NPR 2011-05-28

Consumers are spending more apparently because they have to. The Commerce Department reports a 0.4% jump last month as people shelled out more money to buy food and fill up their gas tanks. Take[Taking] those two categories out of the mixing, consume

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Controlling Your Concentration CONCENTRATION IS CENTERING YOUR ATTENTION Psychologically defined, concentration is the process of centering one's attention over a period of time. In practical applicat

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science, I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. In vitro fertilization(试管受精) efforts can be helped by oddly enough oral contraceptives .That's the finding from Tel Aviv University, site of the

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This is Scientific Americans 60-Second Science. Im Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Climate change is the great environmental challenge facing the world today, but maybe we should start calling it Climates Change. Because scientists who've

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The Texas Board of Education has long promoted the teaching of creationism in schools instead of actual science. Its former chairman and current member Don McLeroy uttered this immortal line when confronted with numerous actual scientists urging that

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【原文】 Controlling Your ConcentrationCONCENTRATION IS CENTERING YOUR ATTENTIONPsychologically defined, concentration is the process of centering one's attention over a period of time. In practical application, however, concentration is not as s

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