一、 China’s Year of the Gragon baby boom
China is in the midst of a baby-making boom, as couples try to ensure that their children are born during the Year of the Dragon, which began Monday. The dragon is considered the most auspicious zodiac sign in Chinese culture. Once reserved for the emperor, it is believed to bring strength and good luck.
Parents are sparing no expense to prepare for their dragon babies. As a result, nannies in Beijing have been able to double their rates. And the effects won't end there. The baby boomlet means all those dragon babies destined for such greatness will soon be locked in fierce competition for spots in China's best schools, as the dragon babies of the year 2000 are now.
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二、Living in :Vancouver
The access from a booming and dense downtown to the great outdoors is nearly unrivalled in North American cities. Nearby options include kayaking around the city, skiing on frosted peaks and mountain biking through the rainforest. \"It's a giant playground,\" said Julie Desaulniers, a transplant from Montreal who lives in North Vancouver with her family. \"The north shore is a mountain biking mecca and I run on rainforest trails every weekend.\"
Hollywood has set up permanently in Vancouver and it is where many movies and TV shows are filmed, including the Twilight series. Enterprising folks have even set up tours for the Twi-hards who come seeking some scent of Bella and Edward.
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三、Is Facebook worth $100 billion ?
$100 billion: That‘s the number that has been tossed around Wall Street in recent weeks as the social-networking juggernaut quietly began the process of becoming a publically traded company. Yesterday, investors finally got the information they needed to make a more informed choice as Facebook filed papers with government regulators declaring its intent to sell stock to the public.
Facebook‘s S-1 was full of information and little factoids that, up until now, were closely guarded secrets of the notoriously enigmatic Silicon Valley phenom. For the first time, the public saw how much money Facebook has made over the years – and how it spends it. With this information finally public, investors can now come up with their own valuation for Facebook.
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四、Walking in London is so much fun
I had been expecting to walk into work today: I had assumed the strikes included the Tube and was almost disappointed to discover that the trains would be running as usual. I might go by foot anyway. Walking is a neglected pleasure. We don‘t do it often enough with the express intent of enjoying ourselves. We see it as the way to get somewhere quickly rather than a soothing way to spend half an hour or more. But it also opens our eyes to what has been there all along.
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五、Why you wouldn’t want to be famous ?
These days, it‘s not an assumption so much as a statistical fact that young people put fame and fortune at the top of their life ―to do‖ lists. Why do they put fame ahead
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of stuff like ―be the best mechanic I can be‖ or ―raise a good family‖? Because it‘s a cultural axiom that being famous is awesome, and anything less is for chumps.
But there are a few things people who assume that should know. We‘ll go ahead and define fame as the ability to be recognized anywhere by anybody who logs whatever the national daily average of TV and Internet foreplay is. This ability isn‘t all it‘s cracked up to be, and here‘s why.
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六、Being a parent is easy and intuitive , correct ?
The prevailing ethos about being a parent is that it's mostly intuitive and uniformly joyful, even though the news, and our own lives, are full of those who found it so conspicuously otherwise that they made an utter mess of actual human beings. This mythology has two effects. One is that parents who don't feel happy or competent are made to feel like freaks—and to just keep quiet about the fact. The other is that this makes everyone believe not only that anyone can be a parent, but also that everyone ought to do it, even those who seem by character or inclination to be ill equipped. When I was in college I read a book by Ellen Peck called \"The Baby Trap\" about the virtues of choosing childlessness. It seemed completely insurrectionary. It still does.
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七、Why Men Have a Harder Time Making Friend ?
When men hit their 30s, many cling to their high school and college friends. And if these don't last, men have a hard time forming new friendships. I'm not talking about work-out partners and neighbors you pound a few beers with while ribs are grilling, I'm talking about confidants. People who you are willing to share your innermost self
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to because you feel it will be valued and accepted (regardless of what evils lurk there). Women are fantastic at cultivating these relationships. Women spend substantial time and energy to creating intimate relationships, safe havens and people that care about the good things that happen to them. Men? Not so much. With one exception: Men who get married. With wives in charge of their social life, men get a free pass to a rich social life.
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八、Are you a save-orexic or a splurge aholic
Experts say the way we spend, save and invest is often dictated by deep-seated psychological issues relating to self-worth, security and status. It is not a coincidence that we borrow terms from the consulting couch to talk about our spending, such as ‗retail therapy' and ‗shopaholic'.
A study by Professor Karen Pine, author of Sheconomics, a book about women and money, confirms many use shopping as an emotional outlet.
Eight out of ten admit they spend when they are miserable, or hit the stores to compensate for something lacking in their life.
Financial experts say another female tribe uses money as a security blanket and lives under a self-imposed austerity regime that would make George Osborne blanch.
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九、Steve Jobs’ Love Letter Wrote For His Wife
We didn't know much about each other twenty years ago. We were guided by our intuition; you swept me off my feet. It was snowing when we got married at the Ahwahnee. Years passed, kids came, good times, hard times, but never bad times. Our
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love and respect has endured and grown. We've been through so much together and here we are right back where we started 20 years ago - older and wiser - with wrinkles on our faces and hearts. We now know many of life's joys, sufferings, secrets and wonders and we're still here together. My feet have never returned to the ground.
十、Diary of a Separation---A big effort to make it a happy birthday
I like birthdays. I like fuss, a grand gesture. X can't understand the fuss. It's about upbringing, I think: his parents unceremoniously hand him something - not even wrapped - at some point within a few months of the date. I'm fairly sure they don't know when it is. For me, birthdays mean surprises, parties, over-excited children blowing out candles on sponge cakes. Like pencil marks on the wall, they are the backbone around which you hang family rituals. Birthdays are also a way to make up for the failings - perceived or real - of the past 12 months.
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十一、Canada in RV
\"You are in black bear country. On cycling and walking trails, sing or ring your bell before bends to avoid surprising one. If you are attacked, act dead.\" My kids were thrilled when they read the leaflet - we were desperate to see a bear or a moose, despite the advertised dangers.
More importantly, we had discovered what we'd been seeking on our three-week exploration of rugged, enchanting (and only occasionally threatening) Maritime Canada, a region in the south-east of the country surrounded and shaped by the Atlantic Ocean. It's home to wildernesses largely untamed by human hand, playgrounds where we could camp under the stars within earshot of waves crashing on the beach.
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十二、Take a break from work : One year sabbatical to travel
Do you secretly thought of what you think is a great project: a long journey? A gap year is just for you, to see the end of the world. Bid farewell to the daily routines. With a little planning and a maximum of passion for life, this great dream can come true, without being too complicated or expensive!
Who has not dreamed to temporarily leave work, family, friends - and all obligations that are intimately connected - to go on an adventure? Far, very far at the other end of the world.
十三、Understanding your dreams
Prosecution, cold sweats, incredible and comical adventures... Our imaginations give it to the heart while we are asleep. Far from trivial, movies that pass before our eyes are meaningful. The ancients saw the vehicle between God and people. We now know that dreams lead us deep within ourselves. They advise us, guide us, and send us the signals when things do not go in right direction. Dreams can solve our problems, make us more creative and even heal us. Our nights offer us valuable tools. It would be a shame if we do not learn to use them. 6
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十四、Learn To Say No
Saying no is not in itself a very difficult task. It relates everything that is in our minds with this little word, which makes it so difficult to pronounce. Before you learn to say no, you must first identify the nature of the thoughts that accompany the word. You say yourself \"If I say no, others will discredit me and not call me anymore\" or \"I always say yes so that others will like me?\" If this is the case, it is likely that these thoughts are false and you make absolute die hard. To rectify this, a strategy is to ask yourself if your conclusions are realistic and that will make you to really use it. The mere awareness of your thoughts will excessively help you to be free. 十五、fast-food marriage
Marriages in modern society are like French fries produced on restaurant assembly lines, coming and going in the twinkle of an eye. There is flash marriage and flash divorce. Young men and women may get married soon after their first date, and then file for divorce not long after the wedding. Marriage is treated like a game. Getting married and divorced is just like having a meal in a fast-food restaurant, that‘s where the term ―fast-food marriage‖ comes from.
With an increasing number of fast-food marriages, we may see fewer long-lasting marriages, like golden and silver weddings, in the future, but more broken families and lonely hearts.
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Researchers recently discovered a gene that regulates the duration of sleep an individual needs. The new findings may explain why some people appear to have an internal alarm clock, and can wake up on their own. It may also explain why some people are light sleepers, able to operate on only a few hours of sleep.
The research was conducted by members of the Ludwig Maximilians University (LMU) of Munich. The gene the team identified is called ABCC9 and has been nicknamed the ―Thatcher gene‖ in honor of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, famous for needing as little as four hours of sleep a night.
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Researchers discovered that people who had two copies of one common variant of ABCC9 slept for ‗significantly shorter‘ periods than people with two copies of another version.
十七、100-foot diet
100-foot diet is a diet that consists mostly or exclusively of food grown in one's garden.
The 100-foot diet emphasizes on reducing one's carbon footprint by growing most of the food you consume closer to home, the distance from the garden to your dinner table is within 100 feet. With health and affordability in mind, more people are taking the plunge and are growing their own fruits and vegetables.
Major benefits of 100-foot diet include:
1. Eat more nutritious food, which leads to better health 2. Reduce your exposure to unwanted, toxic pesticides 3. Increased food security
4. Reduce excessive packaging
5. Become independent of corporate food systems
十八、常玩手机警惕“手机脸”
It is believed that smartphone and laptop use, could cause facial skin and muscle to lose its elasticity as people spend an increasing amount of time sat with their heads bent.
Confirming the condition, coined 'smartphone face', Dr Mervyn Patterson of the Woodford Medical group said: 'If you sit for hours with your head bent slightly forward, staring at your iPhone or laptop screen, you may shorten the neck muscles and increase the gravitational pull on the jowl area, leading to a drooping jawline.' 8
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十九、爸爸太忙就租个“钟点爸爸”？
―Hourly dad (or hired dad)‖ is a newly created term where a man is hired to take a child to and from school, play games and work out with the child. He is paid by the hour and doesn‘t need to help the child with his/her homework.
Hourly dads are needed because many parents are too busy to take care of their children or children from single-parent families (of a single mother in particular) may need someone to spend time with them like a father.
Experts said that this idea was created with good intentions, and there is demand in the market. But parents are irreplaceable in a child‘s life, you cannot randomly hire someone to act as his/her father.
二十、隔离尘世的black-hole resort
After years of creating destinations bristling with connective gadgets, resorts are now trumpeting their unreachability heralding the advent of so-called black-hole resorts, where mobile phones and internet signals are banned, no televisions available and even alarm clocks are frowned upon.
All gadgets were locked away in the resort safe and instead clients focused on themselves and those around them.
There is definitely a growing appetite out there for this kind of technology-free holidays; it's almost the 'anti-trend' or reverse of the proliferation we saw a few years ago in state of the art technology in hotel suites and 24/7 ever-present Wi-Fi connection. 9
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二十一、网购时代的monitor shopping
Monitor shopping is another form of window shopping, except that instead of wandering in stores, all you have to do is to log onto a shopping website. You‘re online only browsing, not looking for anything in particular because you can‘t afford it or you don‘t need any of them, but you enjoy looking anyway. Maybe you‘ll save something in your favorites or shopping cart for when you do have money.
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