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I’m a sophmore student in Tianjin financial and economic university.Sometimes I wonder that why I stay here and learn these seemd unuseful things and waste my valuable time.Ever since I admired Bill Gates ,a outstanding person that dropped out of school during his college life.However ,I’m gradually change my view and think it over ,that is ,what kind of role does the education plays in our lives.Education–the process of developing and training the mind–should be far more than the accumulation of credit hours but to take advantage of it to develop the skills and talents which we need to succeed in our career and in life.We learn facts while we are in school,but more importantly ,we learn how to think.While some of the facts and figures we learn today may not apply to the world of tomorrow,our ability to think will be useful always,in everyting we do.As we rise to the challenges of education ,we will discover that our capacity for knowledge and personal growth is greater than our imagined.As our ablities grow ,so do opportunities to learn and do more in class,on the job,and in our community.Education can make us well-rounded persons.In all,education is more than the process of going to school and earning a degree or certificate.It is a chance to improve our mind and our skills.So I suggest that we treasure the opportunity of recieveing education.If you make the most of your mind ,your time ,and your educational opportunities,you will realize your potential.It is really true!

Sir Paul McCartney has urged everyone connected with his divorce from Heather Mills McCartney to behave with dignity.
He told the BBC it was a “private affair” and acting in a dignified manner “put less noses out of joint”.
Sir Paul, 64, was speaking to Radio 4’s Today programme at London’s Royal Albert Hall, where his classical album Ecce Cor Meum had its world premiere.
The ex-Beatle and Lady McCartney, 38, announced their separation in May after four years of marriage.
Much of the couple’s divorce has been played out in the newspapers before it reaches the courts, and damaging allegations about both parties have been made.
In the Today interview, Sir Paul said he was optimistic that the situation surrounding the divorce would eventually improve.
He said: “Remember that it is a private affair and that way [acting with dignity] you will probably get through it better, you will put less noses out of joint and I think it’s a more dignified way to go about it, so that’s what I try to do.”
He added that music had helped him to remain optimistic

The Simpsons has returned to TV in Venezuela after it was deemed unsuitable for children – and was replaced by Baywatch.
A spokeswoman for the station Televen said the popular US cartoon about the yellow dysfunctional family would now be shown in an early evening slot.
The series was branded “inappropriate” in its original morning slot.
Venezuela’s TV authorities forced the network to take it off air by threatening to fine it.
The National Telecommunications Commission also said the channel would be taken off air if it failed to move the show from its 1100 slot.
It claimed the saga of Homer Simpson, wife Marge and their three children flouted regulations that prohibit “messages that go against the whole education of boys, girls and adolescents”.
It said that some unspecified complaints had been received from viewers.
Venezuelan TV is known for filling its schedules with re-runs of old US series and Latin American soap operas.
It also includes a talk show hosted by the country’s president, Hugo Chavez.

Seen from here, Mrs Merkel seems to be cruising to re-election.
She’s really popular you know,” said Peter Verloop, retired former head of Suzuki Europe, and now a member of the presidium of the Automobile Club of Germany.
“I think at the moment there’s nobody really in the starting block that can do better.”
“This was a good opportunity for our government to show its capabilities,” added another industry executive who did not want to be named.
“How they managed the crisis is a very good job. Merkel can take the credit.”
Chancellor Merkel’s response to the crisis has included elements familiar to anyone in Britain: a large fiscal stimulus and a bailout for troubled banks.
It has given her party a strong lead: in the latest poll her CDU/CSU had 35% support, compared to 26% for the Social Democrats (SPD).
Peter Mattuschek, from the polling agency Forsa, said her ability to sell these policies has been most important.
“The performance of Angela Merkel has been strategically quite intelligent,” he said. “When the rescue packages were approved for German banks she managed to sell this as being for the people, giving people stability in times of turmoil.”
But there have been protests and strikes, such as a four-day stoppage at car-parts maker Federal Mogul in Wiesbaden in May.

Natural England said changing conditions would also lead to the loss of some plants and animals.
They risk being replaced by non-native and “invasive” species, it said.
Shaun Thomas, Natural England’s East of England director, said: “There is a clear need for Natural England to continue its work with government, organisations with a stake in the Broads and local communities to develop integrated responses to climate change in this, the UK’s premier wetland.”
Mr Thomas said new policies were needed to determine how the Broads could adapt to climate change.
Stephen Johnson, chairman of the Broads Authority, said the research emphasised the “need to get our habitats robust and resilient”.
Natural England also confirmed its support for the current policy to maintain the line of defence on the stretch of coast between Eccles and Winterton for at least 50 years.
The Environment Agency said it would study Natural England’s report and give “careful consideration” to what action it takes.

Once the satellites have spotted a shoal, the information can be distributed to the fishermen via mobile phones and the internet.
Alternatively, some fishermen travel with a larger ship, equipped to receive the information from space – and then relay it to smaller fishing boats.
is one of the practical results of the Indian space effort, which began 40 years ago in Kerala.
Vikram Sarabhai, the “father” of the Indian space programme, said his vision was to “connect the people, connect the world.”
Another way the space programme is being put to use is in a new hospital at the Amrita Institute of Medical Science in Kochin.
There, large screens show patients in beds 4,000 km away. Experts at the institute can examine the patients via satellite TV beamed from space in what is known as “tele-medicine.”
This, its pioneers believe, saves time and money by abolishing the frontiers to treatment in the vast sub-continent.
Some critics, however, point out that the internet could probably be used in similar way.
Others argue that tele-medicine and other schemes like it are a gloss put over to disguise the fact that, in their view, social benefits from the space programme are being put aside in favour of commercial spin-offs.

Cuba’s President Raul Castro has completed his first year in power since taking over from his brother, Fidel, who ran Cuba for nearly 50 years.
It has proved a smooth transition, despite many predicting communism would collapse without Fidel at the helm.
Raul Castro’s programme of reforms has been hit by three hurricanes and the global economic crisis.
But there has been success in foreign policy, ending the island’s international isolation.
It was never going to be easy replacing his famous brother, the only leader that Cuba had known for almost half a century.
But within weeks of formally taking over the presidency, on 24 February last year, Raul Castro won widespread support at home for a series of small but symbolic reforms.
These included allowing Cubans to buy mobile phones and stay in the same hotels as foreigners.
He also introduced bonus-related pay and launched agricultural reforms, providing state owned land to private farmers.

Ms Tysiac now wears glasses with thick, powerful lenses, but cannot see objects more than a metre-and-a-half away.
As a disabled single mother, she finds it a struggle to raise her three children on her own, on a pension of 140 euros (£96) a month.
Poland has some of the strictest abortion laws in Europe.
The European Court of Human Rights cannot throw out Poland’s laws, but it could rule that Ms Tysiac’s rights have been violated.
The head of a group that is fighting to change Poland’s abortion laws has told the BBC that very few women are able to terminate their pregnancies.
“The practice of the Polish abortion law is even stricter than the law itself,” Wanda Nowiska, from the Polish Federation for Women and Family Planning, said.
“So in Poland we have no more than 200 legal abortions per year. That shows the magnitude of the problem,” she said.
Abortion was widely available in Poland under communism.
Following its collapse, a resurgent Catholic church sponsored legislation that said a pregnancy could only be terminated in three circumstances:
• Where it could save the mother’s life
• Where the foetus was irreparably damaged
• Where the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest.

Two court cases in Turkey are deepening the rift between secularists and a government with Islamist roots.
At the heart of the latest political crisis in Turkey is a shadowy ultra-nationalist group called Ergenekon.
It is a name steeped in Turkish mythology.
Ergenekon was a legendary valley in Central Asia that was home to the ancient Turks, until a grey wolf led them out onto the road to eventual nationhood.
One of Turkey’s top prosecutors has described the group as a terrorist organisation and indicted 86 alleged members for plotting to overthrow the government.

Denis Faustman, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Immunobiology Laboratory who led the research, said: “It’s the cells without CD45 that are the precursors for pancreatic islets. They have a distinct function that has not previously been identified for the spleen.”
Dr David Nathan, director of the hospital’s Diabetes Center, added: “These exciting findings in a mouse model of Type 1 diabetes suggest that patients who are developing this disease could be rescued from further destruction of their insulin-producing cells.
“In addition, patients with fully established diabetes possibly could have their diabetes reversed.”
Dr Eleanor Kennedy, research director for Diabetes UK , said “The initial results of this research are potentially very exciting for people with diabetes. Reversing the onset of Type 1 diabetes by turning adult precursor cells from the spleen into insulin-producing cells is a new approach.