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Awareness of body language and facial expression is among the social skills lost on a majority of the young people to whom I teach etiquette. I advise them to take small breaks from their gadgets and focus on actual conversations to gain vital skills they won't absorb via text or tweet...
...engine and storing enough power to guarantee a defined range - say, 200 miles (about 320 km) - between charges. The goal for electric-car manufacturers is an affordable battery that can handle countless partial charge-discharge cycles over an eight-to-10-year life cycle. The battery has to absorb energy from braking and provide short bursts of power for acceleration. Lithium-ion batteries, with their high density-to-weight ratio, provide the greatest acceleration and range with the fewest batteries compared with lead-acid or nickel-metal-hydride batteries. One big problem: they can overheat and even blow...
...Cost of a Warming Arctic" study, funded by the Pew Environment Group, assessed trends in the Arctic's cooling mechanisms and examined the financial consequences. The research team looked at the rate at which surfaces change from white ice and snow to ocean or exposed tundra, since darker surfaces absorb, rather than reflect, solar heat. According to the report, this shift and the increased methane emissions linked with melting permafrost currently slap us with annual losses in the range of $61 billion to $371 "resulting from such changes as heat waves and flooding." But the anticipated monetary fallout described...
...don’t like the new calendar,” Zerner says. “I think everything is extremely rushed, and students don’t really have enough time to absorb whatever the course was about...
Some labor experts have mentioned the “powerful expansions” that generally follow economic downturns of great magnitude—but there remain doubts that hiring will be able to absorb the millions of unemployed people, the Times reported...