\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.

\Staying with a native speaker is better for children than simply sitting in a classroom, \ says Suzanne Flynn, a professor in language education of children.

Abercrombie & Kent, a travel company in Hong gonk, says it regularly arranges quick getaways here for people living in Shanghai and Hong gonk.

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 a long silence, he said yes.

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.

And doubling a buffet's price led customers to say that its pizza was 11 percent tastier.

And she said social media companies must also take more responsibility.

And the good morning Britain presenter says she's been able to put a lot of what she's learnt into practice in her own home, preparing meals for sons, Sam, 14, finn, 13.

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

Anna just emailed to say that the managers' meeting is put off till next Monday.

As he was purchasing it, the salesgirl said, \oh, look, the game box hasn't even been opened yet.

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 Tolstoy once said, \one can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one's work.\

As usual, the voice of Peter Sallis is absolutely perfect for the role of Wallace, and Gromit is so beautifully brought to life, he can express a huge range of emotions without saying a word.

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.\

Biologist Kristin says the plan is to see how the birds respond to the multi-colored road this summer.

Bradford said that large modern theaters in the city made it impossible for the plaza to compete.

Bruce Pederson, the managing director of Bookcrossing, says, \the two things that change your life are the people you meet and books you read.\

Bruce Peterson says the idea is for people not to be selfish by keeping a book to gather dust on a shelf at home.

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

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

But Lainey took one look at it, rolled her eyes, and said, \borrring!\.

But when I arrived at the check-in desk at providence, the lady on the desk said: \well, I'm really sorry, I've got some bad news for you-there are no fights from Washington.

But, \the excellent becomes the permanent\, Aristotle said.

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

Come in with something to say.

Dad said she was probably lonely, and that I ought to sit and listen and nod my head and smile, and Maybe she'd work it out of her system.

Dad sat me down and said, \Alice, I know it's hard, but it's all about persistence (坚持不懈).\

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.

Diners at bad tables — next to the kitchen door, say — spent nearly as much as others but soon fled.

Dr dominoni said, \in Glasgow where I live, gulls are a serious problem.\

Dr Dominoni, who is putting cameras inside nesting boxes to track sleeping patterns, said lack of sleep could put the birds' health at risk.

Driverless cars may end up being a form of public transport rather than vehicles you own, says ryan calo at stanford university, California.

Experts say it's an invaluable social practice that results in big benefits.

Experts say Paris is right: for a sudden heart failure, the single best chance for survival is having someone nearby step in and do CPR quickly.

Experts say the way you design your home could play a role in whether you pack on the pounds or keep them off.

For days the kids have been looking for others we can help! things would have played out so differently if I had simply said, \No, we really don't have money to give more.\

Frederikke Toemmergaard, hotel spokeswoman, said, \Many of our visitors are business people who enjoy going to the gym.\

Gordon says the hunch program has an impact on college admissions and practical life skills.

Granddaughter Gayle Parks, 31—who works alongside her in the family business—said it remained unknown as to who nominated Irene for the award.

Half of the workers say their boss doesn't accept it, and only 35 percent say it's tolerated.

Harvold said, \I was happy that no one else was hurt, but I hoped that the driver would survive.\

Harvold, who has not passed his driving test, said, \I realized the bus was out of control when I was speaking to the students.\

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

He said he would meet you tomorrow afternoon.

He said that if he quit the job, he would lose his drive to work and succeed.

He said the chickens had never missed a meal and he could not figure out why some of them had stopped laying eggs.

He said the lucky woman will be announced on the website and the trip will be shared online.

He said without the job, he would simply have too much time and would just do what I did back in college.

He was just saying: \I'm king of this forest, and here is your reminder! \ Once his message was delivered, he allowed me to stay and watch.

Hearing mom say, \I can't believe what's printed in the newspaper this morning,\ made me want to grab it out of her hands and read it myself.

His father said that the cat must be sick.

Hmm......our notes say that we arranged for an engineer to visit your house yesterday.

Hod Lipson, a professor at Columbia University, said, \Food printing could allow consumers to print food with customized nutritional content, like vitamins.\

I can tell you that what they are saying is a not nice and b not even true.

I don't think what he said is relevant to the topic we are discussing.

I figured whoever lost the dog was probably just as close to it as I am to my dogs, says ehlers.

I have people coming to me saying, you are the bird expert.

\I have worked there on and off for almost ten years,\ says gin.

\I knew it was the difference between life and death,\ says Taylor.

I must say that I have certainly come to enjoy camping.

I pushed her toward the front door, waving at the family, saying, sorry, please forgive us, you have a really nice place.

I put a small set of tinkertoys in front of each student, and said: \make something out of the tinkertoys.\

I said I couldn't stand it one minute longer.

I said to myself, \It can't be,\ and went to take a closer look.

I saw bird watchers who spotted a bird, immediately looked it up in field guides, and said, a \ruby-crowned kinglet\ and checked it off.

I spoke with our delivery department at about ten this morning, and they said that the chairs will be delivered by four this afternoon.

\I would want someone to try to find me,\ she said.

If certain kinds begin to disappear from the ocean, Dutkiewicz said, it will change the type of fish that will be able to survive.

If successful, the electric bicycle meal programme will be spread to all Crowne Plaza Hotels in the UK, the hotel said in a statement.

If you do not, who's to say that another person will?

If you're busy, don't feel bad about saying no.

In that case, ask to speak in person as soon as possible and say sorry.

Instead, he says, firms should provide a plain-English version of their terms.

Irene said, \I don't see any reason to give up work.\

It has to continue to move, because the way the world works is not the same, says Moran.

It is said that body language accounts for 55 percent of a first impression while what you say just 7 percent.

It will put fully driverless cars on an equal legal footing to human drivers, he says.

Italians always \see me as a foreigner,\ an outsider, even though she's stayed in the country for years and can speak the local language fluently, she said.

It's almost never good to start a meeting with general comments such as:\I didn't understand what you said about [main topic of the course] \or \I couldn't understand any of your lectures last week.\

It's much more helpful to say something like, \ I think we had better have another look about how we divide up the housework.

I've taken with me through my life: \Honey, your basket is extra-special,\ mom said, gently wiping away my hot tears.

Jennifer Debruyn, a microbiologist at the university of tennessee, who was not involved in the study, says it is not surprising that such worms can break down polyethylene.

Jordan Axani, said he and his then girlfriend, Elizabeth Gallagher, booked heavily discounted round-the-world air tickets in May.

Kate heard a man's voice in the background, but she couldn't make out what he was saying.

Keith Robinson, the author of the study, said, \I really don't know if the public is ready for this but there are some ways parents can be involved in their kids' education that leads to declines in their academic performance.\

Last year the foundation reported that nearly 60% of 7- to 12-year-olds said they felt tired during the day, and 15% said they had fallen asleep at school.

Long before most of us even noticed what we now call \the environment,\ Buckminster Fuller said, \Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting.\

Long-ago builders could have attached wooden poles to the stones and rolled them across the sand, the scientists say.

Many factors contributed to the decline, said Patrick Mclntyre, an ecologist who was the lead author of the study.

Many people tend to talk about traditions without knowing what they really are,\ said Wang.

Moran says one of the problems with Jazz today is that the entertainment aspect of the music has been lost.

Most people said this accent sounded 'educated' and 'soft'.

My dad never once said, \if you want to catch a fish you need to think like a fisherman.\

My older students say it makes them feel young.

My parents said they would like to help, but I don't want to use their money.

No matter where you are on the risk-seeking range, scientists say that your willingness to take risks increases during your teenage years.

No one can say which brand will work best for you or feel best on your feet, so you have to rely on your experience and on the feel of each pair as you shop.

a worldwide leader in electronics products, says that we compete against market transitions ( ' , 过渡), not competitors.

Where do the seeds of change come from? The Native American Indians have a saying: Pay attention to the whispers so you won't have to hear the screams.

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

There's something about their delicate nature that appeals to me, says New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast.

There's an ancient legend that as long as these eggs are made, evil will not prevail in the world, says Joan Brander, a Canadian egg-painter who has been painting eggs for over 60 years, having learned the art from her Ukrainian relatives.

The report says America's urbanization will continue to be the most significant issue affecting the industry, as cities across the country imitate the walkability and transit-oriented development making cities like New York and San Francisco so successful.

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.

She recalls:One day a man I worked with, Ryan, who had his office next to mine, said, Leah, let's go look at this space on Queen Anne .

Regardless of your stated preference, if you're ready to quit, quitting abruptly is more effective, says Dr.

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

One of the reasons I find this topic very interesting is because my mom was a smoker when I was younger, says Lindson-Hawley, who studies tobacco and health at the University of Oxford.

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

Needless to say, people like Veiseh are of great interest to neuroscientists ( ' , 神经科学专家) hoping to understand the way the brain records our lives.

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

Leah reflects on one incident that triggered her fears, when her investors threatened to shut her down: I was probably up against the most fear I've ever had, she says.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon's boss, says that If I see more than two pizzas for lunch, the team is too big.

It gives them the encouragement, I think, to really go for it, Ferreira says.

It can be very hard to forget embarrassing moments, says Donohue.

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.

Imagine being able to remember every painting, on every wall, in every gallery space, between nearly 40 countries, he says.

I remember sitting on a bench with my aunt at a yoga studio, she said, and having a moment of clarity right then and there: Yoga is saving my life.

I did what everybody else thought looked successful, she says.

I could imagine what the teacher was saying or what it looked like in the book.

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 I knew it was a negotiation scheme, so I was able to say to myself, ‘This is not real.

Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on ( ' , 开始) it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

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

The 13 dead were all Costa Rican, the foreign ministry said.

Some passengers remain missing, the Costa Rican foreign ministry said, but did not specify how many.

Reporter Zachariah Hughes says that neither King nor Zircle was injured.

John Nielsen, AAA’s managing director of automotive engineering and repair, said tests suggest drivers may be overestimating their own abilities.

His teacher said if he went on like that, his face would get stuck when the winds changed.

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.

Blandon, the boat’s owner, has been arrested by Nicaraguan authorities, the state-run news agency said.

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

A tour boat turned o v e r o f f t h e c o a s t o f Nicaragua, killing at least 13 people and leaving more passengers missing, official said.

A local radio said an unspecified number of people were rescued, including the tour boat’s owner Hilario Blandon.

You would want that robot preloaded with a good set of values, said Russell.

You can't just say, ‘Let's put this person in a residential care home instead of a nursing home—she will be much better off, Dr.Robison said.

What does the author say about pre-kindergarten education?It should cater to the needs of individual children.

We thought we would see differences based on the housing types, said the lead author of the study, Julie Robison, an associate professor of medicine at the university.

This was the highest and most desirable form of pleasure and happiness for the ancient Epicureans, Soupios says.

This is Hesiod, of course, a younger contemporary poet, we believe, with Homer, Soupios says.

This is Aesop, the fabulist ( ' , 寓言家 ), the man of these charming little tales, often told in terms of animals and animal relationships, He says.

These patterns suggest that some types of mental flexibility decrease relatively early in adulthood, but that the amount of knowledge one has, and the effectiveness of integrating it with one's abilities, may increase throughout all of adulthood if there are no diseases, Salthouse said in a news release.

There is no expiration ( ' , 失效 ) date on wisdom, he says.

The wisdom of the ancient Greek philosophers is timeless, says Soupios.

The philosophy professor says it is as relevant today as when it was first written many centuries ago.

The evening meal carries the full burden that used to be spread over two meals, says Counihan.

The Greeks are always concerned about boxing themselves in, in terms of convictions ( ' , 信念 ), he says.

Stop worrying about what you can not controlAs we begin to examine our life, Soupios says, we come to Rule No.

Soupios says that it is based on Plato's observation that the unexamined life is not worth living.

Soupios say following the 10 Golden Rules based on ancient wisdom can guide us to the path of the good life where we stop living as onlookers and become engaged and happier human beings.

Some critics say it is a luxury and shouldn't be free to families able to pay.

So what Epictetus would say is sitting at home worrying about that would be wrong and wasteful and irrational.

More people who lived in cities and suburbs said they wanted to try driverless cars than those who lived in rural areasWhile there's reason to believe that interest in self-driving cars is going up across the board, a person's age will have little to do with how self-driving cars can become mainstream.

Meals are the foundation of the family, says Carole Counihan, a professor at Millersville University in Pennsylvania, so there was a very important interconnection between eating together and strengthening family ties.

Just because I have a business relationship with an individual and I can profit from that relationship, it does not necessarily mean that this person is my friend, Soupios says.

Italians, says Counihan, traditionally began the day with a small meal.

Instead, Soupios says, ancient wisdom urges us to do good.

In our pursuit of the good life, he says, it is important to seek out true pleasures—advice which was originally offered by Epicurus.

In agrarian ( ' , 农业的 ), pre-industrial Europe, you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work, says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.

In a study last year, of all people surveyed, 48 percent said they wanted to ride in one, while 50 percent did notThe fact that attitudes toward self-driving cars appear to be so steady across generations suggests how transformative the shift to driverless cars could be.

I can not control whether or not I wind up getting the disease swine flu, for example, he says.

His name is Epictetus,he says.

Families can look a bit more for where the residents are going to be happy, Dr.Sloane said.

College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school diploma or lessWhere a person lives matters, toIt will not necessarily reduce road accidents.

By following individuals over time, Salthouse said, we gain insight in cognition changes, and may possibly discover ways to slow the rate of decline.

And what the Stoics say in general is simply this: There is a larger plan in life.

The International Labour Organization says the number of people without jobs is increasing.

Mr.Somavia says the International Labour Organization is proposing a global jobs agreement to deal with unemployment.

It just does, said Mr.Azar who learned the trick from another clerk.

It just does, said Mr.

In post-war Japan, the economy wasn’t doing so great, so you couldn’t get everyday-use items like household cleaners, says Lisa Katayama, author of Urawaza, a book named after the Japanese term for clever lifestyle tips and tricks, So people looked for ways to do with what they had.

In its latest update on global employment trends, the agency says projections of the number of unemployed people this year range from 210 million to nearly 240 million people.

What makes a game game-like is that the player -108- actually cares about the outcome, Werbach says.

We are at a point where in much of the developed world the vast majority of young people grew up playing video games, and an increasingly high percentage of adults play these video games too, Werbach says.

Waiters, keen observers of humanity that they are, are catching on to this; in one poll, a full 30% said they didn't believe the job they did had any impact on the tips they received.

They can have some say in how much their servers earn.

The fact that participants were willing to substitute part of a food item for the mere prospect of a relatively small monetary award is interesting, says Reimann.

The concept of gamification is not entirely new, Werbach says.

That's especially worrying, she says, given that anorexia ( ' , 厌食症) results in more deaths than does any other mental illness, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

Still, gamification only stands to become more popular, he says, as more and more people come into the workforce who are familiar with the structures and expressions of digital games.

Some people, Werbach says, are motivated by competition.

Some people do not take naturally to gamified work environments, Cornetti says.

Rewards do not have to be stuff, Cornetti says.

Regulating the fashion industry in the United States won't be easy, Record says.

One explanation for this finding is that possible awards may be more emotionally provoking than certainty awards, says Reimann.

It actually had a very negative effect on morale and performance, Werbach says.

If we are designing for engineers, I'm not talking about a ‘game' at all, Cornetti says.

For comparison, let's say you wanted to jam a conversation between two people—all you'd need to do is yell in the listener's ear.

Excessively skinny models have been a point of controversy for decades, and two researchers say a model's body mass should be a workplace health and safety issue.

Especially girls and teens, says Record.

Does that mean the link between lower oil prices and growth has weakened?Some experts say there are still good reasons to believe cheap oil should heat up the world economy.

Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨头) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

Confronted by a setback such as a disappointing test grade, students with a growth mind-set said they would study harder or try a different strategy.

But the word gamification and the widespread, conscious application of the concept only began in earnest about five years ago, Werbach says.

But doesn't the extra money in the pockets of those countries' consumers mean an equal loss in oil-producing countries, cancelling out the gains? Not necessarily, says economic researcher Sara Johnson.

Workers' advocates have criticized Haslam's plan, saying it would mean some campus workers would lose their jobs or benefits.

We want to reach parents who are not plugged into the system, said Zaharopol.

They provide a useful service, said Flack.

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.

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 state's facilities management project team is still in the process of developing its business justification and expects to have that completed and available to the public at the end of February, Martin said.

The retail giant said the poor financial performance this year has pushed it to begin implementing $400 million in cost-cutting measures.

The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal cost—are depleted.

The company had previously announced the planned closures, but had not said which locations would be affected.

The challenge is if certain types of people are doing something, it's difficult for other people to break into it, said Po-Shen Loh, the head coach of last year's winning U.S.Math Olympiad team.

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

Tennessee's technical and community colleges will not outsource ( ' , 外包) management of their facilities to a private company, a decision one leader said was bolstered by an analysis of spending at each campus.

Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository ( ' , 库), and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has observed some 500 million objects—but these remain the exception, not the rule.

Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events.

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.

Parents who are white, wealthy or college-educated say too much involvement can be bad.

Parents of advanced-math students and MathCounts coaches say the children are on the website constantly.

Of families earning more than $75,000 a year, 84% say their children have participated in organized sports over the past year, 64% have done volunteer work and 62% have taken lessons in music, dance or art.

Nonetheless, 20% of well-off parents say their children's schedules are too hectic, compared with 8% of poorer parents.

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

Morgan said those findings—which included data from the system's 13 community colleges, 27 technical colleges and six universities—were part of the decision not to move forward with Governor Bill Haslam's proposal to privatize management of state buildings in an effort to save money.

Morgan said last week that he would retire at the end of January because of the governor's proposal to split off six universities of the Board of Regents system and create separate governing boards for each of them.

Middle-class and higher-income parents see their children as projects in need of careful cultivation, says Annette Lareau, whose groundbreaking research on the topic was published in her book Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life.

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.

Martin said officials were still working to analyze the data from the Board of Regents.

Last year, the Royal Society in London said in its report that scientists need to shift away from a research culture where data is viewed as a private preserve.

Lareau said.

In an email sent Monday to college presidents in the Tennessee Board of Regents system, outgoing Chancellor John Morgan said an internal analysis showed that each campus' spending on facilities management fell well below the industry standards identified by the state.

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.

I'd much prefer to have my data used by the maximum number of people to ask their own questions, she says.

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

Haslam has said colleges would be free to opt in or out of the outsourcing plan, which has not been finalized.

Flack said it was too early to know whether the benefits of plentiful food outweighed the risks of feeding on landfills.

Early childhood experiences can be very consequential for children's long-term social, emotional and cognitive development, said Sean Reardon, professor of poverty and inequality in education at Stanford University.

Do all parents want the most success for their children? Absolutely, she said.

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.

But 50% of poor parents say it is extremely important to them that their children earn a college degree, compared with 39% of wealthier parents.

About 80% of our company's year-over-year declines in comparable sales can be attributed to shortfalls ( ' , 短缺) in cold-weather goods, said chief executive Terry Lundgren in a press release.

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.

Research now says adding fiber to the teen diet may help lower the risk of breast cancer.

With the launch of interactive advertising, many of the dollars that went to the Internet will come back to the TV, says David Kline of Cablevision.

We are very proud of our accomplishments under the Greenlist system and we believe that we will prevail in these cases, Christopher Beard, director of public affairs for SC Johnson, said, while acknowledging that this has been an area that is difficult to navigate.

Those dangers can be addressed with farmer and consumer education, he said, while the free water and nutrients from human waste can help urban farmers in developing countries to escape poverty.

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.

There is a large potential for wastewater agriculture to both help and hurt great numbers of urban consumers, said Liqa Raschid-Sally, who led the study.

The lawsuits said that the label was misleading because it gave the impression that the products had been certified by a third party when the certification was the company's own.

So it is saying that economic development should make for a cleaner world? Not necessarily; In the industrialised countries, environmental problems are generally related to industrialisation and technological development, it continues.

Saying that there're no easy answers sounds wise, but it's actually foolish: our unemployment crisis could be cured very quickly if we had the intellectual clarity and political will to act.

Overly strict standards often fail, James Bartram, a WHO water-health expert, said.

One boy said, I'd rather be concentrating on artistic efforts than saving the world or something.

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.

It's been the year of interactive television advertising for the last ten or twelve years, says Colin Dixon of a digital-media consultancy.

In the developing countries, it says, most of the environmental problems are caused by underdevelopment.

I've been looking at what self-proclaimed experts were saying about unemployment during the Great Depression; it was almost identical to what Very Serious People are saying now.

For example, only one boy said he would like to be president when he grows up.

David Mallen, associate director of the Council of Better Business Bureau, said in the last two years the organization had seen an increase in the number of claims companies were bringing against each other for false or misleading environmental product claims.

Critics say Congress will give in to lobbyists and let inefficient providers off the hook ( ' , 放过).

BrightLine iTV, which designs and sells interactive ads, says interest has surged: it expects its revenues almost to triple this year.

As I said, structural unemployment isn't a real problem, it's an excuse—a reason not to act on America's problems at a time when action is desperately needed.

Another, discussing national politics, said, I feel like one person can't do that much, and I get the impression most people don't think a group of people can do that much.

About once a week, I have a client that will bring up a new certification I've never even heard of and I'm in this industry, said Kevin Wilhelm, chief executive officer of Sustainable Business Consulting.

A surprising thing for the man who runs one of the world's most powerful economies to say? Perhaps; though in the run-up to the five-year review of the Millennium ( ' , 千年的) Goals, he is far from alone.

We need more funding and more effort to return these languages to everyday use, says Fred Nowuski of the National Museum of the American Indian, We are making progress but money needs to be spent on revitalising languages, not just documenting them.

U.N. weather expert Geoffrey Love says that is the bad news.

The way I see it, our banks now have a greater obligation to the goal of a wider recovery, he said.

Patrick Belser, an International Labour Organization specialist says declining wage rates are linked to the levels of unemployment.

Now Fred, you went to university in Canada?( ' , 9 ) A recent International Labour Organization report says the deterioration of real wages around the world calls into question the true extent of an economic recovery, especially if government rescue packages are phased out too early.

It was in a free fall, and it was a veryscary period, economist Martin Neil Baily said.

Although he says the worst is over, Baily says the banking crisis is not.

You can see that we're here to stay, said Vladimir Cheberdak, 57, chief of the Bellingshausen Station, as he sipped tea under a portrait of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, a high-ranking officer in the Imperial Russian Navy who explored the Antarctic coast in 1820.

Working parents say they feel stressed, tired, rushed and short on quality time with their children, friends and partners.

While we argue phasing out racial terminology ( ' , 术语 ) in the biological sciences, we also acknowledge that using race as a political or social category to study racism, although filled with lots of challenges, remains necessary given our need to understand how structural inequities and discrimination produce health disparities ( ' , 差异 ) between groups, Yudell said.

We were very surprised, he says.

We now feel equipped to grow, he said.

They didn't work anywhere and all the time – they were better able to manage their work, Moen said.

There's rising work demand coupled with the insecurity of mergers, takeovers, downsizing and other factors, Moen said.

There is not any one-hit wonder, and there will not be one for years to come, said Gary Shapiro, president and chief executive of the Consumer Technology Association ( ' , CTA).

There is an incompatibility in the rate at which these are advancing relative to the way we're digesting it, he said.

The practice of clocking in for an eight-hour workday is a leftover from the days of the Industrial Revolution, as reflected in the then-popular saying, Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest.

The old days of the Antarctic being dominated by the interests and wishes of white men from European, Australasian and North American states are over, said Klaus Dodds, a politics scholar at the University of London who specialises in Antarctica.

The dialogue is changing from what is technologically possible to what is technologically meaningful, said economist Shawn Du Bravac.

The 83% of American employees who are stressed about their jobs – up from 73% just a year before – say that poor compensation and an unreasonable workload are their number-one sources of stress.

So what other variables could be used if the racial concept is thrown out? Yudell said scientists need to get more specific with their language, perhaps using terms like ancestry or population that might more precisely reflect the relationship between humans and their genes, on both the individual and population level.

Seven in 10 workers say they struggle to maintain work-life balance.

Only 13 percent of respondents said that they were interested in buying a smartwatch in 2016, for example – an increase of just one percent from the previous year despite a year of high-profile launches.

Ning Xu, 53, the chief of the Chinese base, said over tea during a fierce blizzard ( ' , 暴风雪) in late November.

Michael Yudell, a professor of public health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said that modern genetics research is operating in a paradox: on the one hand, race is understood to be a useful tool to illuminate human genetic diversity, but on the other hand, race is also understood to be a poorly defined marker of that diversity.

Many industries are going out of infancy and becoming adolescents, Shapiro said.

It is hard to say whether it is good or bad.

It is about the flashiness and the gadgets, said John Curran, managing director of research at Accenture.

In some ways they're at greater risk of falling through the cracks, says researcher Vladimir Carli.

In an article published in the journal Science, four scholars say racial categories need to be phased out.

In November 2013, after an unnecessary round of additional consultation, health minister Jane Ellison said the government was minded to proceed after all.

In addition to many senior officials from the Federal Trade and Federal Communications commissions, this year's list of policy makers also includes appearances from Transportation Curran, the Accenture analyst, said that increased government interest in the show makes sense as technology becomes a larger part of our lives.

For example, when asked whether they would buy a new smartphone this year, only 48 percent said yes – a six-point drop from 2015.

Even among people who have bought connected devices of some kind, 37 percent said that they are going to be more cautious about using these devices and services in the future.

Essentially, I could not agree more with the authors, said Svante Pääbo, a biologist and director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany.

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.

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.

All of us work through problems in ways of which we're unaware, she says.

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 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.

Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said it would use a particular case to conduct a broad review of business-method patents.

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

Yet quite how that happens, Mr.Menand does not say.

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.

Rather than cloaking his exit in the usual vague excuses, he came right out and said he was leaving “to pursue my goal of running a company”.

McGee says leaving without a position lined up gave him time to reflect on what kind of company he wanted to run.

Many recruiters say the old disgrace is fading for top performers.

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

Ellen Marram quit as chief of Tropicana a decade age, saying she wanted to be a CEO.

Broadcasting his ambition was “very much my decision,” McGee says.

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.

On May 31st Microsoft Set off the row: It said that Internet Explorer 10,the version due to appear windows 8, would have DNT as a default.

However,the Justices said that Arizona police would be allowed to verify the legal status of people who come in contact with law enforcement.

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

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

Bob Liodice, the chief executive of the Association of National Advertisers, says consumers will be worse off if the industry cannot collect information about their preferences.

An old saying has it that half of all advertising budgets are wasted-the trouble is, no one knows which half.

After all, it has an ad business too, which it says will comply with DNT requests, though it is still working out how.

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.

You cannot buy class, as the old saying goes, and these upstart entrepreneurs cannot buy their prizes the prestige of the Nobels.

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.

The new awards are an exercise in self-promotion for those behind them, say scientists.

The US$3-million Fundamental Physics Prize is indeed an interesting experiment, as Alexander Polyakov said when he accepted this year’s award in March.

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

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”.

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.

John Ioannidis, a physician who studies research methodology, says that the policy is “a most welcome step forward” and “long overdue.”

I think that, for the majority of scientific papers nowadays, statistical review is more essential than expert review,” he says.

He says he expects the board to “play primarily an advisory role.”

Asked whether any particular papers had impelled the change, McNutt said: “The creation of the ‘statistics board’ was motivated by concerns broadly with the application of statistics and data analysis in scientific research and is part of Science’s overall drive to increase reproducibility in the research we publish.

“We estimate that either eliminating a substantial labour-rights concern, such as child labour, or increasing corporate giving by about 20% results in fines that generally are 40% lower than the typical punishment for bribing foreign officials,” says one researcher.

“Sometime in the future,” the paper’s publisher said back in 2010.

“So if you’re overpaying for print, you could feel like you were helping,” Peretti said.

“It was seen as a blunder,” he said.

“Figuring out a way to accelerate that transition would make sense for them,” he said, “but if you discontinue it, you’re going to have your most loyal customers really upset with you.

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.

Overhead may be high and circulation lower, but rushing to eliminate its print edition would be a mistake, says BuzzFeed CEO Joah Peretti.

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.

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.

Kennedy once said that a country’s GDP measures “everything except that which makes life worthwhile.”

It is not enough to say that the algorithms DeepMind develops will benefit patients and save lives.

About a third say the problem of fake news lies in.

A young man can decide on a likely spouse on his own and then ask his parents to arrange the marriage negotiations, or the young man's parents may make the choice of a spouse, giving the child little to say in the selection.

About a third say the problem of fake news lies in \misinterpretation or exaggeration of actual news\ via social media.

And the stock market reacts positively when companies tie CEO pay to, say, stock prices, a sign that those practices build up corporate value not just for the CEO.

And then the inevitable happens: You lose your patience and either scream at your kids or say something that was a bit too harsh and does nobody any good.

But because hard laughter is difficult to sustain, a good laugh is unlikely to have measurable benefits the way, say, walking or jogging does.

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

Children aren't born knowing how to say \I'm sorry\; rather, they learn over time that such statements appease parents and friends—and their own consciences.

District administrators say that homework will still be a part of schooling: teachers are allowed to assign as much of it as they want.

However, even though it's common, it's important to keep in mind that in a single moment of fatigue, you can say something to your child that you may regret for a long time.

In fact women even say they feel better at work,she notes.

It is far better to spend money on experiences, say Ms Dunn and Mr Norton, like interesting trips, unique meals or even going to the cinema.

It is not enough to say that the algorithms Deep mind develops will benefit patients and save lives.

It's not popular to say, but one reason their pay has gone up so much is that CEOs really have upped their game relative to many other workers in the U.S.

Not surprisingly, industry groups and states generally argue it goes too far; environmentalists say it doesn't go far enough.

Scientists say the compound is \bound to be carcinogenic\ but have no hard scientific proof.

So keep it simple: \Hi\, \Hey\ or \Hello\—do the best you can to gather all of the enthusiasm and energy you can, put on a big smile and say \Hi\.

The findings do not simply explain people's tendency to befriend those of similar ethnic backgrounds, say the researchers.

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, going through a suspect's purse.

This is the famed citation index, that is to say the number of times a paper has been quoted elsewhere in the scientific literature, the assumption being that an important paper will be cited more often than one of small account.

When I come home from work I have nothing to say.

You wanted to say something—the first word—but it just won't come out, it feels like it is stuck somewhere.

Your prospects would be almost as dismal if arguments were even just competitions-like, say, tennis games.