1. Indeed. That's an understated benefit of Philly tanking so hard in recent years: they are so bad it disincentives other clubs from tanking because they'll struggle to be as bad as the Sixers. The Mavericks are in the mix, at least.

2. Then why do you go out and do the things you tell us not to do? 你们大人为什么去做与你们教导孩子相反的事情呢？

3. 因为这里说的是BBC的夏洛克，所以你的华生不是真傻，只是用自己的方式展现智慧。他还有点不确定自己的性向（万一是直的呢）。

4. In my anger, I am not blind, and in my fear, I am not afraid to tell the world how I feel. 然而事实却让我很愤怒，但我也很清醒，我虽然害怕，但我敢于告诉世界我真实的感受。

5. 上周，希拉里的竞选团队负责人约翰·波德斯塔表示，希拉里很可能会挑选一名女性作为她的副总统获选人。很快有人猜测，为了吸引女性选民，她的竞选伙伴很可能是马萨诸塞州参议员伊莉莎白·华伦。她是一名非常受女性欢迎的、激进的参选者。

6. 3. Flying Horse

应用

1. Recent years have seen a return of the bacterial infection, reaching numbers not seen since the 1960s, with admissions for a primary diagnosis more than doubling between 2010/11 and 2017/18, from 429 to more than 1,300.

2. DeMarcus Cousins, Serge Ibaka and Lou Williams were all dealt in advance of Thursday's 3 p.m. ET deadline, leaving role players like Taj Gibson and P.J. Tucker as the biggest names to move right before the buzzer.

3. 因为一种鲜为人知的病毒所造成的重大影响，2016年将在全球卫生方面被人们铭记。这似曾相识，不过此次登上全球头条新闻的不是埃博拉病毒，而是寨卡——一种通过蚊子传播的病毒，大脑存在缺陷的新生儿数量在巴西急剧增加与此有关。

4. “我们需要做市长希望大家做的事——建造更多住房，”纽约房地产委员会主席史蒂芬·斯皮诺拉(Steven Spinola)说，但是，“如果数据上不可行，如果收回来的租金低于建筑的维护成本，那你就不会这么做了。”

5. 同时，11月服务业PMI指数是51.2。此前的10月份该指数为52。本周早些时候报出的11月份制造业PMI指数为48.6，高于48.3的预期。10月份该指数则为48.3。

6. “Welcome to Me” (Shira Piven)

旧版特色

1. ●“Girl Infects 586 Men With HIV On Purpose, Plans On Infecting 2,000 More Before 2017 - TRENDING”

2. It is already illegal for employers to discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, nationality, religion, age, or disability. But a majority of states still don't provide protection to LGBT individuals in the workplace. Apple (AAPL, Fortune 500) CEO Tim Cook wants to put an end to this discrepancy. In a November Wall Street Journal op-ed entitled "Workplace Equality Is Good for Business," Cook urged the passing of a federal law to protect workers from discrimination based on sexual orientation.

3. It’s ironic that in a country as populous as China, a meme about loneliness would be so popular. This seemingly irrational line has been repeated in every possible permutation, on every possible occasion, e.g. “What big brother is reading not a book, but loneliness.”