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people

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

When people tend to forget.

The question is, how?Lawrence Patihis at the University of Southern Mississippi recently studied around 20 people with HSAM and found that they scored particularly highly on two measures: fantasy proneness ( ' , 倾向) and absorption.

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

The fashion for teams is driven by a sense that the old way of organising people is too rigid for both the modern marketplace and the expectations of employees.

Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross-functional teams.

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

Some people regard professional change as an unpleasant experience that disturbs their stable careers.

Some people are absorbed in the past but not open to new memories, but that's not the case for me.

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.

Since then, she has founded two yoga studios, met a new life partner, and formed a new community of people.

People with HSAM often have to make efforts to avoid focusing on the past.

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

People rarely manage to quit the first time they try.

People in both groups used nicotine ( ' , 尼古丁) patches before they quit, in addition to a second form of nicotine replacement, like gum or spray.

People can enjoy services around the clock.

People are in harmony with the environment.

People are healthy and energetic longer.

People are generally more competitive.

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

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.

Most people do not have clear memories of past events.

Many more people with HSAM started to contact researchers due to the mass media.

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

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.

Fantasy proneness will not necessarily cause people to develop HSAM.

Eggs reflect the anxieties of people today.

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

Barbara Hagerty looks at some of the features of people who turn midlife into a rebirth.

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 think people see that for smoking as well.

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

A very small number of people are able to remember almost every detail of their life.

A recent study of people with HSAM reveals that they are liable to fantasy and full absorption in an activity.

A couple of recent papers have finally opened a window on these people's extraordinary minds.

We were beginning to be adventurous about food, but we were more interested in meeting people than in eating or drinking.

The researchers also note that dogs scan faces as a whole to sense how people are feeling, instead of focusing on a given feature.

The boat was carrying 32 people—25 Costa Ricans, four Americans and three Nicaraguans.

That just wasn’t where the scene was, even eating! It was the first time ordinary people started going out to eat.

Soon however, Katherine found herself comparing herself with the people she was reading about on Facebook.

She loved learning about the success of people she knew when she was just a teenager.

She loved finding out people were getting married, having babies and traveling.

People were coming out of a formal and almost Victorian attitude, and you really felt anything was possible.

People in cold places live in warm houses and have learned to adapt.

Meeting people was the thing, and you went to coffee bars where you met friends and spent the evening.

It began to make her feel bad that some people seemed to be doing so much better than she was.

In the 1600s, people in China used carrots as medicine, but they also ate carrots boiled in soup.

But people still mostly fed carrots to horses, donkeys and pigs, and didn’t eat them themselves.

But carrots got their biggest boost during the two world wars when food shortages forced people to eat them and governments told everyone how healthy carrots were.

Both he and a crew member are being investigated for unintentional murder and exposing people to danger, according to police.

Around 800 A.D., people in Central Asia managed to develop a new kind of carrot—a purple carrot—that attracted more interest from international traders.

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.

to see whether people's personality affects their life span to find out if one's lifestyle has any effect on their health to investigate the role of exercise in living a long lifeto examine all the factors contributing to longevity They have a good understanding of evolution.

Why do some people live to be older than others? You know the standard explanations: keeping a moderate diet, engaging in regular exercise, etc.

What people were like when they came in had greater consequence than what happened once they were there.

What matters, she added, is a combination of what people bring in with them, and what they find there.

What kind of care facility old people live in may be less important than we think.

Unable to buy grain or grow their own, hungry people take to the streets.

This is especially interesting when you consider that younger people are generally more interested in travelrelated technologies than older onesWhen it comes to driverless cars, differences in attitude are more pronounced based on factors not related to age.

They tend to decline in people's later years.

They reach a peak at the age of 20 for most people.

The study shows that those living the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic ( ' , 神经质的 ) than other people.

The result is falling water tables ( ' , 地下水位) in countries with half the world's people, including the three big grain producers—China, India and the U.S.

The more recent steep climb in grain prices partly results from the fact that more and more people want to consume meat products.

That is, generally, younger people tend to outnumber older people on the front end of a technological shift.

That damaging other people in your community and in your life, trashing relationships, results in a kind of self-inflicted ( ' , 自己招致的 ) spiritual wound.

Some of them begin to decline when people are still young.

People with unhealthy eating habits are likely to die sooner.

Once driverless cars are actually for sale, the early adopters will be the people who can afford to buy them.

On the demand side, those trends include the ongoing addition of more than 70 million people a year, a growing number of people wanting to move up the food chain to consume -72- highly grain-intensive meat products, and the massive diversion ( ' , 转向) of U.S. grain to the production of bio-fuel.

Most people's minds function at a high level even in their later years, according to researcher Timothy Salthouse.

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.

Many people feel guilty when they cannot find a place other than a nursing home for their parents.

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 do not think that we spend nearly enough time trying to concentrate on achieving a sort of calmness, a sort of contentment in a mental and spiritual way, which was identified by these people as the highest form of happiness and pleasure.

Easy-going people can also live a relatively long life.

Does assisted living really mark a great improvement over a nursing home, or has the industry simply hired better interior designers? Are nursing homes as bad as people fear, or is that an out-moded stereotype ( ' , 固定看法 )? Can doing one's homework really steer families to the best places? It is genuinely hard to know.

But what effect does your personality have on your longevity ( ' , 长寿)? Do some kinds of personalities lead to longer lives? A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the personality characteristics of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.

And that the characteristics adult children look for when they begin the search are not necessarily the things that make a difference to the people who are going to move in.

Ancient philosophers saw life in a different light from people of today.

Also, being open to new ideas had no relationship to long life, which might explain all those bad-tempered old people who are fixed in their ways.

The report warns that 200 million poor workers are at risk of joining the ranks of people living on less than two dollars per day in the past three years.

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

Soon, members of the Royal family and other wealthy people took up motoring as a sport.

People suffering from sleep loss are at an increased risk from obesity, psychological problems and car crashes.

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.

But it’s one of many low- tech fixes for high-tech failures that people without engineering degrees have discovered, often out of desperation and shared.

Why do some students give up when they encounter difficulty, whereas others who are no more skilled continue to strive and learn? One answer, I soon discovered, lay in people's beliefs about why they had failed.

We can lead people to eat less while helping the restaurant business.

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.

There is no effective way to reduce people's sugar consumption.

The researchers, led by Martin Reimann, carried out a series of experiments to see if people would choose a smaller meal if it was paired with a non-food item.

Teachers are not people who are great at and consumed by research and happen to appear in a classroom.

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.

Sales people often fall into this category.

Reducing food intake is not that difficult if people go to McDonald's more.

They radically changed people's concept of beauty.

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.

People used to live near people of different income levels; neighborhoods are now more segregated by income.

Most people would love to get students from more underserved populations, but they just can't get them in the door.

It was unaffordable for ordinary people.

It was fashionable among young people of the time.

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

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

Even people whose data are less popular can benefit.

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

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

Can you tell us how you first became interested in this subject matter?( ' , 9 ) Wh e n f a c i n g a n e w situation, some people tend to rehearse their defeat by spending too much time anticipating the worst.

About 183.8 million people will shop on Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving.

About 136 million people will shop during the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend.

Young people should have lofty ideals in life and strive to be leaders.

Yet there are doubts whether people watching television, a lean back medium, crave interaction.

We, of course, need to pay attention to youngsters who are filled with discontent and hostility, but we should not allow these extreme cases to distort our view of most young people.

Very Serious People's attempt to cripple the economy.

The protection and improvement of the human environment is a major issue which affects the well-being of peoples and economic development throughout the world, read the final declaration from this gathering, the first of a sequence which would lead to the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992 and the World Development Summit in Johannesburg three years ago.

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

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

Results of USA WEEKEND's Teens & Parents survey reveal a generation of young people who get along well with their parents and approve of the way they're being raised.

Not many young people eligible for voting are interested in local or national elections these days.

Nearly 2.2 million people die a year because of diarrhea-related ( ' , 与腹泻相关的) diseases, according to WHO statistics.

Many of them volunteer for community service with disadvantaged people.

It represents the rapid technological advance in people's daily life.

It is fine and healthy for teens to cultivate their personal interests, and it is good news when young people enjoy harmonious relations with their family and friends.

It is beneficial to encourage young people to explore the broader world and get ready to make it a better place.

In fact, other recent studies have found there has never been a time in American history when so small a proportion of young people have sought or accepted leadership roles in local civic organizations.

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be eliminated and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced—not just in this generation but in succeeding generations—we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

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 almost five centuries a very large supply of cod ( ' , 鳕鱼) provided abundant raw material for an industry which at its peak employed about 40,000 people, sustaining entire communities in Newfoundland.

Environmental protection and improvement benefit people all over the world.

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.

And the World Resources Institute ( ' , WRI) in its World Resources 2005 report, issued at the end of August, produced several such examples from Africa and Asia; it also demonstrated that environmental degradation affects the poor more than the rich, as poorer people derive a much higher proportion of their income directly from the natural resources around them.

A place of interest to the educated people.

Asked what they would like to change in the world, the students mentioned only personal concerns such as slowing down the pace of life, gaining good friends, becoming more spiritual, becoming either more materially successful or less materially oriented ( ' , depending on the student's values), and being more respectful of the Earth, animals and other people.

You know, one of the first things I like to tell people when they ask me about the supplements, is that a lot of them are promoted as a cure for your memory, but your memory doesn’t need a cure.

The other thing that people do forget is that these are medicines, so they do have an impact.

People don’t just go in a local grocery store and buy these supplements.

A study by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters finds that, between 1980 and 2007, nearly 8,400 natural disasters killed more than twomillion people.

A lot of times people are not really aware of the impact they have, or the fact that taking them in combination with other medications might put you at increased risk for something that you wouldn’t otherwise being countering or be at risk for.

a basis for explaining human genetic diversityan aid to understanding different populationsan explanation for social and cultural differencesa term to describe individual human characteristicsmodern genetics research is likely to fuel racial conflictsrace is a poorly defined marker of human genetic diversityrace as a biological term can explain human genetic diversitygenetics research should consider social and cultural variablesit is absolutely necessary to put race aside in making diagnosisit is important to include social variables in genetics researchracial categories for genetic diversity could lead to wrong clinical predictionsdiscrimination against black people may cause negligence in clinical treatmentThey be more precise with the language they use.

What happens to the centralized electric grid, which took decades and billions of dollars to build, as more and more people become prosumers, who produce and consume their own energy on-site?No one knows which – if any – battery technology will ultimately dominate, but one thing remains clear: The future of energy is in how we store it.

Today's battery breakthroughs come as the world looks to expand modern energy access to the billion or so people without it, while also cutting back on fuels that warm the planet.

They made more British people obese.

The large base he leads resembles a snowed-in college campus on holiday break, with the capacity to sleep more than 10 times the 13 people who were staying on through the Antarctic winter.

Meeting people who will be helpful to you in the future.

Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.

It's a dramatic endorsement for a technology most people think about only when their smartphone goes dark.

It is too expensive for most young people.

In the paper, he and his colleagues used the example of cystic fibrosis, which is underdiagnosed in people of African ancestry because it is thought of as a white disease.

Harvard Business School professor Leslie Perlow explains that when people feel the pressure to be always on, they find ways to accommodate that pressure, including altering their schedules, work habits and interactions with family and friends.

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.

E.B.Du Bois was concerned that race was being used as a biological explanation for what he understood to be social and cultural differences between different populations of people.

Because their behaviors are not usually seen as a red flag, these young people have been dubbed the invisible risk group by the study's authors.

Assumptions about genetic differences between people of different races could be particularly dangerous in a medical setting.

As some countries expand operations in Antarctica, the United States maintains three year-round stations on the continent with more than 1,000 people during the southern hemisphere's summer, including those at the Amundsen-Scott station, built in 1956 at an elevation of 9,301 feet on a plateau at the South Pole.

We help guide people to critical resources and counsel them on life-changing decisions.

People who live, hunt or fish near bird coloniesneed to be careful, the researchers say, The birds don’t mean to cause harm, but the chemicals they carry can cause major problems.

People physically fit enough to survive over 100 years ultimately give in to diseases such as Alzheimer’s, which affects the mind and cognitive function.

One reason for the rise in deaths from Alzheimer’s disease in this group may be that developing this condition remains possible even after people beat the odds of dying from other diseases such as cancer.

OK, that’s really what intimacy is: the bond that comes with sharing information that isn’t shared with other people.

Its primary mission is to enhance human well-being and help meet the basic needs of all people, with the particular focus on those who are vulnerable, oppressed and living in poverty.

In thousands of ways, social workers help other people—people from every age, every background across the country.

just perceiving norms is enough to cause people to adjust their behaviour in the direction of the crowd.

When you hear people speaking of making a rapid transition toward any type of energy, whether it is a switch from coal to nuclear power, or a switch from gasoline-powered cars to electric cars, or even a switch from an incandescent to a fluorescent light, understanding energy system inertia and momentum can help you decide whether their plans are feasible.

When people find they are powerless to change a situation, they tend to live with it.

We need to understand what motivates people, what it is that allows them to make change, says Professor Neil Adger, of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwich.

To find effective solutions to climate change, it is necessary to understand what motivates people to make change.

The Conservatives plan to adopt this strategy by making utility companies print the average local electricity and gas usage on people's bills.

That is because the engineers, designers, regulators, operators, and all of the other skilled people needed for the new energy industry are specialists who have to be trained first ( ' , or retrained, if they are the ones being laid off in some related industry), and education, like any other complicated endeavor, takes times.

She is expecting up to 20 people at the first meeting she has called, at her local pub in the Cornish village of Polperro.

People's conception of a person has much to do with the way he or she is labeled.

People should not expect too much from American higher education.

Other studies show that simply providing the facility for people to compare their energy use with the local average is enough to cause them to modify their behaviour.

Not only moving objects and people but all systems have momentum.

It's always more of an incentive if you're doing it with other people, she says.

It may discourage rich people from space travel.

It is the government's responsibility to persuade people into making environment-friendly decisions.

In 2011 they released a landmark study titled Academically Adrift, which documented the lack of intellectual growth experienced by many people enrolled in college.

Existing social networks can be more effective in creating change in people's behaviour.

Environmental campaigns that tell us how many people drive SUVs unwittingly ( ' , 不经意地 ) imply that this behaviour is widespread and thus permissible.

Despite mournful polar bears and charts showing carbon emissions soaring, most people find it hard to believe that global warming will affect them personally.

Despite clear signs of global warming it is not easy for most people to believe climate change will affect their own lives.

Cialdini conducted a study in San Diego in which coat hangers bearing messages about saving energy were hung on people's doors.

But people must acquire this skill somewhere.

But if it was known that Black people were viewed differently from African Americans, researchers, until now, hadn't identified what that gap in perception was derived from.

Black people's socioeconomic status in America remains low.

At the Exploratorium in San Francisco, we recently studied how learning to ask good questions can affect the quality of people's scientific inquiry.

As a result, Black people are thought of a less competent and as having colder personalities.

After all, we don't speak only of objects or people as having momentum; we speak of entire systems having momentum.

A recent study, conducted by Emory University's Erika Hall, found that Black people are viewed more negatively than African Americans because of a perceived difference in socioeconomic status.

The best form of advertising is probably word-of-mouth advertising which occurs when people tell their friends about the benefits of products or services that they have purchased.

For some people, mass transit might answer all transportation needs.

Every year, people in America use energy equal to over 30million barrels of oil each day.

Asia led the way, with the biggest number from China followed by Japan and India, most European and Asian universities provide an elite service to a small numberof people.

Are people suffering from gadget overload? Are they exhausted by the consumer equivalent of the brain fatigue—information overload—that is caused by constant updates of devices and online media?As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero.

American educates so manymore people at university that one can’t expect all those who go to be as intelligent as the much narrower band in British universities, says the professor Christopher Rakes at Boston university, I’m not against elitism, but I happen to like having people who are more eager to learn.

Although a team may be composed of knowledgeable people, they must learn new ways of relating and working together to solve cross-functional problems.

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

A home environment in blue can help people reduce food intake.

A man should try to satisfy people around him.

A recent study of public opinion shows that in modern Britain people regard themselves socially different.

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

A website links people through books.

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 a recent study, four out of ten people under 35 years old are planning to downshift from stressful jobs to a slower pace of life.

According to sparrow, we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet.

According to the Dallas area cultural advocacy coalition, arts agencies employ more than 10, 000 people as full-or part-time employees or independent contractors.

Accordingly, newspapers were read almost only by rich people in politics or the trades.

Advantages small talk can help people form new friendships.

After all, many older people don't begin to experience physical and mental decline until after age 75.

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

All around her, people were suffering, especially the elderly.

All the dogs sit, play, or run around while people drink coffee and eat sandwiches.

Although he is known to only a few people here, his reputation abroad is very great.

Although we may not be aware of chemicals like pheromones consciously, we give and receive loads of information through smell in every interaction with other people.

An avalanche once closed the path, killing 63 people.

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

And the story poses an interesting question: why do some people discover new vitality and creativity to the end of their days, while others go to seed long before?

And the town is fast becoming a popular weekend destination for people in Asia.

And there are many people skating over there.

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

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

Another 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.

Armed with this knowledge, they're able to carry out individually targeted campaigns to cheat people.

Around the world, people are adapting in surprising ways, especially in some poor countries.

As a child, few people guessed that he was going to be a famous scientist whose theories would change the world.

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

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

As a result, people will eat more food to try to make up for that something missing.

As a retired ear doctor, I heartily recommend TV ears to people with normal hearing as well as those with hearing loss.

As busy people, we are always looking for ways to save time and make our lives easier.

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

As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing.

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 the average age of the population increases, there are more and more old people to care for.

As you approach people, be polite.

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

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

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

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

Beauticians, bartenders, piano players and people with purple hats, Welty's people come from afternoons spent visiting with old friends, from walks through the streets of her native Jackson, miss.

Before people retire, they usually plan to do a lot of great things, which they never had time to do while working.

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

Body movements change the way people think.

Bookcrossing is part of a trend among people who want to get back to the "real" and not the virtual (虚拟).

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.

Building snowmen helped people develop their skill and thought.

Building snowmen was a way for people to express themselves.

Business people, political leaders, university professors, and especially millions of grass-roots Americans are taking part in the movement.

But driverless car ownership could increase as the prices drop and more people become comfortable with the technology.

But he is also working at a far more fundamental level: his staff show people how to make floating gardens and fish ponds prevent starvation during the wet season.

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

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

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

But one thing is certain, all people encounter mountains in their life.

But that is not what many people have in mind when thinking of driverless cars.

But through all this, Hannah still has the normal life of a Winnipeg schoolgirl, except that she pays regular visits to homeless people.

By contrast, there are some people who actually enjoy work.

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

Campers, in my eyes, were people who enjoyed insect bites, ill-cooked meals, and uncomfortable sleeping bags.

China today attracts a worldwide readership, which shows that more and more people all over the world want to learn about China.

Companies spend millions hiring top business people.

Confucius believed knives would remind people of killings and were too violent for use at the table.

Considering how much time people spend in offices, it is important that work spaces be well designed.

Cooking is a burden for many people.

Dark environments are more likely to encourage overeating, for people are often less self-conscious (难为情) when they're in poorly lit places – and so more likely to eat lots of food.

Daydreaming means people think about something pleasant, especially when this makes them forget what they should be doing.

Different cultures have different ways of managing people.

Donations began flooding in from hundreds of people.

Don't handle it too lightly, as people can be offered, especially if your error suggests a misunderstanding of their culture.

Dunn believes that people who reach out to strangers feel a significantly greater sense of belonging, a bond with others.

During the breeding (繁殖) season, between April and June, they are very active at night and very noisy and people can't sleep.

Even more worryingly, the fascination with the Internet by people in rich countries has moved the international community to worry about the "digital divide" between the rich countries and the poor countries.

Even worse, the amount of fast food that people eat goes up.

Every day in our work, we are inspired by the people we meet doing extraordinary things to improve the world.

Every year about 40, 000 people attempt to climb kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa.

Every year more than 10, 000 people head for the city of albuquerque, new mexico.

Every year since 1818, the people of Zurich, Switzerland, celebrate the beginning of spring by blowing up a snowman.

Eyeing these headwinds, plastic-bag makers are hiring scientists like stein to make the case that their products are not as bad for the planet as most people assume.

Few people I know seem to have much desire or time to cook.

For Dutch people, Hilversum is all about textile and media industries, and modern architecture.

For example, people volunteer to express personal values related to unselfishness, to expand their range of experiences, and to strengthen social relationships.

For example, she received the 2007 Brick Award recognizing the efforts of young people to change the world.

For many of them, it's a way of meeting people and having a social life.

For previous generations, college was decisive break from parental control; guidance and support needed help from people of the same age and from within.

For the people of brussels, this was a defining moment of defining freedom.

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

From my experience, there are three main reasons why people don't cook more often: ability, money and time, money is a topic i'll save for another day.

Get smart about the people who you spend your time with.

Gossip also can have a third effect: It strengthens unwritten, unspoken rules about how people should act.

Growing up, I had people telling me I was too slow, though, with an IQ of 150 at 17, I'm anything but stupid.

Hannah is one of many examples of young people who are making a difference in the world.

Hannah's place is divided into several areas, providing shelter for people when it is so cold that sleeping outdoors can mean death.

He added that he hopes people in other cities might try similar projects and post their own videos on the Internet.

He told people at a conference, "there have been a couple of studies suggesting they are increasing their song output at night and during the day they are still singing."

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.

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

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.

Some attributed virtually every important cultural achievement to the inventions of a few, especially gifted peoples that, according to diffusionists, then spread to other cultures.

More than 60,000 people have purchased the PTKs since they first become available without prescriptions last years, according to Doug Fog, chief operating officer of Identigene, which makes the over-the-counter kits.

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.

They found that the principal requirement for what is called “global cascades” -the widespread propagation of influence through networks -is the presence not of a few influentials but, rather, of a critical mass of easily influenced people.

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.

Meanwhile, as the recession is looming large, people are getting anxious.

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.

If people in the network just two degrees removed from the initial influential prove resistant,for example from the initial influential prove resistant,for example the cascade of change won’t propagate very far or affect many people.

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.

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.

Anecdotal evidence of this kind fits nicely with the idea that only certain special people can drive trends.

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

The people who’ve been hurt the worst are those who’ve stayed too long.

Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock.

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.

Second, the majority of people who use networked computers to upload are not even aware of the significance of what they are doing.

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.

In South Africa, an HIV-prevention initiative known as LoveLife recruits young people to promote safe sex among their peers.

For all the possibilities of our new culture machines, most people are still stuck in download mode.

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

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.

Vanity is a constant; people will only start shopping more sustainably when they can’t afford not to.

People will not get fewer ads.

In the past couple of weeks a quarrel has illustrated the value to advertisers of such fine-grained information: Should advertisers assume that people are happy to be tracked and sent behavioural ads? Or should they have explicit permission?.

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

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.

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

“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.

The researchers mapped not only the city’s vast and ornate ceremonial areas, but also hundreds of simpler apartment complexes where common people lived.

Some want to shock, others to draw people into science, or to better reward those who have made their careers in research.

One idea is to allow people to study law as an undergraduate degree.

The United States is the product of two principal forces-the immigration of European peoples with their varied ideas, customs, and national characteristics and the impact of a new country which modified these traits.

But “it’s us ,human beings ,we the people who create the society we want ,not profit ”.

As the hacking trial concludes – finding guilty ones-editor of the News of the World, Andy Coulson, for conspiring to hack phones ,and finding his predecessor, Rebekah Brooks, innocent of the same charge –the winder issue of dearth of integrity still standstill, Journalists are known to have hacked the phones of up to 5,500 people.

What are the norms of your environment? What converys status? Who are your most important audiences? How do the people you respect and look up to present themselves? The better you understand the cultural context, the more control you can have over your impact.

The sensible place to build new houses，factories and offices is where people are，in cities and towns where infrastructure is in place.

The newly revised Danish Fashion Ethical Charter clearly states: “We are aware of and take responsibility for the impact the fashion industry has on body ideals, especially on young people”.

The Conservatives’ planning reform explicitly gives rural development priority over conservation, even authorising “off-plan” building where local people might object.

In other words, if you’re going to make a print product, make it for the people who are already obsessed with it.

For the first time in history more people live in towns than in the country.

And perhaps faintly, they hint that people should look to intangible qualities like character and intellect rather than dieting their way to size zero or wasp-waist physiques.

According to research from Princeton University, people assess your competence, trustworthiness, and likeability in just a tenth of a second, solely based on the way you look.

The changes identified by David Graddol all present clear and major challenges to UK`s providers of English language teaching to people of other countries and to broader education business sectors.

This allows the TSA wants to enroll 25 million people in PreCheck.

There is one step the TSA could take that would not require remodeling airports or rushing to hire: Enroll more people in the PreCheck program.

Rather officials must avoid double standards, or different types of access for average people and the wealthy.

If everything was going so well, then why did over 17 million people vote for Brexit, despite the warnings about what it could do to their country’s economic prospects?.

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

Charles Dickens is probably the best-known and, to many people, the greatest English novelist of the 19th century.

Another factor may be that more people are trying to overpack their carry-on bags to avoid checked-baggage fees, though the airlines strongly dispute this.

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

Yet as distrust has risen toward all media, people may be starting to beef up their media literacy skills.

So when young people are critical of an over-tweeting president, they reveal a mental discipline in thinking skills - and in their choices on when to share on social media.

A Knight Foundation focus-group survey of young people between ages 14 and 24 found they use.

A 2014 survey conducted in Australia, Britain, and the United States by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that young people's reliance on social media led to greater political engagement.

"Hugging protects people who are under stress from the increased risk for colds that's usually associated with stress," notes Sheldon Cohen, a professor of psychology at Carnegie.

"I still grew up in an upper middle-class home with parents who didn't have college degrees," Schneider said. "I don't think people are capable of that anymore. "

"Many young people assume a great deal of personal responsibility for educating themselves and actively seeking out opposing viewpoints," the survey concluded.

"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.

"When Dr.Epley and Mr.Schoreder asked other people in the same train station to predict how they would feel after talking to a stranger, the commuters thought their ride would be more pleasant if they sat on their own," the New York times summarizes.

A "town of culture" could be not just about the arts but about honoring a town's peculiarities-helping sustain its high street, supporting local facilities and above all celebrating its people and turn it into action.

A century ago, few people regularly brushed their teeth multiple times a day.

A different and not mutually exclusive prediction holds that the future will be a wasteland of a different sort, one characterized by purposelessness": without jobs to give their lives meaning, people will simply become lazy and depressed.

A few decades ago, many people didn't drink water outside of a meal.

A few wealthy people will own all the capital, and the masses will struggle in an impoverished wasteland.

A Knight Foundation focus-group survey of young people between ages 14 and 24 found they use "distributed trust" to verify stories.

A new study suggests that contrary to most surveys, people are actually more stressed at home than at work.

A number of studies have concluded that normal-weight people are in fact at higher risk of some diseases compared to those who are overweight.

Accommodating this new world of people in motion will require new attitudes on both sides of the immigration battle.

According to research from Princeton University, people assess your competence, trustworthiness, and like ability in just a tenth of a second, solely based on the way you look.

Also, some research suggests that the explanation for rising rates of mortality, mental-health problems, and addiction among poorly-educated middle-aged people is shortage of well-paid jobs.

An increase in involuntary part-time work is evidence of weakness in the labor market and it means that many people will be having a very hard time making ends meet.

And I felt like that again, to a certain degree, when people responded to the blog so well.

As many people hit middle age, they often start to notice that their memory and mental clarity are not what they used to be.

At work, people pretty much know what they're supposed to be doing: working, making money, doing the tasks they have to do in order to draw an income.

Besides helping you feel close and connected to people you care about, it turns out that hugs can bring a host of health benefits to your body and mind.

Between 1908 and 1915, about 7 million people arrived while about 2 million departed.

But "it's us, human beings, we the people who create the society we want not profit".

But all too often such policies are an insincere form of virtue-signaling that benefits only the most privileged and does little to help average people.

But in addition to those trusted coworkers, you should expand your horizons and find out about all the people around you.

But it was still possible to vaccinate people in other high-risk groups: health care workers, people caring for infants and healthy young people.

But most people will come away from this book believing it was money well spent.

But this seems to be the irony of office speak: Everyone makes fun of it, but managers love it, companies depend on it, and regular people willingly absorb it.

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

Companies located in places with happier people invest more, according to a recent research paper.

DeSombre isn't saying people should stop caring about the environment.

Everybody wants to know how the people who will soon inhabit those empty office cubicles will differ from those who came before them.

Facebook, therefore, is a self-enhancer's paradise,where people can share only the most flattering photos, the cream of their wit, style, beauty, intellect and lifestyles.

firms seem to invest more in places where most people are relatively happy, rather than in places with happiness inequality.

first two hours, now three hours一this is how far in advance authorities are recommending people show up to catch a domestic flight, at least at some major U.S. airports with increasingly massive security lines.

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

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 initi

For example, even in dense forest, you should be able to spot gaps in the tree line due to roads, train tracks, and other paths people carve through the woods.

For many people, especially those with serious health condition or family members with serious health conditions,before Obamacare the only way to get insurance was through a job that provided health insurance.

giving more children this training could increase the number of people interested in the field and help fill the jobs gap, Cortina said.

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