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is something few can accomplishneeds some practice firstrequires a lot of patienceis a challenge at the beginningThey find it even more difficult.

You feel the same emotions – it is just as raw, just as fresh… You can't turn off that stream of memories, no matter how hard you try.

While it may sound like an advantage to many, people with this rare condition often find their unusual ability burdensome.

While excessive optimism can promote bad investment patterns, resulting in a real-estate bubble, the report's writers downplay that potential outcome in that it has not yet occurred.

While consumers are spending less on toilet paper, they remain fussy – in theory at least – when it comes to paper quality.

When we acquire new information, the brain automatically tries to incorporate ( ' , 合并) it within existing information by forming associations.

When it's time to make the leap, they take action and immediately drop what's no longer serving their purpose.

Viewing the past in high definition can make it very difficult to get over pain and regret.

To ensure employees' commitment, it is advisable to give them more flexibility as to where and how they work.

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

They are simply unable to make it.

There's part of this sickening horror of knowing you're walking on the edge with this, that I kind of like, knowing that it could all fall apart at any second.

The people with HSAM I've interviewed would certainly agree that it can be a mixed blessing.

The late Richard Hackman of Harvard University once argued, I have no question that when you have a team, the possibility exists that it will generate magic, producing something extraordinary… But don't count on it.

Some team members find it hard to agree on questions like membership and the team's purpose.

Some people with HSAM find it very hard to get rid of unpleasant memories.

Some of us will seek it out; for others it will feel like an unwelcome intrusion into otherwise stable careers.

So it's no surprise that cultures around the world celebrate spring by honoring the egg.

Six months out, more people who had quit abruptly had stuck with it—more than one-fifth of them, compared to about one-seventh in the other group.

She then realized that her life no longer matched her vision for it.

Readiness to take advantage of new opportunities will make it easier to create one's desired future.

People with HSAM have the same memory as ordinary people when it comes to impersonal information.

On the plus side, it allows you to relive the most transformative and enriching experiences.

Leah's growth spurred her to open her second studio—and it wasn't for the money.

It's the stage in the middle of the journey when people feel youth vanishing, their prospects narrowing and death approaching.

It's not about that; it's about growth for me.

It will remain gloomy.

It will recover as population grows.

It will experience ups and downs.

It undergoes radical transformation.

It should not cause any alarm in any way.

It prevents old information from forming associations.

It originated in the eastern part of Europe.

It misrepresents real life.

It may see old-age diseases approaching.

It may be the beginning of a crisis.

It makes their life more complicated.

It makes for the best part of one's life.

It keeps our most precious memories until life's end.

It isn't true.

It is widely acknowledged.

It is unexpected.

It is their major source of protein in winter.

It is the most time-honored form of fancy art.

It is no longer fashionable.

It is more important to those with a longer lifespan.

It is misleading.

It is likely to change the narrative of one's life.

It is likely to be a critical turning point in one's life.

It is idealized.

It is especially favored as a church decoration.

It is encouraging.

It is a welcome sign of the coming of spring.

It is a way of organising our memories.

It helps slow down our aging process.

It helps get rid of negative memories.

It has shrunk from £1.

It has led to a lot of debate.

It has a history of over two thousand years.

It grows sophisticated with practice.

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

It frees us from painful memories.

It facilitates our access to relevant information.

It didn't take long for magazines and documentary film-makers to come to understand her total recall, and thanks to the subsequent media interest, a few dozen other subjects ( ' , including Veiseh) have since come forward and contacted the team at the University of California, Irvine.

It contributes to their success in life.

It constitutes a rare object of envy.

It can enlarge our brain capacity.

It can easily be made into a work of art.

It can bring wealth and honor to them.

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

It can be terrifying for the unprepared.

It can be quite rosy.

It can be burdensome.

It can be a new phase of one's life.

It adds to the burden of their memory.

Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings ( ' , 瘾) and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.

Initially Leah stayed with her accounting job while starting up the yoga studio to make it all work.

In some ways, you probably go through that process after a big event like your wedding day – but the difference is that thanks to their other psychological tendencies, the HSAM subjects are doing it day in, day out, for the whole of their lives.

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.

If you're training for a marathon, you wouldn't expect to turn up and just be able to run it.

If it is hard enough to define a team's membership, agreeing on its purpose is harder still.

I had spent two years cultivating this community, and it had become successful very fast, within six months, but I was facing the prospect of losing it all.

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

However, it was another interest that led Leah to radically reinvent herself.

His solution was to learn something from the rebels it was fighting: decentralising authority to self-organising teams.

Either way, we have choices about how we respond to it when it comes.

Each time this initial memory trace is replayed, it becomes even stronger.

Donohue, now a history teacher, agrees that it helped during certain parts of her education: I can definitely remember what I learned on certain days at school.

Digital technology also makes it easier for people to co-ordinate their activities without resorting to hierarchy.

But is there a point where it reaches capacity?The answer is no, because brains are more sophisticated than that.

Bill, for instance, often gets painful flashbacks, in which unwanted memories intrude into his consciousness, but overall he has chosen to see it as the best way of avoiding repeating the same mistakes.

As soon as I saw the location, I knew this was it.

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

Although these numbers appear low, it is much higher than if people try without support.

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.

After graduating with a degree in business and accounting, she joined a public accounting firm, married, bought a house, put lots of stuff in it, and had a baby.

A good rule of thumb is that as soon as generals and hospital administrators jump on a management bandwagon ( ' , 追随一种管理潮流), it is time to ask questions.

A decorated egg with a bird on it, given to a young married couple, is a wish for children.

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

When he looked closer he realized it was a huge group of bees.

Yet they are doing it quite differently.

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

Will parents be damaging children if they have one fewer organized activity? No, I really doubt it.

While alternative estimates of the damage from carbon emissions differ, and it's especially hard to reckon the likely costs of possible catastrophic climate events, most estimates suggest substantial negative effects.

To match the growing demand, services are springing up to make it easier to publish research products online and enable other researchers to discover and cite them.

The video challenge does not put individual students on the hot seat—so it's less intimidating by design.

The retailer also announced the locations of 36 stores it will close in early 2016.

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

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 belief that research data is private intellectual propertyThe concern that certain agencies may make a profit out of it.

The Math Olympiad Summer Training Program is a three-week math camp held by the Mathematical Association of America that leads straight to the international championship and is free for those who make it.

The 224 students who make it to the national competition get an all-expenses-paid trip.

Part of it is communication; part of it is transportation.

One relative bright spot for Macy's during the holiday season was the online channel, where it rang up double-digit increases in sales and a 25% increase in the number of orders it filled.

It's very risky.

It's no secret in the advanced-math community that diversity is a problem.

It's important to allow readers and reviewers to see exactly how you arrive at your results.

It's also pushing ahead in 2016 with an expansion of Bluemercury, the beauty chain it bought last year.

It will slash staffing at its fleet of 770 stores, a move affecting some 3,000 employees.

It will improve their financial situation.

It was unaffordable for ordinary people.

It was fashionable among young people of the time.

It represented genuine American artIt was a completely new inventionPursuit of beautyEase of care.

It reflects a shift of their interest in consumer goods.

It produced some famous European artists.

It poses a potential threat to the retail business in the U.S.

It made a compulsory part of college education.

It laid emphasis on women's beauty.

It is urgent for governments to increase the cost of using fossil fuels to an appropriate level to lessen the catastrophic effects of climate change.

It is imperative to protect scientists' patents.

It is estimated that extreme weather conditions have endangered the lives of millions of African children.

It is backed by a campus spending analysis.

It is attributable to the rising value of the U.S. dollar.

It is a direct result of the global economic recession.

It imitated the European model.

It helped Bluemercury establish its position worldwide.

It has plans to open more locations of Macy's Backstage, a newly-developed off-price concept which might help it better compete with ambitious T.J.Maxx.

It has neglected their faculty's demands.

It has been flatly rejected by the governor.

It filled its stores with abundant supply of merchandise.

It also plans to offer voluntary separation packages to 165 senior executives.

It also adds the element of artistic creativity to attract a new pool of students who may not see themselves as math people.

However, it's clear that Macy's believes its troubles run deeper than a temporary aberration ( ' , 偏离) off the thermometer.

Historically, scientists have objected to sharing for many reasons: it is a lot of work; until recently, good databases did not exist; grant funders were not pushing for sharing; it has been difficult to agree on standards for formatting data; and there is no agreed way to assign credit for data.

Higher fossil fuel prices prove to be conducive to innovation and application of cleaner technologyIf fossil fuel prices remain low for a long time, it may lead to higher emissions of greenhouse gases.

For the birds, it's a very convenient way to get food.

For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; it has been downloaded 5,700 times.

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

Fashion in America was logical and answerable to the will of the women who wore it.

Designer sportswear was not modeled on that of Europe, as modern art would later be; it was genuinely invented and developed in America.

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.

Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice, Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination ( ' , 终极) of their classical education.

And it would raise the demand for technologies such as carbon capture and storage, spurring their further development.

Addressing differences in the earliest years, it seems, could reduce inequality in the next generation.

According to Mark Saul, the director of competitions for the Mathematical Association of America, not a single African-American or Hispanic student—and only a handful of girls—has ever made it to the Math Olympiad team in its 50 years of existence.

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.

Sweden was the first European country to print and use paper money, but it may soon do away with physical currencies.

So recently, I’ve looked at young people’s drinking and it’s obviously a major concern to government at the moment.

It's not a chance you're going to have throughout your lifetime.

It is the busiest shopping day of the year.

It concerns not only us sociologists, but also economists, politicians and business people.

In the past, health experts warned us that the day would come in which it would become very difficult to provide medical care for even common problems such as lung infection or severe sour throat.

Which makes it odd that the kitchen has become the heart of the modern house: what the great hall was to the medieval castle, the kitchen is to the 21stcentury home.

There's work to be done, but workers aren't ready to do it—they're in the wrong places, or they have the wrong skills.

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.

The idea is that we are taking more out of what you might call the planet's environmental bank balance than it can sustain; we are living beyond our ecological means.

The final legislation might throw a public plan into the competition, but thanks to the fierce opposition of the insurance industry and Republican critics, it might not save much money.

The changes would have to be approved or rejected as a whole by Congress, making it hard for narrow-interest lobbies to bend lawmakers to their will.

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, a vast four-year global study which reported its initial conclusions earlier this year, found reasons to believe that managing ecosystems sustainably—working with nature rather than against it—might be less profitable in the short term, but certainly brings long-term rewards.

That was as it should be: kitchens were for servants, and the aspiring middle classes wanted nothing to do with them.

That falls far short of the billions of dollars people once expected it to generate.

Teaching is so important that it should be like other professions, with high pay and good working conditions but few job protections for bottom performers.

Still, it is true that American families are growing closer at the dawn of this new millennium ( ' , 千年).

Some young people like to keep something to themselves and don't want their parents to know about it.

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.

She borrowed the principle of efficiency on the factory floor and applied it to domestic tasks on the kitchen floor.

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.

Our society needs the full participation of its younger citizens if it is to continue to thrive.

No other manufacturer can produce anything like it.

Nearly a decade ago it was predicted that viewers of Friends, a popular situation comedy, would soon be able to purchase a sweater like Jennifer Aniston's with a few taps on their remote control.

Mr.Wilhelm said the excess of labels made it difficult for businesses and consumers to know which labels they should pay attention to.

Measuring emissions is not a precise science, particularly when it comes to issues surrounding land use; not all nations have released up-to-date data, and in any case, emissions from some sectors such as aviation are not included in national statistics.

Many even think their parents are cool! Although more than a third have an object in their rooms they would like to keep secret from their parents, rarely is it anything more alarming than a diary or offcolor ( ' , 低俗的) book or CD.

Magna, an advertising agency, reckons it will be worth about $138 million this year.

Its big selling point is that nobody else will have it: You won't see this kitchen anywhere else in the world.

It's true that the main reason inner-city schools do poorly isn't teachers' unions, but poverty.

It's simply not true that economic growth will surely make our world cleaner.

It's not just about education, but about poverty and justice.

It's kind of a Wild West, anybody can claim themselves to be green.

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

It would most likely cause insurers to redesign plans to fall beneath the threshold.

It will make the farm produce less competitive on the market.

It will drive producers of chemical fertilizers out of business.

It was in conformity to the prevailing practice in the market.

It was a modernist triumph, and many elements remain central features of today's kitchen.

It underestimates students' ability to tell good teachers from poor ones.

It turns out today's teenagers aren't so scary after all.

It totally ignores students' initiative in the learning process.

It sold cleaning products that were not included in the official Greenlist.

It should be forbidden altogether.

"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.

It is wise to take a day off to rest.

A build-it-yourself solar still is one of the best ways to obtain drinking water in areas where the liquid is not readily available.

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

A coin is put into the cake, which signifies 预示 success in the new year for the person who receives it.

A company showed a new voice technology able to produce such a convincing human-sounding voice that it was able to speak to a receptionist.

A dog's eating habit requires regular training before it is properly established.

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

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

A pie graph might include a legend, or it might use icons or labels within each slice.

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

Adults understand what it feels like to be flooded with objects.

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

After boats began flying special flags noting the inspector was aboard, the keeper's family made it a game to see who could notice the boat first.

After hours in the cold and wet, he reached inside and pulled the wallet out hoping to find some id so he could contact the driver, only to discover it contained ￡400 in notes, with another ￡50 in spare change beside it.

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.

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

Also, you need to check the accuracy of it.

Although it doesn't taste of anything special, it's still worth a try, as is the knobbly cat's head which is more of a curiosity than anything else.

Although the job takes a significant amount of time, most students agree that the experience is worth it.

Although this result may not surprise you, it leads to important practical advice.

Amy, my head is spinning! It must be a touch of the sun.

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

An important negative effect of gossip is that it can hurt the person being talked about.

An important negative effect of gossip is that it causes unpleasant experiences.

And if it works, the idea could spread to other parts of the country.

And it is not just robins that are being kept awake by artificial light.

And it took me hours to find a parking space.

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

And it wasn't easy for me to register for international trade.

And it won't help if you're stuck in traffic.

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

And the longer we delay it, the more tired we feel.

And we'll benefit a lot from it.

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

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

Andrew Miller thinks social media needs more attention than banks mainly because it remains unknown how users' data will be taken advantage of.

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

Another argument against television is that it replaces reading as a form of entertainment.

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

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

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

As it happened, the bite was virtually painless: more the kind of small bite you might get from a naughty child.

As it turned out, their initial judgments often held true.

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

As Muhammad Ali puts it, "champions aren't made in gyms."

As perfect as it was, the price remained too high for us.

As sad as it was, I couldn't help smiling.

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

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

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

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

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

Athens, the Athens of ancient Greece, refused responsibility; she reached the end of freedom and was never to have it again.

Aunt Dede, a teacher, had read the book to her students, and they loved it.

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

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

Because it was getting dark,and she didn't want her mother to worry about her.

Before he knew it, Nicholas was lost, all alone! he didn't have food, water, a phone, or other supplies.

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

Before she could react, I gave her a big hug and told her she didn't need to keep it a secret from me.

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

Ben, had got in touch, he'd moved to England with his mum when he was three and it had been 13 years since I'd last seen him.

Better sewers make it less likely that heavy rain is followed by an outbreak of the disease of bad stomach.

Both scattering and absorption make an object look different from other objects around it, so you can see it easily.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

But how they're doing it is still unknown.

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

But I haven't finished even half of it.

But it also set off the montgomery bus boycott.

But it can be taught to children and developed in adults.

But it can quickly rise to something worse, when everyone starts hitting "reply all" to join in a long and unpleasant conversation.

But it doesn't happen by accident.

But it is useful to bear in mind that all such changes come from the technology and not some imagined desire by parents to keep their children under their wings.

But it makes me happy think that I'll never have to go to another training session again.

But it may well be that the learning you really want lies somewhere else instead.

But it picks up more shades of blue, yellow, and grey than humans do.

But it seems that many people don't cook fish at home.

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

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

But like so many other things, it is only too much stress that does you harm.

But now a study has found it really does help people nod off—if it is milked from a cow at night.

But now I'm getting tired of it.

But once I started, I simply couldn't put it down.

But rather I see it as an area of freedom.

But recently it has discovered that data can be turned into new services: translation and visual recognition, to be sold to other companies.

But some materials slow and scatter (散射) light, bouncing it away from its original path.

But sometimes it seems too hard to leave the sofa.

But the only thing that wasn't very fun about it was that he could catch many fish while I couldn't catch anything.

While it is easy to ignore in our contact with them the effect of our acts upon their disposition, it is not so easy as in dealing with adults.

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

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

While few crafts men or farmers, let alone dependents and servants, left literary compositions to be analyzed, it is obvious that their views less fully intellectualized.

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

We are fortunate that is it, because new educational systems there and putting enough people through them to improve economic performance would require two or three generations.

So it seems antithetical to talk about habits in the same context as creativity and innovation.

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

Most tests require collecting cells by webbing saliva in the mouth and sending it to the company for testing.

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.

When one of these noneconomic categories is threatened and, if we happen to love it, we invent excuses to give it economic importance.

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.

It is painful to read these roundabout accounts today.

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

It assumes, falsely, I think, that the economic parts of the biotic clock will function without the uneconomic parts.

Yet it is precisely these non-celebrity influentials who,according to the two-step-flow theory,are supposed to drive social epidemics by influcencing their friends and colleagues directly.

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.

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

The theory also seems to explain the sudden and unexpected popularity of people was wearing, promoting or developing whatever it is before anyone else paid attention.

The idea is intuitively compelling,but it doesn’t explain how ideas actually spread.

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.

The Federal circuit issued an unusual order stating that the case would be heard by all 12 of the court’s judges, rather than a typical panel of three, and that one issue it wants to evaluate is weather it should” reconsider” its state street Bank ruling.

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.

Marketers have embraced the two-step flow because it suggests that if they can just find and influence the influentials,those selected people will do most of the work for them.

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

It is difficult to the point of impossibility for the average reader under the age of forty to imagine a time when high-quality arts criticism could be found in most big-city newspapers.

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.

In other words, it is up to the buyer, rather than the seller, to decide what to buy.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition.

One reason why it is hard to design and teach such courses is that they cut across the insistence by top American universities that liberal-arts education and professional education should be kept separate, taught in different schools.

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.

It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, “I love My Children, I Hate My Life,” is arousing much chatter – nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience.

It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut.

It was a year before she became head of a tiny Internet-based commodities exchange.

It also sent a clear message to the outside world about his aspirations.

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

If Gilbert and the Philharmonic are to succeed, they must first change the relationship between America’s oldest orchestra and the new audience it hops to attract.

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

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

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

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

To filter out what is unique from what is shared might enable us to understand how complex cultural behavior arose and what guides it in evolutionary or cognitive terms.

It is becoming less clear, however, that such a theory would be a simplification, given the dimensions and universes that it might entail, nonetheless, unification of sorts remains a major goal.

Here, Darwinism seems to offer justification for it all humans share common origins it seems reasonable to suppose that cultural diversity could also be traced to more constrained beginnings.

Chomsky’s grammar should show patterns of language change that are independent of the family tree or the pathway tracked through it.

A few generative rules are then sufficient to unfold the entire fundamental structure of a language, which is why children can learn it so quickly.

The most glaring flaw of the social cure as it’s presented here is that it doesn’t work very well for very long.

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.

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

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

Of course, it is precisely these superfluous things that define human culture and ultimately what it is to be human.

Not only did they develop such a device but by the turn of the millennium they had also managed to embed it in a worldwide system accessed by billions of people every day.

It’s like the teacher who breaks up the troublemakers in the back row by pairing them with better-behaved classmates.

It’s a stunning move.

It usually leads to no good-drinking, drugs and casual sex.

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

I call it a secret war for two reasons.

Either Entergy never really intended to live by those commitments, or it simply didn’t foresee what would happen next.

Come on -Everybody’s doing it.

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

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

As a discovery claim works it through the community, the interaction and confrontation between shared and competing beliefs about the science and the technology involved transforms an individual’s discovery claim into the community’s credible discovery.

This distinction is so much so that where the latter is lacking, as it is for these unlikely gardens, the foremer becomes all the more urgent.

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.

The gardens of the homeless which are in effect homeless gardens introduce from into an urban environment where it either didn’t exist or was not discernible as such.

It is this implicit or explicit reference to nature that fully justifies the use of word garden though in a “liberated” sense, to describe these synthetic constructions.

It is speculated that gardens arise from a basic need in the individuals who made them: the need for creative expression.

A sacred place of peace, however crude it may be, is a distinctly human need, as opposed to shelter, which is a distinctly animal need.

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

This is an adequate amount so long as it is aimed in the right direction.

The solution is to change the mindset of the academic community, and what it considers to be its main goal.

The potential evolution of today's technology, and its social consequences, is dazzlingly complicated, and it's perhaps best left to science fiction writers and futurologists to explore the many possibilities we can envisage.

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 administration was in essence asserting that because it didn't want to carry out Congress's immigration wishes,no state should be allowed to do so either.

Stemming climate change, for example, is as much about changing consumption patterns and promoting tax acceptance as it is about developing clean energy.

She exhibits the idealism common to many advocates of sustainability, be it in food or in energy.

Perhaps willfully , it may be easier to think about such lengthy timescales than about the more immediate future.

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.

It is not yet clear how advertisers will respond.

It could be that we are evolving two communities of social scientists: one that is discipline-oriented and publishing in highly specialized journals, and one that is problem-oriented and publishing elsewhere, such as policy briefs.

In effect, the White House claimed that it could invalidate any otherwise legitimate state law that it disagrees with.

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

Human nature being what it is, most people stick with default settings.

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%.

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

And in Europe, some are up in arms over a proposal to drop a specific funding category for social-science research and to integrate it within cross-cutting topics of sustainable development.

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

Also unclear is why Microsoft has gone it alone.

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