The Rules of Attraction in the Game of Love

Bjorn Carey   |   February 13, 2006 07:05am ET

To figure out how we pick mates, scientists have measured every shape and angle of the human face, studied the symmetry of dancers, crafted formulas from the measurements of Playboy models, and had both men and women rank attractiveness based on smelling armpit sweat.
After all this and more, the rules of attraction for the human species are still not clearly understood. How it all factors into true love is even more mysterious.
But a short list of scientific rules for the game of love is emerging. Some are as clearly defined as the prominent, feminine eyes of a supermodel or the desirable hips of a well-built man. Other rules work at the subconscious level, motivating us to action for evolutionary reasons that are tucked inside clouds of infatuation.

In the end, lasting love depends at least as much on behavior as biology. But the first moves are made before you're even born.
Symmetry equals sex
Starting at conception, the human body develops by neatly splitting cells. If every division were to go perfectly, the result would be a baby whose left and right sides are mirror images. But nature doesn't work that way. Genetic mutations and environmental pressures skew symmetry, and the results have lifelong implications.
Good symmetry shows that an individual has the genetic goods to survive development, is healthy, and is a good and fertile choice for mating.
"It makes sense to use symmetry variation in mate choice," said evolutionary biologist Randy Thornhill of the University of New Mexico. "If you choose a perfectly symmetrical partner and reproduce with them, your offspring will have a better chance of being symmetric and able to deal with perturbations."
Thornhill has been studying symmetry for 15 years and scanned faces and bodies into computers to determine symmetry ratios. Both men and women rated symmetrical members of the opposite sex as more attractive and in better health than their less symmetrical counterparts. The differences can be just a few percent—perceivable though not necessarily noticeable.
By questioning the study participants, Thornhill also found that men with higher degrees of symmetry enjoy more sexual partners than men of lower symmetry.
"Women's sex-partner numbers are dependent on things other than attractiveness," Thornhill told LiveScience. "Because of the way that the sexual system in humans works, women are choosey. They are being sexually competed for. They have to be wooed and all that."
Those hips
Body shape is of course important, too. And scientists have some numbers to prove it. Psychologist Devendra Singh of the University of Texas studied people's waist-to-hip ratio (WHR).
Women with a WHR of 0.7—indicating a waist significantly narrower than the hips—are most desirable to men.
And an analysis of hourglass figures of Playboy models and Miss America contestants showed that the majority of these women boast a WHR of 0.7 or lower.
In general, a range of 0.67 to 1.18 in females is attractive to men, Singh concluded in a 2004 study, while a 0.8 to 1.0 WHR in men is attractive to women, although having broad shoulders is more of a turn-on.
What exactly is encoded in the hip ratio? A big fat clue to whether the person will have enough energy to care for offspring.
Where fat is deposited on the body is determined by sex hormones; testosterone in men and estrogen in women. If a woman produces the proper amount and mixture of estrogen, then her WHR will naturally fall into the desired range. The same goes for a male's testosterone.
People in the ideal hip-ratio range, regardless of weight, are less susceptible to disease such as cardiovascular disorders, cancer, and diabetes, studies have shown. Women in this range also have less difficulty conceiving.
"The idea is that beauty is conveying information about health and fertility, and we admire that," Singh said in a telephone interview.
Face it
The structure of a person's face also gives insight to fertility.
Estrogen caps bone growth in a woman's lower face and chin, making them relatively small and short, as well as the brow, allowing for her eyes to appear prominent, Thornhill explained. Men's faces are shaped by testosterone, which helps develop a larger lower face and jaw and a prominent brow.
Men and women possessing these traits are seen as attractive, Thornhill said, because they advertise reproductive health.
Thornhill also points to the booming nip-‘n'-tuck business—which is very much about improving a person's symmetry—as evidence that people find the quality attractive.
Another recent study revealed that symmetrical dancers are seen as more attractive.
Sniff this
Research reported last month found women both smell and look more attractive to men at certain times of the month.
And symmetrical men smell better.
Borrowing sweaty undershirts from a variety of men, Thornhill offered the shirts to the noses of women, asking for their impressions of the scents. Hands down, the women found the scent of a symmetrical man to be more attractive and desirable, especially if the woman was menstruating.
By now you might be wondering how much of this we're consciously aware of. The rules of attraction, it turns out, seem sometimes to play out in our subconscious.
In some cases, women in Thornhill's study reported not smelling anything on a shirt, yet still said they were attracted to it.
"We think the detection of these types of scent is way outside consciousness," Thornhill said.
A 2002 study found women prefer the scent of men with genes somewhat similar to their own over the scent of nearly genetically identical or totally dissimilar men.
These subconscious scents might be related to pheromones, chemical signals produced by the body to communicate reproductive quality. The human genome contains more than 1,000 olfactory genes—compared to approximately 300 genes for photoreceptors in the eyes—so pheromones have received a lot of attention from basic research scientists as well as perfume manufacturers.
But the role of pheromones in the human realm remains controversial.
Animal attraction
Pheromones clearly act as sexual attractants in the animal world. Older male elephants, for example, exude sexual prowess with a mix of chemicals the younger bulls can't muster.
Milos Novotny of the Institute of Pheromone Research at Indiana University has shown that special molecules produced by male mice can simultaneously attract females and repel, and even anger, rival males. Other studies have found similar responses throughout the animal kingdom.
Yet many researchers are not sold on the idea that these odorless compounds play a role in human attraction. Count evolutionary biologist Jianzhi Zhang of the University of Michigan among the skeptical.
In 2003, Zhang showed that a gene mutated 23 million years ago among primates in Africa and Asia that are considered to be human ancestors, allowing them to see color. This let the males notice that a female's bottom turned bright red when she was ready to mate.
"With the development of a sexual color scheme, you don't need the pheromone sensitivity to sense whether a female monkey is ready to mate," Zhang said. "It's advantageous to use visual cues rather than pheromones because they can be seen from a distance."
A study last year, however, suggested that human pheromones affect the sexual area of the brains of women and gay men in a similar manner.
Sex goes visual
Pheromones, like other scents, hitch a ride through the air on other particles, such as water droplets. They generally hover just 10 inches off the ground, however. So odds are slim they'll waft up to a human nose and fuel sudden passion at a nightclub.
Watch any construction worker whistling at a passing woman from half a block away, and you can see how visual cues can be more powerful.
And while they enter the nose like other scents, that's where the comparison stops. A pheromone's destination is a special organ called the volmeronasal organ, which humans now lack. From here the sexy scent travels along a neural pathway to the brain separate from other scents.
Evolution played a role in this, too.
After our ancestors began to see color, a gene important in the pheromone-signaling pathway suffered a deleterious mutation, making it impossible for the scent signals to reach the brain, Zhang said. Imagine a train, leaving from Los Angeles to New York, discovers that the tracks in St. Louis are destroyed.
Although the classical pheromone pathway in both Old World primates and humans is dysfunctional, the mechanism for producing pheromones still works. Some scientists believe human pheromones might be influencing our decisions along the normal olfactory pathway.
Lasting relationships
The rules of attraction might drive our initial decisions, for better or worse. But lasting relationships are about much more than what we see and smell.
Behavior plays a key role, with biology an intriguing contributing factor.
One of the oldest theories about attraction is that like begets like. It explains that eerie perception that married couples sometimes look awfully similar.
Last year, J. Philippe Rushton, a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario, looked into the relationships of people's genes. Based on a set of heritable personality traits, having similar genetics plays 34 percent of the role in friendship and mate selection, he found.
"The main theory is that some genes work well in combination with each other," Rushton told LiveScience. "If these genes evolved to work in combination, then you don't want to break that up too much for your offspring. Finding a mate with similar genes will help you ensure this."
If your spouse is genetically similar, you're more likely to have a happy marriage, for example. Child abuse rates are lower when similarity is high, and you'll also be more altruistic and willing to sacrifice more for someone who is more genetically like you, research shows.
It probably comes as little surprise people are drawn to individuals with similar attitudes and values, as psychologist Eva Klohnen at the University of Iowa found in a 2005 study of newlywed couples. These characteristics are highly visible and accessible to others and can play a role in initial attraction.
When it comes to sticking together for the long haul, researchers have shown that likeness of personality, which can take more time to realize, means more.
Comedy can also help a relationship. But the importance of humor is different for men and women, says Eric Bressler of McMaster University.
A woman is attracted to a man who makes her laugh, Bressler found in a 2005 study. A man likes a woman who laughs at his jokes.
True love
Somewhere amid attraction and sex, we all hope, are strong feelings of love. But which of all the motivations really drives us?
Interestingly, brain scans in people who'd recently fallen in love reveal more activity related to love than sex. "Romantic love is one of the most powerful of all human experiences," says Helen Fisher, an anthropologist at Rutgers University. "It is definitely more powerful than the sex drive."
The rules of attraction make up a pretty long list. No scientist knows the order of the list. But near the top is perhaps one of the toughest characteristics to gauge in advance in the search for the perfect partner.
Despite all their differences, men and women place high value on one trait: fidelity.
Cornell University's Stephen Emlen and colleagues asked nearly 1,000 people age 18 to 24 to rank several attributes, including physical attractiveness, health, social status, ambition, and faithfulness, on a desirability scale.
People who rated themselves favorably as long-term partners were more particular about the attributes of potential mates. After fidelity, the most important attributes were physical appearance, family commitment, and wealth and status.
"Good parenting, devotion, and sexual fidelity—that's what people say they're looking for in a long-term relationship," Emlen says.
http://www.livescience.com/7023-rules-attraction-game-love.html

Why Beautiful Women Marry Less Attractive Men

Women seeking a lifelong mate might do well to choose the guy a notch below them in the looks category. New research reveals couples in which the wife is better looking than her husband are more positive and supportive than other match-ups.

The reason, researchers suspect, is that men place great value on beauty, whereas women are more interested in having a supportive husband.
Researchers admit that looks are subjective, but studies show there are some universal standards, including large eyes, "baby face" features, symmetric faces, so-called average faces, and specific waist-hip ratios in men versus women. 

Past research has shown that individuals with comparable stunning looks are attracted to each other and once they hook up they report greater relationship satisfaction. These studies, however, are mainly based on new couples, showing that absolute beauty is important in the earliest stages of couple-hood, said lead researcher James McNulty of the University of Tennessee. But the role of physical attractiveness in well-established partnerships, such as marriage, is somewhat of a mystery.  
The new study, published in the February issue of the Journal of Family Psychology, reveals looks continue to matter beyond that initial attraction, though in a different way.
 
Supportive spouses
McNulty's team assessed 82 couples who had married within the previous six months and had been together for nearly three years prior to tying the knot. Participants were on average in their early to mid-20s.
Researchers videotaped as each spouse discussed with their partner a personal problem for 10 minutes. The tapes were analyzed for whether partners were supportive of spouses' issues, which included goals to eat healthier, to land a new job and to exercise more often.
"A negative husband would've said, 'This is your problem, you deal with it,'" McNulty said, "versus 'Hey, I'm here for you; what do you want me to do?; how can I help you?'"
A group of trained "coders" rated the facial attractiveness of each spouse on a scale from 1 to 10, with the perfect 10 representing the ultimate babe. About a third of the couples had a more attractive wife, a third a more attractive husband and the remaining partners showed matching looks.
 
Trophy wives
Overall, wives and husbands behaved more positively when the woman was better looking.
The finding "seems very reasonable," said Dan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences and Sloan School of Management. "Men are very sensitive to women's attractiveness. Women seem to be sensitive to men's height and salary," said Ariely, who was not involved in the recent study.
 
In couples with more attractive husbands, both partners were less supportive of one another. McNulty suggests wives mirror, in some ways, the level of support they get from husbands.

"The husband who's less physically attractive than his wife is getting something more than maybe he can expect to get," McNulty told LiveScience. "He's getting something better than he's providing at that level. So he's going to work hard to maintain that relationship."
Men who are more attractive than their partners would theoretically have access to partners who are more attractive than their current spouses, McNulty said. The "grass could be greener" mentality could make these men less satisfied and less committed to maintain the marriage.
Physical attractiveness of husbands is not as important to women, the researchers suggest. Rather, wives are looking for supportive husbands, they say.
So it seems the mismatch in looks is actually a perfect match. "Equitable is unlikely to mean the same on every dimension," Ariely said during a telephone interview. "It just means that overall two people make sense together." 

>> http://www.livescience.com/7483-beautiful-women-marry-attractive-men.html

Why Some People Can't Find Anyone to Marry

"Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink."

Published on April 12, 2013 by Fredric Neuman, M.D. in Fighting Fear

("It seems to me obvious that the more people you meet, the more likely it is that you will meet and marry someone appropriate.")

 
I was talking some time ago with a young, but not very young, friend of the family about how come she had not married.
“There’s nobody around here that is eligible,” she said.
“In New York City?  Last time I counted, there were eight million people in New York.”
“They’re all married, or gay. Or both,” she said, making a joke, I surmised.
Still, this attractive and talented person—who said she wanted to get married—was not dating anyone.
Other people seem to have no trouble finding someone to marry. Most people get married eventually. Some get married repeatedly—seven or eight times.  After my mother died, my father, who was sixty-four at the time, told me morosely that he would never find anyone like my mother; but he married two more times in the space of the next three years. Over the years I have been a practicing psychiatrist, I have known a number of people who married the same person twice, and, recently, someone who married the same person three times! I have never understood these repeat marriages to be a response to a dearth of other potential partners. It is just that getting away from a spouse for a while sometimes allows a couple to remember all the good times they had together back in the beginning of their marriage. They tend to forget those other matters that led to their divorce—until they remarry. Of course, other divorces lead to a deathless and unvarying enmity. Still more lead to indifference.

There are plenty of potential marriage partners. Usually, dating relationships spring up in three different settings: first, by meeting other people in the same community. But there are never very many potential partners living in the same neighborhood. My young friend had a point. In New York City, it is not uncommon to be strangers with people who have lived down the hall for the last twenty years. Secondly, couples sometimes develop dating relationships at work. These are usually discouraged by employers, but take place anyway. After a certain age, however, many of the other workers are already married. Third, and probably most important, couples meet each other during shared activities, such as academic studies, or sports, or organized social activities, or at church. Having a particular interest makes someone interesting to someone who shares that interest. Nowadays, of course, there is internet dating.
I carry around a list of about twenty dating sites which I can offer to patients who express an interest. Although there are well known drawbacks to dating this way, I think, on balance, it is a good way of meeting a great number of people. (See my blog post, “An Argument for Internet Dating.”) It seems to me obvious that the more people you meet, the more likely it is that you will meet and marry someone appropriate. If you really want to meet and marry someone.

I had three patients who made me think about this problem. Each of them told me that they wanted very much to get married; yet none of them was successful in finding anyone.
The first was a woman who had just graduated from nursing school. Let’s call her Sally. Although young, Sally was already discouraged about not finding someone to date, let alone get married to.  I thought she was very attractive, although she did not think so. Of course, I could not tell her my opinion because she would have dismissed it out of hand, as she would that of a parent or a close friend. Besides, that sort of comment in the context of a therapeutic setting seems seductive. I thought she would be convinced, though, by others. She had just taken a position at a hospital where I knew there were many young doctors who would be working alongside her. I expected that she was going to be pursued by a number of them. But it did not happen. It took me a while to figure out why,
Sally had become invisible. Usually, when people work in the same setting, they begin after a time to smile at each other when they pass in a hallway. Or they comment vaguely on some aspect of the weather while they are waiting together for an elevator to arrive. Sally did not. She wore a lock of hair over her eyes; and she looked away when someone looked at her in passing. She thought she was being neither welcoming nor rejecting, but rather sort of neutral. I tried to explain to her that being “neutral” would be perceived as being cold; but she seemed unable to change.
Finally, she told me that there was an interne that she was attracted to. He had examined her when she had a strep throat. I told her that was great—the next time she ran into him in the corridors of the hospital she should thank him and offer—as thanks—to buy him a cup of coffee.
“I can’t do that,” Sally told me hurriedly. “I can’t be forward that way.”
The only time Sally relaxed a little was when she was drinking. Consequently, the only men she met were in bars. Finally, she married an alcoholic.

Mary Ellen worked at IBM in a relatively senior post for a woman of thirty-four. She had a graduate degree. She came to see me when she realized that she had not left her apartment during the entire two weeks of her vacation. She was depressed, but not with the vegetative signs of a major depression and therefore not likely to respond to drugs. She reported that she had not dated anyone for over a year. She was isolated. Yet she told me that she wanted to date and to marry. Her story was familiar. The reason I remember her was that she was extraordinarily beautiful.
“How can it be,” I asked her, “that you cannot find anyone to date?”
“The only men who come on to me are at work; and they are all married.”
It turned out Mary Ellen never did anything or went anywhere—except to work. When I suggested the usual ways of finding someone to date, she demurred.
“That’s just not me,” she said.
I was unable to help her. When she returned to work a few weeks later—and to her customary life—she stopped coming to see me.

The third woman was also an IBMer. She was a secretary. She said she wanted to get married and had been unsuccessfully looking for someone for years. She had no trouble dating, but seemed to sour on men for no particular reason. This happened repeatedly. Finally, she said to me:
“You know, there are some disadvantages to getting married. I work until six. Then I’m going to have to go home and cook dinner for someone else. I’m going to have to do his laundry and have sex when he wants to have sex. I’m going to have to worry about how he spends my money.”
No wonder she was balking at the prospect of marriage, No wonder she found some excuse to stop seeing anyone who might be a prospective husband. Although she had a cheery daydream about marriage in the back of her mind, she had in the front of her mind a different picture.
These women (I could just as easily have chosen three men) illustrate the two principal reasons an individual cannot find an appropriate partner. The two reasons overlap.

1. In order to meet and date someone, it is necessary to go to places where such an encounter is possible. More important, it is necessary to be open about wanting to meet someone. It is not an embarrassment and does not portray desperation. It is a normal way to feel; and others will understand that feeling and, indeed, feel that way themselves. Someone who does not invite interest will seem not to want to meet anyone. It is not possible to be “neutral” and wait for someone, somehow, like in the movies, to meet and fall in love on a street corner. Like any other human endeavor, meeting and marrying becomes much more likely if someone is pro-active—if that person plainly wants to meet someone and is willing to work at it. The feeling of “That’s just not me” evaporates, like any other old habit of mind. Doing something that is anxiety-provoking for any reason loses its ability to intimidate over time.
2. Most people regard marriage as liberating, although they may not stop to think of it in just that way.  Once someone is married, he/she is free to be with an interesting person practically all the time. They are able to speak and laugh together at all hours. They can have sex without making elaborate preparations. They are free to manage in a world that is largely designed for couples, rather than for single people. They have more economic opportunities because their joint income is more than that of either of them alone. And, above all, they are free to have children. Marriage is in a real way liberating.

But not everyone sees it that way. For some people, marriage seems as if it will be a constraint.
A woman thinks that she will now be subject to the whims and demands of a husband. The men say something similar:
“I don’t want to have to answer to someone all the time. I don’t want to ask for permission to buy the car I want or to stay out late with my friends. I don’t want someone making a claim on my hard-earned money. I don’t want someone taking up all of the bed!”
If a man or woman thinks of marriage as unpleasant, it will not be possible to find anyone desirable to marry.
In short, some people have trouble finding someone to marry because they find the process of looking uncomfortable, and even demeaning. And others really do not want to get married; they want to maintain a fiction of aspiring to marriage; but it is only a fiction.
Not everyone should be married, but I think it is easier for married people to be happy. The two problems described above that prevent marriage are an outgrowth of certain inaccurate ideas some people have developed about themselves and about the world. Often, these misconceptions change in psychotherapy; and, luckily, people do not have to change very much to change their lives. If people can be persuaded not to be proud and not to be fearful, there are plenty of opportunities to find someone to share their lives.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fighting-fear/201304/why-some-people-cant-find-anyone-marry 

Chahun Main Ya Naa?? Should I love u or not?

(Love this song so much! I also really love the chemistry between 2 leads in Ashiqui 2. The way they look at each other is so adorable, it's like they see no one and nothing else around, except each other. Like there are 7 billion people in the world but it seems like there is only 2 of them - 2 people who truly and deeply in love with each other.) xoxo

Tu hi yeh mujhko bata de
You only tell me this
Chahun main yaa na
Should I love you or not?
Apne tu dil ka pata de
Give me the address of Your heart
Chahun main yaa na
Even if I ask for it or not

Tu hi yeh mujhko bata de
You only tell me this
Chahun main yaa na
Should I love you or not?
Apne tu dil ka pata de
Give me the address of Your heart
Chahun main yaa na
Even if I ask for it or not

Itna bata doon tujhko
I want to tell You this
Chahat pe apni mujhko
Over my love, I...
Yun to nahi ikhtiyaar
Didn't have so much control 
Phir bhi yeh socha dil ne
But still this heart thought
Ab jo laga hoon milne
As I've started meeting You
Poochhoon tujhe ik baar... O...
I should ask You about this once

Tu hi yeh mujhko bata de
You only tell me this
Chahun main yaa na
Should I love you or not?
Hmm... Apne tu dil ka pata de
Give me the address of Your heart
Chahun main ya... na...
Even if I ask it or not

Aisi... kabhi pehle hui na thi khwaahishein
I didn't have any such desires before
O... Kisi se bhi milne ki na ki thi koshishein...
I never made attempts to meet anyone
Uljhan meri suljhaa de
Solve this difficulty of mine
Chahun main yaa na
Even if I ask for it or not
Aankhon aankhon mein jataa de
Show it to me through Your gaze
Chahun main yaa na
Should I love you or not?

Mere chhote chhote khwaab the
I had small dreams
Khwaabon mein geet hain
In the dreams there were songs
Geeton mein zindagi hai
In songs there was life
Chahat hai, preet hai
There's desire, there's love 
Abhi main na dekhoon khwaab wo jin mein na tu mile
Now I don't see any dreams in which I don't achieve (attain) You
Ni khole honth maine ab tak the jo sile
I didn't open my lips which I had sealed for so long
Mujhko na jitna mujh pe utna is dil ko tujh pe hone laga aitbaar...
As much faith as I don't have in myself, this heart has that much faith in You
Tanha lamhon mein apne bunti hoon tere sapne
In my lonely moments, I weave Your dreams
Tujhse hua mujhko pyaar... O...
I am in love with You

Poochhoongi tujhko kabhi na
I'll never ask You this
Chahun main yaa na
Should I love you or not
Tere khwaabon mein ab jeena
I want to live in Your dreams
Chahun main kyun na
Why shouldn't I wish so?

Tu hi yeh mujhko bata de
You only tell me this
Chahun main yaa na
Should I love you or not?
Apne tu dil ka pata de
Give me the address of Your heart
Chahun main yaa na
Even if I ask for it or not

Source: http://www.bollynook.com/en/lyrics/10610/chahun-main-yaa-na/ 

Những điểm “trốn nắng” Hè tuyệt vời nhất ở Việt Nam

(Dân trí) - Khí hậu nhiệt đới gió mùa đem theo cái nắng nóng oi ả, hẳn ai cũng muốn tìm nơi nào đó thoát khỏi cái thời tiết khắc nghiệt này. Dưới đây chính là những điểm đến có khí hậu trong lành và khung cảnh đẹp cho bạn lựa chọn để “trốn nắng”.

 Sa Pa, tỉnh Lào Cai

Sa Pa là một điểm đến lý tưởng cho du khách ở bất kỳ thời điểm nào trong năm. Thị trấn này có khí hậu cận nhiệt đới nên rất thoáng mát và trong lành. Đến đây ngoài thả bộ trên những con đường

mòn uốn lượn, ngắm khung cảnh ruộng bậc thang, bạn còn được dịp đắm mình trong những câu chuyện mang đầy bản sắc địa phương và thưởng thức các món ăn người dân tộc.

Đà Lạt, tỉnh Lâm Đồng

Đà Lạt còn được gọi là thành phố hoa, thành phố sương mù hay “Paris của Việt Nam”. Ở độ cao1.500m, bao quanh là núi rừng, Đà Lạt thừa hưởng một khí hậu ôn hòa và dịu mát quanh năm. Đến nơi này du khách được chiêm ngưỡng những công trình kiến trúc Châu Âu và hàng loạt danh lam thắng cảnh tuyệt đẹp.

 Bà Nà, thành phố Đà Nẵng

Cùng với Ngũ Hành Sơn và Sơn Trà, Bà Nà là một trong những ngọn núi đẹp nhất Đà Nẵng. Rặng núi này có khí hậu ôn hòa với nhiệt độ trung bình hàng năm khoảng 15-20 độ C. Hành trình chinh phục cáp treo cùng hàng loạt danh thắng khác chính là điểm hấp dẫn của Bà Nà.

Tam Đảo, tỉnh Vĩnh Phúc

Nằm trên độ cao 900m, thị trấn Tam Đảo (Vĩnh Phúc) có khí hậu mát mẻ, trong lành, với 4 mùa trong một ngày. Du khách có thể nghỉ ngơi thư giãn ở các khu nghỉ dưỡng, hoặc tham quan các danh thắng nổi tiếng tọa lạc quanh dãy núi như chùa và đền Tây Thiên, vườn quốc gia Tam Đảo…

Mẫu Sơn, tỉnh Lạng Sơn

Là vùng núi cao nằm ở phía đông bắc tỉnh Lạng Sơn, Mẫu Sơn nổi tiếng với cảnh quan đẹp và các sản vật như chè tuyết sơn, gà sáu cựa, chanh rừng, ếch hương, lợn quay… Bên cạnh không khí mát lạnh, thường dưới 16 độ C, Mẫu Sơn chính là điểm đến mùa hè không thể bỏ qua.

 Cao nguyên Mộc Châu, tỉnh Sơn La

Cao nguyên Mộc Châu mời gọi du khách với bầu trời trong xanh, những đồi chè xanh một màu trải dài vô tận, những đàn bò sữa nhẩn nha gặm cỏ, những dòng suối uốn lượn, không khí mát lạnh và những điệu múa váy xòe tuyệt đẹp.

 Vườn quốc gia Ba Vì, Hà Nội

Ba Vì nổi tiếng với hệ sinh thái đa dạng, phong cảnh đẹp và khí hậu mát mẻ. Nó không chỉ là điểm nghỉ dưỡng lý tưởng mà còn là “địa điểm vàng” để tham gia những chuyến phiêu lưu khám phá rừng đầy mạo hiểm hay tìm hiểu cuộc sống của động-thực vật tại đây.

Cao nguyên Đồng Văn, tỉnh Hà Giang

Ngự ở độ cao hơn 1.000m, cao nguyên Đồng Văn- nơi địa đầu cực Bắc của Việt Nam đã được UNESCO công nhận là Công viên địa chất toàn cầu vì những điểm độc đáo trong cấu tạo địa chất. Đối với khách du lịch, đây là nơi bạn có thể khám phá nhiều danh lam thắng cảnh tuyệt đẹp cũng như tìm hiểu văn hóa độc đáo của các dân tộc thiểu số.

Vườn quốc gia Bạch Mã, thành phố Huế

Ở độ cao 1.500m và gần biển, dãy núi Bạch Mã có khí hậu dễ chịu nhất trên các vùng cao của Việt Nam nói riêng và các nước Đông Dương nói chung. Khu nghỉ dưỡng trên ngọn núi này đã được người Pháp xây dựng từ thập niên 1930. Du khách đừng quên khám phá vẻ đẹp thiên nhiên ở Vườn quốc gia Bạch Mã nhé.

Phia Oắc, tỉnh Cao Bằng

Nằm trên độ cao gần 2.000m, đỉnh Phia Oắc được ví như một “thiên đường” cho các du khách thích khám phá. Tới đây, bạn không chỉ được tận hưởng không khí mát rượi (luôn dưới 15 độ C), bạn còn có thể khám phá hàng loạt ngôi biệt thự cổ bỏ hoang được xây từ thời Pháp thuộc cùng với những câu chuyện huyền bí.

 

 

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Cách bỏ dấu gạch đỏ kiểm tra chính tả trong WORD 2010

gỡ bỏ dấu gạch đỏ : Bạn vào file vào option vào proofing rồi vào When correcting spell .... bạn bỏ dấu tick 1,3,4 đi rồi OK.Vậy là bạn bỏ được việc kiểm tra chính tả ,gạch chân màu đỏ.

1. Cách tick vào ô trong WORD
2. Cách viết chữ đè lên phần chấm chấm trong word

1. Để tick vào ô trong word chỉ cần click chuột phải 2 lần vào ô cần tick --> BẢng CHECK BOX FORM FIELD OPTIONS sẽ hiện ra. Trong phần DEFAULT VALUE chọn CHECKED --> OK


Kết quả sẽ hiển thị như sau, trong ô Nữ đã được tick


2. Để viết chữ chèn lên trên dấu chấm trong văn bản có 3 cách:

C1:  (word 2007 hoặc 2010) Vào INSERT --> Mục TEXT chọn TEXT BOX --> Chọn SIMPLE TEXT BOX --> Sau đó điền thông tin mà mình cần viết trên dòng chấm chấm vào --> sau đó vẫn để chuột ở phần box text --> chọn FORMAT --> ở phần Shape fill chọn NO FILL và phần Shape Outline chọn NO OUTLINE. --> Cuối cùng Copy phần box text đó vào bên trên phần chấm chấm cần điền, căn chỉnh sao cho hợp lý. Ví dụ sau :




C2 và C3 sưu tập trên mạng