1. The amount of food that is wasted represents a gigantic stack of 100 bills. Both in rich countries and poor, a staggering 30-50% of all food produced rots away uneaten 2. Milk and vegetables spoil in transit 主动形式 3. Food processors and retailers use modern silos （粮仓） , proper trucks and refrigeration—the very things the rural poor lack. 4. The first-ever credit downgrade of the U.S. left Wall Street and Washington struggling to come to grips with a new world order. 美国信用评级首次下调致使美国金融市场（华尔街）和美国ZF（华盛顿）紧急着手应对新的世界秩序。 5. This will bolster (foster) Google’s puny （ trivial ） arsenal of around 2,000 patents, hugely strengthening its position in current and future legal battles with its more heavily armed industry rivals. 6. it has been so watered down(discount) that it will fail to make much difference. 7. In the first place, television is not only a convenient source of entertainment, but also a comparatively cheap one. 8. according to a judicial explanation issued by China's Supreme People's Court. 9. A math curriculum that focused on real-life problems would still expose students to the abstract tools of mathematics, especially the manipulation of unknown quantities 10. Traditionalists will object that the standard curriculum teaches valuable abstract reasoning, even if the specific skills acquired are n ot immediately useful in later life. 11. However, years of exhortation have failed to persuade most of those affected actually to do this 12. In particular, it is much harder to shift surplus lard once it has accumulated than it is to avoid putting it on in the first place. 13. It also accounts for baseline characteristics that differ from person to person 14. The lesson, then, is to stay, rather than become, slim. Not easy, in a world whose economic imperative is to satisfy every appetite, but perhaps a little more urgent now Dr Hall has put numbers on it 15. China's railway system, after increasing the speeds of trains six times since 1997 and opening more high-speed rail lines in recent years, has hit the brakes. 16. In the words of Lee Kuan Yew, former prime minister of Singapore and a keen advocate of Asian values, the Chinese family encouraged “scholarship and hard work and thrift and deferment of present enjoyment for future gain”. 17. That can no longer be taken for granted. The decline of marriage is also c ontributing to the collapse in the birth rate 18. Yuan Longping ， China's leading agricultural scientist ， realized one of his 80th birthday wishes recently when his super grain brought yields of 13.9 tons of rice a hectare ， setting a new world record for rice output. crossbreeding （杂交育种）的技术，在现有的 arable land （耕地）不足的情况下 19. 『大学学位不再保证衣食无忧的生活。』 Angst for the educated 20. most also believe that spending three or four years at university—and accumulating huge debts in the process—will boost their chances of landing a well-paid and secure job 21. Computers can not only perform repetitive mental tasks much faster than human beings. They can also empower amateurs to do what professionals once did: why hire a flesh-and-blood accountant to complete your tax return when Turbotax (a software package) will do the job at a fraction of the cost 22. Just as Adam Smith’s factory managers broke the production of pins into 18 components, so companies are increasingly breaking the production of brain-work into ever tinier slices 。 the application of the division of labour to brain-work 23. Report shows average take-home pay is ￡ 1 ， 212 lower than it was at the end of 2008 ， once inflation has been taken into account. inflationary pressure （通胀压力）。实际工资 shrink （缩水），加上 price hikes （物价上涨），一般家庭的 housing spending （家庭支出）增加了， living standard （生活标准）随之下降，而这又造成新的 economic stagnation （经济疲软），如此一来，陷入了一个 vicious cycle （恶性循环）当中。 24. with the proliferation （ fertilization offspring ） of social media, teachers and students have greater access to one's personal history than ever before I do agree that it should be monitored but they shouldn't be cut off completely 25. It's always sobering to see giant steps backward where we once again confuse one tool for problems that are actually bigger societal problems." 26. Three of the six major studios axed subsidiaries that had specialised in buying independent films 。 Actors’ salaries remain depressed, and indies have become expert at exploiting competition between states and countries, which lavish subsidies on them 27. Researchers have long known that the brain links kinds of new facts, related or not, when they are learned about the same time. Just as the taste of a cookie and tea can start a cascade1 of childhood memories , so a recalled bit of history homework can bring to mind a math problem. 28. A new pilot study shows that eating right, exercising and reducing stress may help keep chronic diseases at bay by switching on beneficial genes, including tumor-fighters, and silencing those that trigger malignancies and other ills 。 Genes may be our predisposition, but they are not our fate 29. In addition to downing healthier fare, the men also walked or worked out at least 30 minutes six days a week; did an hour of daily stress-reducing yoga-type stretching, breathing and meditation; and participated in one-hour weekly group support sessions 30. Nashville, Tennessee, is still reeling from several bookstore closings, including a Borders and the more beloved Davis-Kidd. It is truly irritating now that middle-class incomes are stagnant and students are struggling to find good jobs. Hence a flurry of new thinking about higher education. Veteran university-watchers may dismiss Mr Fried’s ideas as pie in the sky 。 squeeze costs. SITTING in the office of an Indian boss when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) raises interest rates with an unexpectedly aggressive jerk, things get a little tense 。 ”. Asked if this means that private-sector investment in India, already weak, will take a lurch down, he shrugs: “Of course.” 31. The evolution of generosity ： Welcome, stranger 慷慨行为的进化历程：欢迎你，陌生人 THE extraordinary success of Homo sapiensis a result of four things: intelligence, language, an ability to manipulate objects dexterouslyin order to make tools, and co-operation. Over the decades the anthropologicalspotlight has shifted from one to another of these as the prime moverof the package, and thus the fundament of the human condition. Deeply ingrained in the species’s psychology 32. After a certain amount of time the agents reproduced in proportion to their accumulated fitness; the old generation died, and the young took over. The process was then repeated for 10,000 generations to see what level of collaboration would emerge 33. People fess up to invented misdemeanours(misdeeds). Admittedly these confessions are taking place in a laboratory rather than an interrogation room, so the stakes might not appear that high to the confessor. Though a lot of jurisdictions require corroborating evidence, in practice s elf-condemnation is pretty damning—and, it seems, surprisingly easy to induce 34. Pocket skills are skills that are needed in all workplaces, such as thinking skill and communications skill, no matter what industry you are in. For instance, thinking skill may help you quickly get the main idea of a report, point out the drawbacks and offer your advice for improvement; and when there is a disagreement or conflict, your communications skill may enable you to deal with it. 35. Courtesy call is a sugarcoated term used by telemarketers which really means sales call. This is one of the most deceitful and misleading phrases ever since there is nothing courteous about it 36. How a Mother's Love May Counter the Negative Health Effects of Poverty Growing up poor is stressful, and chronic stress is known to impact physical health long term. gauge how nurturing those parents were in childhood. " ， Cortisol changes the way glucose is regulated. It changes insulin sensitivity and glucose production ， There are effects on blood vessels, on how elastic they are and on retention of fat in the abdominal cavity. Inflammation also plays a role." a state of high vigilance and mistrust goes hand-in-hand with elevated stress hormone levels 37. A new analysis of the temperature record leaves little room for the doubters. The world is warming To most scientists, that is consistent with the manifold other indicators of warming—rising sea-levels, melting glaciers, warmer ocean depths and so forth—and convincing. Extrapolating a global average from such data involves an amount of tinkering—or homogenisation 38. Your chair is your enemy. It doesn’t matter if you go running every morning, or you’re a regular at the gym. If you spend most of the rest of the day sitting — in your car, your office chair, on your sofa at home — you are putting yourself at increased risk of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, a variety of cancers and an early death. 椅子其实是你的敌人。就算你每天早晨都坚持跑步，或者定期去健身房锻炼；只要你每天大部分时间都是坐着的，不管是在车里、办公室座椅或者家里的沙发上，你就是在把自己推向肥胖、糖尿病、心脏病、各类癌症以及早亡的危险。 39. Find the Hidden Colors of Autumn Leaves Have you ever wondered why leaves change from green to an amazing array of yellow, orange and red during the fall? Leaves get their brilliant colors from pigments made up of various size, color-creating molecules 40. Women smoking have overtaken men Women smoking - they've overtaken men in the habit in the north east partly because of influences on girls which are 'more insidious than mere peer pressure'. the tobacco industry has had a large part to play in encouraging more women to take up smoking by perpetuating the myth of smoking as glamorous, risqué and a form of defiance 41. Hailing the Google bus Internet penetration rates in the developing world continue to lag far behind those of the west, to create, organise, distribute and deliver relevant and useful information related to government programs and services to the people at large 42. Unmarried black women ： Down or out The collapse of marriage among blacks is well documented , but not the sexual, psychological, emotional and social toll this has taken on black women. As these women rise into the middle class, the men stay in the lower class, becoming less compatible. Even black men who nominally commit to one woman are five times as likely as their white counterparts to have others on the side. But by far the most common reason seems to be that black women still regard intermarriage as tantamount to betraying the race. “My black heart,” says one black woman as she contemplates marrying out, “I would need to turn it in.” “We know it’s a struggle,” says another, “but we women got to stand by the black man. If we don’t, who will?” 43. The Stress of Divorce, Writ on Women's Heads In men, baldness is due mostly to an unlucky roll of the genetic dice. But in women, hair loss appears to be linked much more strongly to lifestyle factors like stress — from divorce or the death of a spouse, for example — according to preliminary findings from two studies any differences could be attributed to environmental factors 。 In the end, I am a big proponent of the idea that it's how you handle the stress that can make a difference 。 The mind-and-body connection is incredibly powerful. It helps to try and keep perspective, put the big things that happen in life, the major milestones, in their place and keep an open mind. 44. Making the Monoculture access to information has exploded 。 THE proliferation of media, enabled by the internet and the new consumer devices that access it, has also driven the decentralization of media. 45. Facial monitoring ： The all-telling eye IMAGINE browsing a website when a saucy ad for lingerie catches your eye. You don’t click on it, merely smile and go to another page. Yet it follows you, putting up more racy pictures, perhaps even the offer of a discount. Finally, irked by its persistence, you frown. “Sorry for taking up your time,” says the ad, and promptly desists from further pestering. Creepy. There is ample scope to deploy it in areas like security, computer gaming, education and health care. Add eye-movement tracking, hinting at which display ads were overlooked and which were studied for any period of time, and the approach offers precisely the sort of quantitative data brand managers yearn for. 46. Rebuilding the American dream machine One of the more unlikely offices to have been flooded with mail is that of the City University of New York (CUNY), a public college that lacks, among other things, a famous sports team, bucolic campuses and raucous parties (it doesn't even have dorms), and, until recently, academic credibility. 47. Here be dragons critics suggest it has betrayed its own motto - “don't be evil” - by agreeing to censor certain sites 。 created to skirt state censors. This will speed up service for mainland users, who otherwise must penetrate the great firewall of China, which dramatically slows down access to Google.com 。 . Although the disclosure is more prominent on these western sites, putting such a message on its Chinese site is an important step towards transparency and, furthermore, is something its rivals do not do. 48. Bull in the China Shop The Obama administration is welcoming China's presumptive next leader, Xi Jinping. But how can it make good policy when the strategy is a mess? Biden had a good rapport with X i, thus priming the U.S. vice president to add the China mandate to his portfolio. As the first leader without the blessing of China's revolutionary generation (it cannot bless from the grave), Xi will likely be as risk-averse as Hu and more beholden to consensus within the Politburo Standing Committee, more deferential to the People's Liberation Army, and less likely to undertake liberal reforms given current social conditions. U.S. leaders will have made progress if they can put candor before niceties. The aim of containment is to hold the line on a status quo -- a liberalizing Asia -- that has provided decades of peace and prosperity. National security officials work to balance China's power while economic officials try to deepen engagement. Somebody needs to orchestrate the cacophony. 49. Equities resilient despite Athens uncertainty Renewed uncertainty over the outlook for Greece made for a nervous session in the markets, although global equities displayed some resilience and oil prices climbed to multi-month highs. 50. Inquiry hears of ‘corrupt culture’ at UK paper Britain’s most popular daily tabloid, The Sun, had a culture of corrupt payments to a network of public officials which was authorised at a senior level, the police officer leading a police inquiry into bribery by journalists told a public inquiry yesterday. 51. German experts volunteer for tax mission to Greece Around 160 German tax collection experts have volunteered to go to Greece to help combat widespread tax evasion in a move that risks reigniting tensions between Berlin and Athens. International lenders are ratcheting up pressure on Athens to curb tax evasion, estimated at
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