- 冰尘;
<正> 警告:给你的女儿读太多《灰姑娘》可能会损害她往后日子里的情感健康。即将在瑞典哥德堡国际认知心理疗法大会上发表的一篇论文指出,遭到伴侣虐待的女性(对虐待行为所持)的态度与她们儿时接触内容有问题的童话故事的经历有联系。该论文认为,与灰姑娘、长发姑娘或是《美女与野兽》中的美女产生角色认同的女孩
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<正> 穿着无尾晚礼服的辛巴坐在曼哈顿一家新餐馆的门前,对着欢迎他的人点了点头,然后打了个哈欠,开始在地板上打滚,一边还舔着自己的爪子。在新开张的专为猫咪及其主人服务的"喵咪餐厅"里,辛巴的这些举止都是可以接受的。8个月大的小猫辛巴正和约摸24只虎斑猫、波斯猫和缅甸猫一起出席餐馆开张的盛宴,餐馆的所有者是新泽西州瑟考卡斯市的喵咪公司,一家生产猫粮的公司。"为什么不带你的猫
2005年11期 No.407 5-6页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 212K] <正> 根据都灵市议会的一条新法,每天遛狗不到三次的狗主将被处以最高可达650欧元的罚款。即将在这座意大利北部城市通过的法律还规定,人们不得仅仅为了美观而给自己的宠物染毛或是"以任何形式毁损动物身体"——比如截短狗儿的尾巴。据都灵市日报《新闻报》报道:"在都灵,将狗儿弄成可笑的毛绒玩具属于非法行为。"意大利现行法律已经规定,虐待或抛弃宠物将面临最高1万欧元的罚款加上一年监禁,但都灵市的新法规却走到了一个详尽得多的新高度。根据该法规,人们可以骑着自行车遛狗,"但不能把动物搞得太过疲劳。"意大利以热爱动
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<正> 一位德国医生发出警告,德国人中的手机短信瘾君子正在日益增多,而全国罹患此种病症的人估计已达38万左右。精神治疗师安德里亚·赫脱在汉诺威开了一家诊所,他发现手机瘾君子在前往诊所接受戒瘾治疗的人中所占的比例越来越高,由此做出了上述预测。赫脱曾著有一本关于性疗法的书,他说:"手机短信瘾是一种真实存在的严重疾病,它会给患者造成精神
2005年11期 No.407 7页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 36K] <正> 一项新的调查表明,英国正在成为短信狂的国度,交谈的艺术也日益沦亡。由英国天然气公司电信分部委托进行的此次调查显示,如今人们把多达1/4的醒觉时间用来打电话、发短信或是发电子邮件,面对面的交流因此减少。心理学家大卫·刘易斯说:"我们担心,过多的‘技术性交谈’会让人们对更加亲密的面对面交流感到不适应,导致人们不再进行有效的相互交
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<正> Can't get out of bed in the morning?Scientists at MIT's MediaLab in the United States have invented an alarm clock calledClocky to make even the doziest sleepers,who repeatedly hit thesnooze button,leap out of bed.After the snooze button is pressed,the clock,which is equipped with a set of wheels,rolls off the table toanother part of the room."When the alarm sounds again,simply
2005年11期 No.407 8-9页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 161K] <正> 约翰内斯堡水务局宣布,为了遏制夜间活动的井盖盗窃团伙,他们即将以混凝土下水道井盖取代该市原有的铸铁井盖,新的井盖不仅更为沉重、更加难以窃取,残余价值也更低。水务局发言人贾米尔·钱德说,在窃匪猖獗的夜晚,一片小小的区域之内就可能有多达25块井盖失窃——这给街道照明不足的区域内的居民造成了(失足落井的)危险。他说:"我们认为这是团伙行动,不只是个别人的犯罪行为。我们怀疑
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- James Surowiecki;白汀;
<正> Tipping,curiously,has gone from beingthe antithesis of individualism to itsapotheosis.That's not because tippinghas changed.It's because America has.
2005年11期 No.407 53-55页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 452K] - Erin Rigik;畅捷;
<正> Planning a trip to Japan?Inbetween sushi sampling,geishaspotting,temple trekking,andof course shopping,add a bit of Zen tothe day with one of the most traditionalJapanese Arts:the tea ceremony.Picture a tatami room,empty exceptfor a hanging scroll,vase of flowersand a line of guests padding across thefloor.The guests squat before slidingpaper doors that open onto a garden.Legs turn to pins and needles as they
2005年11期 No.407 56-57页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 205K] - Katharine Wang;
<正> I was always drawn to the ocean.It pulled on my heartstrings whenI was away.And when I was near,I could stay on the shores for hourswithout movement or word.Thesound of the surf,foaming against thesands,echoes in my ear like Sirens tolost ships.In the distance,the whitesails billow in the salty air.And,when the sun is just in the horizon,theocean surface awakes with reflectivelights,glistening crystals.
2005年11期 No.407 58-61页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 387K] - Jeanne Knechtges;张锜;
<正> It is said that as early as in the 2nd centuryBCE,sailing,music,and swimmingcontests had already taken place inancient Greece in honor of their gods.Inancient history,sailing was also closelyassociated with a country's growth.Forexample,many coastal countries,throughsailing and navigation over the seas,expanded their territories into other regions orother parts of the world.
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<正> Ralph:(To Jack's group who has just hunted a pig and proudly presented it)Ifyou guys hadn't let the goddamn fire go out,they would have seen it.Jack:Hey, man,we were hunting.Ralph:Great.Killed a pig.Face it,Jack,you fucked up.We could have beenrescued.Jack:Back off,man!I'm sick of your shit,and so's my gang!Ralph:Your gang?What's that supposed to mean?
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<正> Freakonomics?这可是经济学的新领域,专门研究一些人们认为复杂、神秘甚至是怪异之事(freak)背后所隐藏的经济学原理。这个学名的首创者莱维特(Levitt)和达布纳(Dubner)坚信:
2005年11期 No.407 51-52页 [查看摘要][在线阅读][下载 121K] <正> In the sailing competition of the 1908Olympics,held at White City,London,threewater motor-sports events were contested.They were 8-meter class,under 60-foot class,
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<正> Suhua:So FAR,we've written NEARly a dozenconversations about small words.I wonder ifwe should go on talking about these or talkabout something else for a change.Susan:Well,so FAR so good.Since you are NEARerto the editors,why don't you contact them andfind out whether they would like us tocontinue with word pairs or move in adifferent direction?These little conversationsare NEAR and dear to my heart.I would like
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