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But we've got a problem. Tasks are symbolic -- I want to drink, I want to dance -- but the movement system has to contract 600 muscles in a particular sequence. 但在这里出现问题了。动作任务是符号性质的--我要喝水，我要跳舞

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For her first twenty-four years,she'd been known as Debbiea name that didn't suit her good looks and elegant manner.My name has always made me think I should be a cook,she complained.I just don't feel like a Debbie. One day,while filling out an appli

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: we talk with Kelly Maxwell, co-director of the Program on Intergroup Relations at the University of Michigan. The program began about twenty years ago as a way to promote dialogue

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People start stereotyping early. Even toddlers react positively to members of their own race, but often distrust those from different groups. The seeds of racism are planted in most everyone. Everyone, that is, except people with a rare genetic condi

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Thousands of people are posting videos like this, 有成千上万的人们上传这样的视频， mostly teenage girls, reaching out in this way. 他们中大部分都是十几岁的女孩，用这种方式来接触外界。 But what's leading them

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By Mohamed Elshinnawi Washington, DC 20 March 2006 watch Prejudice report More Americans are expressing unfavorable views about Islam. A recent public opinion poll shows 25 percent of Americans now sa

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People start stereotyping early. Even toddlers react positively to members of their own race, but often distrust those from different groups. The seeds of racism are planted in most everyone. Everyone, that is, except people with a rare genetic condi

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Studies show names have lifelong impact Parents want names that sound fresh but are still familiar and easy to pronounce. Thats why place names and surnames are more common. Its a good route for parents looking for something unusual that wont sound t

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Florida Shooting Highlights Racial Profiling Controversy Across the United States, there are calls for action in the killing of Trayvon Martin. Martin is the 17-year-old shot dead in a confrontation with neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman.

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Listen carefully to this selection of music, because whether the cheese or chalk/ gets you moving, it says as much about your personality as your musical taste, not necessarily though in the way you might think. By rights, you would expect Joe Fylan

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I realized that, as I worked on improving AI task by task, dataset by dataset, 我了解到，当我努力在改善人工智能，一个任务一个任务、一个数据集一个数据集地改善， that I was creating massive gaps, holes and blind

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: we talk with Kelly Maxwell, co-director of the Program on Intergroup Relations at the University of Michigan. The program began about twenty years ago as a way to promote dialogue

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Although there has been much debate about whether race has a biological or social basis, the bottom line is that race is a psychological reality for many people. That is, many folks assign other individuals to racial categories based on their appeara

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This week, Katy Perry becomes the second artist in the history of Billboards Pop Songs chart to take five tracks from a single album to Number One. She achieved the feat with Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.), the latest hit from her Teenage Dream album a