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New technology links the world as never before. Our planet has shrunk. It’s now a global village” where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link. And, of course, o...

According to a survey, which was based on the responses of over 188,000 students, today’s traditional-age college freshmen are more materialistic and less altruistic (利他主义的)"than ...

Like many of my generation, I have a weakness for hero worship. At some point, however, we all begin to question our heroes and our need for them. This leads us to ask: What is a hero?Despite immense ...

It’s no secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents than with the parents that nature dealt them. That’s especially true of children who remain in abusiv...

Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for a fortnight. When he came to analyse their embarrassing lapses (差错) in a scie...

Henry Ford, the famous U.S. inventor and car manufacturer, once said, The business of America is business.” By this he meant that the U.S. way of life is based on the values of the business worl...

On average, American kids ages 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week in school, eight hoursmore that they did in 1981. They also did more household work and participated in more of such organized activities a...

In the 1960s, many young Americans were dissatisfied with American society. They wanted to end the Vietnam War and to make all of the people in the U.S. epual. Some of them decided to "drop out&q...

The economy of the United states after 1952 was the econnomy of a well-fed,almost fully employed people. Despit occasional alarms, the country escaped any postwar depression and lived in a state of bo...

Though England was on the whole prosperous and hopeful, though by comparison with her neighbors she enjoyed internal peace, she could not evade the fact that the world of which she formed a part was t...