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51.In one project ,150 volunteers each agreed to discreetly tie a Walkman recorder to their waist and leave it running for anything up to two weeks.

52.The Language Activator dictionary was described by lexicographer Professor Randolh Quirk as 'the book the world has been waiting for '.

53.It also reveals the power of the pauses and noises we use to play for time ,convey emotion .

54.For the moment ,those benefiting most from the Spoken Corpus are foreign learners .

55.They allow dicitionaries to be more accurate and give a feel for how language is being used .

56.They are the latest in a clutch of individualistic homemakers who have burrowed underground in search of tranquility .

57.Underground shopping mallls are already common in Japan ,where 90 percent of the population is squeezed into 20 percent of the landscape.

58.Building big commercial buildings underground can be a way to avoid disfiguring or threatening a beautiful or 'environmentally sensitive' landscape.

59.There are big advantages ,too ,when it comes to private homes .

60.People see this as a way of building for the future.

61.An underground dweller himself ,Carpenter has never paid a heating bill ,thanks to solar panels and natural insulation .

62.His two -floored ,four -bedroomed ,two bathroomed detached homes are now taking shape.

63.We felt peace and so chose to nature.

64.Companies have responded to improvements in the business climate by having employees work overtime rather than by hiring extra personnel.

65.A host of factors pushes employers to hire fewer workers for more hourse and ,at the same time ,compels workers to spend more time on the job.

66.Diminishing returns may eventually set in as overworked employees lose eficiency or leave for arable pastures .

67.For all that employees complain about long hours ,they ,too ,have reasons not to trade money for leisure.

68.The image of the good worker is the one whose life belongs to the company .

69.Larger firms , in particular ,appear to be more willing to experiment with flexible working arrangements .

70.Not even the humblest household object is made without a microprocesspr .

71.On the horizon are optical  computers .

72.It is not only in technology and commerce that glass has widen its horizons .

73.The use of glass as art , a tradition going back at least to Roman times ,is also booming .

74.The secret  of the versatility of glass lies in its interior structure.

75.This looseness in molecular structure gives the material  what engineers call 'tremendous formability',which allows  technicians to tailor glass to whatever they need .

76.Men ,on the other hand ,seem to rely on their ability to sell themselves and to convince employers that any shortcomings they have will not prevent  them from doing a good job .

77.However ,the progress remains painfully slow.

78.It is still hard for women to even get on to the shortlists---there are so many hurdles and barriers .

79.Until  there is a belief among employers ,until they value the difference ,nothing will change .

80.There is now enormous potential for using population viability to assist wildlife management  in Australia's forests .

81.This  observation is useful starting point for any discussion of extinction as it highlights the role of luck and chance in the extinction process.

82.Whether an individual survives from one year to the next will largely be a matter if chance .

83.Small population will fluctuate enormously because of the random nature of birth and death and these chance flutuations can cause species extinctions even if ,on average ,the population size should increase.

84.You can enguneer around these problems ,or you can engineer them out .

85.For example ,there has to be a motorway capable of carrying 150-tonne dump-trucks :and there has to be a raised area for the 15000 construction workers .

86.These are temporary ;they will be removed  when the airport is finished .

87.Good health has been connected to the smooth mechanical operation of the body ,while  ill health has been attributed  to a breakdown in this machine .

88.The social ,economic ,and environmental contexts which contribute to the crtain of health do not operate separately or independently of each other ,Rather ,they are interacting and interdependent and it is the complex

interrelationships between them which determine the conditions that promote  heath .

89. Only in the past century or two has it become possible to make a living from investigating the workings of nature.

90.Today ,science is an increasingly specialized and compartmentalized subject ,the domain of experts  who more and more about less and less.

91.Far from being crackpots amateur  scientists are often in close touch with professionals ,some  of whom rely heavily on their co-operation .

92.Despite the successes and whatever the field of study ,collaboration between amateurs and  professionals is not without its difficulties .

93.A more  serious problem is the question of how professionals can best acknowledge the contributions made by amateurs .

94.Provided  amateurs and professionals agree the terms on which they will work together beforehand ,there is no reason why  co-operation between the two  groups should not flourish .

95.Some amateur's astronomers are happy to provide their observations but grumble about not being reimbursed for out -of -pocket expenses.

96.The debate surrounding literacy is one of the most charged in education .

97.On the one hand ,there is an army of people convinced that traditional skills of reading and writing are declining .On the other ,a host of progressives protest that literacy is much more complicated than a simple technical mastery of

reading and writing .

98.Schools are generally seen as institutions where the book rules-films ,television and recorded sound have almost no place .

99.While you may not need to read and write to watch television ,you certainly need to be able to read and write in order to make programs .

100.There is no reason why the new  and old media cannot be integrated in schools to provide the skills to become economically productive and politically enfranchised .

101.The entertainment and information industries must  be draw into a debate with educational  institutions to determine how best to blend these new technologies into the classroom .

102.His designs elegantly solved a basic engineering problem .

103.The type of bridge needed for cars and trucks ,however ,is fundamentally different from that needed for locomotives .

104.Because he worked in a highly competitive field ,one og his goals was economy-he won design and cnstruction contracts because his structures were reasonably priced ,often less costly than all his rivals'proposal .

105.His crucial innovation was incorporating the bridge's arch and roadway into a form called the hollow-box ,which would substantially reduce the bridge's expense by minimizing the amount of concrete needed.

106.In this design ,Maillart removed the parts of the vertical walls which were not essential because they carried no load .

107.In the following years ,however ,engineers realized that Maillart's bridges were not essential because they carried no laad .

108.Obesity is a huge problem  in many Western countries  and one which now attracts considerable madical interest as researchers take up the challenge to find a 'cure ' for the common condition of being seriously overweight.

109.Although the matabolism myth has been completely disproved science has far from disciunted our genes as responsible for making us whatever weight we are ,fat or thin .

110.These people are not weak-willed ,slothful or lazy ,instead ,they have a medical condition due to a genetic defect and that causes them to be obese.

111.In Australia ,the University  of Sydney's professor Ian Catersons says while major genetic defects may be rare ,many people probably have minor genetic vriations  that combine to dictate weight and are responsible for things such as

how much we eat ,the amount of exercise  we do and the amount of energy we need .

112.He is confident that science will , eventually ,be able to 'cure 'some forms of obesity but the only effective way for the vast majority of overweight and obese people to lose weight is a change of diet and an increase in exercise.

113.There is a lot more research to be done before the 'magic ' cure for obesity is ever found .

114.Each such innovation has changed the industry  irreversibly ;each has been accompainied by a period of fear mixed with exhilaration .

115.The arrival of digital tachnology ,which translates music ,pictures and text into the zeros and ones of comouter language ,marks one of those periods .

116.Digital television was about to deliver everthing except pizzas to people's living rooms .

117.When  the entertainment companies tried out the technology ,it worked out fine -but  not at a price that people were prepared to pay .

118.Those 500 channels eventually arrived but via the Internet and the PC rather than through television .

119.New tachnologies always contain within them both threats and opportunities .

120.They have the potential  both to make the companies in the business a great deal richer ,and to sweep them away .

121.MGM ,once the roaring lion of Hollywood ,has been reduced to a whisper because it is not part of the giants .

122.Part of the reason why incumbents got pushed aside was that they did not see what was coming .

123.These days ,the powers in the entertainment husiness are no longer movie studios ,or talevision broadcasters ,or publishers ;all those businesses have become part of bigger buisinesses still ,companies that can both create content

and distribute  it in a range of different ways .

123.These days ,the powers in the entertainment business are no longer movie studios ,or television broadcasters ,or  publishers ; all those businesses have become part of bigger businesses still ,companies that can both create content

and distribute it in a range of different ways .

124.What you are seeing is the creation of a global oligopoly .It  happened to the oil and automotive businesses earlier this century ; now it is happening to the entertainment business.

125.It remains to be seen whether the later technology will weaken those great companies ,or make them stronger than ever .

126.Most people studying  intelligence and creativity in the new millennium now prefer a broader  definition ,using a multifaceted approach where talents in many areas are recognized rather than purely concentrating on academic

achievemrnt .

127.If we are therefore assuming  that  talented ,creative or gifted  individuals may need o be assessed across a range of abilities ,does this mean intelligence can run in families as a genetic or inherited tendency?

128.This  principle applies to humans too-someone may be born with innate intelligence ,but their environment probably has the final say over whether they become creative or even  a genius .

129.Bright or creative children are often physically very active at the same time ,and so may receive more parental attention as a resuly-almost by default -in order to ensure their safey.

130.Their  creative talents may be undervalued and so never  come to fruition .

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