1. 史赛克公司（Stryker）的创始人就是“翻身床”的发明者，借助这个设备，卧床的病人无需挪动身体就能改变在病床上的位置。顺其自然地，这家医疗设备制造商也向自家员工及其家属出借医疗床，分毫不收。

2. 8. Taxi driver

3. 2013年排名：12

4. The magazine put his net worth at $3.5 billion, down $1 billion from the rankings it issued a year ago.

5. “我想不出还有哪家公司抵挡住了对冲基金丛林中两头最凶猛的猛兽的攻击，”加州公务员退休基金的辛普森说，“他很酷，很冷静，泰然自若，是‘保持冷静，继续前进(Keep calm and carry on)’这句话在企业界的模范体现。”

6. Meanwhile, villages within the city's boundaries will be overhauled and low-end manufacturers and logistics companies removed.

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2. “In the drama, romance is the protagonist’s only pursuit. It seems that the meaning of her life is to have a romantic relationship with a Prince Charming. No, not only one, but three or four,” Douban user Jiuyuehuashang said.

3. Following the devaluation in mid-August, the renminbi rallied in September and October. Devaluation resumed in November, however, and the renminbi closed at its weakest level in three months at 6.4082 to the dollar yesterday. “Since October many countries around China have experienced some capital outflow, and China has had its share,” said Xie Yaxuan, an economist at China Merchants Securities in Shenzhen. “The strengthening dollar is bound to cause some repositioning into dollar assets.”

4. 立场：支持移民改革

5. Of course, these same new forces may also trigger a backlash and a reversion to old command-and-control ways of leading. The politicians who dominate the world stage are, depressingly, mostly cut from the old cloth, and the leadership challenges they face, from Brexit to North Korea, are particularly complex.

6. 首次发现直接由禽类传染人类的流感病毒，此病毒的传染与接触家禽市场有关。香港有六人死亡。这种病毒之所以不同，是因为它并没有通过传染猪，使猪成为中间宿主，而是直接由鸡传染给人类。另外，年轻人中感染最严重的病症有些与1918年“西班牙流感”病毒相似。

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1. 扫盲：Illuminati字面意思为“先觉者”，是启蒙运动时期的一个巴伐利亚秘密组织，成立于1776年5月1日。它的成员中包括文学巨匠歌德和哲学家海德这样声名赫赫的人物，但它存在的时间却十分短暂。我们熟知的Illuminati（光明会）最早的首脑，正是大名鼎鼎的伽利略。他非常喜爱对称物，于是另一位光照派成员——艺术大师贝尔尼尼便为伽利略设计了一件杰作。他将16世纪时人们认为组成世界的四大元素：土（earth）、水（water）、火（fire）、气（air）以及Illuminati（光明会）这五个原本并非对称字的单词设计成了对称的文字，即在倒转180度之后与原来的形状一模一样的文字图案。

2. 2017年，全球黄金的产量从上一年的3263吨上升至3268.7吨。这是自2008年以来的最小涨幅。2008年金融危机期间，黄金开采量下降了逾2%。

3. The president lashed out at the UN on Sunday for voicing human rights concerns over his war on drugs, saying the Philippines might leave the organisation and form a new body with China and African nations.