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英美

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Where do the seeds of change come from? The Native American Indians have a saying: Pay attention to the whispers so you won't have to hear the screams.

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.

A quarter of this year's American grain harvest will be used to produce bio-fuel for cars.

Her biggest concern is the emphasis American culture places on thinness and the negative ways this affects girls today.

In an editorial released Monday in the American Journal of Public Health, Katherine Record and Bryn Austin made their case for government regulation of the fashion industry.

At least, the American side of the falls.

There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating.

Surely, the American ideal of second chances should not be reserved only for the rich and powerful.

In all, more than 45,000 laws and rules serve to exclude vast numbers of people from fully participating in American life.

They asked, Was it as good as American beef? It was very exciting for me to be on Japanese TV, speaking in Japanese about how delicious the beef was.

"The tax passed today unfairly singles out beverages—including low- and no-calorie choices," said Lauren Kane, spokeswoman for the American Beverage Association.

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.

A recent study said that 40% of American teens claim to have been in a car when the driver used a cell phone in a way that put people in danger.

David Anderson, the executive director of higher education with the Association of American Publishers, told BuzzFeed News. "It helps students understand in a way that you can't do with print homework assignments."

Defense minister Farhat Horchani said last week that German and American security experts were expected to come to help Tunisia devise a new electronic video-supervision system on its border with Libya.

For more than a decade, FedEx has supported the American Red Cross in its effort to get emergency supplies to areas affected by disasters, both domestically and internationally.

Franklin, who was largely self-taught, may have been a genius, but he wasn't really an exception when it comes to American making and creativity.

Ideas about learning by doing have struggled to become mainstream educationally, despite being old concepts from Dewey and Montessori, Plato and Aristotle, and in the American context, Ralph Emerson, on the value of experience and self-reliance.

In those years, just after World War I, the military wanted to build an American highway system for national defense.

Larry Cahill, an American neuroscientist, said the study is an important addition to a growing body of research questioning traditional beliefs about gender and brain function.

Long before television cooking shows, Careme walked readers through common kitchen tasks, instructing them to "try this for yourself, at home" as famous American Chef Julia Child might do, many years later.

Monaco became familiar to Americans when its ruler, Prince Rainier married the American actress Grace Kelly.

Much of it was left by American astronauts who landed on the lunar surface between 1969 and 1972 during NASA's Apollo missions.

Nonetheless, physicians say that they look at the collective data and a clear picture emerges: that the salt, sugar, fat and processed foods in the American diet contribute to the nation's high rate of obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

Overwhelmingly, the results show that today, the idea of the American dream—and what it takes to achieve it—looks quite different than it did in the late 20th century.

The American side of the falls was shut off in 1969 to study the build-up of rock at the base of the falls.

The American Trucking Association lists approximately 3.5 million professional truck drivers in the U.S.

The center of American automobile innovation has in the past decade moved 2, 000 miles away.

The day before I spoke to Martinez in November, he had beer touring the damage from Hurricane Michael in Florida with the American Red Cross.

The letter was written by Darwin to thank an American geologist, Dr.Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, for sending him copies of his research into the geology of the region that would become Yellowstone National Park.

The most recent National Journal poll asked respondents about the American dream, what it takes to achieve their goals, and whether or not they felt a significant amount of control over their ability to be successful.

The New York State parks system wants to turn off the falls on the American side some time in the next two to three years to replace two 115-year-old stone bridges that allow pedestrians, park vehicles and utilities access to Goat Island.

There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant-based diet that just about every expert sa

What the designers of American sportswear proved was that fashion is a genuine design art, answering to the demanding needs of service.

We live today indebted to McCardell, Cashin, Hawes, Wilkins, and Maxwell, and other women who liberated American fashion from the confines of Parisian design.

They formulated a dress code with distinctive American features.

The lives of children from rich and poor American families look more different than ever before.

The North American shale gas boom has resulted in record low prices there.

Most American parents say they are not concerned about their children's grades as long as they work hard.

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

Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad ( ' , IMO)—the first for an American team in more than two decades— the trend is likely to continue.

In an earlier time, American fashion had also followed the dictates of Paris, or even copied and pirated specific French designs.

Implicitly or explicitly, American fashion addressed a democracy, whereas traditional Paris-based fashion was prescriptive and imposed on women, willing or not.

Could utility alone justify the new ideas of the American designers? Fashion is often regarded as a pursuit of beauty, and some cherished fashion's trivial relationship to the fine arts.

American parents, whether rich or poor, have similar expectations of their children despite different ways of parenting.

American parents want similar things for their children, the Pew report and past research have found: for them to be healthy and happy, honest and ethical, caring and compassionate.

American designers prized resourcefulness and the freedom of women who wore the clothing.

To alert American workers to the urgency for adaptation.

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

So the news that Cablevision, an American cable company, was rolling out interactive advertisements to all its customers on October 6th was greeted with some skepticism.

Many contemporary ideas about kitchen design can be traced back to another American, Christine Frederick, who set about enhancing the efficiency of the housewife.

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.

In October 2000, the same month the survey was taken, the Washington-based Center for Media and Public Affairs wrote in its publication Media Monitor that, in a recent month of TV news coverage of American youth, just 2% of teens were shown at home, and just 1% were portrayed in a work setting.

In American Woman's Home, published in 1869, the Beecher sisters recommended a scientific approach to household management, designed to enhance the efficiency of a woman's work and promote order.

We need more funding and more effort to return these languages to everyday use, says Fred Nowuski of the National Museum of the American Indian, We are making progress but money needs to be spent on revitalising languages, not just documenting them.

As U.S.banks recovered with the help of the American government and the American taxpayer, president Obama held meetings with top bank executives, telling them it’s time to return the favor.

Today, the average American spends 8.

The old days of the Antarctic being dominated by the interests and wishes of white men from European, Australasian and North American states are over, said Klaus Dodds, a politics scholar at the University of London who specialises in Antarctica.

The 83% of American employees who are stressed about their jobs – up from 73% just a year before – say that poor compensation and an unreasonable workload are their number-one sources of stress.

More than 100 years ago, American sociologist W.

In one example that demonstrated genetic differences were not fixed along racial lines, the full genomes ( ' , 基因组 ) of James Watson and Craig Venter, two famous American scientists of European ancestry, were compared to that of a Korean scientist, Seong-Jin Kim.

Colombia said this year that it planned to join other South American nations with bases in Antarctica.

At least three Russian stations are already operating in Antarctica, part of its effort to challenge the dominance of the American GPS, and new stations are planned for sites like the Russian base, in the shadow of the Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity.

American scientists complain about lack of sufficient money and equipment for their expansion in Antarctica.

In recent years, the death rate among American centenarians—people who have lived to age 100 or older—has decreased, dropping 14% for women and 20% for men from 2008 to 2014.

The current situation in American higher education may not last long.

President Barack Obama declared in a speech last month to the Center for American Progress.

People should not expect too much from American higher education.

Nor is the global economy forgiving of an American workforce with increasingly weak literacy, math and science abilities.

Increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American Dream, he said.

Hall's findings suggest there's an argument to be made for electing to use African American, though one can't help but get the sense that it's a decision that papers over the urgency of continued progress.

For students who have been coasting through college, and for American universities that have been demanding less work, offering more attractions and charging higher tuition, the party may soon be over.

And then, at a press conference in Chicago in 1988, Jesse Jackson declared that African American was the term to embrace.

American higher education has lost its global competitiveness.

Across the board, American colleges and universities are not doing a very good job of preparing their students for the workplace or their post-graduation lives.

A 2001 study cataloged all the ways in which the term Black carried connotations ( ' , 涵义 ) that were more negative than those of African American.

True, not all U.S.students can match theperformance of their foreign counterparts, but the American institutions do offer students from rich and poor families alike the chance to realize their full potential.

Some of the heat is used directly or produces useful work; the rest is lost or rejected, radiated into the atmosphere from the engines, motors, boilers and all the energy-consuming machinery that makes American’s wheel go around.

Britains who pass their A levels may still not qualify for a top university at home, but find American universities far more welcoming.

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.

"Increased inequality and decreasing mobility pose a fundamental threat to the American Dream," he said.

"The typical American diet is a lot higher in protein than a lot of us think," says registered dietitian Angela Pipitone.

A 2001 study cataloged all the ways in which the term " Black " carried connotations 涵义 that were more negative than those of " African American. "

A study published last year in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that people who sleep more tend to eat less unhealthy food than their peers who don't get as much rest.

Although the American Academy of Pediatrics offers guidelines recommending that parents model appropriate social media use for their children, it does not explicitly discuss oversharing by parents.

American universities, despite their global reputation for excellence in teaching, have only begun to demonstrate what they can produce in real-world learning.

And then, at a press conference in Chicago in 1988, Jesse Jackson declared that " African American " was the term to embrace.

Apple argues that it is fighting to preserve a principle that most of us who are addicted to our smartphones can defend: Weaken a single iPhone so that its contents can be viewed by the American government and you risk weakening all iPhones for any govern

Could utility alone justify the new ideas of the American designers?

For Droujkova, high-level math is important, and what it could use in American classrooms is an injection of childlike wonder.

Hall's findings suggest there's an argument to be made for electing to use "African American", though one can't help but get the sense that it's a decision that papers over the urgency of continued progress.

Harris says that American education is suffering from an epidemic of "fake math"—an emphasis on the rote memorization of formulas and steps, rather than an understanding of how math can influence the ways we see the world.

If Apple is forced to open up an iPhone for an American law enforcement investigation, what is to prevent it from doing so for a request from the Russians or the Iranians?

In an 1801 drawing from his book, General Zoology Amphibia, George Shaw, an English botanist and zoologist, credited Merian for describing a frog in the account of her South American expedition, and named the young tree frog after her in his portrayal of

In October 2000, the same month the survey was taken, the Washington-based Center for Media and Public Affairs wrote in its publication Media Monitor that, in a recent month of TV news coverage of American youth, just 2% of teens were shown at home, and j

In the United States, up to forty percent of all food goes uneaten, despite the fact that one in seven American households lacks regular access to good food.

It was a huge milestone in the development of smartphones, which are now owned by a majority of American adults and are increasingly common across the globe.

It’s the mother of all disaster drills for what could be the worst disaster in American history.

It's a fact not lost on American educators, who amid rising math failure rates are debating how math can better meet the real-life needs of students.

It's no surprise, then, that more than half of American adults don't get the 7 to 9 hours of shut-eye every night as recommended by sleep experts.

Many American people have seen Amish families with the men wearing broad-brimmed black hats and the women in long dresses, in railway or bus terminals.

More of them, though, will skip those calculations altogether and just power through the holidays into 2017: More than half of American workers don't use up all of their allotted vacation days each year.

In one example that demonstrated genetic differences were not fixed along racial lines, the full genomes of James Watson and Craig Venter, two famous American scientists of European ancestry, were compared to that of a Korean scientist, Seong-Jin Kim.

Nearly 700 miles long, the earthquake zone is located by the North American Plate off the coast of Pacific British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Northern California.

right now, to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that mothers not sleep in the same bed as their babies, but sleep in the same room.

Russian and American spacecraft also found hints that its ancient climate might have been wetter, cooler, and possibly, even friendly to life.

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

That was confirmed in the early 1990s by the American Magellan orbiter which used radar to peer through the planet's thick clouds and mapped out a rich, varied and dynamic surface.

The 83% of American employees who are stressed about their jobs – up from 73% just a year before – say that poor compensation and an unreasonable workload are their number-one sources of stress.

The decline in American Indian languages has historical roots.

The old days of the Antarctic being dominated by the interests and wishes of white men from European, Australasian and North American states are over, "said Klaus Dodds, a politics scholar at the University of London who specialises in Antarctica.

The Old Order Amish, who arrived on American shores in colonial times, have survived in the modern world in distinctive, small communities.

There is another explanation that Twenge and her colleagues wanted to address: the impact of the great recession of 2007-2009, which hit a great number of American families and might be affecting adolescents.

They are seen as abandoning both modern 34 conveniences and the American dream of success and progress.

They hope that the technology will be cleared for use in American courts by early next year.

This only applies to American space activities, but the hope is that it will help standardize a set of norms in the dawning commercial spaceflight industry throughout the world.

tim Joseph's grass-fed program is only one example of how American farming practice is changing.

To investigate, Twenge and her colleagues dived into the "Monitoring the Future" dataset based on annual surveys of American school students from grades 8, 10, and 12 that started in 1991.

To one group, he was identified as "African- American," and another was told he was "Black."

Today, the average American spends 8.8 hours at work daily, and the majority of working professionals spend additional hours checking in with work during evenings, weekends and even vacations.

We believe that the number of people who fit that definition includes the majority of American workers, which prompted us to begin a study of workaholism in the U.S..

We live today indebted to McCardell, Cashin, Hawes, wilkins, and Maxwell, and other women who liberated American fashion from the confines of Parisian design.

We often hear people say that America is a land of opportunity, a country built on hope to aspire to greatness on the American Dream.

Write down the names of all the American states you can remember.

A great American, James Madison, referred to: "the capacity of mankind for self-government."

A listener in China, Wang ming, who is about to get an engineering degree, wants to know how American college graduates find jobs.

According to Anderson, before 1970, Americans had little idea about environmental problems.

All participants must address how communication or transportation technology has promoted the quality of life for Americans throughout history.

Americans eat only about fifteen pounds of fish per person per year, but we eat twice as much fish in restaurants as at home.

Americans use more than 100 billion thin film plastic bags every year.

And like more Americans, she's not alone.

As cultural symbols go, the American car is quite young.

Benjamin west, the father of American painting, showed his talent for art when he was only six years of age.

Both of us had the qualities and virtues that are typical of American actors: humorous, aggressive, and making fun of each other - but always with an underlying affection.

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

El nifio, a Spanish term for "the Christ child", was named by south American fisherman who noticed that the global weather pattern.

For most of the last century, the car represented what it meant to be American—going forward at high speed to find new worlds.

Friedman points out that the green economy is a chance to keep American strength.

Getting less sleep has become a bad habit for most American kids.

I myself went through this searching process and found something that has changed my experience at college for the better: I discovered asl-American sign language.

It is expected that American demand for au pairs will continue to rise in the next few years.

It is named after a south American fisherman.

Kunqu society, the classical Chinese theater which combines singing, dancing and acting to literary works by masters of Ming and Qing dynasties, performing introduces four signature plays of Kunqu master Jiqing Zhang to American audiences.

Li Drake, a Chinese native raising two children in minnesota with an American husband, had another reason for looking for an au pair from China.

Many native Americans value silence and feel it is a basic part of communicating among people, just as some traditional Chinese and thai persons do.

One of the latest trends in American childcare is Chinese AU pairs.

Other American studies showed no connection/connections between uniforms and school performance.

Robinson ‘s decision will influence the grandparents in the American family.

She encouraged a sense of community社区 by creating shelters and promoting education and services for people in need in 1931, addams became the first American woman to win the nobel peace prize.

Since the first earth day in 1970, Americans have gotten a lot "greener" toward the environment.

Technology has improved the life of Americans.

The adobe dwellings built by the pueblo indians of the American southwest are admired by even the most modern of architects and engineers.

The American-born architect robert venturi concluded that if simplicity is done badly, the result is soulless design.

The car shaped some of the most lasting aspects of American culture: the roadside diner, the billboard, the motel, even the hamburger.

The cars that drove the American dream have helped to create a global ecological disaster.

The example of asian-American parents implies that parents should help children realize the importance of schooling.

The exercise bike for the American astronauts has no handlebars.

The road novel, the road movie, these are the most typical American ideas, born of abundant petrol, cheap cars and a never-ending interstate highway system.

They were not sure how the Americans would react to the new type of music.

We are lucky now to have so many paintings of American birds by John Audubon.

In the early 1900s in North America, German-born American anthropologist Franz Boas developed a new theory of culture known as historical particularism.

Historical particularism became a dominant approach to the study of culture in American anthropology, largely through the influence of many students of Boas.

American social scientist Lewis Henry Morgan introduced another theory of cultural evolution in the late 1800s.

According to the standard history of American philosophy, nowhere else in colonial America was “So much important attached to intellectual pursuits.”

According to many books and articles, New England’s leaders established the basic themes and preoccupations of an unfolding, dominant Puritan tradition in American intellectual life.

These are disciplines that are going out of style: 22% of American college graduates now major in business compared with only 2% in history and 4% in English.

The subtle and intelligent little book The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University should be read by every student thinking of applying to take a doctoral degree.

Professionalism has turned the acquisition of a doctoral degree into a prerequisite for a successful academic career: as late as 1969 a third of American professors did not possess one.

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.

In recent weeks the No.2 executives at Avon and American Express quit with the explanation that they were looking for a CEO post.

However, many leading American universities want their undergraduates to have a grounding in the basic canon of ideas that every educated person should possess.

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

Besides professionalising the professions by this separation, top American universities have professionalised the professor.

When Hoffa’s Teamsters were in their prime in 1960, only one in ten American government workers belonged to a union; now 36% do.

The only American public-sector workers who earn well above $250,000 a year are university sports coaches and the president of the United States.

“The Heart of the Matter,” the just-released report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( ' , AAAS), deserves praise for affirming the importance of the humanities and social sciences to the prosperity and security of liberal democracy in America.

There is just one path for a lawyer in most American states: a four-year undergraduate degree in some unrelated subject, then a three-year law degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the bar exam.

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

In another case, American archaeologists Rene Million and George Cowgill spent years systematically mapping the entire city of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico near what is now Mexico City.

Because representative government presupposes an informed citizenry, the report supports full literacy; stresses the study of history and government, particularly American history and American government; and encourages the use of new digital technologies.

To the anxious travelers the sight of the American shore brought almost inexpressible relief.

But the result was a new social pattern which, although it resembled European society in many ways, had a character that was distinctly American.

Working with the American Statistical Association, the journal has appointed seven experts to astatistics board of reviewing editors( ' , SBoRE).

But he noted that biomedical journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancetpay strong attention to statistical review.

"The Heart of the Matter," the just-released report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, deserves praise for affirming the importance of the humanities and social sciences to the prosperity and security of liberal democracy in America.

According to many books and articles, New England's leaders established the basic themes and preoccupations of an unfolding, dominant Puritan tradition in American intellectual life.

According to the standard history of American philosophy, nowhere else in colonial America was "So much importance attached to intellectual pursuits. "

American farmers have been complaining of labor shortages for several years.

American papers have long been highly unusual in their reliance on ads.

Because representative government presupposes an informed citizenry, the report supports full literacy; stresses the study of history and government, particularly American history and American government; and encourages the use of new digital technologies

Both France and the United States are involved in the organization's work, but France's digital services tax and the American response raise questions about what the future holds for the international tax system.

But he noted that biomedical journals such as Annals of Internal Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet pay strong attention to statistical review.

But it has already sparked significant controversy, with the Unite Sates trade representative opening an investigation into whether the tax discriminates against American companies, which in turn could lead to trade sanctions against France.

But the headlong push into bachelor's degrees for all—and the subtle devaluing of anything less—misses an important point: That's not the only thing the American economy needs.

Despite trade competition and outsourcing, American manufacturing still needs to replace tens of thousands of retiring boomers every years.

Even American newspapers, which inhabit the most troubled corner of the global industry, have not only survived but often returned to profit.

France's planned tax is a clear warning: Unless a broad consensus can be reached on reforming the international tax system, other nations are likely to follow suit, and American companies will face a cascade of different taxes from dozens of nations that

From career to community and family, these contrasts suggest that in the aftermath of the searing Great Recession, those just starting out in life are defining priorities and expectations that will increasingly spread through virtually all aspects of Amer

girls' attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it is not.

historical particularism became a dominant approach to the study of culture in American anthropology, largely through the influence of many students of Boas.

If this doesn't change, American businesses, communities, and consumers will be the losers.

In another case, American archaeologists Rene million and George Cowgill spent years systematically mapping the entire city of Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico near what is now Mexico City.

In his Case Study House, Ralph Rapson may have mispredicted just how the mechanical revolution would impact everyday life—few American families acquired helicopters, though most eventually got clothes dryers—but his belief that self-sufficiency was both d

In the Internet age, it is particularly easy to see the resentment that has always been hidden within American society.

It is true that CEO pay has gone up-top ones may make 300 times the pay of typical workers on average, and since the mid-1970s CEO pay for large publicly traded American corporations has, by varying estimates, gone up by about 500% The typical CEO of a to

Not everyone will agree with the authors'policy ideas, which range from mandating more holiday time to reducing tax incentives for American home buyers.

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".

That is how we have put a giant target sign on the backs of American workers, Hagel says.

The American Society of News Editors reckons that 13, 500 newsroom jobs have gone since 2007.

The British land art, typified by Richard Long's piece, was not only more domestically scaled, but a lot quirkier than its American counterpart.

The decline in American manufacturing is a common refrain, particularly from Donald Trump.

The only American public-sector workers who earn well above $250, 000 a year are university sports coaches and the president of the United States.

The phrase "less is more" was actually first popularized by a German, the architect Ludwig mies van der Rohe, who like other people associated with the Bauhaus, a school of design, emigrated to the United States before World War II and took up posts at Am

Then there's the fact that large American companies are much more globalized than ever before, with supply chains spread across a larger number of countries.

There is just one path for a lawyer in most American states: a four-year undergraduate degree in some unrelated subject, then a three-year law degree at one of 200 law schools authorized by the American Bar Association and an expensive preparation for the

These designers came to exert enormous influence on the course of American architecture, but none more so that mies.

This episode crystallizes the irony that although American men tend to talk more than women in public situations they often talk less at home.

To lead in that system requires knowledge that is fairly mind-boggling plus, virtually all major American companies are beyond this major CEOs still have to do all the day-to-day work they have always done.

Today's CEO, at least for major American firms, must have many mere skills than simply being able to "run the company" CEOs must have a good sense of financial markets and Maybe even how the company should trade in them.

When Hoffa's Teamsters were in their prime in 1960, only one in ten American government workers belonged to a union; now 36% do.

Working with the American Statistical Association, the journal has appointed seven experts to a statistics board of reviewing editors.