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摘要：Daimler AG's flagship Mercedes-Benz often gets the rap for being an 'old man's car.' More unusual is to hear it from the lips of Gorden Wagener, the luxury brand's youngest-ever design chief.'The perception was, 'no question, you are the old guy in this game,'' th
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摘要：The world is a fast and dangerous place. To survive a company must innovate. Many organizations look to their innovation teams, but to thrive, the whole of an organization needs to become an innovation engine. Businesses that understand that dedicated innovation teams are grossly insufficient to mai
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摘要：How can you decide whether to have a child? It's a complex and profound question -- a philosophical question. But it's not a question traditional philosophers thought about much. In fact, the index of the 1967 'Encyclopedia of Philosophy' had only four references to children at all -
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摘要：A newly discovered 1.8 million-year-old skull offers evidence that humanity's early ancestors emerged from Africa as a single adventurous species, not several species as believed, drastically simplifying human evolution, an international research team said Thursday.skull：颅骨 drastically：彻底地，激烈地 .
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摘要：We spend a full five hours and 16 minutes a day in front of a screen, and that's without even turning on a television.So says a statistic from eMarketer, a research firm that focuses on digital media and marketing. It says that for the first time we are devoting more attention each day to smartp
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摘要：Many students cruise along just fine in math until fourth grade or so. Then, they hit a wall -- fractions.cruise：巡航，巡游，漫游 fraction：分数，片段The wall is about to get taller. With mastery of the topic seen as a crucial stepping stone to progressing in math, federal standards are stepping up emphasis on f.
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摘要：The big push in office design is forcing co-workers to interact more. Cubicle walls are lower, office doors are no more and communal cafes and snack bars abound.cubicle：小卧室，小隔间 communal：公共的，公社的 Like most grand social experiments, though, open-plan offices bring an unintended downside: pesky, p...
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摘要：Opening up a Korean restaurant among the rice fields and limestone karsts north of Hanoi might seem a risky business, but Le Thi Huyen is doing a roaring trade at her bistro here.bistro：小酒馆 The reason? Samsung Electronics Co., the South Korean firm, is building up Vietnam as one of its largest of...
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摘要：Are you a cruncher? Or a 'smoosher'?cruncher：咬嚼者，咬碎 Some people crave the perfectly crispy crunch of a cracker or a salty chip. Others yearn for the silky smoothness of a chocolate mousse.crave：渴望，恳求 crispy：酥脆的，干净利落的 yearn for：向往，渴求 Food companies are paying closer attention to consumer'
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摘要：U.S. fans of the hit talent show 'The Voice' may take for granted that its judges sit with their backs to performers, choosing winners purely on the basis of their voices. But in China, where television and much of society is frequently biased toward the well-connected, the backward chairs a
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摘要：A new worker's revolution is rising in China and it doesn't involve humans.With soaring wages and an aging population, electronics factory managers say the day is approaching when robotic workers will replace people on the Chinese factory floor.A new wave of industrial robots is in developme
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摘要：China's appetite for coal, once seemingly unlimited, is starting to wane, and the effects are rippling far from the Middle Kingdom.wane：衰落，退潮，衰减 ripple：波纹，涟漪 With the world's second-largest economy, China in recent years has been driving demand for all sorts of commodities, especially therma
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摘要：Cycling does the body good.New data from Tour de France cyclists finds that those athletes live an average of six years longer compared with their counterparts in the general population and die less often from heart-related ailments, damping concerns that extreme, intense exercise increases the like
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摘要：A woman's place is in the home.consensus：一致，舆论，合意 That was the resounding message from Jiang Xipei, chairman of wire and cable conglomerate Jiangsu Far East Holding Group Co., speaking on a women's leadership panel at the summer World Economic Forum in the northeastern city of Dalian.wire an
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摘要：Jason Swett still cringes when he remembers the party in Atlanta 10 years ago, where, drink in hand, he tried 'to impress the local Southern belles,' he says, by talking -- nonstop.cringe：畏缩，奉承 belle：美女 He told the six or so people he'd just met the tale of how once at a grocery store he
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摘要：Recently, an almost literal case of lifeboat ethics occurred. On Aug. 4, Graham and Sheryl Anley, while yachting off the coast of South Africa, hit a reef, capsizing their boat. As the boat threatened to sink and they scrambled to get off, Sheryl's safety line snagged on something, trapping her
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摘要：Michael Dell is set to win a bruising, yearlong battle for control of his company. His next task -- getting Dell Inc. growing again -- may be even tougher.bruising：挫伤，殊死，激烈的 Mr. Dell's proposal to buy the computer company for nearly $25 billion is expected to win approval in a stockholder vote t
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摘要：Margot Carmichael Lester loves making good-natured jokes at work. As owner of The Word Factory, a Carrboro, N.C., content-creation company, she looks for employees with a sense of humor. 'I only want to work with people who can take a joke.'Sometimes, though, her jokes fall flat. Last month,
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摘要：Apple's roll-out of its latest iPhones landed with a thud in China, the company's biggest foreign market, despite a new effort to court the country's consumers.underwhelmed：感到乏味的，未留下深刻印象 roll-out：首展，推出 In a signal of China's importance to Apple, the Cupertino, Calif., company held it
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摘要：For the record number of American runners who completed an official race event last year, the questions often start not long after they cross the finish line: 'What's my next challenge?' and 'How much further can I push myself?'But data show that the bulk of runners are heavily c
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