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ENGLISH - ARTICLE - "Ask Well: The Best Time to Exercise to Lose Weight"

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Ask Well: The Best Time to Exercise to Lose Weight No Pain, No Gain http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/23/ask-well-the-best-time-of-day-to-exercise/?ref=health&_r=1 Vocabulary Woozy: Dizzy. Dazed or confused. Dans las vases , dans le cirage :  http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/woozy?showCookiePolicy=true Wee hours: very early in the morning. Aux petites heures du matin:  http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/wee?showCookiePolicy=true Fast: Period without food. Jeûne:  http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/fasted?showCookiePolicy=true To prompt: to urge someone to do something. Provoquer , causer, susciter .  http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/prompt?showCookiePolicy=true To Stave (Sth) off: to avert or hold off. Contrer, écarter, éviter.  http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/stave-off?showCookiePolicy=true Ground - breaking:  Innovative, revolutionary. Avant - ga

ENGLISH - ARTICLE - "What’s Your ‘Fitness Age’?"

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What’s Your ‘Fitness Age’? http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/31/how-old-is-your-health/?_r=2   .- Daunting: abrumador, sobrecogedor, desmoralizante:  https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/daunting .- to Pinpoint: Detallar, precisar:  https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/pinpoint .-  Span: un periodo, un alcance (distancia).  https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/span .- Elderly: entrado en años, de edad avanzada:  https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/elderly .- Overweight: con sobrepeso, obeso, obesa:  https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/overweight .- to Comb Through: revisar, examinar:  https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/comb .- to Yield: ceder, producir:  https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/yield .- to Tax: retar, desafiar:  https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/tax .- Noteworthy: considerable; digno de

ENGLISH - ARTICLE - "Amazon and Hachette Resolve Dispute"

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TECHNOLOGY: Amazon and Hachette Resolve Dispute http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/14/technology/amazon-hachette-ebook-dispute.html?ref=technology .- to Blossom: noun: the flower or flowers of a plant, esp consppicuous flowers producing edible fruit. / Verb intr.: (of plants) to come into a flower. / to develop or come to a promising stage. http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/blossom?showCookiePolicy=true   .- a Brawl: noun. A loud disagreement or fight / To quarrel or fight noisily, squabble. http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/brawl?showCookiePolicy=true   .- a Contention: noun. A struggling between opponent; competition; assertion, claim, allegation, dispute, disagreement. http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/contention?showCookiePolicy=true   .- a Statement: noun. The act of stating. Sommething that is stated, esp as a formal prepared announcement. or reply. Verb tr. usually passive. To asses (a pupil) w

ENGLISH - ARTICLE - Can Second Graders Appreciate a Seven-Course, $220 Tasting Meal?

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For the magazine’s fall Food issue, we treated six second graders from P.S. 295 in Brooklyn to dinner at Daniel, where the seven-course tasting menu goes for $220 a person One Saturday afternoon last month, six second graders from P.S. 295 in Brooklyn got a head start on the fine-dining life when they visited the acclaimed French restaurant Daniel.  There, five waiters presented them with a seven-course tasting menu (after the trio of canapés and an   amuse-bouche ,   naturellement ).  The meal was overseen by the star chef and eponym himself, Daniel Boulud, whose goal was, he says, “for the children to really discover a lot of flavor, a lot of layers, a lot of texture.”  These discoveries included Smoked Paprika Cured Hamachi (the “most-foreign thing for them,” Boulud says), Crispy Japanese Snapper (“which they loved to see”) and Wagyu Beef Rib-Eye (“a big success”).  To capture the children’s reactions, the magazine asked Jeffrey Blitz, the director of the