1. Last month scientists at Illinois University made a breakthrough that could herald a second green revolution for world agriculture – they improved the efficiency of photosynthesis, the process by which plants turn sunlight into the biomass that is the source of all our food.

2. 列表里一些电影还在2月份的第67届柏林国际电影节上获得了奖项，例如最佳影片奖得主《身体和灵魂》和最佳导演奖得主《希望的另一面》（芬兰阿基·考里斯马基作品）。

3. 9) Well Done: It’s a cliché, no doubt. Sometimes, it isn’t enough just to say thanks. People want to know what they did was great and why. They pour so much sweat and soul into their projects.They need to know their work was special and had meaning to someone.

4. It was the lesson of the UK general election and it's the big 'takeaway' from Cannes too: prediction is a mug's game. All week the chatter was that Todd Haynes' lesbian love story Carol was set to collect the Palme d'Or – or that Holocaust drama Son of Saul from first-time director László Nemes would triumph. In the last few days a consensus began to form around The Assassin from Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien; according to British bookmakers, The Lobster was the one to beat. But when Jacques Audiard's Dheepan was announced as the winner, the response was a collective “really?” For all the pundits, critics' panels, insider gossip, statistics and God knows what else, few had picked it. Oh well: c'est la vie.

5. “许多公司在过去几年中大量裁员，不少团队超负荷运转，为了减轻它们的负担，公司纷纷开始招兵买马，”罗伯特哈夫公司董事会主席兼首席执行官麦克斯?麦斯默尔（Max Messmer）指出。“有些机构是出于眼下的需要才增加人手，但很多企业也是在为2011年有望出现的经济增长做好人才储备。”

6. The curbs are having an effect. Overall non-financial outbound investment fell 36 per cent in January from a year earlier to Rmb53bn ($7.8bn), the commerce ministry said on Thursday, following a 39 per cent drop in December.

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1. The reason is twofold: For one, logistically, there are simply too many opportunities to get caught job searching. Résumé copies will be found. Computer servers will be checked. Co-workers will notice when you're clearly elsewhere, either literally for interviews or emotionally (more on that later)。

2. Mila Kunis placed second on the list, followed by Kate Upton, pop star Rihanna and Emma Stone.

3. Simply bend one end of the product around yourself or the back of your seat and bend the other end into a secure position for your head. You can even use the hand to hold your device for movie time.

4. 吕特在周一晚间的辩论中重申，他不会与维尔德斯所属的政党组建联合政府，他甚至还表示不可能组建一个依赖这个反移民政党支持的政府。吕特表示：“我不会再次与这样的政党合作。”在2010年选举之后，吕特组建的首个少数派政府受到自由党的支持。

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6. In 2016, fear and anger became dominant political emotions in the UK and the US — two of the most important, stable and enduring democracies.

旧版特色

1. ‘The Americans’ Set in the Reagan era, this FX series is nearly as deceptive as KGB agents posing as suburban American couple: In its second season, “The Americans” proved to be a drama about love, family, friendship and mistrust disguised as a Cold War thriller.

2. The prospect of a major shakeup right before the deadline is usually a recipe for disaster, especially if it leads to immediate roster change.

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