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Obese people who are unable to squeeze into a single plane seat will have to pay nearly double to travel on fully booked Air France-KLM flights in future, the company said.

法國航空—荷蘭皇家航空集團表示，無法擠進單人飛機座椅的肥胖旅客，今後搭乘訂位客滿的航班時，必須支付將近雙倍的費用才能登機。

As anyone who has unwittingly drifted off at their desk will know-tiredness can really creep up on you when you least need it. But a new study is offering some good news： it claims to prove that we can bank sleep-and store it up in advance of a tiring event.

曾不知不覺在書桌旁打瞌睡的人都會知道，疲倦真的會在你最不需要它的時候悄悄地上身。但是一項新研究帶來些許好消息：它宣稱已證實我們可以儲存睡眠—在疲倦時刻來臨前先儲存睡眠。

A Pakistani woman gave birth to a baby girl in an auto-rickshaw stuck in a traffic jam when police closed roads to let President Asif Ali Zardari’s motorcade drive by.

一名巴基斯坦婦女在一部機動三輪車內產下一名女嬰，這部三輪車在警察封閉道路，以便讓總統札達里的車隊行經時陷於塞車車陣中。

A man is suing a physician for allegedly breaking up his marriage. And he’s getting some help from an unlikely witness：his ex-wife.

一名男子指控一名醫師，理由據說是破壞他的婚姻。而且他還獲得一位不太可能的證人協助︰他的前妻。

A deaf South African cleaner besieged by begging relatives after a newspaper reported he had scooped a 91 million rand ($12 million) lottery jackpot was not the winner, the draw’s organizers said on Feb. 16.

一名自從一家報紙報導他抱走一筆9100萬蘭特（1200萬美元）樂透頭彩後，就被上門要錢的親戚包圍的南非失聰清潔工，並非真正的樂透得主，樂透發行單位16日說。

Body bombers人體炸彈客 

Lean manufacturing 精實製造 
邁入21世紀後，探討多樣少量生產的「精實」（Lean）話題在日、美、歐等地發燒，其中包括精實製造（Lean Manufacturing）、精實生產（Lean Production）、精實思維（Lean Thinking）、精實整合（Lean Integration）、精實文化（Lean Culture）、精實企業（Lean Enterprise）、精實組織（Lean Organization）等，都成為全球工程、管理和社會學相當熱門的共同話題，這也迫使許多企業開始留心製造現場的改革。「精實」本意代表緊密結實與減脂瘦身，傳統大量生產方式庫存太多，且製造前置時間太冗長。精實製造則僅需較少的人力、空間、資金、時間，就能生產出符合顧客多樣少量需求的產品。 

The World’s Greatest Party opened recently, but the everything-goes atmosphere of Carnival that turns Rio into a giant oceanside den of debauchery is under assault.

全球最盛大的派對最近開幕，但嘉年華會期間讓里約熱內盧變成海濱縱慾大本營的任意而為氣氛卻正遭到攻擊。

A singer who suffered a three-year bout of hiccups has finally been cured after undergoing a brian operation.

一名3年來不斷打嗝的歌手接受腦部手術後，終於痊癒了。

The Great Wall never looked so tasty：a team of Chinese confectioners have built a 10 meter long replica of the structure entirely out of chocolate in a bid to entice Chinese to eat more of the sweet stuff.

萬里長城從未看來如此可口：一群中國糕點師傅打造一座10公尺長、完全以巧克力為材料的長城複製品，盼能藉此鼓勵中國民眾吃下更多巧克力。

People who develop chronic lung disease are more likely to be shorter in height than the general population, University of Nottingham researchers say. They looked at more than one million people aged over 35 for their study. They say those with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease （COPD） were 1.12cm shorter on average.

諾丁漢大學研究人員說，慢性肺病病患的身高比一般人矮。此一研究的對象是上百萬名35歲以上的人。研究人員說，有慢性阻塞性肺病 （COPD）的人，較平均身高矮1.12公分。

The Dalai Lama commented on Tiger Woods’ sex scandals Saturday, saying self-discipline is among Buddhism’s highest values, one day after Woods said he had strayed from his Buddhist faith.

在老虎伍茲表示他已偏離了他的佛教信仰之後一天，達賴喇嘛週六對伍茲的性醜聞表達意見，他說自律是佛教最高的價值之一。

The Nepal Red Cross Society has voted to pay a monthly salary to a wounded stray dog that has taken on the job of guarding its office.

「尼泊爾紅十字會」（NRCS）已表決通過，付月薪給一條已承擔戍守其辦公室工作的受傷流浪狗。

Only miles from the scenic vistas and celebrity mansions that draw sightseers from around the globe-but a world away from the glitz and glamour-a bus tour is rolling through the dark side of the city’s gang turf.

離吸引全球觀光客的美景和名人豪宅僅數英里，卻是一個與這些光鮮亮麗截然不同的世界，一趟巴士之旅正走訪這個城市黑幫地盤的黑暗面。

Lean manufacturing 精實製造 
邁入21世紀後，探討多樣少量生產的「精實」（Lean）話題在日、美、歐等地發燒，其中包括精實製造（Lean Manufacturing）、精實生產（Lean Production）、精實思維（Lean Thinking）、精實整合（Lean Integration）、精實文化（Lean Culture）、精實企業（Lean Enterprise）、精實組織（Lean Organization）等，都成為全球工程、管理和社會學相當熱門的共同話題，這也迫使許多企業開始留心製造現場的改革。「精實」本意代表緊密結實與減脂瘦身，傳統大量生產方式庫存太多，且製造前置時間太冗長。精實製造則僅需較少的人力、空間、資金、時間，就能生產出符合顧客多樣少量需求的產品。 

Bitonal humming is not a common form of patriotic protest, but for traditional Mongolian singers, it was the best way to lay claim to an art form they say has been usurped by China.

雙調哼唱並非愛國抗議的常見形式，但對蒙古傳統歌手而言，這卻是重新取回他們聲稱被中國竊佔的一種藝術形式之最佳途徑。

A new fast-acting disinfectant that is effective against bacteria, viruses and other germs could help stop the spread of deadly infections in hospitals, German scientists said on Wednesday.

一種新的速效殺菌劑能有效對付細菌、病毒及其它病菌，可能有助於阻止致命的感染在醫院內擴散，德國科學家週三表示。

Croatia’s newly elected president has run into a problem -- how to accept thousands of new friends on Facebook.

克羅埃西亞的新當選總統已遭遇一項難題─如何接受社交網站「臉書」上的數千名新朋友（的交友邀請）。

Going to bed earlier protects teenagers against depression and suicidal thoughts, New York research suggests. Of 15,500 12 to 18-year-olds studied, those who went to bed after midnight were 24% more likely to have depression than those who went before 2200.

紐約研究顯示，早點睡覺可讓年輕人不得憂鬱症，也沒有自殺念頭。1萬5500名12到18歲的受試者中，午夜以後才上床的人，罹患憂鬱症的比率，比10點前睡覺的高24%。

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