Productivity growth in Brazil has surged recently: after being negative in the late 1990s, it rose to over 2% in 2007 and 2008 according to the Central Bank.

巴西生产力成长最近急剧上升︰根据中央银行，在经历1990年代后期负成长之后，2007 - 2008年的生产力成长提升超过百分之二。

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Researchers at the University of Toronto recently demonstrated the benefit of seeing the world through rose-colored glasses.

多伦多大学的研究人员最近证实通过乐观视角看世界的益处。

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Hubble Space Telescope astronomers recently focused the instrument's powerful eye on a pair of galaxies known as Arp 273, which had spun themselves into something surreally terrestrial: a rose.

最近天文学家将哈勃太空望远镜的神奇大眼对准了太空中一对称之为Arp 273的星系对，这对星系相互缠绕形成了一幅如梦似幻的人间玫瑰。

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To lead the museum, Mr. Rush arrived most recently from a similar post at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Boston, where he served during a controversial attempt by Brandeis to sell the collection and close the museum.

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In al-Shabab, some, like Omar Hammami, the American-Syrian who rose up in the Somali group's ranks before recently falling out of favour, have become minor celebrities in their own right.

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College football is a historically parochial sport, with the Big Ten and Pac-12 Conferences clinging to the lucrative and beloved Rose Bowl on New Year's Day and the recently dominant SEC pushing for a playoff to showcase more of its powerful teams.

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