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One in five US workers regularly attends after-work drinks with co-workers, where the most common 36 range from bad-mouthing （说…的坏话）another worker to kissing a colleague and drinking too much, according to a study 37 on Tuesday.

Most workers attend so-called happy hours to 38 with colleagues, although 15 percent go to hear the latest office gossip and 13 percent go because they feel obliged, said the survey conducted for CareerBuilder., on online job site.

As to what happens when the after-work drinks flow, 16 percent reported bad-mouthing a colleague, 10 percent shared a secret about a colleague, 8 percent kissed a colleague and 8 percent said they drank too much and acted 39 . 5 percent said they had shared a secret about the company, and 4 percent 40 to singing karaoke.

While 21 percent of those who attend say happy hours are good for 41 , 85 percent said attending had not helped them get 42 to someone higher up or get a better position.

An equal number of men and women said they attend happy hours with co-workers, with younger workers aged 25 to 34 most likely and workers over 55 least 43 to attend.

Overall, 21 percent of workers attend happy hours with co-workers and, of those, 44 a quarter go at least once a month.

The survey was 45 online by Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder, among 6,987 full-time employees.

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If it were only necessary to decide whether to teach elementary science to everyone on a mass basis or to find the gifted few and take them as far as they can go, our task would be fairly simple. The public school 36 , however, has no such choice, for the job must be 47 on at the same time. Because we depend so 38 upon science and technology for our progress, we must produce 39 in many fields. Because we live in a democratic nation, whose citizens make the policies for the nation, large numbers of us must be educated to understand, to support, and when necessary, to 40 the work of experts. The public school must educate both producers and users of scientific services.

In education, there should be a good balance among the branches of knowledge that contribute to effective thinking and wise judgment. Such balance is 41 by too much emphasis on any one field. This question of balance involves not only the relation of the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the arts but also relative 42 among the natural sciences themselves.

Similarly, we must have a balance between current and 43 knowledge. The attention of the public is 44 drawn to new possibilities in scientific fields and the discovery of new knowledge; these should not be allowed to turn our attention away from the sound, 45 materials that form the basis of courses for beginners.

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