14-08-06 Little warning before you jump into this marriage business: you are not just marrying him, you are marrying his family. 在你跳进婚姻这个大坑前，姐先嘱咐你两句：你嫁的不光是他这个人，还有他的家庭。《生活大爆炸》 If you're not building a future, that'...

14-08-05 A bright boy left his family, going to new York to seek his fortune. None of his family seemed to doubt that he would gain success and wealth. Several months passed without a word from him. One cold winter afternoon his father received a note from h...

14-08-04 First lady Michelle Obama embraced her family's African roots in a speech on Wednesday, telling a group of young Africans that the blood of Africa runs through her veins as she urged changing traditional beliefs on the worth of educating women. 美国...

14-07-29 We were gathered together, all ten of us, for our widowed mother's 80th birthday. The conversation was of early struggles, walking to work and saving up in clothing clubs, when my elder sister said, Of course, we were bound to be poor because we wer...

14-07-24 On my recent travels, I came to realize still more fully the significance of the word friend. Seven or eight days ago, I said to a friend whom I had just come to know, I can't help feeling embarrassed before my friends. You're all so nice to me. I s...

14-07-05 Hi, everybody. This week, I spent a couple days in Minneapolis, talking with people about their lives-their concerns, their successes, and their hopes for the future. I went because of a letter I received from a working mother named Rebekah, who sha...

14-06-30 Mrs. Blouse had been with the Johnson family for three generations. This was no mean feat for an article of clothing. She had survived the test of time; and though her colors were faded and her material worn thin, she was still loved through and thr...

14-06-06 Researchers from the Missouri Botanical Garden have discovered in dry forests and transient（短暂的） sand dunes in Bolivia and Paraguay, a new plant species in the moonseed family Menispermaceae. The discovery was reported in the open access journa...

14-04-27 A couple who held hands at breakfast every morning even after 70 years of marriage have died 15 hours apart. 有一对在结婚70年后仍然每天早餐时手拉手的老夫妇，在15小时内相继去世。 Helen Felumlee, of Nashport, died at 92 on April 12. Her husband, 91-ye...

14-04-02 From the Murdochs to the Hiltons, families have long sought to keep their businesses in the bloodline. But new research from Concordia University's John Molson School of Business shows that's not necessarily the best method of management. The recent...