Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is the difference between abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms. It's kind of an extension of the last episode, because I want to clarify the difference between abbreviations and acronyms. Any shortened form of a w

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Cooling, Drying Climate May Have Led to Neanderthal Disappearance A new study suggests that ancient periods of cold and dry climate helped our species take the place of Neanderthals in Europe. Researchers found that such cold periods happened at the

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Home on the Way 旅人的家 People need homes: children assume their parents' place as home; boarders call school home on weekdays; married couples work together to build new homes; and travelers have no place to call home, at least for a few nights

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40.Spot time wasters. 找到时间浪费者。 As you go about your day, be on the lookout for unproductive activities. 当你开始你的一天,是在寻找非生产性活动。 Find ways to eliminate them or approach those things differently. 找到方

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12. Be considerate. 体贴。 This means everything from cleaning up your mess to specifically avoiding doing or saying things that you know may irritate your spouse. 这意味着从清理你的混乱的内务,特别要避免做或说的事情你知道

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7. Serve one another. Be intentional. 服务对方。刻意用心。 We are both very thoughtful about the little things we do to serve each other. 我们都对我们做的小事情非常周到的服务。 This is about putting the other person's nee

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Language Points menstrual cramps irregular periods first period...

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Psychologically defined, concentration is the process of centering one's attention over a period of time. In practical application, however, concentration is not as simple to deal successfully with as the definition may imply. For this reason, it is

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Grammar Girl here. Saturday is the Fourth of July, also known as the American holiday Independence Day. I'm American and I think it's fair to say we love the British now--we give British royalty a royal welcome when they visit America--but Saturday i

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Grammar Girl here. Today's topic is the difference between abbreviations, acronyms, and initialisms. It's kind of an extension of the last episode, because I want to clarify the difference between abbreviations and acronyms. Any shortened form of a w

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It is incredible, and it is incredibly hard to believe too, because although we've changed so much, we don't actually see any of those changes happening. Generation after generation, we just look the

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Todd: OK, John, you were saying that you taught writing in America John: Yeah. Todd: OK, and you said it was a paperless class. John: Paperless class Todd: OK, what does that mean, a paperless class? John: Basically, it means that we didn't use paper

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Mystery of Time If you can read a clock, you can know the time of day. But no one knows what time itself is. We cannot see it. We cannot touch it. We cannot hear it. We know it only by the way we mark its passing. For all our success in measuring the

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Home on the Way 旅人的家 People need homes: children assume their parents' place as home; boarders call school home on weekdays; married couples work together to build new homes; and travelers have no place to call home, at least for a few nights

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Managing in the Present Present Tenses Focus: time management and current problems facing a service company 1. Management themes Read the following text and then discuss the questions below. Time mana

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By Teri Schultz Brussels 16 May 2007 The European Union has agreed to grant duty-free and quota-free market access to some 80 countries from the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) areas. There is still much debate on both sides of the accord, but E

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Right after Howard Carters discovery of the tomb, scary stories started to be told. Stories about curses. Over the entrances of many ancient Egyptian tombs were warnings in hieroglyphs. People better stay away, the warnings said. Because anybody who

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Todd: Selvam, what is your favorite food? Selvam: My favorite fruit is grapes. Todd: Grapes. Selvam: Yeah. Todd: Oh, really! Selvam: Yes. Todd: OK. Do you like wine? Do you drink wine? Selvam: No, no, I don't drink anything, but I like grapes, the ta

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Schools opened again today after two weeks holiday. For some high school students in Christchurch, it was back to their own school for the first time since the February earthquake. Many high schools have been sharing a school site, with the host scho

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Because the greatest necessity for so doing would seem to be, when in feeding he accidentally takes in water. 因为,它之所以要这样排水,最大的原因倒似乎是因为它在吃东西的时候,偶然吸进了水的缘故。 But the Sp

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