1. It set minimum prices too high for commodities including cotton, sugar and corn, and as those prices diverged from the market prices, authorities encouraged excessive production as well as strong import flows.

2. 然后，新班子的第一个举动——用路易斯-威廉姆斯从火箭那里换来一个一轮签——是一个明确的信号，他们意识到必须不惜一切代价保证六月抽签时自己的选秀权能在前三。

3. ●"Florida man dies in meth-lab explosion after lighting farts on fire"

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5. People are still looking at old masters for pleasure, if not as lucrative investments. Sotheby’s said 6,000 people visited its Dec. 5 to 9 viewing, compared with the 6,400 who saw its Impressionist and contemporary sales in June. At the lower end of the price scale, many historic paintings do find a market — Christie’s and Sotheby’s day sales of old master paintings on Dec. 9 and 10 had solid-enough selling rates of 67 and 65 percent apiece.

6. "All I got was an extra hour on the bus to work, but I can't get a seat at the stadium," she said as she directed cars toward a mall's parking garage in Rio's wealthy southern zone.

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1. If managers suspect you're looking elsewhere, your LinkedIn profile is often the first place they'll snoop, says Jenny Foss, founder of the career blog JobJenny.com and author of "Ridiculously Awesome Job Search Kit." "It's where a lot of people tend to get busted," she adds。

2. 4.Avoid micromanaging

3. 'It surprised me, but it's a good sign for Tencent getting abroad, because in particular WeChat is a combination of WhatsApp and Instagram, so it's a unique value proposition that is probably pretty good for emerging market consumers,' he said.

4. 经对比，科学家们发现，快跑之后心率变化和整体的跑步速度对记忆结果没有影响，但是穿不穿鞋却有影响。具体地说，脱下鞋慢跑16分钟就能够让“流水记忆”能力提高16%。这一研究结果后被发表在了《知觉与运动技能》一书上。科学家们推断 ，可能是因为不穿鞋跑步的时候，人们需要时刻担心石头或者其他障碍物，这个过程对记忆能力的提高产生了正面的影响。如果你是一个冒险主义者，也许在下次考试或者需要记忆什么重要事项之前可以试着在小区光着脚慢跑试试。

5. I wonder why LeBron James doesn't wear those weird things on his biceps and shoulder anymore. Well, actually I bet he doesn't wear them because they're useless.

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