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If you grow your own vegetables, they are bound to be fresher than those you buy in the shops. And you may save money—a family of four could have saved around $ 70 last year by growing all their own vegetables. All of this, by doing something that many people regard as a healthy leisure activity.Much of this report published here is based on the experiences of our members—nearly 1,500 filled in a mammoth (庞大的) questionnaire. We are very grateful indeed for the enthusiastic help the readers of this magazine gave us.One thing is clear from members’ experience: growing vegetables can be hard work. Routine jobs like weeding (锄草) and clearing take up a lot of time, quite apart from the exhausting work of digging. However, nearly all our vegetable-growing members thought the results were definitely worth all the effort.Topic: growing (1) Advantages: They are (2) .They (3) .They (4) .Disadvantages: hard work and (5) 1()

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SHANGHAI STAR is published every Tuesday and Friday. A subscription can be made at all post offices at 96 yuan (100 issues) or 8 yuan a month. A single international subscription is at $115 for 6 months and at $ 230 for one year (postage included), paid by bank transfer to:Industrial and Commercial Bank of ChinaNo. 2 Huashan Road, Shanghai, 20040, ChinaA/C No: 02253-04607839For more information, please call 021-62484792Shanghai Star is published (1) one week.The rates for an international subscription are (2) for 6 months and (3) for one year.If you like to know more subscription information, please call (4) If you are a domestic subscription, you may pay only (5) for 100 issues. 2()

Dear Nancy,Now I am sending you a copy of the final program schedule of the Conference, together with a map of the location of St. Martin’s College.Please note also that there has been an exchange between meetings. Those meetings for Friday morning will be replaced by those for Saturday afternoon. I hope this will not cause you any problems.If you are going to present a paper, please let me have an abstract of it as soon as possible. The deadline for the abstract is Monday 23, September.The entire Conference fee (3 days) is $ 120. You may send the fee to the Conference organizer according to the above address or just pay on arrival. Looking forward to meeting soon.Yours sincerely,Dr. JohnsonProfessor of Collins University& Organizer of the ConferenceInformation About a Conference at Collins UniversityPlace of the Conference: (1) Change in the schedule: Meetings for Friday morning will be held on (2) .The time for receiving an abstract: no later than (3) Conference fee: (4) Receiver of the Conference fee: (5) 1()

People around the globe hit the height of their misery and depression in (51) age, a new international study suggests.The finding by British and American researchers was based on an analysis of well-being among approximately 2 million people in 80 nations. With few exceptions, the observation appears to apply across the board, regardless (52) gender, culture, geography, wealth, job history, education, and marriage or parental status."The scientific fact seems to be that happiness and positive mental health follow a giant ’U’ (53) through life, " said study author Andrew J. Oswald, a professor of economics at Warwick University in Warwickshire, England. "For the average person, it’s high when you’re 20, and then it slowly falls and bottoms out (54) your 40s. But the good news is that your (55) health picks up again, and eventually gets back to the high levels of our youth. "The finding was (56) on the pooling of several different sources of happiness data, including: two multi-decade happiness/satisfaction surveys (first launched in the 1970s), involving about 500,000 American and Western European men and women; four rounds of the 80-nation "World Values Survey" (57) between 1981 and 2004 in North America, Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Central and South America; and a 2004—2007 survey (58) nearly 1 million Britons.The bottom-line: For most people throughout the world, the highest probability for depression striking is around 44 years of (59) .In the United States, however, some as-yet unexplained (60) differences were observed, with happiness among men dipping the most in their early 50s, whereas women hit their Nadir around the age of 40.The researchers cautioned that cheerful people tend to live longer than unhappy (61) —a fact that might have skewed the overall finding. But they also suggested that evidence of a happiness (62) might simply reflect a midlife choice to give up long-held but no longer tenable aspirations, followed by a senior’s sense of gratitude for having successfully endured (63) others did not."That said, some might find it helpful simply to understand the general (64) of mental health as they go through their own life," said Oswald. "It might be useful for people to realize that if they are (65) in their 40s, this is normal, it is not exceptional. And just knowing this might help. " 63.()

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People around the globe hit the height of their misery and depression in (51) age, a new international study suggests.The finding by British and American researchers was based on an analysis of well-being among approximately 2 million people in 80 nations. With few exceptions, the observation appears to apply across the board, regardless (52) gender, culture, geography, wealth, job history, education, and marriage or parental status."The scientific fact seems to be that happiness and positive mental health follow a giant ’U’ (53) through life, " said study author Andrew J. Oswald, a professor of economics at Warwick University in Warwickshire, England. "For the average person, it’s high when you’re 20, and then it slowly falls and bottoms out (54) your 40s. But the good news is that your (55) health picks up again, and eventually gets back to the high levels of our youth. "The finding was (56) on the pooling of several different sources of happiness data, including: two multi-decade happiness/satisfaction surveys (first launched in the 1970s), involving about 500,000 American and Western European men and women; four rounds of the 80-nation "World Values Survey" (57) between 1981 and 2004 in North America, Eastern and Western Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Central and South America; and a 2004—2007 survey (58) nearly 1 million Britons.The bottom-line: For most people throughout the world, the highest probability for depression striking is around 44 years of (59) .In the United States, however, some as-yet unexplained (60) differences were observed, with happiness among men dipping the most in their early 50s, whereas women hit their Nadir around the age of 40.The researchers cautioned that cheerful people tend to live longer than unhappy (61) —a fact that might have skewed the overall finding. But they also suggested that evidence of a happiness (62) might simply reflect a midlife choice to give up long-held but no longer tenable aspirations, followed by a senior’s sense of gratitude for having successfully endured (63) others did not."That said, some might find it helpful simply to understand the general (64) of mental health as they go through their own life," said Oswald. "It might be useful for people to realize that if they are (65) in their 40s, this is normal, it is not exceptional. And just knowing this might help. " 62.()

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