1. Canadian schools continue to lose ground. Only three remain in the ranking compared with five last year and all fall about six places. Among these, Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto is the highest ranked at 65, while Smith School of Business at Queen’s University is bottom of the table in 100th place.

2. Import growth lifted year-on-year to a pace of 17.7 per cent for the period, up from 17.2 per cent a month earlier and beating an expected rate of 11.3 per cent.

3. People in fourth-tier and smaller cities have economic pressures close to the national average level in terms of income, education, medical services and elderly care, while family and human relationship stress are higher than second- and third-tier cities.

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5. 在经济大幅放缓和复苏不顺的过程中，美联储的计划几乎都没有按照原先设定的那样去实施，美联储官员们现在也公开承认了这一事实。美联储主席贝南克(Ben Bernanke)上个月在其最后一次新闻发布会上表示，美联储对于增长步伐感到失望，同时也没有完全弄明白其中的原因。

6. On the flip side, why do so many JetBlue flights arrive late during the holidays (22 percent)? For one thing, it flies to and from some of the busiest airports in the country, including New York’s JFK, LaGuardia and Newark Airports. And it encounters some of the same issues as Hawaiian does over the Pacific.

应用

1. 现金全款购房者。难以取悦的贷款人。暴涨的价格。匮乏的挂牌信息。这些现实，都困扰着购房者，使找房子的过程让人倍受打击。不幸的是，在新的一年，购房者们可能依旧需要在卖方市场里打拼。

2. 榜单前十位还包括：第五名的亚马逊总裁杰夫·贝佐斯，第六名的Facebook的马克·扎克伯格，位居第七的甲骨文公司老板拉里·埃里森，第八名的迈克尔·彭博及并列第九的科赫兄弟（大卫·科赫和迈克尔·科赫）。

3. 艾玛·汤普森曾因影片《霍华德庄园》(Howards End)以及《理智与情感》(Sense and Sensibility)两次获得奥斯卡金像奖，而她把小金人放在洗手间这一做法也广为人知，她说：“放在其他地方都显得格格不入，它们太大了，又金光闪闪。”而艾玛并不是唯一一个这样做的人，苏珊·萨兰登（Susan Sarandon）、莱昂纳尔·里奇（Lionel Richie）以及肖恩·康纳利（Sean Connery）都称自己把小金人放在浴室等地方。

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5. Last week, Lu was appointed director of the office for Beijing's Leading Group of Promoting Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Integration Development, a move to accelerate Beijing's moves to coordinate with Tianjin and Hebei province.

6. She said she wanted to be an actress before becoming a singer, but explained that "music worked out first" before adding: "I feel like Cher in the film Moonstruck. It's like one of the great moments of my life."

旧版特色

1. 这将需要多长时间？比特币要成为被广泛采用的货币以及新应用的协议，将在多大程度上面临主流消费者缺乏了解的障碍？亚当o卢德温表示，人们在欣赏比特币时无需理解该技术的工作原理。卢德温说：“它有些类似早期的互联网。人们实际上完全不懂其工作原理，但他们也不需要懂，他们对此也不关心。他们只知道自己打开电脑就能查看电子邮件。”

2. 域名注册公司GoDaddy的总部设在亚利桑那州斯科茨代尔市，该公司5月份在坦佩开工建设新的全球技术中心。GoDaddy公司已经在大凤凰城地区雇佣了2,600名员工，新工厂预计将增加300多个工作岗位。其他在亚利桑那州扩大规模的公司包括领先的技术保障服务公司 Asurion。这家公司在凤凰城开设了新的技术支持中心，将在今年年底招聘500多个职位。能源供应商Direct Energy今年在亚利桑那州坦佩开设了新的呼叫中心，需要招聘300多名员工。

3. If audiences didn’t yet know the film was set in the early 1980s, one look at Anna’s straight bangs confirms it. The rest of her shoulder-length hair forms a slight curved frame around her face. It’s a simple look, but a powerful one for this woman, whose husband, Abel (Oscar Isaac), runs a heating oil business, but whose past is a little more complicated.