A 90-year-old has been awarded \woman of the year\ for being Britain's oldest full-time employee-still working 40 hours a week.

A bar graph has two axes and uses bars to show amounts.

A coach may read a sports story for its threat value: he may have to play that team next week.

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

A decade of data breaches (数据侵入) of personal information has led to a situation where scammers can easily learn your mother's name, and far more.

A kind of \green thinking \ has become part of practices.

A local driving school has also offered him six free driving lessons.

A machine with a specific purpose has another quality, one that we usually associate with living things: a wish to preserve its own existence.

A musher named Kaasen had to brave this storm.

A neighborhood girl had bought a new bike.

A neighborhood girl I'd played with millions of times appeared with the exact same basket fixed to her shiny, new bike that already had all the bells and whistles.

A photography exhibition held by Han Media to celebrate its founding in New York city on April 24, featuring three emerging Chinese photographers; yingxi Michael Shi, Haiyin lin and liming Guan, whose works have appeared in publications such as Vogue.

A recent trend has been to encourage employees to use their own initiative, to make decisions on their own without asking managers first.

A rescue worker risked his life saving two tourists who have been trapped in the mountains for two days.

A retired engineer, 76-year-old Wilson has been offering free rides to college students for the past eight years.

A school boy or girl is unpunctual because he or she does not have the necessary human virtue of self-discipline.

A scientist working at her lab bench and a six-old baby playing with his food might seem to have little in common.

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

A war injury has made his left hand stop functioning, and he has often been in prison.

A warm drink of milk before bed has long been the best choice for those wanting a good night's sleep.

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 Anderson, before 1970, Americans had little idea about environmental problems.

According to the Overseas Development Institute Odi, however, just 12% of disaster-relief funding in the past two decades has gone on reducing risks in advance, rather than recovery and rebuilding afterwards.

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.

According to US government reports, emissions (排放) from cars and trucks have dropped from 10.

Adjusting to an upright position was quite a challenge, especially when the bones had to support an extra-large skull.

Advanced lights, motors, and building designs have helped save a lot of energy and therefore prevented pollution.

After 75 years the plaza theater has shown its last movie.

After all, not everyone has realized that wildlife has thoughts, feelings, and most importantly, equal rights to survive.

After having taught fifth-grade classes for four years, I decided to try all costs to rid them of their fear and dislike of books, and to get them to read oftener and more adventurously.

After he steadied himself, he shook Glenn's mother's hand, and the inspection continued as though nothing had happened.

After paying the clerk,I still had 5 cents.

After reading some history books on how the first group of Chinese immigrants survived in America of the 19th century, she has become keen on her own family history and that of others.

After receiving the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, Anne Benedict went on to thank all the people who had helped in her career.

After that, I'll have a meeting with him over lunch.

After the meetings, you will have some time for afternoon tea.

Again, not a move, the next time, I had my camera ready to record what you see here, one of several dozen such pictures, so long as she had a slice to eat, she never bothered the one on her head.

Aggressive wildfire control has left California forests crowded with small trees that compete with big trees for resources.

All across the country, recovery centers have begun building healing gardens.

All participants must address how communication or transportation technology has promoted the quality of life for Americans throughout history.

All the work has to be your own.

Already this year, 115 measles cases have been reported in the USA, compared with 189 for all of last year.

Also explores philosophy and wellbeing to make sure young readers have a balanced take on life.

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

Although Dr Dominoni has only studied light pollution, other research concluded that robins living in noisy cities have started to sing at night to make themselves heard over loud noise.

Although I'd like to go to Denmark, I have to go with my parents.

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

Although they would still have to actually read them.

Amazingly, Taylor had just taken a CPR course the day before.

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.

And besides, he or she has seen many students stupider than you, so nothing you're gong to ask will set the record for stupidity.

And dinner time seemed perfect for sharing what we had learned.

And I'd love to have a drink there.

And if you have your lecture notes or the article in hand, you and the professor will be able to examine specific points that are confusing to you, rather than just talking in a general way about the contents.

And it was accompanied in the nest by the greatest sight of all — lunch! the parents had done their duty and would probably continue to do so.

And people have been warned not to go out of their homes — not if you walk on foot, at least — between 11 in the morning and 7 in the evening.

And that's precisely why one garbage-eating Frenchman has caught our attention.

And the more frequently mothers had called to their eggs, the more similar were the babies' begging calls.

And though one of the executives acknowledged that Brutus had the good of the republic in mind, Caesar was nevertheless his superior.

And unplanned human activities have proved the idea of top-down control by top predators to be true.

And years later, she was proud that her son had read thousands of books, was awarded a PhD in literature, and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction.

And yet, people in this area are in fact French citizens because it has been a colony of the French republic since 1946.

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

Another block to awareness is the obsession many of us have with naming things.

Another important design goal is communication, which designers have improved by lowering the walls that separate workstations.

Another patient noticed what I was reading and struck up a conversation with me because he had one of his books with him as well.

Anyone who has ever been helped by a social worker has Jane Addams to thank.

Are we still going to have group study tonight?

Art students making a good living with these statistics/data/analyses in mind, art students need not worry about their career and have an alternative plan.

Arts have a gradually spreading effect.

As a result, in the last twenty years or so, many people have come to believe that whatever change is happening today is the result of great technological progress, going against which will be like trying to turn the clock back.

As a result, I've always kept up with the newspapers, faithfully read news magazines and learned to really enjoy books, all of which have been an invaluable help to me in radio and television reporting.

As for the bad news, a new bank has been built.

As for the USA, it is almost unique among developed nations in having a population that is expected to grow by 20% from 2010—2030.

As I sat in my own personal heaven, I started thinking about having more.

As I was in a good mood, I let her have it.

As I watch her chase after a squirrel, throwing her whole being into the here-and-now of an exercise that has never once ended in victory.

As long as there have been codes, people have tried to break them.

As soon as Christiansen saw the photos, he realized why he had failed to spot the caldera.

As the ceremony was nearing the end, I suddenly heard the head coach announcing, \the highest honor goes to Cathy!\ looking around, he continued, \Cathy has inspired us with her will and enthusiasm.\

As the co-founder of the National Young Farmers Coalition NYFC (美国青年农会) and a family farmer myself, I have a front-row seat to the innovations among small farmers that are transforming the industry.

As the number of tourists has grown, so has the amount of traffic on the roads.

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 we move away from an industrial-based economy to a knowledge-based one, office designers have come up with alternatives to the traditional work environments of the past.

As you go through this book, you will find that each of the millions of people who lived through world war ii had a different experience.

At a local school a successful charity supper has been held.

At last - she never knew how long it had taken her - she felt solid ground under her feet.

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, workers wouldn't have needed to carry cattle fat or water to smooth the paths.

At present, the world has about 6800 languages.

At some point in all of our lives, we'll have our trust tested or violated.

At some time in the past Yellowstone must have blown up with a violence far beyond the scale of anything known to humans.

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.

At the time, people did not have dishwashers in their homes.

At the university of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important materials-including photographs, films, tape recordings, and field notes—which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and protection.

Athens was more and more looked on as a cooperative business possessed of great wealth in which all citizens had a right to share.

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

Athens would cease to have freedom.

We are thus led to distinguish, within the broad educational process which we have been so far considering, a more formal kind of education -- that of direct tuition or schooling.

If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.

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

What is the real relationship between education and economic development? We have to suspect that continuing economic growth promotes the development of education even when governments don’t force it.

This DNA can reveal genetic information about only one or two ancestors, even though, for example, just three generations back people also have six other great-grandparents or, four generations back, 14 other great-great-grandparents.

Their thinking often had a traditional superstitions quality.

The findings of a research institution have consistently shown that workers in all countries can be trained on the job to achieve radical higher productivity and, as a result, radically higher standards of living.

Other anthropologists believed that cultural innovations, such as inventions, had a single origin and passed from society to society.

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.

He notes that each individual has many ancestors-numbering in the hundreds just a few centuries back.

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.

At puberty, however, the brain shuts down half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemed most valuable during the first decade or so of life.

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.

The evidence had to be economic in order to be valid.

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.

One basic weakness in a conservation system based wholly on economic motives is that most members of the land community have no economic value.

Moreover, some have been found to have a valuable function in building up soil fertility.

It is only in recent years that we hear It is only in recent years that we hear the more honest argument that predators are members of the community, and that no special interest has the right to exterminate them for the sake of a benefit ,real or fancied ,to itself.

Here again, evidence had to be economic in order to be valid.

“So few authors have brains enough or literary gift enough to keep their own end up in journalism,” Newman wrote,“that I am tempted to define‘journalism’ as‘a term of contempt applied by writers who are not read to writers who are'.

Their rules, moan the banks, have forced them to report enormous losses, and it’s just not fair.

The first and more important is the consumer's growing preference for eating out: the consumption of food and drink in places other than homes has risen from about 32 percent of total consumption in 1995 to 35 percent in 2000 and is expected to approach 38 percent by 2005.

The Federal Circuit’s action comes in the wake of a series of recent decisions by the supreme Count that has narrowed the scope of protections for patent holders.

The FASB and IASB have been exactly that, cleaning up rules on stock options and pensions, for example, against hostility form special interests.

Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods Amazon.

Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century,perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.

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.

Most leading retailers have already tried e-commerce, with limited success, and expansion aboard.

Moreover,the amateur tradition in music criticism has been in headlong retreat.

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.

Journalistic tastes had changed long before his death, and postmodern reader shave little use for the richly upholstered Vicwardian prose in which he specialized.

In their recent work,however,some researchers have come up with the finding that influentials have far less impact on social epidemics than is generally supposed.

In a move that has intellectual-property lawyers abuzz, the U.

In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.

For a social epidemic to occur,however,each person so affected,must then influence his or her own acquaintances,who must in turn influence theirs,and so on;and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initial influential.

Despite variations in detail, wholesale markets in the countries that have been closely examined— France, Germany, Italy and Spain—are made out of the same building blocks.

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.

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

Bankers have been blaming themselves for their troubles in public.

The sobering aspect of Allen‘s book is that we have no one else to blame for our present condition except ourselves.

In fat， circumstances seem to be designed to bring out the best in us and if we feel that we have been “wronged” then we are unlikely to begin a conscious effort to escape from our situation.

If circumstances always determined the life and prospects of people， then humanity would never have progressed.

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.

The widespread availability of such recordings has thus brought about a crisis in the institution of the traditional classical concert.

The same dramatic technological changes that have provided marketers with more ( ' , and more diverse) communications choices have also increased the risk that passionate consumers will voice their opinions in quicker, more visible, and much more damaging ways.

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.

The financial crisis has made it more acceptable to be between jobs or to leave a bad one.

The decision of the New York Philharmonic to hire Alan Gilbert as its next music director has been the talk of the classical-music world ever since the sudden announcement of his appointment in 2009.

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.

Says Korn/Ferry senior partner Dennis Carey:”I can’t think of a single search I’ve done where a board has not instructed me to look at sitting CEOs first.

Professionalism has turned the acquisition of a doctoral degree into a prerequisite for a successful academic career: as late as 1969 a third of American professors did not possess one.

No disciplines have seized on professionalism with as much enthusiasm as the humanities.

Johnson & Johnson, for example, has created BabyCenter, a stand-alone media property that promotes complementary and even competitive products.

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 such a case, the company’s response may not be sufficiently quick or thoughtful, and the learning curve has been steep.

In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing ? It doesn’t seem quite fair,then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the children.

However, many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should possess.

Gilbert’s own interest in new music has been widely noted: Alex Ross, a classical-music critic, has described him as a man who is capable of turning the Philharmonic into “a markedly different, more vibrant organization”.

For years executives and headhunters have adhered to the rule that the most attractive CEO candidates are the ones who must be poached.

For the most part, the response has been favorable, to say the least.

For something curious has been happening in American universities, and Louis Menand, a professor of English at Harvard University, captured it skillfully.

For my part, I have no idea whether Gilbert is a great conductor or even a good one.

Even Tommasini, who had advocated Gilbert’s appointment in the Times, calls him “an unpretentious musician with no air of the formidable conductor about him”.

Besides professionalising the professions by this separation, top American universities have professionalised the professor.

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

As a description of the next music director of an orchestra that has hitherto been led by musicians like Gustav Mahler and Pierre Boulez, that seems likely to have struck at least some Times readers as faint praise.

All I have to do is to go to my CD shelf, or boot up my computer and download still more recorded music from iTunes.

A turbulent business environment also has senior managers cautious of letting vague pronouncements cloud their reputations.

This tendency in the natural sciences has long been evident in the social sciences too.

Since the days of Aristotle, a search for universal principles has characterized the scientific enterprise.

Gray and his colleagues have put them to the test by examining four family trees that between them represent more than 2,000 languages.

com, which allow users to combine pictures, words and other media in creative ways and then share them, have the potential to add stickiness by amusing, entertaining and enlightening others.

This is because the networked computer has sparked a secret war between downloading and uploading - between passive consumption and active creation - whose outcome will shape our collective future in ways we can only begin to imagine.

The legal issues in the case are obscure: whereas the Supreme Court has ruled that states do have some regulatory authority over nuclear power, legal scholars say that Vermont case will offer a precedent-setting test of how far those powers extend.

The hardest task that television asks of anyone is to turn the power off after he has turned it on.

The conflict has been surfacing since 2002, when the corporation bought Vermont’s only nuclear power plant, an aging reactor in Vernon.

The company seems to have concluded that its reputation in Vermont is already so damaged that it has noting left to lose by going to war with the state.

Reform has been vigorously opposed, perhaps most egregiously in education, where charter schools, academies and merit pay all faced drawn-out battles.

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

Pledging to run Pilgrim safely, the company has applied for federal permission to keep it open for another 20 years.

One reason for the persistence of this pyramid of production is that for the past half-century, much of the world's media culture has been defined by a single medium - television - and television is defined by downloading.

Now the company is suddenly claiming that the 2002 agreement is invalid because of the 2006 legislation, and that only the federal government has regulatory power over nuclear issues.

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.

Nobel Laureate and physiologist Albert Azent-Gyorgyi once described discovery as “seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.”

Instead, the company has done precisely what it had long promised it would not challenge the constitutionality of Vermont’s rules in the federal court, as part of a desperate effort to keep its Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant running.

In the end, credibility “happens” to a discovery claim - a process that corresponds to what philosopher Annette Baier has described as the commons of the mind.

In Wisconsin the unions have rallied thousands of supporters against Scott Walker, the hardline Republican governor.

Even though there is plenty of evidence that the quality of the teachers is the most important variable, teachers’ unions have fought against getting rid of bad ones and promoting good ones.

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

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

Britain’s Labor Party, as its name implies, has long been associated with trade unionism.

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.

As the cost to everyone else has become clearer, politicians have begun to clamp down.

A quarter of America’s public-sector workers have a university degree.

One of these urges had to do with creating a state of peace in the midst of turbulence, a “still point of the turning world,” to borrow a phrase from T.

You might even be tempted to assume that humanity has little future to look forward to.

Towards the end of Overdressed, Cline introduced her ideal, a Brooklyn woman named Sarah Kate Beaumont, who since 2008 has made all of her own clothes – and beautifully.

Though several fast-fashion companies have made efforts to curb their impact on labor and the environment – including H&M, with its green Conscious Collection line –Cline believes lasting change can only be effected by the customer.

This year, it was proposed that the system be changed: Horizon 2020, a new program to be enacted in 2014, would not have such a category.