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ting edge of new business and marketing practices. The industry is risk adverse and is more likely to be a late adopter. Its not surprising then that a new report in【M1】______ which lists the top social media industries ranks hospitals and healthcare clinics in the bottom 10, joining by automobile parts【M2】______ stores and lumber and wood production. But healthcare on a whole【M3】______ is not completely behind in the recent report. Biotechnology and pharmaceuticals tied for 29th place out of 50 most social【M4】______ industries. The report looked at "social presence," the number of employees registered with social media profiles on Twitter, Linkedln or Facebook using a corporate email address; and "social connectedness," the number of connections across social networks. Given this scoring method, its understanding why hospitals would【M5】______ rank low. Hospitals and other providers have not encouraged employees to represent it on social media platforms or actively【M6】______ participated in social media. But this doesnt mean the industry has【M7】______ not adopted social media. In fact, hospitals have made greater【M8】______ strides in using social media to connect with patients and consumers. Healthcare may still be in catch-up mode compared to other more social industries, but advances being made by health systems and physician groups are insignificant. When healthcare moves【M9】______ beyond talking and, instead, uses social media to engage with【M10】______ patients, employees and consumers, the impact on peoples lives will be phenomenal and, possibly, life-saving.

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illed dream. As a consequence, the spread of secondary education is quite limited and higher education is available to a small percentage of the population. The country has, therefore, progressed very well in the field of technical education【M1】______ both quantitatively and qualitatively. During recent times, India has lain great stress on modernization and technological【M2】______ advancement in education, and has contributed amazingly to high-skilled manpower in software and information technology. Despite our limited endeavours in other sphere of education,【M3】______ India manages its own affairs on its own in almost all the areas, and does not, in no way, depend on foreign expertise.【M4】______ On the other hand, it provides all kinds of manpower to other【M5】______ countries. In terms of policy, India had continued with the colonial education system of the British rulers till about 1968, when the Government had announced its first National Education Policy, in which was in accordance with the requirements of the country,【M6】______ but there was big gap between the policy and practice due to many【M7】______ natural and man-made bottlenecks. Another National Policy on education was announced in 1986, which, amongst other things, emphasized qualitative improvement, essential in higher and technical education;【M8】______ vocationalisation of secondary education; development of regional languages. This policy revised in 1992, and was in line with the【M9】______ earlier policy, but it far added to the inconsistencies and【M10】______ contradictions between the stated goals and actual policy, on the one hand, and between stated goals and resource allocation, on the other.

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bassy air monitor classifies, in its hourly reading, " hazardous." Living under Beijing skies, one【M1】______ has come to expect an incremental uptick in the number of officially declared "blue sky" day each year.【M2】______ Nearly two years after the world failed to achieve a decisive climate change deal in Copenhagen, and we ve become used to【M3】______ many of what we read about the human effects of carbon【M4】______ emissions. Orville Schell, the author and the journalist who heads【M5】______ the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, has written repeated about the need for global cooperation on climate change.【M6】______ "As a writer, I felt that what I wrote had limited effect," he told me recently, "so we decided to try a different approach: Lets do it in a visual way." The results are in display now at the Three Shadows【M7】______ Photography Art Centre in Beijing, and, with luck, it will be near【M8】______ you soon. "Coal + Ice" is a documentary exhibition encompassing works by thirty photographers around the world.【M9】______ It seeks to doing something unprecedented: to chart the horrific【M10】______ grandeur of our effects on the planet, from the coal mines beneath our feet to the dwindling glaciers on our highest mountains. The images chosen by curators Jeroen de Vries and Susan Meiselas describe a spectrum that is vast in aesthetics and geography.

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ning is nearly as common in【M1】______ U.S. schools. One reason is that such programs sound dangerously similar to track—sorting students by ability level, a practice【M2】______ repeatedly rejected in U.S. culture, by which the dominant【M3】______ philosophy is that all students should have opportunity to meet their full potential. If high schools were to advise students that some education beyond high school is not necessary for everyone, "theres little bit【M4】______ of a concern that... we re saying a lesser goal is OK for the populations of students who have been historically least well-served by high education," says Jane Wellman, executive【M5】______ director of Delta Project, which studies higher education spending. In recent years, male college-going and completion rates have raised concerns. But those least well-serving historically are【M6】______ low-income and underrepresented majority students, who are less【M7】______ likely than their peels to pursue two- and four-year degrees, and【M8】______ most at risk of not completing college if they do enroll. Some evidence suggest, though, that students already are being【M9】______ held to different standards. A recent national survey of high school teachers by ACT Inc., the educational testing company, found 71% agreed "completely" or "a great deal" that high school graduates need the same set of skills and knowledge if they plan to go to【M10】______ college or enter the workforce, yet 42% said teachers reduce academic expectations for students they perceive as not being college-bound.

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d returned back home to【M1】______ wait a week or so for a phone call to the dorm. Mom or Dad,【M2】______ in turn, might write letters—yes, with pens. On stationary. But【M3】______ going to college these days means never have to say goodbye,【M4】______ thanks to near-saturation of cellphones, email, instant messaging, texting, Facebook and Skype. Researchers are looking at how new technology may be delaying the point which college-bound students truly become independent from【M5】______ their parents, and how phenomena such as the introduction of unlimited calling plans have changed the nature of parent-child relationships, and not always for the better. Some research suggests that todays young adults are close【M6】______ to their parents than their predecessors. And its complicated.【M7】______ Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose specialty is technology and relationships, calls this a particular sort of "Huck Finn moment," in which Huck "takes her【M8】______ parents with him. We all sail down Mississippi together." From the【M9】______ electronic grade monitoring many high schools offer parents, it seems a small leap to keep electronic track of their(adult) childrens schedules or to send reminders about deadlines or assignments. Professors have figured out that some kids are emailing papers home to parents to edit. And Skype and【M10】______ Facebook might be more than just chances to see a face thats missed at home; parents can peer into their little darling s messy dorm room or his messy social life.

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forecasts showing that 40 percent of the population will have been 65 and over in 2055.【M1】______ Some of the consequences have been long foreseen, like deflation: as more Japanese retire and live off their savings, they spend more, further depressing Japans anemic levels of domestic【M2】______ consumption. So a less anticipated outcome has been the【M3】______ appearance of generational inequalities. These disparities manifest itself in many ways. There are【M4】______ corporations that hire all too many young people for low-paying jobs—in effect, forcing them to shoulder the costs of preserving cushier jobs to older employees. Others point to【M5】______ an underfinanced pension system so skewed in the favor of【M6】______ older Japanese that many younger workers simply refuse to pay; a "silver democracy" that spends far more on the elderly than education and child care—an issue that is familiar to【M7】______ Americans; and outdated hiring practices that have created a new "lost generation" of disenfranchised youths. Nagisa Inoue, a senior at Tokyos Meiji University, said she was considering paying for a fifth year at her university rather than graduate without a job, an outcome that in Japans rigid【M8】______ job market might permanently taint her chances of ever getting a higher-paying corporate job. That is why Japanese【M9】______ companies, even when they do offer stable, regular jobs, prefer to give them only to new graduates, which are seen as the【M10】______ more malleable candidates for molding into Japans corporate culture.

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Abakanowicz has said. Arts education, on the other hand, does not solve problems.【M1】______ Years of research shows that its closely linked to almost anything that we as a nation say we want for our children and【M2】______ demand to our schools: academic achievement, social and【M3】______ emotional development, civic engagement, and equitable opportunity. Involvement in the arts is associated with gains in math, reading, cognitive ability, critical thinking, and verbal skill. Arts learning can also improve motivation, concentration, confidence, and teamwork. A report by the Rand Corporation about the visual arts argue that the intrinsic pleasures and【M4】______ stimulation of the art experience have more than sweeten an【M5】______ individuals life—according to the report, they " can connect people more deeply to the world and open them in new ways【M6】______ of seeing," creating the foundation to forge social bonds and community cohesion. And strong arts programming in schools helps close a gap that has left many child behind: From【M7】______ Mozart for babies to tutus for toddlers to family trips to the museum, the children of affluent, aspired parents generally get【M8】______ exposed to the arts whether or not public schools provide it.【M9】______ Low-income children, often, do not. " Arts education enables those children from a financially challenged background to have a more level playing field with children who have had those enrichment experience," says Eric Cooper, president and【M10】______ founder of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education.

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be so simple as giving birth【M1】______ to them two years apart. Researchers who studied thousands of children found two-year gap to be optimum in boosting brain【M2】______ power. Any shorter, and the reading and maths skills of the older child dipped. The effect was strongest between the first and second-born, but siblings in bigger families are also【M3】______ benefited. The theory comes from Kasey Buckles, an economist whose own children are, rather unfortunately, just over two years【M4】______ apart in age. She said it is likely that the difference in academic achievement is linked to the time and resources parents can invest in a child before a young sibling arrives.【M5】______ However, waiting for more than two years did not increase【M6】______ the advantage, the Journal of Human Resources will report. Siblings with a two-year spacing include Albert Einstein and sister Maja, and Lord Attenborough and younger brother David. Kasey Buckles, who lead the study told the Sunday【M7】______ Times: "We believe this is the first time anyone has established a casual benefit to increase the spacing between siblings." The study also showed that gaps between children in larger families was also beneficial. Buckles told the newspaper: "The【M8】______ two year gap is significant because the early years are the most important in a childs development so dividing your time when the child is one is more harmful than dividing it when the child is already at school." The effect more pronounced in【M9】______ families with lower incomes, as those with less money could【M10】______ spend to compromise for lack of time.

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to be on the road to become【M1】______ overweight and obese in the years to come, a new study finds. "Its not just kids are already overweight getting more and more【M2】______ so, there is an entire shift. Even those who are abnormal weight【M3】______ are gaining weight," said lead study author Ashlesha Datar, serious economist at RAND Corp. in Santa Monica, Calif.【M4】______ Researchers analyzed data on to nearly 6,000 white, black and【M5】______ Hispanic children who participated in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study—a nationally representative example—and【M6】______ had their height and weight measure over nine years, in【M7】______ kindergarten, first, third, fifth and eighth grades. The study found nearly 40 percent of kindergarteners had a body mass index(BMT)in the 75th percentile or above, down【M8】______ from 25 percent in the 1970s and 1980s, when the growth charts are developed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and【M9】______ Prevention. While a BMI in the 75th percentile is still in the normal range, that child may be headed for being overweight or obese, Datar said. And if theyre already at the 75th percentile in kindergarten, they dont have far to go before they tip the【M10】______ overweight or obese category, which puts them at risk of serious health problems as adults.

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gerous for humans to get to space, to be in space and to return from space. Keeping robots operating reliably in space presents some unique challenges to engineers. The ultra-high vacuum in space【M1】______ prevents the use from most types of lubricants. The【M2】______ temperatures can swing wildly depending on whether the robot is in the sun light or shade. But, of course, there is【M3】______ almost no gravity. This is actually more of an opportunity than a challenge and leads to the possibility of some unique designs. The conceptual robot has 21 independent joints. On earth it would be possible for this robot to support its own【M4】______ weight, but in space, the design presents some unique capabilities. The robot can reach around obstacles and through out port holes. The robot also possesses a huge【M5】______ degree of fault tolerance. It can continue to operate with excellent dexterity even after several joints fail. NASA decided to develop a $288-million Flight Telerobotics Servicer(FTS)in 1987 to help astronauts assemble the Space Station, which was growing bigger and complex with each redesign. Shown here is the winning【M6】______ robot design by Martin Marietta, who received a $297-million contract in May 1989 to develop a vehicle by 1993. About the best thing which can be said for the FTS【M7】______ project was that it generated a lot of lessons learned. The robot never flew and never will because it was never【M8】______ completed. This project demonstrated that fault tolerance gone wildly will doom a robot. The robot had so many【M9】______ redundant systems that there was just so much to go wrong.【M10】______

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