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Veiseh can even put a date on when those tapes started recording: 15 December 2000, when he met his first girlfriend at his best friend's 16th birthday party.

Others elevate the egg into a fancy art, like the heavily jewel-covered eggs that were favored by the Russians starting in the 19th century.

Many more people with HSAM started to contact researchers due to the mass media.

Leah reflects on a time she listened to the whispers: About the time my daughter was five years old, I started having a sense that ‘this isn't right.

Initially Leah stayed with her accounting job while starting up the yoga studio to make it all work.

In spring, chickens start laying again, bringing a welcome source of protein at winter's end.

He had always had a good memory, but the thrill of young love seems to have shifted a gear in his mind: from now on, he would start recording his whole life in detail.

Feeling the need to change, Leah started playing with future possibilities by exploring her interests and developing new capabilities.

And the quit rates were particularly convincing given that before the study started, most of the people had said they'd rather cut down gradually before quitting.

When Katherine joined Facebook, some of her classmates at high school started to add her as a friend.

That just wasn’t where the scene was, even eating! It was the first time ordinary people started going out to eat.

Katherine started to think.

The results do not mean that young adults need to start worrying about their memories.

The federal Head Start program, launched 50 years ago, has served more than 30 million children.

It may start a revolution in the car industry.

In general, Salthouse and his colleagues found, certain aspects of cognition ( ' , 认知能力) generally started to decline in the late 20s to 30s.

In agrarian ( ' , 农业的 ), pre-industrial Europe, you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work, says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.

Big fast food chains in New York City have started to obey a first-of-its-kind rule requiring them to post calorie counts right on the menu.

To enhance morale, one company asks its employees to identify their fellow workers when starting their computers.

At the start of junior high, the math achievement test scores of the students with a growth mind-set were comparable to those of students who displayed a fixed mind-set.

If you are a college student looking for a part-time job, the best place to start your job search is right on campus.

You may need to start by encouraging your current network to help you identify your blind spots.

They work down the list, each task starts when the previous task is completed.

So while there're plenty of hackers ( ' , 电脑迷 ) who could start startups, there's no one to invest in them.

Russians, for example, began to wake up about a half-hour later each day after President Vladimir Putin shifted the country permanently to winter time starting on October 26.

Real criticism is not meant to find obvious mistakes, so if she found any—the type I could have found on my own—I had to start from scratch.

Constructive criticism gives an author a good start to improve his writing.

As she neared the end of her prison sentence, a well-known columnist wrote that she was paying her dues, and that there is simply no reason for anyone to attempt to deny her right to start anew.

Around the world, people changed sleep patterns thanks to the start or end of daylight savings time.

As I began to read about scientists, economists, and philosophers, I started imagining myself in their shoes.

As she neared the end of her prison sentence, a well-known columnist wrote that she was "paying her dues," and that " there is simply no reason for anyone to attempt to deny her right to start anew."

As soon as it's safe enough to be outside, couriers (邮递员) start distributing accumulated mail on the still-accessible routes.

Bentham believe the global trend of increasing height has important implications."How tall we are now is strongly influenced by the environment we grew up in," he said."If we give children the best possible start in life now,they will be healthier and mor

firefighters will remain on the scene until later this morning to ensure that the fire doesn't start up again.

If we give children the best possible start in life now,they will be healthier and more productive for decades to come.

In a three-stage life, people leave university at the same time and the same age, they tend to start their careers and family at the same age, they proceed through middle management all roughly the same time, and then move into retirement within a few yea

In agrarian, pre-industrial Europe, "you'd want to wake up early, start working with the sunrise, have a break to have the largest meal, and then you'd go back to work," says Ken Albala, a professor of history at the University of the Pacific.

Is breakfast a necessary start to the day or a marketing tactic by cereal companies?

Let's start with the bad news that Americans are terrible at technology skills, using email, naming a file on a computer, using a link on the web page, or just texting someone.

Real criticism is not meant to find obvious mistakes, so if she found any — the type I could have found on my own — I had to start from scratch.

She decided to start an after school program where children participated in STEM-based competitions.

So while there're plenty of hackers who could start startups, there's no one to invest in them.

Then, I left my native country of New Zealand to start my career as an English teacher, which eventually brought my dancing life to a halt.

They have been huge supporters of the district's advanced mathematics program, which once began in the fourth grade but will now start in the sixth.

This is the start of a new adventure for children—playing and interacting with new friends, sharing, taking turns and settling into a new routine.

When children start school for the very first time, parents often feel a sense of excitement coupled with a touch of sadness at the end of an era.

You may need to start by encouraging your current network to help you identify your blind spots.

Yet there are recent signs that the gap could be starting to shrink.

Participation grows through friends and networks and if you realize that's how they're growing, you can start to take action and bring in other students, he said.

London was a frequent starting point for Grand Tourists, and Paris a compulsory destination; many traveled to the Netherlands, some to Switzerland and Germany, and a very few adventurers to Spain, Greece, or Turkey.

Especially in affluent families, children start young.

Agreement on an international carbon-price floor would be a good starting point in that process.

Good morning! America’s holiday shopping season starts on Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.

The bills in both houses would start pilot projects within Medicare.

There's a lot for students to complain about: the repayment threshold for paying back loans will be frozen for five years, meaning that lower-paid graduates have to start repaying their loans; and maintenance grants have been replaced by loans, meaning that students from poorer backgrounds face higher debt than those with wealthier parents.

The theory is that smoking should be stripped of any appeal to discourage new generations from starting in the first place.

Stress is also starting earlier in life, with some data suggesting that today's teens are even more stressed than adults.

If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little--if any--of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning ￡21,000 a year.

Dr.Donald Sadoway at MIT started his own battery company with the hope of changing the world's energy future.

But over the last couple of years, and in this one in particular, we are starting to see companies shift from what is the largest screen size, the smallest form factor or the shiniest object and more into what all of these devices do that is practical in a consumer's life.

Okay, so let’s get started.

Now what’s interesting about the theory is what do you have if you only have one out of three or two out of three? What do you have and how is it different if you have a different two out of three? What’s interesting about this kind of theorizing is it gives rise to many different combinations that can be quite interesting when you break them down and start to look at them carefully.

Let’s say you start to brainstorm a list of all the emotions you’ve ever experienced.

And to start things off, I think what we need to do is consider a definition.

The shift, little noticed outside the medical establishment but already controversial inside it, suggests that doctors are starting to redefine their roles, from being concerned exclusively about individual patients to exerting influence on how healthcare dollars are spent.

Once you have started the boulder rolling, it develops momentum, which is defined by its mass and velocity.

It was about ready to start regular business.

It is better to start from the community to help poor children move up the social ladder.

At around age 60, "muscles really start to break down," says Kathryn Starr, an aging researcher, "and because of that, the protein needs of an older adult actually increase.

At the start of her career, Farrant studied "recalcitrant seeds (顽物性种子)," such as avocados, coffee and lychee.

Because it's such a pity if you start off on a bright tone on a story and suddenly realize you are talking about some people having been killed in a road crash.

But once these plants use up their stored reserve or tap out the underground supply, they cease growing and start to die.

But with simultaneous interpreting, you start translating almost as soon as the other person starts speaking.

Evolutionarily speaking, people in this age group are at a stage in which they can prepare to find a mate and start their own family while separating from parents and striking out on their own.

I don't intend to start it next week.

If going to university doesn't work out, students pay very little—if any—of their tuition fees back: you only start repaying when you are earning £21,000 a year.

If you really want to build resilience, you can start by strategically stopping.

I'll start with a brief review of the reasons for the change that we really need to make a clean break to restart growth.

Let's say you start to brainstorm a list of all the emotions you've ever experienced.

One of the most effective ways to change an attitude is to start behaving as if you already feel and think the way you'd prefer to.

Participation grows through friends and networks and if "you realize that's how they're growing, you can start to take action" and bring in other students, he said.

right from the start, book printing and publishing were organized on capitalist lines.

So let's start with a few problems.

Start from there, but remember to stick to the parameters of the assignment.

Start with a trial program, and expect to change the details as you go.

Then when the person doesn't turn out to be who they thought he or she was, they start thinking "Maybe I can change him or her".

This means that if you give people multiple opportunities to lie for their own benefit, they start with little lies which get bigger over time.

Usually they start by giving a survey to figure out what style a student favors, like visual or verbal learning.

We have to start being good now.

While the efforts are certainly not futile, the results of such bans will likely only start to be seen by generations down the line, bettering the world for the future.

Yet once they start growing, such plants seem not to retain the ability to hit the pause button on metabolism in their stems or leaves.

A few students hesitated to start.

A rethink is required - and as a new approach starts to become apparent, two ideas stand out.

Actually, one may start his journey of modern architecture by walking or biking.

After less than a week, I started noticing that the groceries were running out pretty quickly — we were always suddenly out of something.

After questioning 1, 000 mothers with children under 18, it found that , on most days, mums started their routine work at 7am and finished at around 11pm.

All of a sudden, I started making money because I was really good at math.

Although Dr Dominoni has only studied light pollution, other research concluded that robins living in noisy cities have started to sing at night to make themselves heard over loud noise.

And I always started the day's work with the difficult task of essay-writing.

And I even joined the local fishing club and started attending the monthly meetings.

And we'll prepare to offer you a starting salary of $55, 000.

As I sat in my own personal heaven, I started thinking about having more.

As the vegetables started coming in, dad threw himself into cooking.

At the start of this year, foreigners living in italy amounted to 4.56 million of a total population of 60.6 million, or 7.5 percent, with immigrants’ children accounting for an ever larger percentage of births in italy.

At what age did Emily start learning ballet?

Because sleepiness is such a problem for teenagers, some school districts have decided to start high school classes later than they used to.

Before starting their programme, students are expected to take a language test.

But it can quickly rise to something worse, when everyone starts hitting "reply all" to join in a long and unpleasant conversation.

But once I started, I simply couldn't put it down.

But one difference: fewer of this year's graduates have started to search for jobs.

But the baseball club, we'll start in week 4.

But what starts as fun usage of apps turns into tremendous pressure in real social media interaction at secondary school.

By the time they started secondary school—at age 11—children were already far more aware of their image online and felt under huge pressure to ensure their posts were popular, the report found.

Carducci believes developing such a sense of belonging starts with small talk.

Cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his brainy dog gromit have started a company to protect the town's vegetables from hungry rabbits.

Children aged 8 to 10 were "starting to feel happy" when others liked their posts.

Documenting the Thangmi language and culture is just a starting point for Turin, who seeks to include other languages and oral traditions across the himalayan reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China.

Each time you get a headache, write down the date, the time, and what you were doing and feeling before your headache started.

Engineering graduates were more likely to have started their job search already, and to have accepted a job.

First, I want to get a job as a computer programmer, and then after five years or so, I'd like to start my own business.

Football season started in september and all summer long I worked out.

For example, the moment you get on the airplane, start adjusting your biological clock to the destination's time.

From what I've read, it seems that a starting pay would be around $12, 000 a year.

Hannah started to think about how she could help, but, of course, there is not a lot one five-year-old can do to solve the problem of homelessness.

He couldn't walk, but he managed to get out of the crevasse and started to move towards their camp, nearly ten kilometers away.

He even starts going to evening classes to learn classical Chinese at columbia university.

His friend started a firm in London.

Hopefully that gives you a good start.

How will the day start in coastal areas tomorrow?

I had an early start at the age of nine with a role in a 1990s TV series, but it wasn't until I finished film studies that I pursued my career as an actress.

I looked quickly at the clock, the show starts in one hour; plenty of time! I drank the rest of my coffee and went to take a shower.

I started climbing up those strangely mysterious steps.

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little pride.

I started studying ballet when I was six years old.

I think I'll get started with these books.

I'd like to start our new term with a few notices.

If those island nations not far above sea level are to survive, the maximum temperature rise, since the start of the industrial age, should be 0.

If you'd like to build a powerful bond with your garden, start by taking some time to recall the gardens of your youth.

In a recycling economy, we would make one set of 100 cans to start with, then replace them over and over again with recycled cans.

In wind and rain she started on her difficult way.

It started out warm and sunny, but when I went into the mountains and climbed higher, it started snowy.

It starts with looking inside yourself and understanding who you are with respect to the natural world and how you approach the gardening process.

It starts with saving an amount equaling 1 dollar in week 1, 2 dollars in week 2, 3 dollars in week 3, and continues right through the year until 52 dollars in week 52.

It takes sunscreen about fifteen minutes to start working, and that's plenty of time for your skin to absorb a day's worth of Vitamin D.

It was a fun thing but I was scared from the start.

It was a rainy morning and the children, mainly boys with various learning difficulties, refused to settle for the start of the lesson.

It's all about starting simple and doing it now.

It's almost never good to start a meeting with general comments such as:"I didn't understand what you said about [main topic of the course] "or "I couldn't understand any of your lectures last week."

It's been three weeks since he first started going, so macy and I are pretty used to it now.

It's more likely that none of us start a conversation because it's awkward and challenging, or we think it's annoying and unnecessary.

Many businesses started up by college students have taken off thanks to the comfortable climate for business creation.

Mari starts changing her life and discovers a world of diverse "night people" who are hiding secrets.

Naomi heard multiple stops and starts, Steve struggling, searching while his wife joni called him "honey" and encouraged him.

Naomi put a small recorder near the piano, starts and stops and mistakes.

Naturally, shy people might not have enough confidence to start up conversations with strangers.

Night milk quickened the start of sleep and caused the mice to sleep longer.

None more so than husband and wife team Kenneth and Carol Adelman, well-known advisers to the White House, who started up a training company called "movers and Shakespeares".

Not everyone knows clearly how to build personal savings, but a savings plan started on a website has helped many put away a nice tidy sum.

Now, through the two organizations that he has founded--the digital himalaya project and the world oral literature project--Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, for the world available not just to scholars but to the younger generation.

On average, engineering majors expect to start at about $62, 000 a year.

One day soon after school had started, I said to them, " now I'm going to say something about reading that you have probably never heard a teacher say before.

One is that these instincts appear at a very young age before most parents have started to train children to behave socially.

Our programme offers the full package—students are take good care of from the start through to the very end.

People with start-up fatigue are most likely to delay tasks.

Policymakers should start thinking now about how to make sure the appearance of driverless vehicles doesn't extend the worst aspects of the car-controlled transportation system we have today.

Put a group of strangers in a room together, and they'll probably start a conversation.

Rebound headaches start whenever you stop taking the medicine.

School uniforms are traditional in Britain, but some schools are starting to get rid of them.

Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the south pole in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography.

She has started a new programme.

She plans to start a foundation for homeless children and wants to build a community centre in Waterhouse.

She said social media firms were exposing children to major emotional risks, with some youngsters starting secondary school ill-equipped to cope with the tremendous pressure they faced online.

She started the ladybug foundation, an organization aiming at getting rid of homelessness.

Shortly after crossing the start line, my shoe laces became untied.

Since he first started volunteering his car to the young people.

Since the plants took a while to grow, he started cutting down trees to sell the wood.

So, get an early start and try to be as productive as possible before lunch.

Soon afterwards, many of those people started settling down to become farmers, and their languages too became more settled and fewer in number.

Start the smoke detector in a fire.

Start with herbs, she recommends, because "they're very forgiving".

Starting before you feel ready is one of the habits of successful people.

Such start-up fatigue is very real, even if not actually physical, not something in our muscles and bones.

Summer company provides students with hands-on business training and awards of up to $3, 000 to start and run their own summer businesses.

Summer has not even started yet, but temperatures have reached 40 degrees centigrade in the past three days.

That first year, I started feeding peanuts to the blue jays, then the squirrels.

That was when things started to change.

The baseline here is average global temperature before the start of the industrial age.

The change to a media economy started in 1920, when the nederlandse seintoestellen fabriek nsf established a radio factory in hiversum.

The Chinese ministry of agriculture finds that between 2005—when the government started a soil-testing program that/which gives specific fertilizer recommendations to farmers—and 2011, fertilizer use dropped by 7.7 million tons.

The gap-year phenomenon originated with the months left over to oxbridge applicants between entrance exams in november and the start of the next academic year.

The key is that before bills and living expenses start to eat away your salary, you should put aside the savings portion of your pay.

To take this approach to the New Englanders normally mean to start with the Puritans’ theological innovations and their distinctive ideas about the church-important subjects that we may not neglect.

After all, that’s how education got started.

Objective knowledge is the goal, not the starting point.

Vanity is a constant; people will only start shopping more sustainably when they can’t afford not to.

Only if the jobless arrive at the jobcentre with a CV, register for online job search, and start looking for work will they be eligible for benefit—and then they should report weekly rather than fortnightly.

After all, other countries, such as Australia and Britain, have started liberalizing their legal professions.

They should start by discarding California’s lame argument that exploring the contents of a smart phone — a vast storehouse of digital information — is similar to, say, rifling through a suspect’s purse.

That’s a start.

Complex international, economic, technological and culture change could start to diminish the leading position of English as the language of the world market, and UK interests which enjoy advantage from the breath of English usage would consequently face new pressures.

Yet as distrust has risen toward all media, people may be starting to beef up their media literacy skills.

The challenge of coping with automation underlines the need for the U. to revive its fading business dynamism: Starting new companies must be made easier.

Denham's report is a welcome start.

Any fair-minded assessment of the dangers of the deal between Britain's National Health Service ( ' , NHS) and DeepMind must start by acknowledging that both sides mean well.

As many people hit middle age, they often start to notice that their memory and mental clarity are not what they used to be.

At the start of this century, about one-third of crop workers were over the age of 35.

Here are five simple ways that you can make the first move and start a conversation with strangers.

In one 2011 experiment, behavioral scientists Nicholas Epley and Juliana Schroeder asked commuters to do the unthinkable:Start a conversation .

None of these will be easy but you can start even if others refuse to.

Only if the jobless arrive at the job centre with a CV, register for online job search, and start looking for work will they be eligible for benefit—and then they should report weekly rather than fortnightly.

They should start by discarding California's lame argument that exploring the contents of a smart phone—a vast storehouse of digital information—is similar to, say, going through a suspect's purse.

To start, we can recognize the new birds of passage, those living and thriving in the gray areas.

To take this approach to the New Englanders normally means to start with the Puritans' theological innovations and their distinctive ideas about the church -- important subjects that we may not neglect.

Vanity is a constant; people will only start shopping more sustainability when they can't afford not to.

When you start conversation from there and then move outwards, you'll find all of a sudden that the conversation becomes a lot easier.

You wish that you could turn back the clock and start over.