>Top White House aide fired
美第一夫人點(diǎn)名要她走
副國(guó)家安全顧問將被炒
Mira Ricardel, the White House deputy national security adviser, was forced out of her job on Wednesday after US President Donald Trump's wife, Melania, said Ricardel did not deserve the honor of working for her husband. Ricardel "will continue to support the president as she departs the White House to transition to a new role within the administration," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement. Sanders did not elaborate on what Ricardel's new job would be. It is an extraordinary move that the first lady publicly called for the dismissal of a top White House National Security Council official. The Wall Street Journal reported that the first lady's staff and Ricardel clashed during Melania's visit to Africa in October over such things as seating on the plane and requests to use the council's resources.
美國(guó)第一夫人梅拉尼婭?特朗普表示白宮副國(guó)家安全顧問米拉?里卡德爾不配再為其丈夫、總統(tǒng)唐納德?特朗普工作后，14日，里卡德爾被迫離職。白宮發(fā)言人薩拉?桑德斯在一份聲明中稱，里卡德爾"將離開白宮，轉(zhuǎn)去政府內(nèi)部其他崗位工作，繼續(xù)支持總統(tǒng)。"桑德斯并未詳細(xì)說明里卡德爾的新職位是什么。第一夫人公開要求解雇白宮國(guó)家安全委員會(huì)高級(jí)官員，實(shí)屬罕見。據(jù)《華爾街日?qǐng)?bào)》報(bào)道，梅拉尼婭10月出訪非洲期間，第一夫人團(tuán)隊(duì)工作人員與里卡德爾因飛機(jī)座位安排以及請(qǐng)求動(dòng)用國(guó)家安全委員會(huì)資源等事情發(fā)生過爭(zhēng)執(zhí)。

>Pink diamond fetches $50M
罕見粉鉆創(chuàng)拍賣紀(jì)錄
An unusually large pink diamond sold for a record-breaking $50 million Tuesday at Christie's auction house in Geneva. After five minutes of bidding, the 18.96-carat diamond became the world record holder for price paid per carat for a pink diamond at auction. Christie's international head of jewelry, Rahul Kadakia, said it was purchased by American luxury brand Harry Winston, and will be renamed the Winston Pink Legacy. Pink Legacy is categorized as a "Fancy Vivid" diamond. Only 1 in 100,000 diamonds receives the grading. The diamond is an even rarer find because of its size, as Fancy Vivid Pink diamonds larger than 10 carats are "virtually unheard of," according to Christie's.
13日，一顆重18.96克拉的特大粉鉆在日內(nèi)瓦佳士得拍賣行拍出5千萬美元的創(chuàng)紀(jì)錄價(jià)格。競(jìng)價(jià)5分鐘后，這顆粉鉆創(chuàng)下同類鉆石拍賣每克拉價(jià)格的全球紀(jì)錄。佳士得珠寶部國(guó)際主管卡達(dá)奇亞表示，這顆粉鉆被美國(guó)奢侈品牌哈利?溫斯頓拍下，并將更名為"溫斯頓粉色遺產(chǎn)"。"粉色遺產(chǎn)"被歸類為"艷彩"鉆石，每10萬顆鉆石中僅有1顆獲此評(píng)級(jí)。這顆鉆石的大小使其更加稀有，據(jù)佳士得介紹，10克拉以上的艷彩粉鉆"幾乎聞所未聞"。

>Names easier to remember
研究:名字比長(zhǎng)相更好記
You can remember the face, but can't put a name to it. Many of us have been caught in this embarrassing situation. But researchers say it is often easier to remember someone's name than what they look like. 24 volunteers were shown 40 pictures of strangers, paired with random names. They were given time to memorize the faces and names before being tested on which they thought they had seen before. The participants could remember up to 85% of the names but only 73% of the faces, according to the study, led by the University of York. That may be because faces are only recognized visually, while names can be both spoken and written down so appear in our visual and audio memory.
許多人遇到過這樣的尷尬場(chǎng)面——你記得一個(gè)人的長(zhǎng)相，但就是想不起來這個(gè)人的名字。但研究人員稱，記住某人的名字往往比記住其長(zhǎng)相更容易。研究人員給24名志愿者展示了40張陌生人的照片，并隨機(jī)給這些人起了名字。志愿者有一段時(shí)間可以來記住這些人的名字和長(zhǎng)相，然后就他們所看到的內(nèi)容接受測(cè)試。這項(xiàng)由約克大學(xué)主導(dǎo)的研究顯示，志愿者能夠記住多達(dá)85%的人名，但只能記住73%的長(zhǎng)相。這可能是因?yàn)殚L(zhǎng)相只能通過視覺來辨認(rèn)，但名字既可以念出來，又可以寫出來，因此能夠以視覺和聽覺兩種記憶形式出現(xiàn)。

>Deadliest time for suicides
日中年男多在周一自殺
Suicides among middle-aged men in Japan spike on Monday mornings, a new study finds. Researchers from Waseda University in Tokyo and Osaka University say the majority of men between ages 40 and 65 take their own lives before they leave for work. Through an analysis of data on more than 873,000 people who took their own lives in Japan between 1974 and 2014, researchers found days of the week and times of the day people committed suicide varied by sex and age. Men between ages 40 and 65 committed suicide the most between 4 am and 7:59 am on Mondays. Men in that age group were taking their own lives at a higher rate than men and women of other age groups. Daytime suicides among men in the 40-to-65 age group were 1.57 times higher than suicides that occurred at night. Additionally, the number of suicides that took place on Mondays was 1.55 higher than the number on Saturdays. Researchers said that men who were aged 66 and older and women among all age groups mostly committed suicide during the day, with a peak occurring near noon.
一項(xiàng)新研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，日本中年男性的自殺事件在周一早晨飆升。東京早稻田大學(xué)和大阪大學(xué)的研究人員表示，40-65歲的男性大多在上班前自殺。研究人員對(duì)日本1974年-2014年間超過87.3萬名自殺者的數(shù)據(jù)進(jìn)行分析后發(fā)現(xiàn)，人們?cè)谥軒?、什么時(shí)間自殺因性別、年齡而異。40-65歲的男性最常在周一凌晨4點(diǎn)至早上7點(diǎn)59分之間自殺。這個(gè)年齡段的男性的自殺率高于其他年齡段的男性和女性。40-65歲男性的白天自殺率是夜晚自殺率的1.57倍。此外，周一發(fā)生的自殺事件數(shù)量是周六的1.55倍。研究人員稱，66歲及以上的男性以及所有年齡段的女性大多選擇在白天自殺，臨近中午是高峰時(shí)段。

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