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They are also spending more time working with each other rather than reporting upwards.

These extra features are deemed unnecessary by the majority of shoppers, which probably reflects how these types of products are typically more expensive than regular toilet paper, even when on special offer.

The bulk of the research shows that there may be a pause, or a shifting of gears in the 40s or 50s, but this shift can be exciting, rather than terrifying.

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.

Product transitions take much less time now than in the past.

Penny-pinching UK consumers choose cheaper products from discounters such as Aldi and Lidl rather than luxury alternatives.

One in 10 buyers rank toilet rolls made from recycled paper among their top considerations, highlighting how overall the environment is much less of a consideration for shoppers than product quality.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon's boss, says that If I see more than two pizzas for lunch, the team is too big.

Interestingly, their memories are highly self-centred: although they can remember autobiographical life events in extraordinary detail, they seem to be no better than average at recalling impersonal information, such as random ( ' , 任意选取的) lists of words.

In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago, Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, Life Reimagined.

In a study of 120 teams of senior executives, he discovered that less than 10% of their supposed members agreed on who exactly was on the team.

I definitely feel things more strongly than the average person.

However, organisations need to learn something bigger than how to manage teams better: they need to be in the habit of asking themselves whether teams are the best tools for the job.

However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use team as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.

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

But a new report by Deloitte, Global Human Capital Trends, based on a survey of more than 7,000 executives in over 130 countries, suggests that the fashion for teamwork has reached a new high.

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

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

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

Advocates of selfdriving cars argue they will be safer than in cars driven by humans because they wouldn’t get distracted or drive when tired.

Yet the cost we project for saving civilization would amount to less than $200 billion a year, 1/6 of current global military spending.

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

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 were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities, for instance, and less likely to be bored or lonely.

Their life was much more comfortable than that of todayIt was helpful to maintaining a nation's tradition.

The surge in world grain prices in 2007 and 2008—and the threat they pose to food security—has a different, more troubling quality than the increases of the past.

The study, which followed more than 2,000 healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 60, found that certain mental functions—including measures of abstract reasoning, mental speed and puzzle-solving—started to dull as early as age 27.

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

The federal Head Start program, launched 50 years ago, has served more than 30 million children.

The cost for saving our civilization would be considerably less than the world's current military spending.

Rather than superpower conflict, countries unable to cope with food shortages now constitute the main threat to world security.

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.

Mothers' influence on children may last longer than fathers'.

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.

Modern techniques for producing and shipping food led to greater variety and quantity, including a tremendous increase in the amount of animal protein and dairy products available, making us more vigorous than our ancestorsYet plenty has been lost too, even in cultures that still live to eat.

Millions of irrigation wells in many countries are now pumping water out of underground sources faster than rainfall can refill them.

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

Long-living women are also more likely to be sympathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span.

It seems to me this highlights quality issues in elementary schools more than pre-K, and indicates longer-term success must connect pre-K with all the other issues related to educating a child.

It is really difficult to tell if assisted living is better than a nursing home.

It is more costly than what our ancestors ate.

I am about to make things more complicated by suggesting that what kind of facility an older person lives in may matter less than we have assumed.

As demand for food rises faster than supplies are growing, the resulting food-price inflation puts severe stress on the governments of many countries.

As a result, wheat prices elsewhere more than doubled, pulling rice and corn prices up with them.

As a matter of fact, consumers expressed higher satisfaction with the one-star facilities, the lowest rated, than with the five-star ones.

Anxiety and depression more often than not cut short one's life span.

An elderly person who describes herself as in poor health, therefore, might be no less depressed in assisted -86 living ( ' , even if her children preferred it) than in a nursing home.

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.

On top of all that, a new study published in the journal Learning and Memory finds you are probably better off sleeping than making last- minute preparations for a test.

92 were found to have higher nicotine yields than they did six years previously.

Waiters deserve better than just relying on tips for a living.

They have more older students than before.

They are much bigger than is desirable.

The idea of gamification was practiced by some businesses more than a century ago.

That's especially worrying, she says, given that anorexia ( ' , 厌食症) results in more deaths than does any other mental illness, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

Such children believe challenges are energizing rather than intimidating ( ' , 令人生畏); they offer opportunities to learn.

Sara Johnson acknowledges that the global economic benefit from a fall in oil prices today is likely lower than it was in the past.

Research shows that managers who have a fixed mind-set are less likely to seek or welcome feedback from their employees than are managers with a growth mind-set.

People now care more about quality than quantity.

One explanation for this finding is that possible awards may be more emotionally provoking than certainty awards, says Reimann.

Its negative effects more than cancel out its positive effects.

It's easier to find and acquire jamming equipment for some frequencies than it is for others.

It will do better than Paris Fashion Week.

It is necessary to use terms other than gamification for some professions.

In particular, attributing poor performance to a lack of ability depresses motivation more than does the belief that lack of effort is to blame.

In fact, vaguely-stated possibilities of winning a prize were more effective than options with hard odds included.

Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨头) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

As predicted, the students with a growth mind-set felt that learning was a more important goal than getting good grades.

They say it is healthier than green tea and could be sold for a price that is three to four times higher than the price of green tea.

The  Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued more than 35 flood warnings  covering several regions, as Scotland continues to clean up after Storm Frankhit the country last Wednesday.

It produces about two million tons of salt that is shipped to more than 1,500 places in the northeastern United States.

Did you know that besides larger places like France and Germany, Europe is home to several extremely tiny countries? One of these countries contains less than a square mile of land.

Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.

Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money.

They sleep longer than people elsewhere.

They can do more than providing money.

Supermarkets offer more variety than ever, and there are over four times as many farmers' markets in the U.S. as there were 20 years ago.

Since fewer than half of Americans say they cook at an intermediate level and only 20% describe their cooking skills as advanced, the crisis is one of confidence.

It places more emphasis on work efficiency than on workers' lives.

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

I concluded that the profit from burgers is more than offset ( ' , 抵消 ) by the damage they cause in health problems and environmental harm.

Criticizing someone's speech is said to be easier than coming up with a better one.

Cooking real food is the best defense—not to mention that any meal you're likely to eat at home contains about 200 fewer calories than one you would eat in a restaurant.

But actually, the country is closer to his proposal than you might think.

Building on a child's ability to feel joy, rather than pushing it aside, wouldn't be that hard.

Brits stayed up a half-hour later to watch it, and then they woke up earlier than usual the next morning thanks to summer nights, the phenomenon in which the sun barely sets in northern countries in the summertime.

Becoming educated should not require giving up joy but rather lead to finding joy in new kinds of things: reading novels instead of playing with small figures, conducting experiments instead of sinking cups in the bathtub, and debating serious issues rather than stringing together nonsense words, for example.

Average people probably sleep less than the rich.

And people who elect to track their sleep may try to get more sleep than the average person.

In a straightforward sense, he could mean that a critic must be more talented than the artist she critiques ( ' , 评论 ).

This finding supported ConAgra’s decision to position the product against other high quality frozen dinners, rather than as a diet or health food.

The products were much better than people thought they would be.

The low-sodium, low- fat frozen dinners sold much better than expected.

Since 1977, I have spent much more time abroad than in the United States.

Last July, the Somali group al- Shabab said it was behind theblasts in the Ugandan capital which killed more than 70people.

"In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago," Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, life Reimagined.

"One explanation for this finding is that possible awards may be more emotionally provoking than certainty awards," says Reimann.

White parents are more likely than others to read to their children daily, as are married parents.

To focus more on beauty products than clothing.

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

The achievement gap between children from high- and lowincome families is 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than those born 25 years earlier, according to Mr.

The Los Angeles Math Circle, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, began in 2007 with 20 students and now has more than 250.

Of families earning more than $75,000 a year, 84% say their children have participated in organized sports over the past year, 64% have done volunteer work and 62% have taken lessons in music, dance or art.

Of families earning less than $30,000, 59% of children have done sports, 37% have volunteered and 41 % have taken arts classes.

More than a quarter of children live in single-parent households—a historic high, according to Pew—and these children are three times as likely to live in poverty as those who live with married parents.

Meanwhile, Macy's has simply struggled to lure consumers who are more interested in spending on travel or dining out than on new clothes or accessories.

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.

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

Do some strategies give children more advantages than others in institutions? Probably they do.

Designer sportswear would have to be verified by a standard other than that of pure beauty; the emulation of a designer's life in designer sportswear was a crude version of this relationship.

Andrea Flack of the Max Planck Institute found that birds following traditional migration routes were more likely to die than German storks that flew only as far as northern Morocco, and spent the winter there on rubbish dumps.

According to Richard Rusczyk, the company founder, the six U.S.team members who competed at the IMO last year collectively took more than 40 courses on the site.

2% in November and December at stores open more than a year, a disappointing holiday season performance that capped a difficult year for a department store chain facing wideranging challenges.

Within just the past five years, I have noticed parents returning to a belief that teenagers need the guidance of elders rather than the liberal, anything goes mode of child-rearing that became popular in the second half of the 20th century.

When we ask teens to choose a hero, they usually select an older family member rather than a remote public figure.

Virtually all experts agree that the fee-for-service system—doctors are rewarded for the quantity of care rather than its quality of effectiveness—is a primary reason that the cost of care is so high.

Unilever recently ran an interactive campaign for its Axe deodorant ( ' , 除臭剂), which kept viewers engaged for more than three minutes on average.

This proposal could save Medicare more than $100 billion over the next decade.

The survey shows us that today's teens are affectionate, sensible and far happier than the angry and tortured souls that have been painted for us by stereotypes.

The one in the House bill would have to negotiate rates with providers, rather than using Medicare rates, as many reformers wanted.

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

The average Norwegian is better off than the average US citizen, but contributes about half as much to climate change.

The Senate Finance bill would impose an excise tax ( ' , 消费税) on health insurance plans that cost more than $8,000 for an individual or $21,000 for a family.

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

Some authoritative analysts doubt that the secretary would get better deals than private insurers already get.

Recently, we examined more than 400 essays on the laws of life that teens from two communities had written as part of an educational program initiated by the John Templeton Foundation in Radnor, Pa.

Perhaps in the face of impersonal and intimidating globalization, a young person's family feels more like a friendly haven than an oppressive trap.

Only three states, with a combined population not much larger than that of Brooklyn, have unemployment rates below 5%.

One main factor that has driven up medical expenses is that doctors are compensated for the amount of care rather than its effect.

One boy said, I'd rather be concentrating on artistic efforts than saving the world or something.

My own research at the Stanford Center on Adolescence uses in-depth interviews with small samples of youngsters rather than large-scale surveys.

More than a decade later, there was no sign of the ecosystem re-building itself.

More than 80% of those cases can be attributed to contact with contaminated water and a lack of proper sanitation.

Medical spending, which typically rises faster than wages and the overall economy, is propelled by two things: the high prices charged for medical services in this country and the volume of unnecessary care delivered by doctors and hospitals, which often perform a lot more tests and treatments than a patient really needs.

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

Managing ecosystems sustainably is more profitable than exploiting them, according to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.

It is difficult to find solid evidence to prove environmental friendliness generates more profits than exploiting the natural environment.

It is also troubling that voting rates among our youngest eligible voters—18- to 24-year-olds—are way down: Little more than one in four now go to the polls, even in national elections, compared with almost twice that many when 18-year-olds were first given the vote.

Is surgery, radiation or careful monitoring best for prostate ( ' , 前列腺) cancer? Is the latest and most expensive cholesterol-lowering drug any better than its common competitors? The pending bills would spend additional money to accelerate this effort.

Clickthrough rates have been high so far ( ' , around 3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% online), but that may be a result of the novelty.

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.

And perhaps parents are acting more like parents than in the recent past.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequality from one generation to the next.

These catastrophic events caused more than 1.5 trillion dollars in economic losses.

The US has already lost more than a third of the native languages that existed before European colonisation, and the remaining 192 are classed by UNESCO as ranging between unsafe and extinct.

Researchers at Duke University scrutinized more than 160 published studies and found an absence of strong evidence that any of these approaches can make a big difference.

More than 130 U.S.banks failed in 2009.

More than 130 U.S. banks failed in 2009.

From a very early age, some children exhibit better self-control than others.

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.

it is unfair to those climate-vulnerable nationsit aims to keep temperature rise below 2 ℃ onlyit is beneficial to only fewer than 4% of countriesit burdens developed countries with the sole responsibilityThey needn't worry about the food and water they consume.

There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.

Then there is Antarctic's remoteness, with some mineral deposits found in windswept locations on a continent that is larger than Europe and where winter temperatures hover around minus 55 degrees Celsius.

The problem isn't the technology itself, but that the technology is being used to create more flexibility for the employer rather than the employee.

The number of smokers has dropped more sharply than in the UK.

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.

The Consumer Electronics Show in recent years has begun to focus more on the practical value than the showiness of electronic devices.

Students do not merely benefit while at university; studies show- they go on to be healthier and happier than non-graduates, and also far more likely to vote.

Stress is also starting earlier in life, with some data suggesting that today's teens are even more stressed than adults.

Rather than just dazzling with a high cool factor, there is a focus on the practical.

No wonder it has become fashionable to denounce many universities as little more than elaborate con-tricks ( ' , 骗术).

More than a century has passed since explorers raced to plant their flags at the bottom of the world, and for decades to come this continent is supposed to be protected as a scientific preserve, shielded from intrusions like military activities and mining.

More than 100 years ago, American sociologist W.

More than $100 billion in funding has been put on the table for supporting developing nations to reduce emissions.

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 turned out that Watson and Venter shared fewer variations in their genetic sequences than they each shared with Kim.

It is still easy to be dazzled by the display of drones ( ' , 无人机 ), 3D printers, virtual reality goggles ( ' , 眼镜 ) and more smart devices than you could ever hope to catalog.

In America today, even teenagers suffer from stress, and their problem is even more serious than grown-ups'.

In a competitive work environment, employers are able to use technology to demand more from their employees rather than motivating workers with flexibility that benefits them.

Fewer than 4% of countries are responsible for more than half of the world's greenhouse gas emissions.

Even utility companies, which have long viewed batteries and alternative forms of energy as a threat, are learning to embrace the technologies as enabling rather than disrupting.

Cigarette sales have been falling far more quickly than in the UK.

But the invisible group wasn't far behind the high-risk set, with more than 13% of them exhibiting depression.

But US researchers quietly complain about budget restraints and having far fewer icebreakers than Russia, limiting the reach of the United States in Antarctica.

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.

And if you suspected that the workplace had gotten more stressful than it was just a few decades ago, you're right.

Americans are working longer and harder hours than ever before.

There are more than 600,000 professional social workers in the country, and we all either have a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree or a Ph D in social work.

There are more clinically trained social workers than clinically trained psychiatrists, psychologists and psychiatric nurses combined.

Rising more than 1,000 feet in the middle of the gently rolling plains of Wyoming, the massive column of rock looks as though it was dropped down into this location from a different time and place.

I’m going to define what love is, but then most of the experiments I’m going to talk about are really focused more on attraction than love.

In ponds closest to the colony, the result showed there were far more pollutants than the ponds less affected by the birds.

I now put 20 dollars a week into my vacation fund and another 20 into retirement savings, she says, Those mean more to me than lunch.

But by 2014, the death rate from Alzheimer’s Disease for this age group have more than doubled, increasing from 3.8% to 8.5%, making the progressive brain disease the second leading cause of death for centenarians.

And in 2010, the researchers reported that children aged 12 to 17 saw more athlete-endorsed food and beverage brand commercials than adults.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, for instance, admits only that the graduation rate for its first-generation pupils is much lower than the percentage of all students who graduate within four years ( ' , 81 percent).

Some top institutions like Yale seem to provide first-generation students with more support than they actually need.

Some coal power plants in the United States have operated for more than 70 years! The oldest continuously operated commercial hydro-electric plant in the United States is on New York's Hudson River, and it went into commercial service in 1898.

Rather than merely asking about something they wanted to try, they tended to include both cause and effect in their question.

Museums and other institutions of informal learning may be better suited to teach this skill than elementary and secondary schools.

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called preparation for future learning.

Kids who are the first in their families to brave the world of higher education came on campus with little academic know- how and are much more likely than their peers to drop out before graduation.

Informal learning environments tolerate failure better than schools.

First generation college students tend to have much heavier financial burdens than their peers.

College students are no better than fifth graders in memorizing facts.

College graduates will still fare better than those with only s high school education, of course.

Chetty finds that communities like Salt Lake City, with high levels of two-parent families and religiosity, are much more likely to see poor children get ahead than communities like Atlanta, with high levels of racial and economic segregation.