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Your identity has been formed; you've built up your resources; and now you have the chance to take the big risks precisely because your foundation is already secure.

Within two years, Leah shed the safety of her accounting job and made the switch complete.

Why learning and forgetting are complementary.

Where are you in the cycle of renewal: Are you actively preserving the present, or selectively forgetting the past, or boldly creating the future? What advice would Leah give you to move you ahead on your journey? Once we're on the path of growth, we can continually move through the seasons of transformation and renewal.

When it's time to make the leap, they take action and immediately drop what's no longer serving their purpose.

We have presidential candidates running for their first term in office at age 68, 69 and 74.

Viewing the past in high definition can make it very difficult to get over pain and regret.

Urbanization – migration away from the suburbs and to the city center – will be the biggest real estate trend in 2015, according to a new report.

Top of Britons' toilet paper wish list is softness followed by strength and thickness .

To ensure employees' commitment, it is advisable to give them more flexibility as to where and how they work.

They need to rid their minds of sentimentalism : the most successful teams have leaders who are able to set an overall direction and take immediate action.

They need to keep teams small and focused: giving in to pressure to be more inclusive is a guarantee of dysfunction.

They also had talk therapy with a nurse before and after quit day.

The report says America's urbanization will continue to be the most significant issue affecting the industry, as cities across the country imitate the walkability and transit-oriented development making cities like New York and San Francisco so successful.

The report refers to this as the coming of the 18-hour city, and uses the term to refer to cities like Houston, Austin, Charlotte, and Nashville, which are positioning themselves as highly competitive, in terms of livability, employment offerings, and recreational and cultural facilities.

The question is, how?Lawrence Patihis at the University of Southern Mississippi recently studied around 20 people with HSAM and found that they scored particularly highly on two measures: fantasy proneness and absorption.

The majority of previous research has focused on how we learn and remember new information.

The fashion for teams is driven by a sense that the old way of organising people is too rigid for both the modern marketplace and the expectations of employees.

The fashion for teams is also spreading from the usual corporate suspects to some more unusual ones.

The absorption helps them to establish strong foundations for recollection, says Patihis, and the fantasy proneness means that they revisit those memories again and again in the coming weeks and months.

The Cleveland Clinic, a hospital operator, has reorganised its medical staff into teams to focus on particular treatment areas; consultants, nurses and others collaborate closely instead of being separated by speciality and rank.

Team-building skills are in short supply: Deloitte reports that only 12% of the executives they contacted feel they understand the way people work together in networks and only 21% feel confident in their ability to build cross-functional teams.

Successful team leaders know exactly where the team should go and are able to take prompt action.

Strength, softness and thickness remain the leading indicators of toilet paper quality, with just a small proportion of consumers preferring more luxurious alternatives, such as those with flower patterns or perfume,said Mintel analyst Jack Duckett.

Steering through change and facing obstacles brings us face to face with our fears.

Some team members find it hard to agree on questions like membership and the team's purpose.

Small signs may indicate great changes to come and therefore merit attention.

Since then, she has founded two yoga studios, met a new life partner, and formed a new community of people.

She succeeded in quitting smoking abruptlyShe was also a researcher of tobacco and health.

She connected with her sense of purpose and dug deep, cultivating a tremendous sense of strength.

Several years ago, she became interested in eggs and learned the traditional Ukrainian technique to draw her very modern characters.

People are healthy and energetic longer.

Penny-pinching UK consumers choose cheaper products from discounters such as Aldi and Lidl rather than luxury alternatives.

Overall, almost three in five people say they try to limit their usage of paper – including facial tissue and kitchen roll – to save money.

One of the reasons I find this topic very interesting is because my mom was a smoker when I was younger, says Lindson-Hawley, who studies tobacco and health at the University of Oxford.

On the plus side, it allows you to relive the most transformative and enriching experiences.

Most roads, bridges, transit, water systems, the electric grid, and communications networks were installed 50 to 100 years ago, and they are largely taken for granted until they fail.

More and more Britons buy recycled toilet paper to protect the environment.

Maybe some experience in their childhood meant that they became obsessed with calendars and what happened to them, says Patihis.

Leigh Thompson of Kellogg School of Management in Illinois warns that, Teams are not always the answer—teams may provide insight, creativity and knowledge in a way that a person working independently cannot; but teamwork may also lead to confusion, delay and poor decision-making.

Leah gained confidence by laying out her fears and confronting them directly.

Leah easily could have fallen into a trap of feeling content; instead, her energy sparked a period of experimentation and renewal.

It's the stage in the middle of the journey when people feel youth vanishing, their prospects narrowing and death approaching.

It will experience ups and downs.

It didn't take long for magazines and documentary film-makers to come to understand her total recall, and thanks to the subsequent media interest, a few dozen other subjects have since come forward and contacted the team at the University of California, Irvine.

It can bring wealth and honor to them.

Instead of giving people practice, the gradual reduction likely gave them cravings and withdrawal symptoms before they even reached quit day, which could be why fewer people in that group actually made it to that point.

In the process, she built a radically new life and career.

In the last year alone, despite an increase in the UK population and a subsequent rise in the number of households, sales of toilet paper fell by 2%, with the average household reducing their toilet roll spending from £43 in 2014 to £41 in 2015.

In search of a meaningful life, Leah gave up what she had and set up her own yoga studios.

In his spare time, he visited the local art galleries, and the paintings are now lodged deep in his autobiographical memories.

In her search to live a life of purpose, Leah left her high-paying accounting job, her husband, and her home.

If you're training for a marathon, you wouldn't expect to turn up and just be able to run it.

I'm not happy and I want to change and I'm done with this.

I'm extremely sensitive to sounds, smells and visual detail, explains Nicole Donohue, who has taken part in many of these studies.

I was feeling so intentional and strong that I wasn't going to let fear just take over.

I remember sitting on a bench with my aunt at a yoga studio, she said, and having a moment of clarity right then and there: Yoga is saving my life.

I look forward to the each day and experiencing something new.

I had spent two years cultivating this community, and it had become successful very fast, within six months, but I was facing the prospect of losing it all.

However, as Amy Edmondson of Harvard points out, organisations increasingly use team as a verb rather than a noun: they form teams for specific purposes and then quickly disband them.

High-flyers who are forced to work in teams may be undervalued and free-riders empowered.

He knew my love for yoga and had seen a space close to where he lived that he thought might be good to serve as a yoga studio.

Hackman noted that teams are hindered by problems of co-ordination and motivation that chip away at the benefits of collaboration.

HSAM can be both a curse and a blessing.

For most of us, memory is a mess of blurred and faded pictures of our lives.

For most of us, letting go of the safety and security of the past gives us great fear.

First trying physical exercise and dieting, she lost some weight and discovered an inner strength.

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

Fantasy proneness could be considered a tendency to imagine and daydream, whereas absorption is the tendency to allow your mind to become absorbed in an activity – to pay complete attention to the sensations and the experiences.

Even in the age of open-plan offices and social networks some work is best left to the individual.

Emailing the neuroscientist and memory researcher Jim McGaugh one day, she claimed that she could recall every day of her life since the age of 12.

Could he help explain her experiences?McGaugh invited her to his lab, and began to test her: he would give her a date and ask her to tell him about the world events on that day.

Contemporary artists have followed this tradition to create eggs that speak to the anxieties of our age: Life is precious, and delicate.

Companies are abandoning conventional functional departments and organising employees into crossdisciplinary teams that focus on particular products, problems or customers.

By studying about 700 adult smokers, she found out that her mom quit the right way—by stopping abruptly and completely.

By naming her fears and facing them head-on, Leah gained confidence.

But I know if you don't grow, you stand still, and that doesn't work for me.

Ask Nima Veiseh what he was doing for any day in the past 15 years, however, and he will give you the details of the weather, what he was wearing, or even what side of the train he was sitting on his journey to work.

As she explored new interests and developed new potentials, Leah felt powerful internally.

Apart from the specific trends highlighted above, which cause some investors to worry, the report portrays an overall optimism borne by the recent healthy real-estate upcycle and improving economy.

And when we retrieve information, both the desired and associated but irrelevant information is recalled.

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.

And such research might even suggest ways for us all to relive our past with greater clarity.

And most of us may sometimes feel the frustration of having old memories interfere with new, relevant memories.

And although their memories are vast, they are still likely to suffer from false memories.

And I think people see that for smoking as well.

And I knew it was a negotiation scheme, so I was able to say to myself, ‘This is not real.

Almost half of those surveyed said their companies were either in the middle of restructuring or about to embark on it; and for the most part, restructuring meant putting more emphasis on teams.

After graduating with a degree in business and accounting, she joined a public accounting firm, married, bought a house, put lots of stuff in it, and had a baby.

A recent study of people with HSAM reveals that they are liable to fantasy and full absorption in an activity.

A new study of 12,000 workers in 17 countries by Steelcase, a furniture-maker which also does consulting, finds that the best way to ensure employees are engaged is to give them more control over where and how they do their work—which may mean liberating them from having to do everything in collaboration with others.

A good rule of thumb is that as soon as generals and hospital administrators jump on a management bandwagon , it is time to ask questions.

In that moment of clarity Leah made an important leap, conquering her inner resistance to change and making a firm commitment to take bigger steps.

With wild carrots, the roots are white, small and skinny, so you’d have to pick a lot of wild carrots to get enough to eat.

They showed threatening, pleasant and neutral expressions.

There is lots of snow around, and the ground freezes, which can make life difficult for animals.

The snake has been named silver boa because it is metal-coloured and the first specimen found was climbing a silver palm tree.

The man in the Google vehicle reported that he assumed the bus would slow down to let the car out, and so he did not switch to the manual mode.

The boat, traveling between Nicaragua’s Big Corn Island and LittleCorn Island turned over Saturday near the larger island.

The boat was carrying 32 people—25 Costa Ricans, four Americans and three Nicaraguans.

is becoming increasingly popularbenefits sharers and users alikemakes researchers successfulsaves both money and laborMacy's reported its sales plunged 5.

Yet later on, the more affluent children end up in college and on the way to the middle class, while working-class children tend to struggle.

Working-class parents, meanwhile, believe their children will naturally thrive, and give them far greater independence and time for free play.

Working-class parents teach their children to be obedient and show respect to adults.

Working-class children are happier, more independent, complain less and are closer to family members, Ms.

Within Italy, the great focus was Rome, whose ancient ruins and more recent achievements were shown to every Grand Tourist.

White storks feed on locusts and other insects that can become pests if their numbers get out of hand.

While many birds travelled along well-known routes to warmer climates, others stopped short and spent the winter on landfills, feeding on food waste, and the multitudes of insects that thrive on the dumps.

While alternative estimates of the damage from carbon emissions differ, and it's especially hard to reckon the likely costs of possible catastrophic climate events, most estimates suggest substantial negative effects.

While Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday all saw record spending online, in-store sales plunged over the holiday weekend.

Well-off families are ruled by calendars, with children enrolled in ballet, soccer and after-school programs, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.

Wealthy parents are concerned about their children's mental health and busy schedules.

We live today indebted to McCardell, Cashin, Hawes, Wilkins, and Maxwell, and other women who liberated American fashion from the confines of Parisian design.

Unfortunately, the current low prices for oil, gas, and coal may provide little incentive for research to find even cheaper substitutes for those fuels.

Travel was arduous and costly throughout the period, possible only for a privileged class—the same that produced gentlemen scientists, authors, antique experts, and patrons of the arts.

To match the growing demand, services are springing up to make it easier to publish research products online and enable other researchers to discover and cite them.

Thus was born the idea of the Grand Tour, a practice which introduced Englishmen, Germans, Scandinavians, and also Americans to the art and culture of France and Italy for the next 300 years.

They were versed in literature and interested in art.

They were the pioneers of gender equity, in their useful, adaptable clothing, which was both made for the masses and capable of self-expression.

They were courageous and venturesome.

They try to develop their skills through close supervision and organized activities, and teach children to question authority figures and navigate elite institutions.

They might eat something toxic and damage their health.

They had enough travel and outdoor-life experience.

They gained some knowledge of classical art and architecture.

They are taught to be compliant and respectful to adults.

They are more likely to grow up in neighborhoods that their parents say aren't great for raising children, and their parents worry about them getting shot, beaten up or in trouble with the law.

They advocated equity between men and women.

These designers established the modem dress code, letting playsuits and other activewear outfits suffice for casual clothing, allowing pants to enter the wardrobe, and prizing rationalism and versatility in dress, in contradiction to dressing for an occasion or allotment of the day.

There is strong evidence that both innovation and adoption of cleaner technology are strongly encouraged by higher fossil fuel prices.

There is no best parenting style or philosophy, researchers say, and across income groups, 92% of parents say they are doing a good job at raising their children.

There are usually two parents, who spend a lot of time reading to children and worrying about their anxiety levels and hectic schedules.

There appeared more and more Roman-style buildings.

The trend of social and economic development.

The survey also probed attitudes and anxieties.

The state's facilities management project team is still in the process of developing its business justification and expects to have that completed and available to the public at the end of February, Martin said.

The scientists tracked white storks from different colonies in Europe and Africa.

The result would be higher emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

The recent discovery of the giant Zohr gas field off the Egyptian coast will eventually have impact on pricing in the Mediterranean region and Europe, and there is significant development potential in many other places, notably Argentina.

The reasoning behind this saying is that low oil prices discourage investment in new production capacity, eventually shifting the oil supply curve backward and bringing prices back up as existing oil fields—which can be tapped at relatively low marginal cost—are depleted.

The prices of coal are low as a result of over-supply and decreasing demand.

The most successful sharers—those whose data are downloaded and cited the most often—get noticed, and their work gets used.

The most recent one took place last week in Washington, D.C.Students join a team through their schools, which provide a volunteer coach and pay a nominal fee to send students to regional and state competitions.

The lives of children from rich and poor American families look more different than ever before.

The increasing differences in child rearing between rich and poor families reflect growing social inequality.

The design objective and the business commitment were to sportswear, and the distinctive traits were problemsolving ingenuity and realistic lifestyle applications.

The demographics of that group looked quite different from those in the competition round—of the 16 video finalists, 13 were girls and eight were African-American students.

The cycle continues: Poorer parents have less time and fewer resources to invest in their children, which can leave children less prepared for school and work, which leads to lower earnings.

The company blamed much of the poor performance in November and December on unseasonably warm weather.

The changing attitude of journals and funders.

The birds can easily eat pieces of plastic or rubber hands and they can die, said Flack.

The achievement gap between children from high- and lowincome families is 30-40% larger among children born in 2001 than those born 25 years earlier, according to Mr.

The Russian, Greek and Polish storks flew as far as South Africa, while those from Spain, Tunisia and Germany flew only as far as the Sahel.

The Math Olympiad Summer Training Program is a three-week math camp held by the Mathematical Association of America that leads straight to the international championship and is free for those who make it.

The Los Angeles Math Circle, held at the University of California, Los Angeles, began in 2007 with 20 students and now has more than 250.

The International Monetary Fund calculates that countries can generate substantial fiscal revenues by eliminating fossil fuel subsidies and levying carbon charges that capture the domestic damage caused by emissions.

The Grand Tourist was typically a young man with a thorough grounding in Greek and Latin literature as well as some leisure time, some means, and some interest in art.

The German traveler Johann Winckelmann pioneered the field of art history with his comprehensive study of Greek and Roman sculpture; he was portrayed by his friend Anton Raphael Mengs at the beginning of his long residence in Rome.

The British traveler Charles Thompson spoke for many Grand Tourists when in 1744 he described himself as being impatiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which once gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with cabinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relics.

Tennessee's technical and community colleges will not outsource management of their facilities to a private company, a decision one leader said was bolstered by an analysis of spending at each campus.

Technological innovations have unleashed the power of renewables such as wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal .

Teams of four students make a video illustrating a math problem and its real-world application.

Teachers in low-income urban and rural areas with no history of participating in math competitions may not know about advanced-math opportunities like MathCounts—and those who do may not have support or feel trained to lead them.

Students use forums to chat, play games, and solve problems together at no cost, or they can pay a few hundred dollars to take courses with trained teachers.

Students attend after-school clubs, summer camps, online forums and classes and university-based math circles, to prepare for the competitions.

Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository , and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has observed some 500 million objects—but these remain the exception, not the rule.

Social scientists say the differences arise in part because low-income parents have less money to spend on music class or preschool, and less flexible schedules to take children to museums or attend school events.

Since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, and many were eager to acquire examples of Greco-Roman and Italian art for their own collections.

Schools or teachers who sign up for the National Math Club receive a kit full of activities and resources, but there's no special teacher training and no competition attached.

Researchers who share get plenty of personal benefits, including more connections with colleagues, improved visibility and increased citations.

Researchers in Germany used miniature GPS tags to track the migrations of 70 white storks from different sites across Europe and Asia during the first five months of their lives.

Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels—30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas.

Publishing data and code allows your science to be reproducible.

Public policies aimed at young children have helped, including public preschool programs and reading initiatives.

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.

Parents of advanced-math students and MathCounts coaches say the children are on the website constantly.

Parenting approaches of working-class and affluent families both have advantages.

Panini's Ancient Rome and Modern Rome represent the sights most prized, including celebrated Greco-Roman statues and views of famous ruins, fountains, and churches.

Over the next five years, the group helps the students get into other elite summer math programs, high-performing high schools, and eventually college.

Only about 50 students are invited based on their performance on written tests and at the USA Math Olympiad.

One relative bright spot for Macy's during the holiday season was the online channel, where it rang up double-digit increases in sales and a 25% increase in the number of orders it filled.

Of families earning more than $75,000 a year, 84% say their children have participated in organized sports over the past year, 64% have done volunteer work and 62% have taken lessons in music, dance or art.

Of families earning less than $30,000, 59% of children have done sports, 37% have volunteered and 41 % have taken arts classes.

Notwithstanding important recent progress in developing renewable fuel sources, low fossil fuel prices could discourage further innovation in, and adoption of, cleaner energy technologies.

Natural gas and coal—also fossil fuels—have similarly seen price declines that look to be long-lived.

Nations from around the world have gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, with the goal of a universal and potentially legally-binding agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Much of the waste is discarded rotten meat, mixed in with other human debris such as plastic bags and old toys.

Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.

Morgan said those findings—which included data from the system's 13 community colleges, 27 technical colleges and six universities—were part of the decision not to move forward with Governor Bill Haslam's proposal to privatize management of state buildings in an effort to save money.

Morgan said last week that he would retire at the end of January because of the governor's proposal to split off six universities of the Board of Regents system and create separate governing boards for each of them.

Migrating birds affect ecosystems both at home and at their winter destinations, and disrupting the traditional routes could have unexpected side effects.

Middle-class and higher-income parents see their children as projects in need of careful cultivation, says Annette Lareau, whose groundbreaking research on the topic was published in her book Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race and Family Life.

Massive rubbish dumps and sprawling landfills constitute one of the more uncomfortable impacts that humans have on wildlife.

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.

Less-educated parents, and poorer and black and Latino parents are more likely to believe that there is no such thing as too much involvement in a child's education.

Italian architects were hired to design houses and gardens.

It's important to allow readers and reviewers to see exactly how you arrive at your results.

Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad —the first for an American team in more than two decades— the trend is likely to continue.

Independence came in tying, wrapping, storing, harmonizing, and rationalizing that wardrobe.

In the past few years, MathCounts added two new middle school programs to try to diversify its participant pool—the National Math Club and the Math Video Challenge.

In the past decade, even as income inequality has grown, some of the socioeconomic differences in parenting, like reading to children and going to libraries, have narrowed.

As you make reading a regular part of your life, you'll make more connections, stay more focused and understand the text better.

A bar graph has two axes and uses bars to show amounts.

A child's day is filled with fascination, newness and wonder.

A city is the product of the human hand and mind, reflecting man's intelligence and creativity.

A computer analysis blindly compared calls produced by mothers and chicks, ranking them by similarity.

A cup of coffee costs about three dollars and fifty cents, but the fun is free.

A decade of data breaches (数据侵入) of personal information has led to a situation where sca