Hospital Chefs 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-19 13:35:13Hospital ChefsWhere wouldn’t you expect to find a chef extraordinaire? In hospital food service, the once ill-reputed home of the bland and blah. Now it’s the place to be. Just ask Venus DeJesus, hospital pastry chef in Dallas, Texas. “I worked at Ho
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Jeff Immelt: Running the Electric Giant彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:50Jeff Immelt: Running the Electric GiantQ: Do you ever wake up and say, “What am I doing here?”A: Never. I’m an optimist. I’ve always believed the future is going to be better than the past. The great thing about human beings, myself in particular, is
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Nathan’s New Home彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:48Nathan’s New HomeThe phone rang unexpectedly at Karen and David Darr’s home on a humid Texas afternoon in the summer of 2004. Philip Brinkmeyer, their caseworker at the adoption agency, told them they had been matched with a 5-month-old boy years, be
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Building Business彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:46Building BusinessCreating a NetworkQuestion: I’m interested in building a network and gathering referrals. I’m finding this is the most ethical and satisfying way to market my financial consulting business. How is this done?Answer: Effective networki
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Adventures in Indian Cooking彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:45Adventures in Indian Cooking“we’ll cook Indian!”The words were out of my dear wife’s mouth before we had time to think. During a conversation with friends, the idea seemed superb. But now, we were obligated to make a meal of Indian food for a party o
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Intriguing, Inviting India 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:44Intriguing, Inviting IndiaA trip to India falls into the “adventure” category, though this is not whitewater rafting or rock climbing. India is so diverse, so alien, that it’s an adventure in itself. Of course, the British have known this for centuri
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Newsworthy Clips彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:41Newsworthy ClipsReports of the death of the newspaper market are an exaggeration, as proved by statistics in the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) report, “World Press Trends 2006.”Starting with a few figures indicative of basic trends, the year
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The Seoul of Design彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:40The Seoul of DesignTwelve years ago, Samsung’s enigmatic chairman, Kun-Hee Lee, visited an electronics retailer in Los Angeles. Lee found his company’s products gathering dust on the store’s back shelves ignored by even the salespeople. American cons
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“Can I sew for You?”彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:38“Can I sew for You?”“Can I sew for you?” the tiny Asian woman asked her question in halting English. Keeping her gaze on the floor, bee Kha, a Hmong refugee from Laos, held up a sample of her needlework for her new American neighbor to see.At that ti
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The Phone of the Future 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:37The Phone of the Future Harry Santanmaki vows to never utter the word “phone.” That’s odd, considering Santamaki works at Nokia, the largest mobile phone maker in the world, located in Espoo, Finland. “We are forbidden to call them phones,” said the
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Instrument Artisans to the Rescue 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:35Instrument Artisans to the RescueEvery classical musican who plays a stringed instrument has awakened from much the same nightmare: They open their violin or cello case to take out their precious instrument, only to find it smashed to bits. Or they i
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Men in Fashion 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:32Men in Fashion What to wear is not just a female quandary. Gone are the days of the gray-flannel-suit uniform. Choices have been broadened by designers borrowing from the casual Fridays of the ‘80s and the “creative black-tie” of the ‘90s. No wonder
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Ice Skating for Beginners彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:31Ice Skating for BeginnersRecreational ice skating is a popular activity that can provide an enjoyable cardiovascular workout and an ideal social opportunity.“I thought it would be a nice break during the day,” says Dan McAskin, vice president of H&am
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Learn Your Dutch ABCs: Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao 彭蒙惠[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:30Learn Your Dutch ABCs: Aruba, Bonaire and CuracaoCuracaoThere are places on Curacao where, if not for the roofline of red tiles, you’d never know where the blue of the houses ends and the blue of the sky begins. Curacao is a bright and painted place.
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The Clear Leader 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:25The Clear Leader In most corporate training on leadership, you’ll find a mind-numbing list of skills that the aspiring leader must master, from motivating to communicating to counseling to managing conflict. Corporate America has vastly over-complica
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Good Gym Manners彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:24Good Gym MannersMany people go to the gym not only to get healthy, but also for quiet time. But sometimes rude people seem determined to prevent that. Just ask Benjamin Cochran, 31, who worked out in a gym and found it quite pleasant, except for one
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Take Your Computer’s Essence with You彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:23Take Your Computer’s Essence with YouPortable computers were invented because trying to lug around a desktop model isn’t a pretty picture. And while there are valiant efforts being made in the area of portable computing, you still have to carry some
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Two Heads Are Better Than One 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:22Two Heads Are Better Than OneHaving a large money problem, love problem or career problem can destroy the quality of your life. When you find yourself against a brick wall, self-help books and other resources can help. But you really need a person wh
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Building Dreams 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:20Building DreamsFor the past 32 years, Wing T. Chao has worked for a company that has had a positive impact on the lives of countless millions of people around the world. He has been involved with over 200 projects spanning three continents. Yet, unti
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Flower Power 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:18Flower PowerFeeling sad? Consider making your way to the nearest florist. According to a recent study, the simple presence of flowers has an immediate impact on a person’s emotional state.Jeannette Haviland-Jones, Rutgers University psychology profes
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Is Globalization a Myth? 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:17Is Globalization a Myth?The dispute between Microsoft and the European Commission demonstrates that all-encompassing globalization does not exist. Microsoft is a company that has ridden the wave of worldwide Internet access and software applications.
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Coffee 101 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:16Coffee 101I love everything about coffee—that is, everything except the sky-high prices. Sick of making bad coffee at home and tired of coffee shop prices, I jumped at the chance to learn from people who make lessons at Brewing School, I feel almost
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All That Jazz 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:20:14All That JazzThe Maharajah of the KeyboardOscar Peterson’s father, a self-taught amateur musician, introduced Peterson and his four siblings to the piano. Peterson took to it immediately. At one point in high school, he asked if he could drop out to
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The Great Cultural Divide for Multiethnic Teens彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:15:17The Great Cultural Divide for Multiethnic TeensIrau Brooks juggles two cultural backgrounds. “I have dark skin, but long Wavy Pacific Islander hair. I have the African-American nose, but I have the slightly slanted Pacific Islander /Asian eyes,” she
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How One Career Woman Finds Work-Life Balance彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:15:14How One Career Woman Finds Work-Life BalanceTen years ago, Sophie Vandebroek’s husband, Bart, died suddenly, leaving her alone with three small children and no other relatives in the United States. Vandebroek responded not just by sticking to her car
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What Makes Great Leadership?彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:15:13What Makes Great Leadership?In building their list of the 20th century’s top business leaders, Harvard Business School professors Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin Nohria have unearthed an immutable attribute that’s shared by all of the giants of business: a
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The Land of Hypercommunication彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:15:11The Land of HypercommunicationIt’s common to hear people chatter on the cell phone these days. But a large number of users are now letting their thumbs do the talking.Text messaging, or sending 160 characters or fewer to another cell phone, has becom
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Monkey Lends a Helping Hand彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:15:07Monkey Lends a Helping HandWhen Linda Brown wants to hear music, watch TV or adjust her bedroom lights, she calls on Tracey. Tracey can slip a CD into the player, flip a light switch or hand Brown the television remote with deft fingers.“It doesn’t s
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Exercise While You Work 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:05:11Exercise While You WorkHate going to the gym? Resent the time it takes to exercise after a hard day at the office?So does Dr. James Levine, a Mayo Clinic obesity researcher in Rochester, Minnesota, who rattled off two sobering statistics: Ninety perc
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Protecting the Forgotten Forest 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:05:10Protecting the Forgotten ForestA swath of British Columbia’s coast, a wildlife-rich tapestry of forests, fjords and wave-pounded islands, is being protected as parkland. Almost 3 million acres of the Great Bear Rainforest’s total 16 million acres wer
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High Tech High 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:05:09High Tech HighHigh Tech High, with its high ceilings, exposed ductwork and glass-walled offices, doesn’t look like a school.Student work clogs the classrooms and hallways, everything from computer-altered photographs to a human-powered submarine, the
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Finding the Best Books 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:05:08Finding the Best BooksEvery profession and walk of life has its great figures, leaders and heroes, people who are exalted for their achievements and treated as role models. Yet, in day-to-day life, we often find that the most effective leaders are ra
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Istanbul 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:05:07IstanbulA nastasia Ashman, 41, is a writer and editor in Istanbul, Turkey, where she has lived for three years. Her adopted home, formerly known as Constantinople, was the capital of the Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman Turk empires between 330 and 1918.
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Working Smart 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:05:04Working SmartWorkers in the United States put in more hours at work and take fewer vacation days than those in most industrialized countries. But the U.S. isn’t the most productive country in the world. When it comes to full productivity, according t
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Cultural Stereotypes 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:05:03Cultural StereotypesCanadians aren’t quite as agreeable as they thought they were. Americans are a bit more pleasant than we expected. The Japanese aren’t as neurotic as they feared, the Swiss are more emotive than they felt they were, and only the P
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How Secure Are Internet Phone Calls? 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:05:02How Secure Are Internet Phone Calls?The allure of Internet phone calling is understandable-dirt-cheap calls to anywhere in the world, sound quality that’s at times superior to the traditional landline, and the ability to take your phone number with y
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When the Clothes Spoke for Themselves 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:05:00When the Clothes Spoke for ThemselvesOriginally bound in leather, this “fashion magazine” is a collection of beautifully hand-colored engravings depicting men and women dressed in the latest fashions of the times, those being the late 17th century wh
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Fending Off Type 1 Diabetes 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:04:58Fending Off Type 1 DiabetesScientists at the Pacific Northwest Research Institute(PNRI) in Seattle, Washington, will be part of a national effort to see if they can stop type 1 diabetes-or at least delay its progression-by derailing the immune cells
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Savor a Sip of Olive Oil 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:04:57Savor a Sip of Olive OilTwenty-one food professionals at a Sacramento, California, restaurant warm small glasses in their palms, then sniff, swish, slurp and swallow the contents with deep concentration. Under the guidance of an Italian expert, they’
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Surprising San Francisco 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:04:53Surprising San FranciscoThe Ferry building Marketplace was reborn on the ruins of disaster.The majestic stone and marble building, completed in 1898, was once the transportation hub for the communities that ringed San Francisco Bay. During its heyday
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Southwest Parks 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:04:52Southwest ParksSurprising Vacation Destinations Driving through southern Utah, the color of the sandstone mountains changes as dramatically as the scenery, from fiery red to dull bronze to soft pink. It’s hard to say which shade is most stunning, and
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Workout on the water 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:04:51Workout on the waterIt’s one of those gorgeous summer days. The sun brightens the blue skies. The blue-gray waters off the beach at Island Lake Recreation Area in Brighton, Michigan, shimmer like liquid crystals.A half-dozen women and one man converg
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Using Your Work Time Well 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:04:50Using Your Work Time WellWorkday DistractionsIt’s amazing today’s workers get anything done. Common office distractions are everywhere—from a constant barrage of e-mail and phone calls to interruptions from coworkers. What’s a worker to do? Try your
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Bridges to Understanding 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:04:49Bridges to UnderstandingEven if you weren’t a middle-school student still figuring out how to use a digital camera, shooting photographs at the Seattle Aquarium could be a challenge. Some exhitits are dark, and when you use a flach, the glare can bou
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Hurting or Helping 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:04:48Hurting or Helping Listening well and curbing anger can improve your lifePerhaps the most affirming thing one person can do for another is to listen well. “Remember that your listening is a great gift, says Lorrie Eigles, a communications consultant
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Helping Sudanese Refugees Cook Efficiently 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:04:44Helping Sudanese Refugees Cook More EfficientlyMost foreigners visiting the refugee camps in western Sudan’s troubled Darfur region are aid workers welcomed with open arms by the displaced residents there. But despite the smiles that greeted them, tw
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Where No One Has Gone Before 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:04:43Where No One Has Gone BeforeAstronomy teams last year reported that the 28-year-old NASA spacecraft Voyager 1 has reached a new frontier by passing a boundary that separates our solar system from deep space. The exact location of this boundary has lo
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Nanotechnology Defends Against Fakes 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:04:42Nanotechnology Defends Against FakesInvisible allies protect the public from dangerous counterfeits It’s hard for most people to get worked up about counterfeit Gucci handbadgs. But how would you feel if you found out you’d bought fake prescription d
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When Technology Hurts 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:04:40When Technology HurtsiPods and other handheld devices can wreak havoc on your health Volume ControlIf Ray Hull’s “artificial ear” is telling the truth, it’s time to invest in hearing-aid companies. Our ipods and other personal music players are destr
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Radar System Takes Pulse of the Pacific 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:04:39Radar System Takes Pulse of the PacificNew technology is helping scientists understand the seaTracking oil spills. Finding lost sailors. Restoring fish populations. Preventing water pollution that makes beach-goers sick. Some of the most vexing probl
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Oldest Doctor on duty 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:04:38Oldest Doctor on dutyAfter a long time of service, no retirement in sight for a doctor who still loves his jobHe recently celebrated his 91st birthday and his gait has a pronounced hiccup. But his mind is razor-sharp and as Dr. Stanford Rossiter look
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Johnny Cash and June Carter 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:04:35Johnny Cash and June CarterThe Man in Black and His Saving Grace One of the most gentle and enduring celebrity partnerships of all timeThe dark-haired man with the scarred face and black-coal eyes always scared me as a little girl when I’d spread out
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News Worthy Clips 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:04:33News Worthy Clips Scientific study of the perfect swingWhat makes a golf “swing”? Stanford University scientists are getting closer to solving that age-old mystery. They believe that motion analysis of elite professional golfers can unlock the secret
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Those pesky passwords 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:04:33Those pesky passwordsHow much of our lives have we spent attempting to recover or reset a password?Passwords, user names, PIN numbers. They’ve become the flies in the Internet ointment, spoiling a perfectly good communications concoction. The frustra
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Is Ethanol the Answer? 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:01:13Is Ethanol the Answer?The pitch to run our cars and trucks on alcohol fuel sounds irresistible: It would eliminate most gasoline consumption; and avoid the costs, delays and environmental impacts of new oil refineries. But ethanol fuel—in the form of
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Demand for Chinese Rising in US Schools 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:01:12Demand for Chinese Rising in American SchoolsSchools face the challenge of meeting the demand for more Chinese language courses Spurred by China’s increasing role in the global economy—and efforts by Chinese and American governments—high schools acro
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Discovering the Arctic Ways 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:01:10Discovering the Arctic WaysExperience the unique sights and sounds of life in the distant, frozen northAs our ship sailed north across the Arctic Circle, the navigation officer scanned the horizon from the bridge. Cruising even a small section of the
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Searching for Answers through Global Music 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:01:09Searching for Answers through Global Music One man’s vision creates music that reaches beyond the barriers of distance and cultureWhether Yo-Yo Ma is exploring classic Vivaldi, Argentine tango or Appalachian folk music, he’s always asking the same qu
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Vacation in the Seaweed 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:01:08Vacation in the SeaweedI headed to Maine for a week of vacation—and left with a few aches and pains. But I also received something few other visitors get: a unique taste of the local lifeHow do you describe the state of Maine in one word? Vacationlan
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The Power of smell 彭蒙惠英语[内容预览]| 2007-2-13 23:01:07The Power of smellSmells like brand spirit During a weekend in late spring, New York shoppers looking for digital devices unwittingly stumbled into an experiment. Samsung was conducting a test of its new signature fragrance in its concept store. Rese
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