\I thought it would be useful for him to learn Chinese at an early age\ Joseph Stocke, the managing director of a company, says of his 2-year old son.

A few hours before, I'd been at home in Hong gonk, with its choking smog.

A free schedule of events for each term is available by calling the box office at 556-4183.

A group of people sitting in the hall stopped talking and stared at us.

A quick review of successes and failures at the end of year will help shape your year ahead.

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

A six-month trial will be introduced at Holborn station from mid-April, eliminating the rule of standing on the right and walking on the left.

A story showing people's generosity should be emailed to the editor at susan@sws.

A sudden stop can be a very frightening experience, especially if you are travelling at high speed.

A three-week trial at Holborn last year found that the number of people using escalators at any time of could be raised by almost a third.

A typical lion tamer in people's mind is an entertainer holding a whip at a chair.

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 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.

Actually I'm going to meet with professor smith at ten past two.

Admission is at normal charges and you don't need to book.

After a while she seemed content to leave her husband over at the cemetery.

After her mother read the poem to her, the writer felt sad at first.

After questioning 1, 000 mothers with children under 18, it found that , on most days, mums started their routine work at 7am and finished at around 11pm.

After you've tried a new method for a week, take a look at your record.

All of a sudden, I started making money because I was really good at math.

All right, I'll finish school at five o'clock, and I'm free after that.

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.

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

An active reader looks at each part of the graph before trying to interpret the data.

An assumption behind UK insurance for driverless cars, introduced earlier this year, insists that a human \be watchful and monitoring the road\ at every moment.

An example at hand is the involvement of parents in the lives of their children who are attending college.

An old joke that was popular at the time went something like this: a man is stuck up to his waist in a muddy Chicago street.

And at that moment, I made the decision: I will develop and follow a personal growth plan for my life.

And now when I look at it, I think her presence in the photo is what makes the image interesting.

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

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

And while you're at it, actually sit down to eat.

Animals are built of many different materials----skin, fat, and more----and light moves through each at a different speed.

Another study of 302 volunteers at hospitals in Chicago focused on individual differences in the degree to which people view \volunteer\ as an important social role.

Anxious all the time, I was unable to keep focused for more than an hour at a time.

Anxiously I went to bed dreaming about what I would find at the top of this magical mountain.

Any child must be accompanied by at least one paying adult.

Apple days are being held at all sorts of places with an interest in fruit, including stately gardens and commercial orchards.

As a matter of fact, we can see this principle at work in people of all ages.

As always, you should stretch at least ten minutes before each run to prevent injuries.

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

I couldn't reach anyone at the phone number on the cat's tag.

As I squeezed back into my car, I saw the same lady looking in at me.

As she looked up at the three new humans in her life small, medium, and large, she calculated, \the medium one is the sucker in the pack.

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.

Ask about today's activities at the great hall information desk.

At 5:30 am on February 2, Kaasen and his dog arrived in Nome.

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

At a time of limited means of expression, snow was like free art supplies dropped from the sky.

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

At age five, this dull task brought me such joy.

At college, Barack Obama didn't know that he was to become the first black president of the united states of America.

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

At first the price of single copies was seldom a penny-usually two or three cents was charged-and some of the older well-known papers charged five or six cents.

At first, john spent his time hunting for fun.

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

At last I ended up hitting the set with my first, and it stopped working altogether.

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 the weather is similar, and the people aren't much different.

At least there is enough good news, so it remains a good place for the residents to enjoy their life.

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

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

At long last, in a comfortable home, with a generous pension, he should learn to take things easy.

At mile 3, I passed a sign:\ go for it, runners!\.

At my heaviest I weighed 370 pounds.

At my high school, there were about only four active club and organizations that students could be a part of.

At one point, huge piles of snow blocked his way.

At one time, daydreaming was thought to be a cause of some mental illnesses.

At present, the world has about 6800 languages.

At present, these technologies are still expensive, though.

At Pullman's signal, each man turned his Jackscrew the same amount at the same time, thereby raising the building slowly and evenly.

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 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 that moment, I remembered that my father once said, \ the classroom is a place for learning and that include leaning from textbooks, and mistake as well.\

At that time the Beatles entered the world of music from Liverpool.

At the age of 18, he moved to the united states.

At the base is a rainforest.

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 Beijing Olympic she swept away any doubts about her ability to perform consistently by becoming the first Jamaican woman ever to win the 100 metres Olympic gold.

At the bottom of the paper were these words:\ see what you can do when you keep trying? \

At the end of the story, my mind continued the final scene of reunion, on and on, until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together.

At the events, you can meet expert growers and discuss which ones will best suit your conditions, and because these are family affairs, children are well catered for with apple-themed fun and games.

At the heart of the phenomenon lie tiny marine microorganisms (海洋微生物) called phytoplankton.

At the start of this year, foreigners living in italy amounted to 4.56 million of a total population of 60.6 million, or 7.5 percent, with immigrants’ children accounting for an ever larger percentage of births in italy.

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.

At thirteen, I was diagnosed (诊断) with a kind of attention disorder.

At this point, when all the children were willing to share their experiences, I began to learn how to teach.

At what age did Emily start learning ballet?

At what time does metrorail stop service on Saturday?

At which place can people of different ages enjoy a good laugh?

Back at the camp, you can kick off your boots and enjoy excellent food and wine.

Basically, it's \I've got to produce this product and then, at the end of year, present it to NASA\.

Because of the way light reflects off the organisms, these phytoplankton create colourful patterns at the ocean surface.

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.

Begin keeping track of the time, and try to make dinner last at 30 minutes.

Being better at those things meant a greater chance of survival.

Not long ago, with the country entering a recession and Japan at its pre-bubble peak.

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.

In fact, all of these cultural developments occurred separately at different times in many parts of the world.

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.

All he needs to do is shell our $30 for paternity testing kit ( ' , PTK) at his local drugstore - and another $120 to get the results.

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.

At the beginning of the century songbirds were supposed to be disappearing.

wegner, a patent attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.

We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper review published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War Ⅱ, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared.

To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.

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

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.

The judges on the Federal circuit are “reacting to the anti-patient trend at the supreme court” ,says Harole C.

Retail sales of food and drink in Europe’s largest markets are at a standstill, leaving European grocery retailers hungry for opportunities to grow.

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.

Moreover, average overall margins are higher in wholesale than in retail; wholesale demand from the food service sector is growing quickly as more Europeans eat out more often; and changes in the competitive dynamics of this fragmented industry are at last making it feasible for wholesalers to consolidate.

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.

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

At least, that is how it looks as a whole.

At any rate, this change will ultimately be acclaimed by an ever-growing number of both domestic and international consumers, regardless of how long the current consumer pattern will take hold.

And, unless banks carry toxic assets at prices that attract buyers, reviving the banking system will be difficult.

This seems a justification for neglect of those in need， and a rationalization of exploitation， of the superiority of those at the top and the inferiority of those at the bottom.

“Hooray! At last!” wrote Anthony Tommasini, a sober-sided classical-music critic.

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.

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.

Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.

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 that happens, passionate consumers would try to persuade others to boycott products, putting the reputation of the target company at risk.

He finally took that post at a major financial institution three years later.

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

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.

Academic inquiry, at least in some fields, may need to become less exclusionary and more holistic.

That, at least, is the hope.

Russell Gray at the University of Auckland and his colleagues consider the evolution of grammars in the light of two previous attempts to find universality in language.

Take a moment or two to wonder at those marvels.

Rosenberg argues convincingly that public-health advocates ought to take a page from advertisers, so skilled at applying peer pressure.

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.

First, most people do not realise that there are strong commercial agendas at work to keep them in passive consumption mode.

Dare to be different, please don’t smoke!” pleads one billboard campaign aimed at reducing smoking among teenagers-teenagers, who desire nothing more than fitting in.

At the state level their influence can be even more fearsome.

There is no doubt that gardens evidence an impossible urge to create, express, fashion, and beautify and that self-expression is a basic human urge; yet when one looks at the photographs of the garden created by the homeless, it strikes one that , for all their diversity of styles, these gardens speak of various other fundamental urges, beyond that of decoration and creative expression.

On display here are various fantasy elements whose reference, at some basic level, seems to be the natural world.

This top-down conception of the fashion business couldn’t be more out of date or at odds with the feverish would described in Overdressed, Elizabeth Cline’s three-year indictment of “fast fashion”.

The fossil record shows that many species have endured for millions of years - so why shouldn't we? Take a broader look at our species' place in the universe, and it becomes clear that we have an excellent chance of surviving for tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of years.

The European Union Framework funding programs have long had a category specifically targeted at social scientists.

That should create more collaborative endeavors and help to develop projects aimed directly at solving global problems.

In the internet age, at least in theory ,this fraction can be much reduced.

By watching what people search for, click on and say online, companies can aim “behavioural” ads at those most likely to buy.

By offering on-trend items at dirt-cheap prices, Cline argues, these brands have hijacked fashion cycles, shaking an industry long accustomed to a seasonal pace.

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

Unfortunately, despite years in the making, “The Heart of the Matter” never gets to the heart of the matter: the illiberal nature of liberal education at our leading colleges and universities.

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

There is just one path for a lawyer in most American states: a four-year undergraduate degree in some unrelated subject, then a three-year law degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the bar exam.

Sadly, the spirit of inquiry once at home on campus has been replaced by the use of the humanities and social sciences as vehicles for publicizing “progressive,” or left- liberal propaganda.

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.

Losing a job is hurting: you don’t skip down to the jobcentre with a song in your heart, delighted at the prospect of doubling your income from the generous state.

Instead, the claimant receives a time-limited “allowance,” conditional on actively seeking a job; no entitlement and no insurance, at ￡71.

Evans’s interpretations of those engravings eventually led him to find the Minoan palace at Knossos ( ' , Knosós), on the island of Crete, in 1900.

At its peak around AD 600, this city was one of the largest human settlements in the world.

” said one recorder of events, “The air at twelve leagues’ distance smelt as sweet as a new-blown garden.

These changes were gradual and at first scarcely visible.

If you are unfamiliar with words or idioms, you guess at their meaning, using clues presented in the contest.

Giovanni Parmigiani, a biostatistician at the Harvard School of Public Health, a member of the SBoRE group.

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.

California has asked the justices to refrain from a sweeping ruling particularly one that upsets the old assumption that authorities may search through the possessions of suspects at the time of their arrest.

At a time when Thomas Piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states.

It allows us to have perspective on our lives - the ability to not take ourselves too seriously, to laugh at ourselves, to see the bigger picture, and to see that things will work out.

Then increase it at a higher rate each year and essentially try to generate additional revenue.

The infrastructure required to make a physical newspaper—printing presses, delivery trucks—isn’t just expensive; it’s excessive at a time when online-only competitors don’t have the same set of financial constraints.

Look at your work environment like an anthropologist.

Buy all your clothes once with a stylist instead of shopping alone, one article of clothing at a time.

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.

At the next election none of the big parties seem likely to endorse this sentiment.

And if Peretti were in charge at the Times? “I wouldn’t pick a year to end print,” he said, “I would raise prices and make it into more of a legacy product.

A recent study attempts to separate them by looking at bribery prosecutions under America’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act( ' , FCPA).

To limit the number of telescopes on Mauna Kea, old ones will be removed at the end of their lifetimes and their sites returned to a natural state.

The high court’s decision said the judge in Mr.McDonnell’s trial failed to tell a jury that it must look only at his “official acts,” or the former governor’s decisions on “specific” and “unsettled” issues related to his duties.

The first published sketch, “A Dinner at Poplar Walk” brought tears to Dickens’s eyes when he discovered it in the pages of The Monthly Magazine.

The family’s increasing poverty forced Dickens out of school at age 12 to work in Warren’s Blacking Warehouse, a shoe-polish factory, where the other working boys mocked him as \the young gentleman.\

First two hours , now three hours—this is how far in advance authorities are recommending people show up to catch a domestic flight , at least at some major U.airports with increasingly massive security lines.

But it did so while holding its nose at the ethics of his conduct, which included accepting gifts such as a Rolex watch and a Ferrari automobile from a company seeking access to government.

At the same time, Dickens, who had a reporter’s eye for transcribing the life around him especially anything comic or odd, submitted short sketches to obscure magazines.

At issue is the TMT’s planned location on Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano worshiped by some Hawaiians as the piko , that connects the Hawaiian Islands to the heavens.

We are amazed today at the mere number of plays produced, as well as by the number of dramatists writing at the same time for this London of two hundred thousand inhabitants.

These new forms were at first mainly written by scholars and performed by amateurs, but in England, as everywhere else in western Europe, the growth of a class of professional actors was threatening to make the drama popular, whether it should be new or old, classical or medieval, literary or farcical.

Plays aiming at literary distinction were written for school or court, or for the choir boys of St.

Paul’s and the royal chapel, who, however, gave plays in public as well as at court.

By the time Shakespeare was twenty-five, Lyly, Peele, and Greene had made comedies that were at once popular and literary; Kyd had written a tragedy that crowded the pit; and Marlowe had brought poetry and genius to triumph on the common stage - where they had played no part since the death of Euripides.

A native literary drama had been created, its alliance with the public playhouses established, and at least some of its great traditions had been begun.

jobs are at high risk of being automated, according to a University of Oxford study, with the middle class disproportionately squeezed.

Young people who are digital natives are indeed becoming more skillful at separating fact from fiction in cyberspace.

We are still at the beginning of this revolution and small choices now may turn out to have gigantic consequences later.

This is why repeated attempts at reform legislation have failed in recent years, leaving the Postal Service unable to pay its bills except by deferring vital modernization.

There's no change to collective bargaining at the USPS, a major omission considering that personnel accounts for 80 percent of the agency's costs.

The emerging consensus around the bill is a sign that legislators are getting frightened about a politically embarrassing short-term collapse at the USPS.

But postal special-interest groups seem to have killed it, at least in the House.

\Carry a book with you at all times\ can actually work, too-providing you dip in often enough, so that reading becomes the default state from which you temporarily surface to take care of business, before dropping back down.