1. When it was set up in 2002, Teach First’s aim was to encourage more graduates to try teach-ing. Amid worries that the best brains in the country were being lured into the City of London, accountancy and law, the idea was to tap some of their brain power for state schools, in an attempt to tackle educational inequality.

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3. The public prosecutor has decided to release several individuals and will proceed with the prosecution of at least five others.

4. 中国财富榜每年的变化反映了中国资本的流动，显示了这个国家超级富豪的金融实力。

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1. The new image will replace that of Alexander Hamilton, the nation's first Treasury Secretary, whose portrait has graced the $10 bill since the late 1920s. The redesigned currency will debut in time for the 100th anniversary of the formal ratification of the constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote.

2. 筹备IPO交易的公司正在增多，尽管今年在美国高调上市的Snap（旗下拥有Snapchat）表现不佳，同时投资者担忧欧元不断走强可能遏制欧洲企业的盈利复苏。

3. The Cassini spacecraft has been sending home images of Saturn, its rings and its moons since arriving at the gas giant in 2004. The mission ended in September with a planned fiery crash into Saturn’s atmosphere. While it studied the planet, Cassini explored moons — Titan and Enceladus — that could be home to extraterrestrial life. The probe also gave us great insight into our solar system, and will continue to do so for years as scientists pore over the data it collected.

4. 《财富》美国500强公司苹果（Apple）)已宣布，将从现金中拿出300亿美元用于股票回购。这个消息让投资者很高兴：股价暴涨，甚至在消息发布一周后，这只股票相对于标准普尔指数在这7天上涨了12%。苹果有一项规模更大、总额高达1300亿美元的资本回报计划，将一直延续到2015年，而这些回购就是这项计划的一部分。

5. Regardless of whether or not you think Snapchat is worth the $3 billion Facebook offered it, one thing is clear: There's an appetite out there for so-called ephemeral networks, where content literally vanishes seconds after being received. And, contrary to popular perception, this isn't just about sexting and X-rated selfies (though it definitely is about that, too). As content on the major networks becomes more corporate and commoditized, Snapchat and services like it restore some of the fun and spontaneity to social media. Just like a real-life interaction -- where ideas flow freely and you generally don't worry about everything being recorded for posterity and broadcast to the world -- SnapChat and networks like it offer a channel for genuine, unfiltered exchange. And the kids really like it. While Facebook's own CFO officially acknowledged last month that teen use of his network is declining, the number of teens on SnapChat -- at least anecdotally -- is exploding.

6. 但科学研究和技术服务领域企业的高管薪酬却下降了4.2%。

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1. Many economists doubt the European Central Bank will increase the size of its 1.46tn asset-purchase programme in 2016 despite assurances by ECB chief Mario Draghi that additional monetary stimulus is still on the table.

2. IE’s online MBA consistently attracts high-calibre students. Half of IE’s alumni were senior managers when they enrolled, the highest proportion among ranked schools at that stage. Three years after graduation they were earning the highest average salary at $179,000, about $30,000 more than the next highest earners — alumni from Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.

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