cities in the west, with a population of 30, 000.

But good news is that there're really only three kinds of decisions you need to make about color in your home: the small ones, the medium ones, and the large ones.

But he argued that this did not prove parental involvement was the root cause of that success.

But he did not know about brushes before a visitor told him he needed one.

But he is also working at a far more fundamental level: his staff show people how to make floating gardens and fish ponds prevent starvation during the wet season.

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

But he is providing a few years during which the farmers will, perhaps, be able to find other means of adapting.

But he later said, \those two books were my companions by day, and under my pillow at night.\

But he quickly found that he loved playing this instrument, and was committed to practicing it so that within a couple of months he was playing reasonably well.

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

But her cold voice really annoyed me.

But herd immunity works only when nearly the whole herd joins in.

But here, too, Anderson notes that no studies have proved it.

But how they're doing it is still unknown.

But however long it takes, the technology has the potential to change our transportation systems and our cities, for better or for worse, depending on how the transformation is regulated.

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

But I could not help thinking about that silly poem.

But I don't like the idea of paying three months for an empty apartment, either.

But I don't think we can get the tickets this late.

But I haven't finished even half of it.

But I homed in, with uncertainty, on one particular table at the brown's grove farm's stand, full of fresh and soft tomatoes the size of my fist.

But I hope to move the family out there in a couple of months' time.

But I like all kinds of fish and vegetables.

But I will have to ask my friend first and we will come together.

But if the damage is caused by the user, you will have to pay for the repair.

But if you have a membership card, I can give you a 20% discount.

But in agriculture, small farmers can get the best of the major players.

But in all, only 150 cans will be used up over the cat's lifetime-and we'll still have 100 left over for the next cat.

But in Chicago's early history, every engineering solution seemed to create a new problem.

But in Indonesia extremely dry forests are in flames.

But in many cafés in Korea, you can do more than that.

But in order to stay in business, arts groups must produce returns.

It may be said that the measure of the worth of any social institution is its effect in enlarging and improving experience; but this effect is not a part of its original motive.

In the former case the education is incidental; it is natural and important, but it is not the express reason of the association.

But in dealing with the young, the fact of association itself as an immediate human fact, gains in importance.

This increasingly high level of education is probably a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for the complex political systems required by advanced economic performance.

It is a wise father that knows his own child, but today a man can boost his paternal ( ' , fatherly) wisdom - or at least confirm that he's the kid's dad.

Databases used by some companies don't rely on data collected systematically but rather lump together information from different research projects.

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 in keeping with our examination of southern intellectual life, we may consider the original Puritans as carriers of European culture adjusting to New world circumstances.

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.

But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.

But a number of anthropologists in the early 1900s also rejected the particularist theory of culture in favor of diffusionism.

We have no land ethic yet, but we have at least drawn nearer the point of admitting that birds should continue as a matter of intrinsic right,regardless of the presence or absence of economic advantage to us.

To sum up: a system of conservation based solely on economic self-interest is hopelessly lopsided It tends to ignore, and thus eventually to eliminate, many elements in the land community that lack commercial value, but that are essential to its healthy functioning.

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.

The supposed importance of influentials derives from a plausible sounding but largely untested theory called the “two step flow of communication”: Information flows from the media to the influentials and from them to everyone else.

The details may be unknowable, but the independence of standard-setters, essential to the proper functioning of capital markets, is being compromised.

The IASB says it does not want to act without overall planning, but the pressure to fold when it completes it reconstruction of rules later this year is strong.

Such food service operators range from snack machines to large institutional catering ventures, but most of these businesses are known in the trade as “horeca”： hotels, restaurants and cafes.

Overall, Europe’s wholesale market for food and drink is growing at the same sluggish pace as the retail market, but the figures, when added together, mask two opposing trends.

Charlie McCreevy, a European commissioner, warned the IASB that it did “not live in a political vacuum” but “in the real word” and that Europe could yet develop different rules.

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

But bank’s shares trade below their book value, suggesting that investors are skeptical.

But almost all have ignored the big, profitable opportunity in their own backyard: the wholesale food and drink trade, which appears to be just the kind of market retailers need.

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.

” Achievement happens because you as a person embody the external achievement； you don‘t “ get” success but become it.

However， Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind， and while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone， in reality we are continually faced with a question： “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that？ ”Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire， Allen concluded ： “ We do not attract what we want， but what we are.

“The traditional rule was it’s safer to stay where you are, but that’s been fundamentally inverted,” says one headhunter.

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.

To be sure, he performs an impressive variety of interesting compositions, but it is not necessary for me to visit Avery Fisher Hall, or anywhere else, to hear interesting orchestral music.

The growth in public money for academic research has speeded the process: federal research grants rose fourfold between 1960 and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its toll.

So disciplines acquire a monopoly not just over the production of knowledge, but also over the production of the producers of knowledge.

Menand, is that “the knowledge and skills needed for a particular specialisation are transmissible but not transferable.

For the time, attention, and money of the art-loving public, classical instrumentalists must compete not only with opera houses, dance troupes, theater companies, and museums, but also with the recorded performances of the great classical musicians of the 20th century.

But what will be the nature of that difference? Merely expanding the orchestra’s repertoire will not be enough.

But the regular time it takes to get a doctoral degree in the humanities is nine years.

But the key idea behind professionalisation, argues Mr.

But most find it difficult to agree on what a “general education” should look like.

But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “ the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

But in some cases, one marketer’s owned media become another marketer’s paid media – for instance, when an e-commerce retailer sells ad space on its Web site.

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

But a comparative study of linguistic traits published online today supplies a reality check.

We aim to be objective, but we cannot escape the context of our unique life experience.

Politicians have repeatedly “backloaded” public-sector pay deals, keeping the pay increases modest but adding to holidays and especially pensions that are already generous.

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.

John Donahue at Harvard’s Kennedy School points out that the norms of culture in Western civil services suit those who want to stay put but is bad for high achievers.

In Britain, more than half of public-sector workers but only about 15% of private-sector ones are unionized.

Humans are unique in their capacity to not only make tools but then turn around and use them to create superfluous material goods - paintings, sculpture and architecture - and superfluous experiences - music, literature, religion and philosophy.

Downloading and consuming culture requires great skills, but failing to move beyond downloading is to strip oneself of a defining constituent of humanity.

But, unlike with mining claims, the community takes control of what happens next.

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

But there should be consequences.

But the real gains come in benefits and work practices.

But on the general effectiveness of the social cure, Rosenberg is less persuasive.

But many within the public sector suffer under the current system, too.

But it takes collective scrutiny and acceptance to transform a discovery claim into a mature discovery.

But in the everyday practice of science, discovery frequently follows an ambiguous and complicated route.

But in her new book Join the Club, Tina Rosenberg contends that peer pressure can also be a positive force through what she calls the social cure, in which organizations and officials use the power of group dynamics to help individuals improve their lives and possibly the word.

But had Entergy kept its word, that debate would be beside the point.

But for all the reasons there are to celebrate the computer, we must also tread with caution.

But as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ( ' , NRC) reviews the company’s application, it should keep it mind what promises from Entergy are worth.

Bankers’ fat pay packets have attracted much criticism, but a public-sector system that does not reward high achievers may be a much bigger problem for America.

All animals download, but only a few upload.

Two of the three objecting Justice-Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas-agreed with this Constitutional logic but disagreed about which Arizona rules conflicted with the federal statute.

Few switch DNT on now, but if tracking is off it will stay off.

But we are now knowledgeable enough to reduce many of the risks that threatened the existence of earlier humans, and to improve the lot of those to come.

But the intention is not to neglect social science; rather, the complete opposite.

But take a longer view and there is a surprising amount that we can say with considerable assurance.

But such gloominess is misplaced.

But on the more important matter of the Constitution,the decision was an 8-0 defeat for the federal government and the states.

But if Congress wanted to prevent states from using their own resources to check immigration status,it could.

But as Cline is the first to note, it took Beaumont decades to perfect her craft; her example can’t be knocked off.

One could interpret much of the work of Beethoven by saying that suffering is inevitable, but the courage to fight it renders life worth living.

It might be poetic, philosophical, sensual, or mathematical, but in any case it must, in my view, have something to do with the soul of the human being.

It is not by chance that the Funeral March is not the last movement of the Eroica Symphony, but the second, so that suffering does not have the last word.

Hence it is metaphysical; but the means of expression is purely and exclusively physical: sound.

He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behavior and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.

There is pressure for change from within the profession, but opponents of change among the regulators insist that keeping outsiders out of a law firm isolates lawyers from the pressure to make money rather than serve clients ethically.

The researchers mapped not only the city’s vast and ornate ceremonial areas, but also hundreds of simpler apartment complexes where common people lived.

Sensible ideas have been around for a long time, but the state-level bodies that govern the profession have been too conservative to implement them.

But these sites are exceptions to the norm.

But there are few places where clients have more grounds for complaint than America.

But the Nobel Foundation’s limit of three recipients per prize, each of whom must still be living, has long been outgrown by the collaborative nature of modern research—as will be demonstrated by the inevitable row over who is ignored when it comes to acknowledging the discovery of the Higgs boson.

But most law graduates never get a big-firm job.

But in Osborneland, your first instinct is to fall into dependency—permanent dependency if you can get it—supported by a state only too ready to indulge your falsehood.

But, the force of geographic conditions peculiar to America, the interplay of the varied national groups upon one another, and the sheer difficulty of maintaining old-world ways in a raw, new continent caused significant changes.

But the result was a new social pattern which, although it resembled European society in many ways, had a character that was distinctly American.

Vaux says that Science’s idea to pass some papers to statisticians “has some merit, but a weakness is that it relies on the board of reviewing editors to identify ‘the papers that need scrutiny’ in the first place”.

This impact will not only be through the publications in Science itself, but hopefully through a larger group of publishing places that may want to model their approach after Science.

Researchers should improve their standards, he wrote in2012, but journals should also take a tougher line, “engaging reviewers who are statistically literate and editors who can verify the process”.

Professional scientists are expected to know how to analyze data, but statistical errors are alarmingly common in published research, according to David Vaux, a cell biologist.

Precisely because readers from different historical periods, places and social experiences produce different but overlapping readings of the same words on the page-including for texts that engage with fundamental human concerns-debates about texts can play an important role in social discussion of beliefs and values.

Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave no instructions—nor received traceable, recorded answers.

In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place.

Factors such as the place and period in which we are reading, our gender ethnicity, age and social class will encourage us towards certain interpretation but at the same time obscure or even close off others.

But “it’s us ,human beings ,we the people who create the society we want ,not profit ”.

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.

But the justices should not swallow California’s argument whole.

But keeping sensitive information on these devices is increasingly a requirement of normal life.

But he noted that biomedical journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancetpay strong attention to statistical review.