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摘要：The mobile-apps industry is still in its infancy, but it is already taking on giants.infancy:婴儿期，幼年 Apps are cheap to make and easy to distribute, forcing many old-line industries to rethink the way they do business.With a single click, millions of Americans are comparing prices, hailing taxis an...
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摘要：Memory allows for a kind of mental time travel, a way for us to picture not just the past but also a version of the future, according to a growing body of research.The studies suggest that the purpose of memory is far more extensive than simply helping us store and recall information about what has
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摘要：Four years ago, Gao Shangming was convinced that his son Yueqing needed to remain in the family's one-room apartment and help harvest corn rather than go to college. 'Our financial situation wasn't good,' the 50-year-old peasant farmer says.But Gao Yueqing was determined to escape th
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摘要：A wave of recent research has pointed to the risks of overpraising a child. But for parents, drawing the line between too little praise and too much has become a high-pressure balancing act.overpraise：过度夸奖 Cara Greene, a mother of three children ages 1 to 8, is wary of deliberately pumping up her...
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摘要：American women may be starting to outearn American men, but personal investing is a different matter: Many of them, even powerhouse female executives, hate dealing with it.powerhouse：精力旺盛的人，经济体 Darline Jean, president and chief executive of the About Group (which owns About.com), says that she does.
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摘要：For years, America's childhood obesity crisis was viewed as an insurmountable problem, one that was too complicated and too entrenched to ever really solve. According to the conventional wisdom, healthy food simply didn't sell─the demand wasn't there and higher profits were found elsewhe
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摘要：Too much work, too little money and not enough opportunity for growth are stressing us out on the job, according to a new survey from the American Psychological Association.stress out：过度劳累，紧张 One-third of employees experience chronic stress related to work, the survey found. Women report higher leve
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摘要：There's a technology revolution in the auto business, and it involves more than streaming radio apps and voice-activated Facebook updates.streaming：流媒体，流动 exotic：异国的，外来的Consumers who haven't shopped for a new car for five or more years -- and that's a lot of people, since the average U.S
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摘要：At the 1997 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, Steve Jobs was asked why he slashed a program that some in the audience had worked hard on.This is how he responded: 'You've got to say No, No, No and when you say No you piss off people.'The reason, he said, is that 'Focusing is abou
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摘要：When it comes to exercise, many people seem to fall into two distinct camps: those who love a vigorous, sweat-soaked workout and those who view it as a form of torment.vigorous：有力的，精力充沛的 torment：痛苦，折磨 With hopes of getting more people up and moving, scientists are looking at the body's biologi..
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摘要：Kelly was a bright woman in her early 30s: whip-smart, well qualified, ambitious─and confused. Even a little frightened.tyranny：暴政，专横 She worked for a female partner in a big consulting firm. Her boss was so solicitous that Kelly hoped the woman─one of just a few top female partners─might become ...
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摘要：Why make up stories when life is so ridiculous?bureaucrats：官僚，官僚主义者As a bureaucrat, author Wang Xiaofang says he came across a rogue’s gallery of real-life characters: a woman who had plastic surgery on her backside so she could sleep her way to the top; a flooded apartment filled with cash owned by
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摘要：On this year＊s Women＊s Day, a host of Chinese media outlets are trumpeting a new study that finds China＊s businesses rank the highest in the world for employing women in senior management roles.The proportion of women in senior management in China has climbed to 51% this year, up from 25% in 2012 an
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摘要：China’s most beloved microblog, Sina Corp.’s Weibo is often described as a virtual town square where Chinese people can publicly discuss issues from politics to pop stars with a level of freedom not available elsewhere in the country.If that’s the case, a new study suggests the square isn’t nearly a
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摘要：Operating in a country where something as modest as opening a cigar shop can be fraught with difficulty, Chinese entrepreneurs are renowned for being able to find creative solutions to a wide range of everyday problems. But that resourcefulness won’t serve China’s economy in the long run, according
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摘要：China plans to strip power from the agency that oversees its one-child policy, in a move observers said could maean the eventual phaseout of the much criticized population-control effort.strip：剥去，除去 oversee：监督，监视 phaseout：逐步停止 The proposal, put forth on Sunday by a top official during the a...
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摘要：Does the land of traditional family values and coddled Little Emperors take the lives of children too lightly?introspection：反省，沉思 coddled：溺爱，娇养 That’s the question ricocheting around the Chinese Internet this week as the country struggles to come to terms with the death of a two-month-old infa...
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摘要：At 7 p.m. on a Sunday in Hidden Springs, Idaho, the six members of the Starr family were sitting down to the highlight of their week: the family meeting. The Starrs are a typical American family, with their share of everyday family issues. David is a software engineer; his wife, Eleanor, takes care
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摘要：China has the world's largest number of billionaires and 700 million peasants. In between is a surprisingly thin and unhappy middle class, which poses a big social and economic challenge.billionaires：亿万富翁 Among the 3,000 delegates of the 2013 National People's Congress, the percentage of blu
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摘要：Everybody knows what IT is, but how about MT? Manufacturing technology including computer numerical control (CNC) devices, robotics, 3D printing and other additive technologies, and machine vision is an important collection of tools that, until recently, did not get much attention in the media. But
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