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In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago, Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, Life Reimagined.

In fact, we seemed to be out all the time! I don’t really remember working— of course, I was a student—or sitting around at home very much.

In fact, I’d like to relive a period I’ve already lived: the 1960s—I was in my twenties, and everything was being renewed.

The more recent steep climb in grain prices partly results from the fact that more and more people want to consume meat products.

In a study last year, of all people surveyed, 48 percent said they wanted to ride in one, while 50 percent did notThe fact that attitudes toward self-driving cars appear to be so steady across generations suggests how transformative the shift to driverless cars could be.

As a matter of fact, consumers expressed higher satisfaction with the one-star facilities, the lowest rated, than with the five-star ones.

The fact that participants were willing to substitute part of a food item for the mere prospect of a relatively small monetary award is interesting, says Reimann.

It is utterly confusing to me that people do not recognize this, despite the fact that pretty much anyone who has been a student can tell the difference between their best and worst teachers.

In fact, vaguely-stated possibilities of winning a prize were more effective than options with hard odds included.

Where the penalties are not a must, they should be imposed only if the facts of a case support it.

It is, in fact, the precondition.

I am not sure if she was more upset by my hubris ( ' , 得意忘形 ) or by the fact that my English teacher had let my ego get so out of hand.

And the fact that they have a personal stake in the outcome makes them really pay attention.

In fact, they’ve been in use for centuries.25 centuries ago, kites were well-known in China.

The fact remains, however, that it will likely get warmer, onaverage, everywhere.

Under these circumstances, it's natural to look for what may appear to be the most "practical" way out of the problem "Major in a subject designed to get you a job" seems the obvious answer to some, though this ignores the fact that many disciplines in the humanities characterized as "soft" often, in fact, lead to employment and success in the long run

But the fact that such a violation is "unintentional" does not excuse the misconduct, Ignorance is not a defense.

To identify risks, we need to know the rules and be aware of the facts.

But Everybody Does It" Most people who get in trouble do know the rules and facts but manage to fool themselves about the risks they're taking by using excuses: "Everyone else does it

You are emphasizing the fact that he is not intelligent.

There are many commonly held beliefs about eye glasses and eyesight that are not proven facts.

But it's a fact that informative speaking saves lives.

In addition to saving lives, informative speakers help people learn new skills, solve problems and acquire fascinating facts about the exciting world in which they live.

"In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago," Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, life Reimagined.

"The fact that participants were willing to substitute part of a food item for the mere prospect of a relatively small monetary award is interesting," says Reimann.

And the fact that they have a personal stake in the outcome makes them really pay attention.

I am not sure if she was more upset by my hubris or by the fact that my English teacher had let my ego get so out of hand.

In fact it was a potato pancake, and it fell on the stovetop, not on the floor.

In fact, English has words from many other languages as well.

In fact, evidence shows almost dogs stay with one partner their whole lives.

In fact, I was still rewriting my midterm the morning it was due.

In fact, I worked all through university, but I only had part time jobs then.

In fact, I'd like to relive a period I've already lived: the 1960s—I was in my twenties, and everything was being renewed.

In fact, Seattle ranks 44th among major US cities in average annual rainfall.

In fact, some research has found that people who are most involved with their families have the lowest spirits.

In fact, sometimes I draw a little, too.

In fact, the camera could be the thing that proves that they didn't steal the $20 dollars, or knock the vase off the table.

In fact, the developer says, 99 percent of the homes here are sold to Koreans.

In fact, the more information flows throughout the entire society, the wider the gap becomes between "information haves" and "information have-nots", leading to digital divide .

In fact, the slugs use the genetic material so well that they pass it on to their future generations.

In fact, those who first came to have a look did see something.

In fact, we seemed to be out all the time! I don't really remember working— of course, I was a student—or sitting around at home very much.

right, and schools, employers… in fact, we all need to do something about it.

The fact that attitudes toward self-driving cars appear to be so steady across generations suggests how transformative the shift to driverless cars could be.

In fact, in line with past experience, capital expenditure in the oil sector has dropped sharply in many producing countries, including the United States.

In fact, you may have heard about the new superbugs, which are antibiotic-resistant bacteria that have developed as a result of overprescribed antibiotics.

We need to accept that fact across much of the planet, so waste with little or no treatment will be used in agriculture for good reason.

The overall facts ought to reassure us.

The fact is job openings have plunged in every major sector, while the number of workers forced into parttime employment in almost all industries has soared.

On the contrary, all the facts suggest that high unemployment in America is the result of inadequate demand.

In fact, other recent studies have found there has never been a time in American history when so small a proportion of young people have sought or accepted leadership roles in local civic organizations.

In fact, they are prescribed and they’regiven at a certain level, a dosage that is understood by a practitioner who’s been trained.

A lot of times people are not really aware of the impact they have, or the fact that taking them in combination with other medications might put you at increased risk for something that you wouldn’t otherwise being countering or be at risk for.

Parliament has in fact already authorised the government to tame the tobacco trade.

You say your shop has been doing well, could you give me some idea of what doing well means in facts and figures?Birds are famous for carrying things around.

More than a decade ago, cognitive scientists John Bransford and Daniel Schwartz, both then at Vanderbilt University, found that what distinguished young adults from children was not the ability to retain facts or apply prior knowledge to a new situation but a quality they called preparation for future learning.

College students are no better than fifth graders in memorizing facts.

A century's worth of calculated name changes point to the fact that naming any group is a politically freighted exercise.

Furthermore, this figure does not reflect the fact that large amounts of land, energy, fertilisers and water have also been lost in the production of foodstuffs which simply end up as waste.

I was hoping to say "journalist," but researchers are already developing software that can gather facts and write a news story.

The inconvenient fact about most books, to which Google has arguably paid insufficient attention, is that they are protected by copyright.

workers who bill or get paid by the hour, think employer and fast-food workers, report focusing more on pursuing more money than those who get paid by salary and the fact has been fast.

In America, white tailed deer are more numerous than ever before, so abundant in fact that they've become a suburban nuisance and a health hazard.

It's rather remarkable for the fact that although it's extremely big, it's supported by just six rather slim legs

They are interesting for the fact that they are very plain and undecorated for the time, with only one plain central panel at the back and no armrests.

And in fact our admiration for the comically gifted is relatively new and not very well-founded, says Rod Martin's a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario

Moreover they site several advantages: alleviation of school overcrowding, strengthen family relationships, lower dropout rates, the facts that students are allowed to learn at their own rate, increased motivation, higher standardized test scores, and reduced discipline problems.

Mandelbrot, who did the experiment with stock exchanges prices, for example, noted that although the outcomes were variable, there were in fact certain constancy

The fact that there is an iced coffee on the market with over a quarter of a woman's daily calories allowance is alarming," Dr Rachel Thompson, science programme manager at London-based WCRF, said in a widely-reported statement.

A century's worth of calculated name changes point to the fact that naming any group is a politically freighted exercise .

A lot of times people are not really aware of the impact they have, or the fact that taking them in combination with other medications might put you at increased risk for something that you wouldn't otherwise being countering or be at risk for.

But a recent study seems to point to the fact that when matter and anti-matter were first created, there were slightly more particles of matter, which allowed the universe we all live in to form?

fighting back the tears, he spoke proudly of the fact that he had built their home from the ground up, and that he had pounded every nail and laid every brick in the process.

I like doing both, and in fact I need to do both at the same time to keep me from going crazy.

I think that by having people adopt a healthy lifestyle, both from a medical standpoint as well as nutritional and cognitive stimulation standpoint, we can reduce the incidence of cognitive decline, which will be proof that these factors are, in fact, imp

In fact, almost every interview I've ever had was due to a connection—one that I've gained through pure determination, not a school brand.

In fact, analysis actually showed a small weight loss.

In fact, by the time miss Bligh stood up to talk, I was feeling much better.

In fact, cost sharing could be a very practical solution, especially in times of financial difficulty.

In fact, it's one of the most famous pieces of research about infant emotion ever published.

In fact, lower-tier school alumni networks are arguably stronger, because fellow alumni recognize that you didn't necessarily have an easy path to follow.

In fact, the European Union is taking the lead.

In fact, the whole show is written, directed, edited and produced by him, and is very funny and has won many awards.

In fact, they are prescribed and they're given at a certain level, a dosage that is understood by a practitioner who's been trained.

In fact, they sometimes take their own lives because they are treated so badly, and because they believe they will be born again, free and living in their own land.

In fact, we will be viewing some of the video clips from that study.

In fact, we're looking to take on more staff.

In fact, when Twenge previously used this data to suggest a screen time effect, some commentators were quick to raise this problem.

In fact, you may have heard about the new "superbugs", which are antibiotic-resistant bacteria that have developed as a result of overprescribed antibiotics.

In order to make sure it doesn't control us,we should come to terms with the fact that it's more than the technology itself that's responsible for our habits.

In the United States, up to forty percent of all food goes uneaten, despite the fact that one in seven American households lacks regular access to good food.

It reflected the fact that these decades saw a climb in general standards of living and avoidance of mass societal traumas like foil-scale war or economic deprivation.

It's a fact not lost on American educators, who amid rising math failure rates are debating how math can better meet the real-life needs of students.

It's a simple term that encapsulates the fact that relationships at work can reasonably be non-intimate, inconsequential, unimportant and even, dare I say it, disposable or substitutable.

It's time to wake up to the fact that making smart buildings, cities and homes will dramatically improve our quality of life in the years ahead.

No need to, says Pipitone, because, in fact, most of us already get enough protein in our diet.

That is the fact that not everyone is British, not everyone speaks English and not everyone does business in a British way.

The data was slightly complicated by the fact that there was a tendency for kids who were social in the real world to also use more online communication, but by bracketing out different cases it became clear that the real-world sociality component correla

The fact is job openings have plunged in every major sector, while the number of workers forced into part-time employment in almost all industries has soared.

The lake's landscape is bizarre and deadly—and made even more so by the fact that it's the place where nearly 75 percent of the world's flamingos are born.

The second less obvious one is that, in fact, innovation is too slow.

And yet, people in this area are in fact French citizens because it has been a colony of the French republic since 1946.

As a matter of fact, I'm feeling a bit cold.

As a matter of fact, we can see this principle at work in people of all ages.

Chronologica is an informative and entertaining tour into history, beautifully illustrated and full of unbelievable facts.

Considering this, you might expect the book to be a dry recitation of facts.

Dinner ended only after we had a clear understanding of at least half a dozen such facts.

Explore the monuments and memorials on the national mail as your guide shares unique facts and history at each stop.

For the machine, this quality is not in-born, nor is it something introduced by humans; it is a logical consequence of the simple fact that the machine cannot achieve its original purpose if it is dead.

Frequent stops are make for photo taking as your guide offers unique facts and history.

I liked facts, things that are concrete.

I now regularly pull out my phone to check a fact, watch a video, read weibo.

In another experiment, the researchers gave people facts to remember, and told them where to find the information on the computer.

In fact, half of the 6, 000-7, 000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the united nations educational, scientific and cultural organization UNESCO.

In fact, I got the same medal as the one that the guy who came in first place had.

In fact, I haven't got much sleep this past week, and I feel really tired.

In fact, research suggests that it's the other was around.

In fact, the key to easy morning wake-up lies in resting your body clock.

In fact, they were shot from 1914 through 1916, most of them after a disastrous shipwreck, by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival.

In fact, tradition also refers to the things that have been developing and that are still being created.

In fact, when it comes to the art of war, ants have no equal.

In fact, women are less likely to have high blood pressure or to die from heart attacks.

In the first experiment, they gave people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer.

It is likely that babies are not born knowing the basic fact of the universe; nor are they ever clearly taught it.

It's become natural to check facts as I write, taking a minute or two to dip into pubmed, wikipedia, or other websites.

Most of us, in fact, progressively narrow the variety of our lives.

My interest was aroused only by the fact that the word "poems" appeared in big, hot pink letters.

On the Internet, we could quickly and easily locate the details, and check facts, without keeping them in mind.

Surprisingly, people later remember the folder location 位置 better than the facts.

The attraction of the cloisters museum and gardens lies in the fact that its collections date from the middle ages.

The cow was their only means of support, in fact.

The fact is that a huge brain is a huge drain—consumption of energy—on the body.

The fact that college students are financially dependent on their parents is nothing new; nor are requests for more money to be sent from home.

The fact that such practices remain officially unaccepted reflects how far we haven't come as a society from the days when we expected every full-time worker to be supported by a full-time homemaker.

The fact was that I was found to have adiid.

The friendship that grew out of the experience of making that film and the sting four years later had its root in the fact that although there was an age difference, we both came from a tradition of theater and live TV.

This is a basic evolutionary fact, even though most of US don't think of ourselves as diurnal beings.

This phenomenon is neither good nor bad; it is a fact of college life, today and in the past.

We tend to have a better memory for things that excite our senses or appeal to our emotions than for straight facts.

But in dealing with the young, the fact of association itself as an immediate human fact, gains in importance.

In facts, the more new things we try- the more we step outside our comfort zone - the more inherently creative we become, both in the workplace and in our personal lives.

In fact, all of these cultural developments occurred separately at different times in many parts of the world.

To read such books today is to marvel at the fact that their learned contents were once deemed suitable for publication in general-circulation dailies.

In fact,they don’t seem to be required of all.

In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.

In the idealized version of how science is done, facts about the world are waiting to be observed and collected by objective researchers who use the scientific method to carry out their work.

This courageous attitude in fact becomes a requirement for the performers of Beethoven’s music.

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms’ efficiency.

One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, wow little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired wow the stories arrived.

In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place.

Young people who are digital natives are indeed becoming more skillful at separating fact from fiction in cyberspace.

Curriculums - from grammar school to college- should evolve to focus less on memorizing facts and more on creativity and complex communication.

A number of studies have concluded that normal-weight people are in fact at higher risk of some diseases compared to those who are overweight.

But despite common misconceptions, a gap year does not hinder the success of academic pursuits—in fact, it probably enhances it.

Copernicus theorized in 1543 that in actual fact, all of the planets that we knew of revolved not around the Earth, but the Sun, a system that was later upheld by Galileo at his own expense.

In 2005, IBM noted in a court filing that it had been issued more than 300 business-method patents, despite the fact that it questioned the legal basis for granting them.

In fact women even say they feel better at work,she notes.

In fact, "becoming more efficient" is part of the problem.

In fact, allowing non-lawyers to own shares in law firms would reduce costs and improve services to customers, by encouraging law firms to use technology and to employ professional managers to focus on improving firms'efficiency.

In fact, rushing to get your own ideas out there can cause colleagues to feel you don't value their opinions.

In fact, the ability to emotionally regulate or maintain emotional control when confronted by stress is one of the most important of all life's skills.

In fact, the more new things we try - the more we step outside our comfort zone - the more inherently creative we become, both in the workplace and in our personal lives.

In fact, these commutes were reportedly more enjoyable compared with those without communication, which makes absolute sense, since human beings thrive off of social connections.

In fact, they don't seem to be required at all.

In fact, instead of straining muscles to build them, as exercise does, laughter apparently accomplishes the opposite.

In many respects, the dearth of moral purpose frames not only the fact of such widespread phone hacking but the terms on which the trial took place .

mies' sophisticated presentation masked the fact that the spaces he designed were small and efficient, rather than big and often empty.

Of even greater concern is the fact that obesity turns out to be very difficult to define.

One of the astonishing revelations was how little Rebekah Brooks knew of what went on in her newsroom, how little she thought to ask and the fact that she never inquired how the stories arrived.

Some might see the proposal as a boo by prize for the fact that Britain is no longer be able to apply for the much more prestigious title of European capital of culture, a sough-after award bagged by Glasgow in 1990 and liverpool in 2008.

Some people with a high BMI are in fact extremely fit, while others with a low BMI may be in poor shape.

The fact that this is not an uncommon occurrence means that dishonest persons might be able to access bank accounts in electronic payments systems and steal from someone else's accounts.

Then there's the fact that large American companies are much more globalized than ever before, with supply chains spread across a larger number of countries.

This very fact embodied the new ways of thinking that swept through Europe during most of the 17th century.

This would be reasonable if it were not for the fact that scientists can easily arrange to cite themselves in their future publications, or get associates to do so for them in return for similar favours.

While these measures would be welcome in the short term, we must face up to the fact that the existing £4.5bn programme of grants to fund new affordable housing, set to expire in 2015, is unlikely to be extended beyond then.

with the blurring of roles, and the fact that the home front lags well behind the workplace in making adjustments for working women, it's not surprising that women are more stressed at home.

You'd think this might fuel the efficiency mind-set, but in fact, Eberle notes, such ritualistic behavior helps us "step outside time's flow" into "soul time".