More teens are smoking in Beijing, where the number of primary and middle school students picking up the habit has more than doubled from previous years, a survey has found.

据一项调查显示：在北京，吸烟的青少年人数日益增多，染上烟瘾的小学生和初中生人数是前几年的两倍还多。

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"We found something very unexpected," said co-author Pierre Dutrieux, from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), referring to the 400m-high ridge.

“我们得到一些非常意外的发现，”来自英国南极调查局(BAS)的合著者皮埃尔·杜特·里奥说，他指的是400米高的海脊。

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The survey found the average age for the onset of puberty of Guangzhou's children dropped to 11 years old from the previous age of 13.

调查发现，广州儿童进入青春期的平均年龄从之前的13岁下降到了11岁。

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Another interesting finding from the survey can be found in some of the background questions in the survey, specifically one regarding the nature of real estate investments that these investors purchased in 2013.

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Meanwhile a survey by the Lemelson Center at MIT survey found that the majority of teenagers may be discouraged from pursuing STEM careers because they do not know anyone who works in these fields and they do not understand what people in these fields do.

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But only 29% believe the gains to last beyond the next few months, down from 38%, and a three-month low, the survey found.

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