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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 Leah made the commitment to change, she primed herself to new opportunities she may otherwise have overlooked.

They need to immunise teams against group-think: Hackman argued that the best ones contain deviants ( ' , 离经叛道者) who are willing to do something that may be upsetting to others.

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.

Some scholars think teamwork may not always be reliable, despite its potential to work wonders.

Small signs may indicate great changes to come and therefore merit attention.

Normal forgetting may even be a safety mechanism to ensure our brain doesn't become too full.

Leigh Thompson of Kellogg School of Management in Illinois warns that, Teams are not always the answer—teams may provide insight, creativity and knowledge in a way that a person working independently cannot; but teamwork may also lead to confusion, delay and poor decision-making.

It may see old-age diseases approaching.

It may be the beginning of a crisis.

High-flyers ( ' , 能干的人) who are forced to work in teams may be undervalued and free-riders empowered.

He knew my love for yoga and had seen a space close to where he lived that he thought might be good to serve as a yoga studio.

Group-think may be unavoidable.

And such research might even suggest ways for us all to relive our past with greater clarity.

And most of us may sometimes feel the frustration of having old memories interfere with new, relevant memories.

A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steelcase, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are engaged is to give them more control over where and how they do their work—which may mean liberating them from having to do everything in collaboration with others.

This behaviour may have evolved as dogs gradually learned they could benefit from avoiding conflicts with humans.

The scientists suggest this may be an attempt to calm humans down.

John Nielsen, AAA’s managing director of automotive engineering and repair, said tests suggest drivers may be overestimating their own abilities.

It is not the first time one of Google’s famed self-driving cars has been involved in a crash, but it may be the first time it has caused one.

Dogs may have learned to detect threat signs from humans and respond by trying to make peace, according to researcher Sanni Somppi.

Avoiding conflicts may have helped dogs develop better bonds with humans.

may be better at solving puzzlescan memorize things with more easemay have greater facility in abstract reasoningcan put what they have learnt into more effective usefind ways to slow down our mental declinefind ways to boost our memoriesunderstand the complex process of mental functioningunderstand the relation between physical and mental healthThe most important thing in the news last week was the rising discussion in Nashville about the educational needs of children.

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

Unfortunately, another recent study shows that your mother's personality may also help determine your longevity.

Though it helps for children to investigate care facilities, involving their parents in the decision-making process may prove very important.

These patterns suggest that some types of mental flexibility decrease relatively early in adulthood, but that the amount of knowledge one has, and the effectiveness of integrating it with one's abilities, may increase throughout all of adulthood if there are no diseases, Salthouse said in a news release.

The researchers are currently analyzing the study participants' health and lifestyle to see which factors might influence age-related cognitive changes.

Such moves may eliminate the fears of those living in the exporting countries, but they are creating panic in importing countries that must rely on what is then left for export.

Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when we're adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.

Now a third and far more significant motivation presents itself: meeting these goals may be necessary to prevent the collapse of our civilization.

Mothers' negative personality characteristics may affect their children's life spans.

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

It may start a revolution in the car industry.

It may constitute a challenge to computer programmers.

Interestingly, however, other characteristics that you might consider advantageous had no impact on whether study participants were likely to live longer.

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.

By following individuals over time, Salthouse said, we gain insight in cognition changes, and may possibly discover ways to slow the rate of decline.

Based on what is emerging from some of this research, that might have been as rational a way as any to reach a decision.

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.

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.

A person who had input into where he would move and has had time to adapt to it might do as well in a nursing home as in a small residential care home, other factors being equal.

Later, students may have the opportunity of selecting the adviser that they prefer.

If you are a graduate teaching assistant, your adviser also may be your boss.

If you are a graduate student, you may depend on your adviser for many things, including help with improving grades, acquiring financial support, forming an examining committee and getting letters of recommendation.

You may have heard some of the fashion industry horror stories: models eating tissues or cotton balls to hold off hunger, and models collapsing from hunger-induced heart attacks just seconds after they step off the runway.

With wired setups, the fear is that a burglar ( ' , 入室盗贼) might be able to shut your system down simply by cutting the right cable.

We validated these expectations in a study in which two other psychologists and I monitored 373 students for two years during the transition to junior high school, when the work gets more difficult and the grading -102- more strict, to determine how their mind-sets might affect their math grades.

The secret to eating less and being happy about it may have been cracked years ago—by McDonald's.

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

Oil prices may rise or fall but economic laws are not subject to change.

It might mean monitoring employee productivity on a digital leaderboard and offering prizes to the winners, or giving employees digital badges or stars for completing certain activities.

It may shed light on people's desire to crack a secret.

It may be a pleasant way for kids to reduce their food intake.

In the workplace, feedback may not be so welcome to managers with a fixed mind-set.

If we replaced half of our administrative staff with classroom teachers, we might actually get a majority of our classes back to 20 or fewer students per teacher.

How might this knowledge be used to help people eat more healthily?One possibility is a healthy option that offers the chance to win a spa ( ' , 温泉疗养) weekend.

Gamification is not a miracle cure for all workplaces as it may have negative results.

For workers, especially low-paid workers, who desperately need their jobs yet know they can be easily replaced, gamification may feel more like the Hunger Games.

For them, the right kind of gamification might be turning their sales pitches into a competition with other team members, complete with a digital leaderboard showing who is winning at all times.

And a number of oil-producing countries are trimming their gasoline subsidies and raising taxes, so the net savings for global consumers is not as big as the oil price plunge might suggest.

A gamification strategy that is not sufficiently thought through or well tailored to its players may engage people for a little while, but it will not motivate people in the long term.

This once-in-alifetime event actually may take place twice in some folks’ lives.

You may need to start by encouraging your current network to help you identify your blind spots.

Writers may experience periods of time in their life when they just can't produce anything.

This might be a small change to the way we view work and the office, but the researchers argue that it challenges a widespread characteristic of the economy: work organized by clock time.

That may be a bad thing, particularly at work.

It may prevent your business and career from advancing.

It may not be here much longer.

It may make you feel uncertain about your own decisions.

It may have a negative effect on creative work.

Her prison sentence might have been extended.

Her past record might stand in her way to a new life.

But, in the years that followed, her sustained tutoring suggested that Kafka might be wrong about the solitude.

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

Ask yourself, Would Grandma consider this food? Does it look like something that might occur in nature? It's pretty much common sense: you want to buy food, not unidentifiable foodlike objects.

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

They may even have been covered with silk because silk was used a lot at that time.

Marco Polo may have brought the kite back from his visit to China.

Amazon, by far the largest bookseller in the country, reported on May 19 that it is now selling more books in its electronic Kindle format than in the old paper-and-ink format.

Further evidence of McLaughlin's irresponsibility occurred on May 6 when he was returning from his shift.

But you see the summers are amazing, from May to July in the North of Sweden the sun never sets.

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

"There are a lot of studies on the relationship between breakfast eating and possible health outcomes, but this may be because those who eat breakfast choose to habitually have health-enhancing behaviours such as regular exercise and not smoking," she say

"These patterns suggest that some types of mental flexibility decrease relatively early in adulthood, but that the amount of knowledge one has, and the effectiveness of integrating it with one's abilities, may increase throughout all of adulthood if there

"Too many of us may be paying for one thing, and getting another," the Attorney General said.

A 4-year-old may 27 protest that a sister has more fruit juice when it is only the shapes of the glasses that differ, not the 28 amount of juice.

A dry mouth may reduce taste sensitivity, but taste is restored by drinking fluids.

A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steel case, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are "engaged" is to give them more control over where and how they do their work—which may mean liberati

A previous Pew Research Center analysis projected that as many as one-in-four of today's young adults may never marry.

A restructuring of the textbook industry may well be in order.

A well-known, but inaccurate, story about Julia Child may have contributed to this food myth.

Alexandra Johnstone, professor of appetite research at the University of Aberdeen, argues that it may simply be because breakfast-skippers have been found to be less knowledgeable about nutrition and health?

Also, mothers may call on their children more often than fathers, given traditional gender norms.

Although economic research and previous survey findings have shown that career interruptions related to motherhood may make it harder for women to advance in their careers and compete for top executive jobs, relatively few adults in the recent survey poin

As one of the most brutal predators (食肉动物), killer whales may not fit the image of a cultured creature.

Barley was an unexpected find: the crop was domesticated in Western Eurasia and didn't become a staple food in central China until about 2,000 years ago, according to the researchers.Based on that timing, they indicate barley may have 34 arrived in the re

But as these findings show, exercise and academics may not be mutually exclusive.

But by demonstrating their common sense, they've shown that the divide between cats and humans may not be that great after all.

But having a large network and some promotional skills may be more crucial.

While these numbers are still being validated by the state, we feel any adjustments they might suggest will be immaterial, Morgan wrote to the presidents.

Unfortunately, the current low prices for oil, gas, and coal may provide little incentive for research to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels.

They might eat something toxic and damage their health.

They may have trouble getting adequate food.

They may evolve new feeding habits.

They may end up staying there permanently.

They may eat something harmful.

The dynamic adjustment to low oil prices may, however, be different this time around.

The belief that research data is private intellectual propertyThe concern that certain agencies may make a profit out of it.

Teachers in low-income urban and rural areas with no history of participating in math competitions may not know about advanced-math opportunities like MathCounts—and those who do may not have support or feel trained to lead them.

Students may take advantage of online resources to learn to solve math problems.

Students in university towns may also have access to another lever for involvement in accelerated math: math circles.

Some climate impacts may already be discernible.

Middle school is a crucial period when students may become keenly interested in advanced mathematics.

It has plans to open more locations of Macy's Backstage, a newly-developed off-price concept which might help it better compete with ambitious T.J.Maxx.

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

Higher fossil fuel prices prove to be conducive to innovation and application of cleaner technologyIf fossil fuel prices remain low for a long time, it may lead to higher emissions of greenhouse gases.

About 100,000 students around the country participate in the program's competition series, which culminates in a national game-show-style contest held each May.

A tax on upstream carbon sources is one easy way to put a price on carbon emissions, although some countries may wish to use other methods, such as emissions trading schemes.

Sweden was the first European country to print and use paper money, but it may soon do away with physical currencies.

Research now says adding fiber to the teen diet may help lower the risk of breast cancer.

In fact, you may have heard about the new superbugs, which are antibiotic-resistant bacteria that have developed as a result of overprescribed antibiotics.

They may be due to the novel way of advertising.

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 final legislation might throw a public plan into the competition, but thanks to the fierce opposition of the insurance industry and Republican critics, it might not save much money.

That statement comes not, as you might imagine, from a stereotypical tree-hugging, save-the-world greenie ( ' , 环保主义者), but from Gordon Brown, a politician with a reputation for rigour, thoroughness and above all, caution.

Such results may seem surprising against the background of shocking incidents that color the way the mass media portray the young.

Sometimes the best treatment might be the most expensive.

Parents are concerned that their children may get involved in criminal offences once they reach their teens.

Of course, such growth may not persist in the long term—which is what Mr.

No wonder parents worry their own kids might spin out of control once they hit the turbulent waters of adolescence.

It cannot respond to the opportunities which industry may offer.

Interactive ads and viewers might not go well together.

Farmers and consumers may be affected by harmful bacteria.

Fair competition might create a strong incentive for insurers to charge less.

Facing water shortages and escalating fertilizer costs, farmers in developing countries are using raw sewage ( ' , 下水道污水) to irrigate and fertilize nearly 49 million acres of cropland, according to a new report—and it may not be a bad thing.

Contrary to analysts' doubts, the author believes drug prices may be lowered through negotiation.

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.

But while the number of advertisements may have dipped, there has been a rapid spread of eco-labeling.

And the head-to-head competition might give them a strong incentive to lower their prices, perhaps by accepting slimmer profit margins or demanding better deals from providers.

Mothers have been warned for years that sleeping with their newborn infant is a bad idea, because it increases the risk that the baby might die unexpectedly during the night.

But the president may be giving the financial sector too much credit.

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.

find digital devices simply indispensablecommunicate primarily by mobile phonelight their homes with stored solar energydistribute power with wires and wooden polesbenefit their business transmit power faster promote innovationencourage competitionIt might become a thing of the past.

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.

While most parents, teachers and clinicians would react to an adolescent using drugs or getting drunk, they may easily overlook teenagers who are engaging in inconspicuous behaviors.

This might not be right, but school-leavers who fail to acknowledge as much risk making the wrong decision about going to university.

The demand for energy resources may compel renegotiation of Antarctica's treaties before their expiration.

The researchers also acknowledged that there are a few areas where race as a construct might still be useful in scientific research: as a political and social, but not biological, variable.

That is bad news for any firm that may hope that smartwatches can make up ground for maturing smartphone and tablet markets.

Still, as impressive as all this is, it may be trivial compared with what comes next.

So what other variables could be used if the racial concept is thrown out? Yudell said scientists need to get more specific with their language, perhaps using terms like ancestry or population that might more precisely reflect the relationship between humans and their genes, on both the individual and population level.

Schoololeavers may moan, but they have little choice but to embrace university and the student debt that comes with it.

Scan the highlights of this year's Consumer Electronics Show ( ' , CES), and you may get a slight feeling of having seen them before.

Of course, that may sound like a description of every teenager on the planet.

Moen and her colleagues may have found the solution.

Many hitherto unobserved youngsters may have psychological problems.

It might turn out to be a prosumer.

It may have found an ideal way to handle teenagers with behavioral problems.

In-office wellness programs may help reduce stress levels, but they are hardly an ultimate solution to the problem.

By the end of the decade, it's expected to be worth over $50 billion and generate 160 gigawatt-hours, enough to attract the attention of major companies that might not otherwise be interested in a decidedly pedestrian technology.

But advances in technology might make Antarctica a lot more accessible three decades from now.

And while you may forgive your smartphone an occasional fault, you probably have less patience for error messages from your door lock.

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.

At best, kids might be confused.

With the help of psychologists, there is fresh hope that we might go green after all.

While that may make suborbital travel safer, it would add significant cost and complexity to an emerging industry that has until now operated largely as the playground of billionaires and dreamy engineers.

They may lose the respect of patients.

They may have to use less effective drugs.

They may be involved in a conflict of interest.

They may be forced to divide their attention.

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

Politicians may tackle polluters while scientists do battle with carbon emissions.

Per-capita local government spendingIn other words, communities with high levels of per-capita income growth, high percentages of two-parent families, and high local government spending—which may stand for good schools— are the most likely to help poor children relive Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches story.

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

It may lead to the bankruptcy of Virgin Galactic.

It may discourage rich people from space travel.

It may add to doctors' already heavy workloads.

In some cases, colleges and universities might have to change their training programs, adding another layer of difficulty.

Fortunately for the planet, social science and behavioural economics may be able to do that for us.

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.

But the Food and Drug Administration has not approved Avastin for use in the eye, and using it rather than the alternative, Lucentis, might carry an additional, although slight, safety risk.

And if we're not going to make rational decisions about the future, others may have to help us to do so.

A job application might mention affiliations with groups such as the Wisconsin Association of African-American Lawyers or the National Black Employees Association, the names of which apparently have consequences, and are also beyond their members' control.

When teamsconsist of experienced employees from hierarchical organizations, who have been conditioned to traditional organizational culture, cooperation may not occur naturally, it may need to be created.

Together, the team may then produce something new, unique and superior to that of any one member.

Therefore, team building may be necessary in order to improve the group’s performance.

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

For others, a combination of mass transit and private transportation may be desirable.

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

And it may be especially discouraging if you happen to be looking for a job or hoping to change careers right now.

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

Students attend "short terms" in May and June to earn the credits required for graduation.

But you see the summers are amazing, from May to July in the North of Sweden the sun never sets.

"Make mathematics more available," Draujlcova says. Redesign it so it's more accessible to more kinds of people: young children, adults who worry about it, adults who may have had bad experiences."

"What we find is you actually look at the world slightly differently, because you're looking for things you want to capture, that you may want to hang onto," Dehl explains. "That gets people more engaged in the experience, and they tend to enjoy it more."

About 100,000 students around the country participate in the program's competition series, which culminates in a national game-showstyle contest held each May.

Alcohol may increase the effect of a drug.

Alternatively, you may wish to try and surprise your boss with something less common, such as this zinfandel.

Although these may not seem like large effects, the impact of early attention problems continued throughout the children's academic careers.

A coach may read a sports story for its threat value: he may have to play that team next week.

A pie graph might include a legend, or it might use icons or labels within each slice.

A politician may read an account of his latest successful public meeting, not for its delayed reward, but very much as his wife reads an account of a party.

A salesman who is not punctual may not make a sale if he arrives late for an appointment.

A scientist working at her lab bench and a six-old baby playing with his food might seem to have little in common.

A silence in a conversation may also show stubbornness, or worry.

A thoughtful official passed on some of the copies to the park authorities on the assumption that they might make a nice blow-up for one of the visitors' centers.

According to the author, the unconscious mind may help us find the right solution.

According to the passage, children's fear and dislike of books may result from being made to read aloud before others.

Actually, one may start his journey of modern architecture by walking or biking.

After all, if we adapt in that way, we may avoid the need to change in so many others.

After de-layering in this way, a company may be left with just a top level of senior managers, front-line managers and employees with direct contact with the public.

Alice Moore is a teenager entrepreneur, who in may 2015 set up her business ailiecandy.

Although the drills are used in deliberate practice might not be the most enjoyable, they might be the most relevant to improving performance.

Although this result may not surprise you, it leads to important practical advice.

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.

Always remember that your best ideas might come when your head is actually in the clouds.

An A-team may require A balance—not just A players, but a few generous B players as well.

Besides, the professor might leave after ten minutes, which would make your trip a total loss.

And while plastic bags may be ugly to look at, they represent a small percentage of all garbage on the ground today.

Another possibility is that when there is a lot of talent on a team, some players may make less effort.

Any smell might attract natural enemies that would try to eat the little comforting pats.

As it happened, the bite was virtually painless: more the kind of small bite you might get from a naughty child.

As recently reported in The Auk: ornithological advances, some mother birds may teach their young to sing even before they hatch?

As the end of school approaches, and school vacation reading lists loom ahead, parents might take this chance to step in and make their own summer reading list and plan a family trip to the library or bookstore.

As you may know already, it's a required meeting once a week.

Bertocchini agrees and hopes her team's findings might one day help employ the enzyme to break down plastics in landfills.

But it may well be that the learning you really want lies somewhere else instead.

But the next step is making sure that you remember what you've read! You may have just read the text, but the ideas, concepts and images (形象) may fly right out of your head.

By painting buildings white, cities may slow down the warming process.

Children may have greater ability to figure out things than scientists.

Children may learn the rules of language by repeating their own experiments.

Children's comparing themselves to others online may lead to lower self-identity and confidence.

Considering this, you might expect the book to be a dry recitation of facts.

Daydreams are often very simple and direct, quite unlike sleep dreams, which may be hard to understand.

Delayed reward may be expected from news of public affairs, economic matters, social problems, science, education, and health.

Depending on the type of allergies and/ or dietary requirements, an extra charge may be made for providing special food.

Dreaming about whether you would want to read minds, see through walls, or have superhuman strength may sound silly, but it actually gets to the heart of what really matters in your life.

Driverless cars may end up being a form of public transport rather than vehicles you own, says ryan calo at stanford university, California.

Even though you might feel more comfortable going with a friend or partner, the office hour will go better if it's just you and the professor.

Explain your frustrations calmly and sensibly—see it as an opportunity to clear up any difficulties you may have with this person.

False fire alarms are illegal and may lead to imprisonment.

Fares for the senior /disabled customers senior citizens 65 and older and disabled customers may ride for half the regular fare.

Finally you climb into an Arctic-like zone with permanent snow and the glaciers that may soon disappear.

Finally, you never know what wonderful idea might strike while your mind has moved slowly away.

Food webs may be dominated by many weak links because that arrangement is more stable over the long term.

For example, "bridge" might stand for "meet" and "out" might stand for "me".

For example, a sociologist may read news of crime as a social problem, rather than for its immediate reward.

For example, children may change soccer and basketball rules to suit their needs and their environment e.

For example, Russian, French, and Spanish persons may use silence to show agreement between parties about the topic under discussion.

For example, you may want to be a pilot but can't become one because your eyesight is not good enough.

Freedom may come to an end in the digital age.

Grandma's rose garden and Dad's vegetable garden might be good or bad, but that's not what's important.

Grocery stores of the future might stock "food" that lasts years on end, freeing up shelf space and reducing transportation and storage requirements.

Having your grandchildren far away is hard, especially knowing your adult child is struggling, but giving up the life you know may be harder.

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

He asked Benjamin's parents if he might take the boy to Philadelphia for a visit.

He has a constant urge to check for text messages; he checks his phone every five minutes! He's so addicted to it that he just can't stand the idea that there may be an important text.

He might not have done this particularly well, because the teacher told gabriel that he had a good ear and suggested that gabriel go into the music store-room to see if any of the instruments there appealed to him.

Here are some important points that you may find helpful.

Home treatment may help you avoid tension headaches.

How much may they pay if an 11-year-old girl and her working parents visit the museum?

However, Mexicans may use silence when instructions are given by a person in authority rather than be rude to that person by arguing with him or her.

However, physicist Joseph west thought there might have been a simpler way, who led the new study.

However, players could more effectively improve their backhand performance by practicing drills that might be considered less enjoyable.

However, the 1995 pop song 'common people' puts forward the view that though a middle-class person may 'want to live like common people' they can never appreciate the reality of a working-class life.

However, there are a number of other reasons that might explain why you want to garden.

However, they still did not know how to cope with mean-spirited jokes, or the sense of incompetence they might feel if they compared themselves to celebrities or more brilliant friends online.

I gave the owner as much information as possible and headed home to see what news the night might bring.

I had advised the kids that while verbs may seem dull, most of the clever things they do throughout their lives will be verbs.

I might not be able to do it.

I worried that you might play like this every night.

If a basketball star is, for example, trying to gain a high personal point total, he may take a shot himself when it would be better to pass the ball to a teammate, affecting the team's performance.

If acceptable social behavior is too strictly defined and controlled, the insensitive or aggressive behavior that administrators are seeking to minimize may actually be encouraged.

If I could locate the nest, I might have been able to put it back, but no luck.

If I kept going I might not be able to see my way back.

If it weren't for Rachel Carson, the environmental movement might not exist today.

If that happened, Seppala might fall into the icy water below.

If Tononi's theory is right, it would explain why, when we miss a night's, we find it harder the next day to concentrate and learn new information — our brains may have smaller room for new experiences.

If volunteer positions do not meet these needs, people may not wish to participate.

If you don't understand something, you may research, study, and talk to other people until you figure it out.

If you have a tension headache, you may also feel the pressure on both sides of your head.

If you miss this chance, it may be years before you get another one.

If you take the medicine more than three times a week, you may get a rebound headache, which is far more severe than tension headaches.

In America, May and June are the traditional months for graduations.

In any given story of corruption or disaster, a thoughtful reader may receive not only the immediate reward of indirect experience, but also the delayed reward of information and preparedness.

In department stores, the women's shoe section is generally next to the cosmetics sections：while the shop assistant is going back to find the right size shoe, bored customers are likely to wander over cosmetics they might want to try later.

In general, the kind of news which may be expected to give immediate reward are news of crime and corruption, accidents and disasters, sports, social events, and human interest.

In still another use, persons in Asian cultures may view silence as a sign of respect, particularly to an elder or a person in authority.

In which section of a newspaper may this text appear?

Indeed science is so good at what it does that there's always a temptation to drag it into problems where it may not be helpful.

Individuals or groups may enter one of the following categories.

Instead, babies may form an understanding of object support through repeated experiments and then build on this knowledge to learn even more about how objects interact.

It is important to pay your electricity bill on time, as late payments may affect your credit.

It might have saved me some trouble had I known the schedule.

It might seem unkind to cut people short when they interrupt you.

It's about time they had to be registered and insured, so when they do hit a pedestrian or a vehicle, or cause an accident, at least they can be treated and there might be an opportunity to claim.

Jordan Axani, said he and his then girlfriend, Elizabeth Gallagher, booked heavily discounted round-the-world air tickets in May.

Kitchens that are not kept clean may be closed for use.

Last week some city officials suggested the city might be interested in turning the old theater into a museum and public meeting place.

It may be said that the measure of the worth of any social institution is its effect in enlarging and improving experience; but this effect is not a part of its original motive.

If humanity has made some headway in realizing that the ultimate value of every institution is its distinctively human effect we may well believe that this lesson has been learned largely through dealings with the young.

To take this approach to the New Englanders normally mean to start with the Puritans’ theological innovations and their distinctive ideas about the church-important subjects that we may not neglect.

Thus poor countries might not be able to escape their poverty traps without political changes that may be possible only with broader formal education.

This means that a DNA database may differ depending on the company that processes the results.

In addition, the computer programs a company uses to estimate relationships may be patented and not subject to peer review or outside evaluation.

But in keeping with our examination of southern intellectual life, we may consider the original Puritans as carriers of European culture adjusting to New world circumstances.

The details may be unknowable, but the independence of standard-setters, essential to the proper functioning of capital markets, is being compromised.

Retailers that master the intricacies of wholesaling in Europe may well expect to rake in substantial profits thereby.

Later, move established companies raced to add such patents to their files, if only as a defensive move against rivals that might bent them to the punch.

Big retailers must understand these differences before they can identify the segments of European wholesaling in which their particular abilities might unseat smaller but entrenched competitors.

However， Allen believed that the unconscious mind generates as much action as the conscious mind， and while we may be able to sustain the illusion of control through the conscious mind alone， in reality we are continually faced with a question： “Why cannot I make myself do this or achieve that？ ”Since desire and will are damaged by the presence of thoughts that do not accord with desire， Allen concluded ： “ We do not attract what we want， but what we are.

They may then decide to go elsewhere.

In such a case, the company’s response may not be sufficiently quick or thoughtful, and the learning curve has been steep.

Consumers passionate about a product may create “owned” media by sending e-mail alerts about products and sales to customers registered with its Web site.

But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “ the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

Besides generating income, the presence of other marketers makes the site seem objective, gives companies opportunities to learn valuable information about the appeal of other companies’ marketing, and may help expand user traffic for all companies concerned.

As the first signs of recovery begin to take hold, deputy chiefs may be more willing to make the jump without a net.

As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don’t get the nod also may wish to move on.

Academic inquiry, at least in some fields, may need to become less exclusionary and more holistic.

To filter out what is unique from what is shared might enable us to understand how complex cultural behavior arose and what guides it in evolutionary or cognitive terms.

Just as the bewildering variety of human courtship rituals might all be considered forms of sexual selection, perhaps the world’s languages, music, social and religious customs and even history are governed by universal features.

It is becoming less clear, however, that such a theory would be a simplification, given the dimensions and universes that it might entail, nonetheless, unification of sorts remains a major goal.

But thinking what nobody else has thought and telling others what they have missed may not change their views.

Bankers’ fat pay packets have attracted much criticism, but a public-sector system that does not reward high achievers may be a much bigger problem for America.

A sacred place of peace, however crude it may be, is a distinctly human need, as opposed to shelter, which is a distinctly animal need.

You might even be tempted to assume that humanity has little future to look forward to.

Unable to tell whether someone really objects to behavioural ads or whether they are sticking with Microsoft’s default, some may ignore a DNT signal and press on anyway.

Perhaps willfully , it may be easier to think about such lengthy timescales than about the more immediate future.

On May 31st Microsoft Set off the row: It said that Internet Explorer 10,the version due to appear windows 8, would have DNT as a default.

It might be poetic, philosophical, sensual, or mathematical, but in any case it must, in my view, have something to do with the soul of the human being.

For him, order does not result from forgetting or ignoring the disorders that plague our existence; order is a necessary development, an improvement that may lead to the Greek ideal of spiritual elevation.

Yet its report may well set back reform by obscuring the depth and breadth of the challenge that Congress asked it to illuminate.

Regrettably, however, the report’s failure to address the true nature of the crisis facing liberal education may cause more harm than good.

Except in the District of Columbia, non-lawyers may not own any share of a law firm.

As much as some scientists may complain about the new awards, two things seem clear.

Archaeologists also may locate buried remains by using such technologies as ground radar, magnetic- field recording, and metal detector.

You make further inferences, for instance, about how the test may be significant to you, or about its validity—inferences that form the basis of a personal response for which the author will inevitably be far less responsible.

This impact will not only be through the publications in Science itself, but hopefully through a larger group of publishing places that may want to model their approach after Science.

The court, though, may want to allow room for police to cite situations where they are entitled to more freedom.

Rather, we ascribe meanings to test on the basis of interaction between what we might call textual and contextual material: between kinds of organization or patterning we perceive in a text’s formal structures ( ' , so especially its language structures) and various kinds of background, social knowledge, belief and attitude that we bring to the text.

Ms Brooks may or may not have had suspicions about how her journalists got their stories, but she asked no questions, gave no instructions—nor received traceable, recorded answers.

In effect, you try to reconstruct the likely meanings or effects that any given sentence, image or reference might have had: These might be the ones the author intended.

California has asked the justices to refrain from a sweeping ruling particularly one that upsets the old assumption that authorities may search through the possessions of suspects at the time of their arrest.

A smart phone may contain an arrestee’s reading history, financial history, medical history and comprehensive records of recent correspondence.

Which may be what the Times is doing already.

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

Second, customers may be willing to buy a company’s products as an indirect way to donate to the good causes it helps.

Relying on ethical persuasion rather than law to address the misuse of body ideals may be the best step.

Overhead may be high and circulation lower, but rushing to eliminate its print edition would be a mistake, says BuzzFeed CEO Joah Peretti.

New research suggests that CSR may create monetary value for companies—at least when they are prosecuted for corruption.

It’s not as expensive as you might think.

If you’re in a period of change or just feeling stuck and in a rut, now may be a good time.

For another, it may be to be perceived as more approachable, or more modern and stylish.

First, consumers may take CSR spending as a “signal” that a company’s products are of high quality.

But even if you accept Friedman’s premise and regard corporate social responsibility( ' , CSR) policies as a waste of shareholders’ money, things may not be absolutely clear-cut.

Are you looking to refresh your image or pivot it? For one person, the goal may be to be taken more seriously and enhance their professional image.

His analysis should therefore end any self-contentedness among those who may believe that the global position of English is so stable that the young generation of the United Kingdom do not need additional language capabilities.

But even as the number of English speakers expands further there are signs that the global predominance of the language may fade within the foreseeable future.

Upcoming reforms might bring the price to a more reasonable level.

The crash of Egypt Air Flight 804,which terrorists may have downed over the Mediterranean Sea ,provides another tragic reminder of why.

But policymakers who refocus efforts on improving well-being rather than simply worrying about GDP figures could avoid the forecasted doom and may even see progress.

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.

The development of the Elizabethan drama for the next twenty-five years is of exceptional interest to students of literary history, for in this brief period we may trace the beginning, growth, blossoming, and decay of many kinds of plays, and of many great careers.

Court, school organizations of amateurs, and the traveling actors were all rivals in supplying a widespread desire for dramatic entertainment; and no boy who went a grammar school could be ignorant that the drama was a form of literature which gave glory to Greece and Rome and might yet bring honor to England.

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

We are still at the beginning of this revolution and small choices now may turn out to have gigantic consequences later.

If software promises to save lives on the scale that drugs now can, big data may be expected to behave as a big pharma has done.

Further arrangements- and there may be many-between the NHS and DeepMind will be carefully scrutinised to ensure that all necessary permissions have been asked of patients and all unnecessary data has been cleaned.

But in the medium term,middle-class workers may need a lot of help adjusting.

"Children may face serious difficulties in coping with significant moves, especially if it removes them from their current school or support system," he said.

"There has been a kind of revival or a rethinking about what guilt is and what role guilt can serve," says Amrisha Vaish, a psychology researcher at the University of virginia, adding that this revival is part of a larger recognition that emotions aren't

A smartphone may contain an arrestee's reading history, financial history, medical history and comprehensive records of recent correspondence.

A young man can decide on a likely spouse on his own and then ask his parents to arrange the marriage negotiations, or the young man's parents may make the choice of a spouse, giving the child little to say in the selection.

Across the country, factory owners are now grappling with a new challenge: Instead of having too many workers, they may end up with too few.

Although electronic means of payment may be more efficient than a payments system based on paper, several factors work against the disappearance of the paper system.

As boards scrutinize succession plans in response to shareholder pressure, executives who don't get the nod also may wish to move on.

As the industry advances, however, other suits may have an even greater impact.

Bankers' fat pay packets have attracted much criticism, but a public-sector system that does not reward high achievers may be a much bigger problem for America.

Besides generating income, the presence of other marketers makes the site seem objective, gives companies opportunities to learn valuable information about the appeal of other companies' marketing, and may help expand user traffic for all companies concer

But even if you accept Friedman's premise and regard corporate social responsibility policies as a waste of shareholders' money, things may not be absolutely clear-cut.

But in the medium term, middle-class workers may need a lot of help adjusting.

But while this may be true, it's not a good enough reason to condemn gap years.

By the time a problem has been addressed and remedied it may have vanished in the marketplace, to be replaced by new abuses of power.

California has asked the justices to refrain from a sweeping ruling, particularly one that upsets the old assumption that authorities may search through the possessions of suspects at the time of their arrest.

Consumers passionate about a product may create "earned" media by willingly promoting it to friend,and a company may leverage "owned" media by sending e-mail alerts about products and sales to customers registered with its Website.

Conversely, someone with a small frame may have high body fat but a normal BMI.

Critics make three main arguments against gene patents: a gene is a product of nature, so it may not be patented; gene patents suppress innovation rather than reward it; and patents'monopolies restrict access to genetic tests such as Myriad's.

Divorced persons may remarry, but a gender prejudice shows up: The divorced male doesn't have a waiting period before he can remarry while the woman must wait ten months.

Except in the district of Columbia, non-lawyers may not own any share of a law firm.

Female participation on corporate boards may not currently mirror the percentage of women in the general population, but so what?

firms who want to keep their outside directors through tough times may have to create incentives.

first, consumers may take CSR spending as a "signal" that a company's products are of high quality.

For one person, the goal may be to be taken more seriously and enhance their professional image.

Fourth, electronic means of payment may raise security and privacy concerns.

Further arrangements—and there may be many—between the NHS and Deep mind will be carefully scrutinized to ensure that all necessary permissions have been asked of patients and all unnecessary data has been cleaned.

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.

Hard times may hold you down at what usually seems like the most inopportune time, but you should remember that they won't last forever.

Helping forests flourish as valuable "carbon sinks" long into the future may require reducing their capacity to absorb carbon now.

However, even though it's common, it's important to keep in mind that in a single moment of fatigue, you can say something to your child that you may regret for a long time.

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