Our company gives out Thanksgiving turkeys to retired employees. All they have to do is stop by the plant to pick them up. 我们公司给退休员工发放感恩节火鸡。他们需要做的就是来到工厂，把火鸡取走。 A few days before...
The night before the first lottery he rigged, a $4.8 million jackpot in Colorado, Eddie stayed late in his messy, computer-filled office. 艾迪第一次操纵的彩票是科罗拉多州的480万美元的头奖，在前一天晚上，他在脏乱的、...
You have these honest dupes, Sand says. 桑德说，现在出现了这些诚实的骗子。 All these people are being offered thousands of dollars for doing something that's a little bit sneaky but not illegal. 所有这些人都因为做了一些偷偷...
Sand contacted Richard Rennison, a special agent at the FBI office in Texas City, Texas. 桑德联系了理查德雷尼森，他是美国联邦调查局(FBI)驻德克萨斯州得克萨斯城办公室的一名特工。 Rennison said he remembered the...
Among Eddie's friends was a colleague named Jason Maher. 艾迪的朋友中有一个叫杰森马赫的同事。 They spent hours playing the online game World of Tanks. 他们会花几个小时玩坦克世界的在线游戏。 When Maher saw the Hot...
I was convinced it would never be claimed, says Mary Neubauer, the Iowa Lottery's vice president of external relations, of the jackpot. 爱荷华州彩票机构负责对外关系的副总裁玛丽纽鲍尔在谈到这个头奖时说：我当时确信它...
The video was grainy, but it showed enough to possibly crack open the biggest lottery scam in American history. 这个视频画面有颗粒感，但这足以破解美国历史上最大的彩票骗局。 A heavyset man walks into a QuikTrip convenienc...
In addition to being open to dissenting opinions, here are some techniques that could help broaden the way you think： 除了以开放态度对待不同意见之外，这里有一些技巧可以帮助你拓展思维： One, Change Environments. A di...
The JAMA study didnt pinpoint the reasons for the decreased death rate, 《美国医学会杂志》没有指出死亡率降低的原因， but the authors explained that most errors made by doctors are connected to a tendency to form opinions quickly...
In life, once on a path, we tend to follow it, for better or worse. 在生活中，一旦走上了一条道路，不论好坏，我们往往会在这条路上走下去。 Whats sad is that even if its the latter, we often accept it anyway because we...
I had always thought that, being a simple genetic anomaly, four-leaf clovers would be fairly common. 四叶草是一种简单的遗传疾病，我一直觉得它是很常见的。 I have since learned that one in 10,000 clovers has four leaves. 后来我...
When I was in the third grade, we had a scavenger hunt at school. 在我上三年级的时候，我们会在学校玩寻物游戏。 We gathered up chalk, pencils, stones, and poorly hidden tchotchkes, rapidly filling our checklists. It was a very cl...
I'm not trying to scare you, but rifles are for men, not boys. 我不是吓唬你，但是步枪是为男人准备的，而不是男孩。 If you take this, and we go shooting, you need to accept responsibility every time you pull the trigger. Every...
After about three hours, through my night vision goggles I saw a pickup truck exiting the village. 大概三小时后，通过夜视镜我看到一个小卡车驶出了村庄。 This wasnt all that unusual in itself, but the vehicle was traveling acr...
I hadn't been in Iraq that long, maybe 60 days. My assignment: gunner for a troop transport vehicle known as an MRAP. 我没有在伊拉克待过那么长时间，也许有60天。我的任务是：担任一种部队运输工具地雷防护车的炮手...
