12-03-14 How often do you have a really strong gut instinct and it proves to be wrong? How often do you override（推翻，践踏） that instinct and then kick yourself later on? My guess would be that if you're anything like the people that come to me for life c...

12-03-07 On my way home from coaching basketball yesterday, I was listening to WGN, my favorite talk radio station out of Chicago. I could tell right away that there was something wrong by the somber（忧郁的） mood of the speaker. There had been a plane cras...

12-03-06 Cosey Corner Vacation was over, the boys went back to school, and poor Mac was left lamenting（悲痛） . He was out of the darkened room now, and promoted to blue goggles, through which he took a gloomy view of life, as might have been expected; for...

12-02-28 A woman walks up to a little old man rocking in a chair on his porch（门廊） . I couldn't help noticing how happy you look, she says. What's your secret for a long, happy life? I smoke three packs a day, drink a case of whiskey a week, eat fatty foo...

12-02-09 And I make a solemn oath to myself that nothing will retard（延迟） my new life's growth. I will lose not a day from these readings for that day cannot be retrieved nor can I substitute another for it. I must not, I will not, break this habit of dai...

12-02-09 As a child I was slave to my impulses; now I am slave to my habits, as are all grown men. I have surrendered my free will to the years of accumulated habits and the past deeds of my life have already marked out a path which threatens to imprison my...

12-02-09 Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin, which has too long suffered the bruise s（擦伤） of failure and the wounds of mediocrity（平庸） . Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all. Today I will pl...

12-02-09 As you travel through life there are always those times when decisions just have to be made when the choices are hard, and solutions seem scarce and the rain seems to soak your parade! There are some situations where all you can do is to simply let...

12-02-06 nationwide population census 全国人口普查 door-to-door interviews/door-to-door household survey 入户摸底调查 census enumerators 人口普查员 confidentiality agreements 保密协议 Beijing permanent residency/hukou 北京市常住户口 household register 户口登...

12-01-31 Just how big can mammals get and how fast can they get there? These are questions examined by an international team of researchers exploring increases in mammal size after the dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago. Research published in the...