A birdwatcher, armed with a telescope, found the pet sitting desperately on a rock.

A boy on a bike caught my attention.

A kitemark scheme would be workable on a nationwide scale.

A latest study on the college job market showed that employers wanted to hire 22% fewer graduates this year than last.

A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on.

A lot of business is still done over the phone, and much of it is based on trust and existing relationships.

A lunchtime escape allows her to keep a boss from tapping her on the shoulder.

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 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 smoke detector is on the ceiling in your room.

A teacher who wants to learn on-line teaching is expected to arrive by 2:00 pm.

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

A t-shirt like this is much cheaper on the Internet.

A year ago, when I was awaiting to hear the results of my college applications, I often went to websites for some type of insider look on what college would be like.

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.

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 passage, the Adelmans set up \movers and Shakespeares\ to give advice on leadership by analysing Shakespeare's plays.

Adam and Galinsky tested the effect of simply wearing a white lab coat on people's powers of attention.

Adam and Galinsky's experiment tested the effect of clothes on their wearers' attention.

After he was put on disability for a bad back, he bought a small farm in the country, just enough to grow food for the family.

After my graduation, dad's business was getting back on track.

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 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 spotting a wallet on the front seat inside a parked car with its window down, he stood guard in the rain for about two hours waiting for the owner to return.

After staying overnight in London, we travel on day 2 to northern France to visit the World War I battlefields.

After that, feeling the need to explore further, I decided to drop in on one of ASL club's meetings.

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

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.

Almost a month ago, he bought popular word game that used little pieces of wood with different letters on them.

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

Although she founded her company early on in life, she wasn't driven primarily by profit.

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

Among the works and masterworks on exhibition the visitor will find the best pieces, most importantly the persistence of memory.

An experiment on ways of moving blocks to the pyramid site.

And he saw a date of 1973 on the back of the box.

And I could not understand the news on the television or movies or anything like this.

And if a predator can move on to another species that is easier to find when a prey species becomes rare, the switch allows the original prey to recover.

And on Friday, the music group will meet to prepare for the school performance.

And on Sunday, we're going to do some shopping.

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 we reached the top on June 5th.

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

Another possibility is that when there is a lot of talent on a team, some players may make less effort.

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.

Another trend is off-site or virtual management, where teams of people linked by e-mail and the Internet work on projects from their own houses.

Anytime you find the world waving a chair in your face, remember this: all you need to do is focus on one thing?

Appear on the student's report upon completion.

Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.

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

As executives with banks, consulting firms, established law firms, and major corporations, many are now well on their way to impressive careers.

As he got closer, he found another vehicle upside down on the road.

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

As long as one doesn't come to rely on it, wishing for a few good things to happen never hurts anybody.

As natural architects, the pueblo Indians figured out exactly how thick the adobe walls needed to be to make the cycle work on most days.

As shown here, Lainey can become excited about reading when presented with literature on topics that interest her, and when the people around her model involvement in the reading process.

As soon as you get the answer you need, move on to the next person.

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

As the quality of risk-taking was passed from on ration to the next, humans ended up with a sense of adventure and a tolerance for risk.

As you can see, it is on the north bank of the river Thames.

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

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 what time does metrorail stop service on Saturday?

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

Axani wrote in his post that he is not looking for anything in return and that the woman who uses the looking for ticket can choose to either travel with him or take the ticket and travel on her own.

Baptiste Dubanchet is biking across Europe,surviving entirely on discarded food.

Barbara has asked me to a party on new year's eve.

Be sure to stay on topic and not offer irrelevant information.

Beatlemania hit New York on February 7, 1964.

Because less preparation on paths is needed for rolling.

Because sliding on smooth roads is more dangerous.

Before I knew it an hour had passed and it was time to move on to lunch.

Before the school year ended, I gave the kids a special gift, t-shirts with the words \verbs are your friends\ on them.

Before we finish, can you offer any tips on becoming a better songwriter?

Behaving in this selfless and devoted manner, these little creatures have survived on earth, for more than 140 million years, far longer than dinosaurs.

Believe it or not, he or she is on your side and is eager to see you do well.

Believing in such a world, many governments have put an end to some of the very necessary regulations on cross-border flows of capital, labour and goods, with poor results.

Berger explains in his new book, \contagious: why things catch on.\

Berger looked at how people spread a particular set of news stories: thousands of articles on the New York time's website.

Bradford sold the building and land to a local development firm, which plans to build a shopping complex on the land where the theater is located.

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

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

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

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

But just now how much warmer it will get depends on how deeply countries cut carbon emissions.

But Moore was sick of missing out on candies.

But my connection with pandas goes back to my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s, when I was the first western TV reporter permitted to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild.

But never ever give up on your dream! Never let anyone tell you, \you can't\.

But other books require a bit more work on your part.

But she expects using the chemical in some kind of industrial process-not simply \millions of worms thrown on top of the plastic\.

But Simon decided to risk his life and try to lower Joe down the mountain on a rope.

But soon, the gold that Dawson depended on had all been found.

But Steve pressed on, playing for the first time in his life for a stranger.

But the urge would no doubt be greater if you were living on the streets with little food and money.

But the world bank has included the project on its of \100 ideas to save the planet\.

But we do not open on Mondays.

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.

Even today, in our industrial life, apart from certain values of industriousness and thrift, the intellectual and emotional reaction of the forms of human association under which the world's work is carried on receives little attention as compared with physical output.

workers received on the job.

We reach for them mindlessly, setting our brains on auto-pilot and relaxing into the unconscious comfort of familiar routine.

This means that a DNA database may differ depending on the company that processes the results.

They also focused on important rituals that appeared to preserve a people’s social structure, such as initiation ceremonies that formally signify children’s entrance into adulthood.

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.

The current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure, meaning that few of us inherently use our innovative and collaborative modes of thought.

Perry incorrectly suggested, on the basis of inadequate information, that farming, pottery making, and metallurgy all originated in ancient Egypt and diffused throughout the world.

On the contrary, constraints on improving productivity explain why education isn't developing more quickly there than it is.

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

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

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

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

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

Yet only one of his books is now in print, and his vast body of writings on music is unknown save to specialists.

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

These gave banks more freedom to use models to value illiquid assets and more flexibility in recognizing losses on long-term assets in their income statement.

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

The functioning of the market is based on flexible trends dominated by potential buyers.

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

The Bilski case involves a claimed patent on a method for hedging risk in the energy market.

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.

Neville Cardus, who wrote for the Manchester Guardian from 1917 until shortly before his death in 1975,is now known solely as a writer of essays on the game of cricket.

It was banks that were on the wrong planet, with accounts that vastly overvalued assets.

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.

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.

Curbs on business-method claims would be a dramatic about-face, because it was the federal circuit itself that introduced such patents with is 1998 decision in the so-called state Street Bank case, approving a patent on a way of pooling mutual-fund assets.

Building on the basic truth about interpersonal influence,the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations manipulating a number of variables relating to people’s ability to influence others and their tendency to be influenced.

Within two weeks, he was talking for the first time with the board of Hartford Financial Services Group, which named him CEO and chairman on September 29.

Toyota Motor, for example, alleviated some of the damage from its recall crisis earlier this year with a relatively quick and well-orchestrated social-media response campaign, which included efforts to engage with consumers directly on sites such as Twitter and the social-news site Digg.

The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week.

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

One possible response is for classical performers to program attractive new music that is not yet available on record.

No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their “own” ( ' , read: with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.

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

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

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

His concern is mainly with the humanities: literature, languages, philosophy and so on.

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

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

As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don’t get the nod also may wish to move on.

Although more than half of Harvard undergraduates end up in law, medicine or business, future doctors and lawyers must study a non- specialist liberal-arts degree before embarking on a professional qualification.

There’s no doubt that our peer groups exert enormous influence on our behavior.

The teachers’ unions keep an eye on schools, the CCPOA on prisons and a variety of labor groups on health care.

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

The company, a major energy supplier in New England, provoked justified outrage in Vermont last week when it announced it was reneging on a longstanding commitment to abide by the strict nuclear regulations.

First, scientific work tends to focus on some aspect of prevailing Knowledge that is viewed as incomplete or incorrect.

Even after the advent of widespread social media, a pyramid of production remains, with a small number of people uploading material, a slightly larger group commenting on or modifying that content, and a huge percentage remaining content to just consume.

Come on -Everybody’s doing it.

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

And that’s the problem with a social cure engineered from the outside: in the real world, as in school, we insist on choosing our own friends.

When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, most of us give into a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological conditions, until one day we find ourselves in garden and feel the expression vanish as if by magic.

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

Another urge or need that these gardens appear to respond to, or to arise from is so intrinsic that we are barely ever conscious of its abiding claims on us.

When social scientists do tackle practical issues, their scope is often local: Belgium is interested mainly in the effects of poverty on Belgium, for example.

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

Today, the social sciences are largely focused on disciplinary problems and internal scholarly debates, rather than on topics with external impact.

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.

The 8-0 objection to President Obama trues on what Justice Samuel Alito describes in his objection as “a shocking assertion assertion of federal executive power”.

On the overturned provisions the majority held the congress had deliberately.

On a five to three vote,the Supreme Court knocked out much of Arizona's immigration law Monday-a modest policy victory for the Obama Aministration.

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.

If it is trying to upset Google, which relies almost wholly on default will become the norm.

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

During the late 1990s，national spending on social sciences and the humanities as a percentage of all research and development funds-including government, higher education, non-profit and corporate—varied from around 4% to 25%; in most European nations, it is about 15%.

DNT does not seem an obviously huge selling point for windows 8-though the firm has compared some of its other products favourably with Google's on that count before.

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.

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

95 knit miniskirt in all its 2,300-pius stores around the world, it must rely on low-wage overseas labor, order in volumes that strain natural resources, and use massive amounts of harmful chemicals.

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

“Those first few days should be spent looking for work, not looking to sign on,” he claimed.

To find their sites, archaeologists today rely heavily on systematic survey methods and a variety of high-technology tools and techniques.

To encourage innovation and competition, the report calls for increased investment in research, the crafting of coherent curricula that improve students’ ability to solve problems and communicate effectively in the 21st century, increased funding for teachers and the encouragement of scholars to bring their learning to bear on the great challenges of the day.

This leaves today’s average law-school graduate with $100, 000 of debt on top of undergraduate debts.

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.

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

In response, the American Academy formed the Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences.

In one case, many researchers working around the ancient Maya city of Copan, Honduras, have located hundreds of small rural villages and individual dwellings by using aerial photographs and by making surveys on foot.

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms’ efficiency.

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

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

During the decade before the economic crisis, spending on legal services in America grew twice as fast as inflation.

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

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

This is hacking on an industrial scale ,as was acknowledged by Glenn Mulcaire, the man hired by the News of the World in 2001 to be the point person for phone hacking.

So, does the Spanish crisis suggest that monarchy is seeing its last days? Does that mean the writing is on the wall for all European royals, with their magnificent uniforms and majestic lifestyle?.

Rather, we ascribe meanings to test on the basis of interaction between what we might call textual and contextual material: between kinds of organization or patterning we perceive in a text’s formal structures ( ' , so especially its language structures) and various kinds of background, social knowledge, belief and attitude that we bring to the text.

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

One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, wow little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired wow the stories arrived.

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

Just how much does the Constitution protect your digital data? The Supreme Court will now consider whether police can search the contents of a mobile phone without a warrant if the phone is on or around a person during an arrest.

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

How we read a given text also depends to some extent on our particular interest in reading it.

How does your reading proceed? Clearly you try to comprehend, in the sense of identifying meanings for individual words and working out relationships between them, drawing on your explicit knowledge of English grammar ( ' , 41) you begin to infer a context for the text, for insta4ce, by making decisions about what kind of speech event is involved: who is making the utterance, to whom, when and where.

Citizens still have a right to expect private documents to remain private and protected by the Constitution’s prohibition on unreasonable searches.

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

Are we studying that text and trying to respond in a way that fulfils the requirement of a given course? Reading it simply for pleasure? Skimming it for information? Ways of reading on a train or in bed are likely to differ considerably from reading in a seminar room.

It gives us patience for ourselves and toward others as well as patience while driving,catching a fish,working on our car,or raising a child.

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.