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nappy/blue jeans/nylon/the bullet-proof jacket. « Projects 2nde », Editions Didier, 2007 3. the post-it/the ring binder/the filofax/the white board. « Projects 2nde », Editions Didier, 2007 Name of invention? When was it invented? What is it used for? ̈ Check your Activity 4 answers ᕡ Avant d’écouter à nouveau l’enregistrement du premier extrait, regardez la liste de mots ci-dessous, qui sont employés dans cet extrait : technology/project/to test/engineer/to discover/magnetron/to intrigue/a

someone (to see) him, he couldn't escape. - I (to hear) you were in Harvard, now. - What I (to buy) is still in the boot. - He (to drag) him out of the car. - She (to draw) that portrait in no time. - It's high time you (to begin) working on this project. 2/ METTRE LES VERBES AU PRETERIT SIMPLE OU PROGRESSIF : - She (to catch) the 9 o'clock train just in time. - I (to watch) the directory when the train (to start). - My cousins (to mow) the lawn, so I (to wait) for some time. - What you (to do) this

with, that in learning the native language he had been able to simulate the infantile situation to the extent of keeping his past knowledge of languages out of account. Then, when as a bilingual he finally turns to his project of a jungle-to-English manual, he will have to project analytical hypotheses much as if his English personality were the linguist and his jungle personality the informant; the differences are just that he can introspect his experiments instead of staging them, that he has his

diplomats of Vienna. The great wars of history--we have had a world war about every hundred years for the last four centuries---are the outcome, direct or indirect, of the unequal growth of nations, and that unequal growth is not wholly due to the greater genius and energy of some nations as compared with others; in large measure it is the result of the uneven distribution of fertility and strategical opportunity upon the face of the globe. In other words, there is in nature no such thing as equality O

geneticists. Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, studied the heritability of human ability, focusing on mental characteristics as well as eminence among close relatives in the English upper-class. In 1869, Galton published his results in Hereditary Genius.[1] In his work, Galton "introduced multivariate analysis and paved the way towards modern Bayesian statistics" that are used throughout the sciences—launching what has been dubbed the "Statistical Enlightenment".[2] Galton is often credited as the

CANDIDE Voltaire 1759 © 1998, Electronic Scholarly Publishing Project http://www.esp.org This electronic edition is made freely available for scholarly or educational purposes, provided that this copyright notice is included. The manuscript may not be reprinted or redistributed for commercial purposes without permission. TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1.....................................................................................1 How Candide Was Brought Up in a Magnificent

their concerns to get in the way of their use and enjoyment of the technology. The movie critic David Thomson once observed that “doubts can be rendered feeble in the face of the certainty of the medium.”6 He was talking about the cinema and how it projects its sensations and sensibilities not only onto the movie screen but onto us, the engrossed and compliant audience. His comment applies with even greater force to the Net. The computer screen bulldozes our doubts with its bounties and conveniences

Bureau (2009), Piracy and Armed Robbery Against Ships, Annual Report, 1 January – 31 December 2008, p.54 190 http://ijmond.web-log.nl/photos/uncategorized/2008/05/31/1cfl_prudence_mc_08_2.jpg 49 « Le 13 août 2008, le matelot de garde sur le Sun Genius, un cargo réfrigéré battant pavillon bahamien, observa deux voleurs cachés derrière un conteneur de 40’. Il était 01h30 heure locale dans la zone de mouillage de Guayaquil en Equateur. Les voleurs avaient volé les provisions du navire à partir du

given directions. Exertion, oft repeated, leads to power. It is by obeying this law that the athlete trains himself to accomplish wonderful feats of speed or endurance. When the exertion is along intellectual lines, it leads to unusual talent, or genius; and when in spiritual channels, it leads to wisdom, or transcendent greatness. We should not mourn when circumstances are driving us to greater efforts and more protracted exertion. Events are only evil to the mind that makes them so. They are good

restauration : car le perdant d'aujourd'hui sera le gagnant de main 24- Think Différent : Jobs, iPDG 25- Principes de design : le duo Jobs et Ive 26- L'iMac : hello (again) 27- JOBS P - D G : toujours aussi fou malgré les années 28- Les Apple Store : genius bar et grès de Florence 29- Le foyer numérique : de l'iTunes à l'iPod 30- L'iTunes Store : je suis le joueur de flûte 31- Music Man : la bande-son de sa vie 32- Les amis de Pixar : . . . et ses ennemis 33- Les Mac du xxie siècle : Apple se démarque