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[2014 1028 Todd] Nation's First Non-Profit Supermarket Is Picking Up Steam

source: http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/nonprofit-supermarket-food-desert-chester-fare-and-square

Q1: How do you think of the business model as an non-profit super market?
Q2: Any new interesting idea or stories you have known reagrding a business model? share some.

1. recouped v. 收回；取回;償還；歸還給;恢復（健康）
2. rake n.長柄的耙，草耙
   v. 耙平；耙鬆;搜索，探索;迅速（或大量）取得錢財等（+in）
3.halal n.v. 伊斯蘭合法食物

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[2014 1028 Todd]Why we gossip? It's all about ourselves

source: http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/gossip-really-whisper-rumors-93025/

Q1: Do you agree with the author's saying regarding gossip? how or why? 
Q2: Any gossip do you hear from someone or somethere?  talk about it and how you feel toward that.

1.innuendo
  n.諷刺
  vi. 說諷刺話
2.evoke
  vt.喚起（記憶等）；引起
3.aforementioned 
  a.前面提及的，上述的
4.albeit 
  conj. 儘管，雖然
5.illicit
  a.非法的，不法的，違禁的；不正當的
6.catharsis 
  n. 【醫】導瀉 淨化作用
7.tread
  v. n. 踩，踏
8.thereof 
  ad. 其
  a problem and the solution thereof 問題及其解決辦法 
  關於那 由此，因此