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Part I: Speaker
Major Historical Periods
Livy: Tell me again why we’re here on a Saturday afternoon.
Nicholas: You’re going to love this museum. It has artifacts and exhibits from all the major periods in history, from prehistoric days to the present.
Livy: Hmm, fascinating.
Nicholas: It is, isn’t it? We follow the time line of human history from one room to the next. See? This room is devoted to ancient history and ancient civilizations.
Livy: Is there a gift shop?
Nicholas: Sure, there’s one on the way out, but let me show you a few things in this room. It’s all about the Middle Ages. Check this out. Doesn’t it blow your mind?
Livy: Yeah, wow, great. Actually, it’s all kind of dull. Isn’t there something more exciting to see?
Nicholas: You want excitement? Then let’s skip ahead to the rooms on the Renaissance. Look at this!
Livy: This is all great, but I’ve seen enough. Let’s keep going.
Nicholas: We’re rushing past the best exhibits, but if you want to keep going, I guess we can do that. These next rooms are devoted to more recent history, the Industrial Revolution and pre- and post- World War years.
Livy: Is there anything else?
Nicholas: You mean you’re done looking at over 3,000 years of historical exhibits? This is one of the best museums in the world. I could spend all weekend here.
Livy: That’s because you’re a history buff. Hey, that room is about the Information Age. Do you think I can check my email in there?
Nicholas: [sigh]
Source: ESLpod
https://www.eslpod.com/website/show_podcast.php?issue_id=17261250
[Rephrase 01, 19’33]
Part II: Speed
Carly Fiorina: Why you shouldn't underestimate her
By Jeffrey Pfeffer
[Time 2]
(CNN)While pundits endlessly debate Carly Fiorina's record at Hewlett-Packard — how much of the stock price decline during her tenure was her fault; was the Compaq merger, about to be undone in the impending split of the company, smart or dumb; how much did H-P really increase its sales and inventiveness during her reign, and so forth — there's one thing no one should question: Fiorina has mastered some important lessons in leadership, lessons relevant for anyone.
Here are four things that anyone, running for president or not, can and should do:
Number one, tell your story. If you won't, no one else will. By telling your story repeatedly, you can construct your own narrative. When Fiorina was fired and left H-P, The New York Times reported that her exit brought her $42 million. That figure soon became widely reported in the media as a $42 million severance. Fiorina vigorously rebutted the amount, noting that it included restricted stock she had earned, pension benefits and stock options, compensation that would not normally be considered "severance."
Moreover, even before the current campaign, Fiorina wrote an autobiography to provide her account of her many successes as a business executive. Of course, she cherry-picked data to present her track record in the most favorable light. But that is something everyone can and should do: Highlight those parts of job performance where you shine, and ignore or downplay weak results.
Second, Fiorina has and is building a brand — a public presence. Recognizable brands have real economic value. Sarah Palin went from being mayor of a small town in Alaska to being governor to taking in a reported $12 million by becoming a well-known public figure. Running for president, even if unsuccessful, transforms people into public figures often widely sought on the speaking circuit, so in many ways, they win even if they lose. Everyone can and should build a public brand because no one is going to get picked for a job, promoted, or be accorded other opportunities if others don't know them. So build your own visibility — by blogging, publishing articles, giving talks, becoming active in civic organizations. Visibility doesn't correlate perfectly with earnings capacity or being hired for a great job, but it helps.
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[Time 3]
Third, don't worry about being liked — Fiorina doesn't. In an oft-told story of being subjected to sexist comments — including being called a token bimbo — Fiorina decided she would not tolerate being disrespected, regardless of the consequences. Much like Condoleezza Rice, who told one protégé, "people may oppose you, but when they realize you can hurt them, they'll join your side," Fiorina is more concerned with being feared and respected. In that choice, Fiorina is following the wisdom of Machiavelli, who noted that while it was wonderful to be feared and loved, if you had to choose one, being feared was safer than being loved.
The fourth lesson taken from watching Fiorina may be the most important. As we struggle with understanding what makes leaders "successful," people frequently overlook the fact that success depends very much on how that term gets defined and measured. In business and in politics, the interests of leaders and their organizations don't perfectly coincide.
At Hewlett-Packard, Fiorina was well-known for not tolerating dissent or disagreement, particularly on important strategic issues. As someone quite senior in H-P's strategy group told me, disagreeing with Fiorina in a meeting was a reasonably sure path out the door. By not brooking dissent, Fiorina ensured that few opponents would be around to challenge her power. But disagreement often surfaces different perspectives that result in better decisions. The famous business leader Alfred P. Sloan noted that if everyone was in agreement, the discussion should be postponed until people could ascertain the weaknesses in the proposed choice.
Self-promotion, brand-building, worrying more about being respected or even feared, and taking care of oneself seem inconsistent with the typical leadership prescriptions — and they are.
As I note in "Leadership BS," discussions of leadership often focus more on aspirations than realities, on what we would like to believe rather than what is, and on inspiration rather than social science. No wonder so many people suffer career derailments. Fiorina has a pragmatic view of what it takes to be successful. And that's one reason she should not be underestimated, regardless of the opinions about her career at H-P.
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Source: CNN Opinion
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/18/opinions/pfeffer-carly-fiorina-gop-debate/index.html
More children getting drunk on hand sanitizer
By John Bonifield, CNN
[Time4]
Atlanta (CNN)Six-year-old Nhaijah Russell swallowed three or four squirts of seemingly innocuous liquid hand sanitizer at school. It tasted good, she said, like strawberry.
It also contained enough alcohol to make her dangerously drunk. She arrived at the emergency room slurring her words and unable to walk.
Is hand sanitizer toxic?
Since 2010, poison control center hotlines across the United States have seen a nearly 400% increase in calls related to children younger than 12 ingesting hand sanitizer, according to new analysis by the Georgia Poison Center.
"Kids are getting into these products more frequently, and unfortunately, there's a percentage of them going to the emergency room," said Dr. Gaylord Lopez, the center's director.
The amount of alcohol in hand sanitizer ranges from 45% to 95%. Ingesting even small amounts -- as little as two or three squirts in some cases -- can cause alcohol poisoning. By comparison, wine and beer contain about 12% and 5% alcohol, Lopez said.
Hand sanitizer doesn't help in schools
Nhaijah's blood-alcohol level was .179, twice what's considered legally drunk in an adult, according to Dr. Chris Ritchey, who treated her in the emergency room at Gwinnett Medical Center near Atlanta. Doctors had to watch Nhaijah overnight at a nearby children's hospital for signs of brain trauma, since the alcohol had caused her to fall and hit her head, he said.
"That was very scary," Nhaijah's mother, Ortoria Scott, said. "It could have been very lethal for my child."
Laundry detergent pods are 'real risk' to children
Alcohol poisoning can cause confusion, vomiting and drowsiness. In severe cases, a child can stop breathing.
Lopez said 3,266 hand sanitizer cases related to young children were reported to poison control centers in 2010. In 2014, the number increased to 16,117 cases.
Last week, Lopez sent a letter to Georgia's school systems warning about children drinking hand sanitizer. He explained that some children do it intentionally in order to get drunk, while others do it on a dare from friends. Still others, he said, drink sanitizer because it looks tasty.
"A kid is not thinking this is bad for them," Lopez said. "A lot of the more attractive (hand sanitizers) are the ones that are scented. There are strawberry, grape, orange-flavored hand sanitizers that are very appealing to kids."
Lopez recommends parents and teachers store hand sanitizer out of reach of children and monitor its use. He said nonalcohol based products or sanitizing wipes can also be used.
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Source: CNN Opinion
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/14/health/hand-sanitizer-poisoning/index.html?iid=ob_article_organicsidebar_expansion&iref=obnetwork
In China, grassy fashion trend sprouts on people's heads
By Shen Lu, CNN
[Time 5]
Beijing (CNN)Sprouts, grass, and flowers are blossoming from Chinese people's heads -- and nobody quite knows why.
We're referring, of course, to sprout hair clips -- a brand new Chinese fashion fad that seems to have grown organically out of the country's tourist spots, where men and women of all ages can be seen rocking the fake plastic plants.
In Nanluoguxiang, an ancient stone lane in Beijing, vendors selling the clips are swarmed by excited tourists, who can't wait to take selfies with their new accessories.
Yet nobody seems to know where the trend is originated from, according to an informal CNN street survey.
Zhou Delai, a vendor holding a tray full of clips, told CNN the trend started in Beijing about two weeks ago. He says he sells 200 clips every three to four hours.
"I have no idea who initiated the trend," he said. "I stocked clips because so many people had wore them."
Zhang sells two clips for less than $1. He said it was a cheap price to pay for joy.
"You only need to spend 5 yuan ($0.79) for fun!"
Zhang Ao, a young man visiting Beijing from central China's Hubei province, told CNN he just thought it was funny to wear the sprout clip, and didn't care to know the meaning behind it.
The phenomenon has attracted international participants as well -- four Japanese college students happily posed with their newly purchased hair clips, telling CNN they had learned about the fashion trend in Japanese media.
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[Time6]
"They are so cute," exclaimed Ayane Maki.
Asked whether she would buy some for her friends back home, she said, "No," laughing.
"It will be silly to wear them in Japan, because nobody does it there."
But the trend may actually have origins from that country: Some Chinese Internet users have speculated the idea for the sprouts came from a Japanese emoticon of a sprout coming out of a cute creature's head.
Another piece of trivia: In Chinese folklore, putting grass into someone's hair could signify a wish to sell oneself or one's children due to poverty.
But those who wear the clips don't seem to be aware of these things.
Meanwhile, millions of the clips are being sold online at even cheaper bulk prices. One bestselling store on Taobao, China's most popular online shopping platform, has sold more than 1 million clips.
Fast fashion
Gao Xuanyang, a sociologist with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, told CNN it's not surprising that sprout clips and their alternatives have become fast fashion in China.
"People need something fresh to enrich their mundane life," he said. "Be it a hairclip, a purse or a T-shirt."
The sprout clips have clearly struck a chord -- they are quirky and fun, and might help ease the pressures of modern life, according to Gao.
"The ones who follow the trend don't really want to know the meaning behind it," he said. "They only want to show off their hipness by wearing the sprout clips."
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Source: CNN Opinion
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/14/asia/china-sprout-hair-clips-trend/index.html
Part III: Obstacle
Trump and the Man in the T-Shirt
BY AMY DAVIDSON
[Paraphrase 7]
“You can make them vicious, violent, horrible questions, even though you’re sort of, probably, on live television,” Donald Trump said to the audience at a campaign event in Rochester, New Hampshire, on Thursday night. He was explaining the format of the event, something that he thought would be more “fun” than a speech—“which I’ve been doing over and over and over”—but the instructions could also be a shorthand for Trump’s theory of campaigning, if not of everyday life. In New Hampshire, he elicited ugliness, he got it, and, to all appearances, he relished it.
“O.K., this man—I like this guy,” he said, calling on the first questioner, who was wearing a Trump T-shirt.
“We have a problem in this country: It’s called ‘Muslim,’ ” the man said. Trump nodded.
The man continued, “You know our current President is one—”
“Right,” Trump said.
“You know he’s not even an American,” the man continued, and at that Trump interrupted again, saying, “We need this question. This is the first question!” The word “first” was subsumed in a Donaldian chuckle—the kind that serves as an ambiguous indicator of both sarcasm and glee.
“But, anyway, we have training camps growing, where they want to kill us,” the man persisted. “That’s my question: When can we get rid of them?”
“We’re going to be looking at a lot of different things,” Trump replied. “And, you know, a lot of people are saying that, and a lot of people are saying that bad things are happening out there. We’re going to be looking at that and many other things.”
Afterward, Trump was widely criticized for not correcting the man, for not acting, in fact, as that “loser” John McCain had, in 2008, when a questioner at one of his rallies described Barack Obama as “an Arab” whom she couldn’t trust. It would seem like the minimal act a decent candidate could undertake. One might ask the other Republicans in the race why they haven’t really found the opportunity to correct Trump—at this point, they’ve been on plenty of stages with him. On Friday, Lindsey Graham said that Trump should apologize for not acting as Graham’s friend McCain did, and Christie said that he would have handled the encounter differently—though he added that he didn’t want to “lecture” Trump. Otherwise, the Republican candidates were slow to speak. Trump is not just someone who stands by when the President’s faith, birthplace, or basic identity are put into question; he pushes that view. As recently as this July, when Anderson Cooper asked Trump if, with all the documentation out there, including a long-form birth certificate, he accepted that the President was born in America, Trump said, “I don’t know. I really don’t know.”
But even more outrageous, this week, was Trump’s tolerance of the questioner’s premise: that Muslims in America are “a problem.” Calling Obama a Muslim is not wrong because being a Muslim is bad; it’s wrong because he is a Christian, and so “Muslim” becomes a shorthand for impostor and liar, for deceptive secret agent. Trump, though, went well beyond not defending the President: he affirmed an attack on the millions of Muslim Americans who are as much a part of the national community as anyone else. The man in the T-shirt’s actual point, after all, was about the supposed training camps “where they want to kill us.” He wanted Trump to answer his question: “When can we get rid of them?”
The campaign did say, according to the Washington Post, that it understood “them” to refer to the “training camps,” not to a potential ethnic cleansing of the Muslim population as a whole. A campaign official also said that Trump was focussed on the part of the question about this larger phantom threat, and not on the part about Obama’s religion—as if entertaining an insult to an entire community, rather than just to the President, were a defense. Trump’s own statement seemed to underscore the man in the Trump T-shirt’s fears: “The media wants to make this issue about Obama. The bigger issue is that Obama is waging a war against Christians in this country. Christians need support in this country. Their religious liberty is at stake.” Donald Trump, Christian warrior.
Last week, in an effort to slow Trump’s momentum, the Club for Growth released ads portraying him as a liberal. Jeb Bush, too, has made the case that the problem with Trump is that he is inadequately conservative—as if, with Trump’s talk of building walls, the G.O.P. were being pestered by a moderate in its midst. Perhaps his comments in New Hampshire will persuade his competitors to confront his extremism instead. So far, they have been too fearful or too eager for the votes of people like the man in the T-shirt. Or maybe they agree; Ben Carson, for one, has talked about the possibility of staged civil disorder leading to the cancellation of elections. (Hillary Clinton, who was also in New Hampshire, said that Trump “should have, from the beginning, repudiated that kind of rhetoric.”)
It can’t be said that Trump didn’t have control of the exchange; he had, after all, broken in twice. And he had another opportunity to do so when, later in the event, another questioner rose to say, “I applaud the gentleman who brought up the Muslim training camps here in the U.S.A.—the F.B.I. knows all about that.” To which Trump replied, again, “right.”
“But America has also guns pointed at ordinary citizens here,” the second man said, and then hesitated.
“Don’t get nervous!” Trump said. “You’re on about seven television networks here—don’t get nervous!”
The man launched into a disjointed attack on the Bureau of Land Management. “How can we get in and stop them?” he said.
“So many things are going to change,” Trump said, and then offered some news-you-can-use for conspiracy theorists.
“Being in real estate, we have Army bases, Navy bases—so many are for sale,” Trump said. “And so many of them have been sold over the last short period of time.”
And just who is buying those military bases? The audience seemed to know. Evan Osnos wrote recently about the support for Trump among white supremacists and other extremists in this country. It can seem, though, as if they are not only listening to him but as if he is listening to them. Trump is learning the practice of politics in halls echoing with American paranoia. There has always been a strain of that, and he is not alone in playing to it: a number of Republican senators solemnly presented themselves as concerned investigators of Jade Helm, a U.S. military training exercise that, in some circles, was presented as a dress rehearsal for martial law. The man in the T-shirt has a theory; the man in the suit smiles. What is less and less clear, in the interaction between the potential Presidents and the crowd, is who is humoring whom.
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Source: The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/trump-and-the-man-in-the-t-shirt
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