walking with me

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walking with me 2004/02/29 到 2004/06/14 我所期待的只是能够在明媚的春天和你相逢，走过那一路长长的日子，直到冬天的来临...... 怎样安排好自己每天的工作（一点心得）

2004-06-14 16:40 工作快两年了，积攒了一点工作的心得，和大家分享。或许大家的比我要好，我的经验是：一定要先理清楚头绪，用笔把要做的事情记下来，分清楚1,2,3,4,5。然后再根据事情的重要性和相关性，一件一件的去做。如果可以互相穿插着做，自然也好。只是不要乱了，可以做上标记。 感觉做好一件事情，首先得把它想清楚，一步一步怎么做，如果碰到有的步骤还不知道怎么做，就做上标记，看是不是得一定要先把她解决掉，还是可以放在最后再来处理。这样把一堆乱麻逐根理清楚，工作起来就比较有效率，而且轻松。 我归纳了几个字，就是理清头绪，用笔记下来，分清楚步骤.1,2,3,4,5。再多的事情也得一件一件来做，不用着急。 Post by algorithm @ 16:40 恋情告急(古天乐梁咏琪最新喜剧)

2004-06-14 16:26 看完了这个片子，感觉有很多的经典台词，值得一看。故事梗要： 每一段恋情都会有危机。 银行分行客户关系经理王启明(古天乐饰) 因为不懂浪漫，在情人节那夜带女友ANNIE(梁咏琪饰) 吃五十八元任食廉价火锅，触发蕴酿已久的危机，两人吵架后，感情进入冻结状态。 ANNIE愿意延至复活节才作最后决定。 王启明恋情告急，在网上找到爱情顾问CRYSTAL(蔡卓妍饰) 帮手。 CRYSTAL是个十九岁但从未谈过恋爱的女孩，她的一切爱情知识都是在书本中得来。在教导王启明如何浪漫的同时，她静静地在他的上，找寻她的初恋。 在与王启明冷战期间，ANNIE遇上了替富豪找情妇的律师DANNY(陈辉虹饰) ，愿以一月三万的代价包她，她不为所动。 ANNIE又遇上了年轻英俊的交通警(方力申饰) ，但对方早已结婚。 王启明的真正威胁，是从美国回来的超级市场大亨VICTOR(甄子丹饰) 。他除有钱外，还文武全才，弹得一手好琴，也有一身好功夫。 VICTOR向ANNIE求婚，希望她在复活节与明正式分手。 明向CRYSTAL求救，她叫他找回所有旧情人，从她们身上反省自己的恋爱问题。 明的初恋情人是大学同学MAY(李彩桦饰) ，期间又与漂亮的�憔�JUDY(周汶��饰) 发生了三角关系，两女曾为他跳楼自杀，令他曾一度因害怕女人而不敢恋爱。 后来他在果汁店认识了患小儿麻痹症不良于行的阿雯(钟欣桐饰) ，通过可怜对方重建男人的自信。但阿雯却辜负了他。 明回忆了自己的过去，明白到自己的问题所在。 复活节那夜，他应约到与ANNIE初约会的街头，告诉她最能够带给她幸福的不是他，他能为她所做的最后一件事，是放手让她得到幸福。 两人在街头最后一舞。舞步终结，恋情亦告终。 分手后，两人才惊觉最爱的是对方，那份痛不欲生的感觉，让他们明白谁是最爱，也让他们走回一起。 恋情告急，原来不只是恋爱的问题，也是答案。 古天乐的演技比以前好多了！！不错。 Post by algorithm @ 16:26 特洛伊（Troy）

2004-06-14 15:40 昨天，去新东方广场看了根据希腊神话故事改编的《特洛伊》，耗资上亿美元。从5：35看到8：00，片长近2：30小时。布莱德-彼特在片中饰演勇士 阿基里斯 ，母亲在他幼年时将他带到号称浸泡后刀枪不入的神泉中，用泉水把他全身都清洗过，惟独脚踝没被洗到。成年后的阿基里斯果然骁勇善战，赢得勇士之名，但最后却被一支箭射到脚踝而死。 赫克托耳 ，则是全片的英雄人物，他的弟弟巴里斯王子(奥兰多-布鲁姆饰)，因抵挡不了世界第一美人海伦的容貌，将她拐带回国，因此引起了希腊与特洛伊的大战。最后海伦被夺回，巴里斯虽侥幸杀死阿基里斯，但自己也没有好下场，整个故事由见证战争的奥德赛娓娓道来。 特洛伊城(Troy)遗址位于达达内尔海峡和爱琴海之间，现在这里山峦迭翠，流水潺潺，柑桔树和橄榄树漫山遍野，红瓦白墙的农舍点缀其间，展现出一派土耳其当地典型的乡村景致。当时间回溯3000多年的时候，这里却是充满杀伐和嘶喊，遍布残肢和鲜血的古战场，在荷马不朽的诗史《伊利亚特》中，冲冠一怒为红颜的战争就在这里持续10年。 其实很小的时候读过这个古希腊的木马的故事，却没有记住特洛伊这样的一个名字。而先前遇到有名的 特洛伊木马 病毒，也没有想到这个神话故事。看了这个片子，虽然票价50有点贵，但感觉还是蛮值得的。一些画面被留下来了。 Post by algorithm @ 15:40 枕头 男人 深夜 音乐 女人

2004-06-11 14:24 记忆是不完整的，因为一个真实的场景，你的大脑是不可能把所有的一切细节都记下来的也包括颜色。记忆总是支离破碎的。对于女人的记忆，我的颜色只有白色和红色。谈恋爱的时候，我只是记得这个女人要么是白色的，要么是红色的。 很多年前看过张爱玲的红玫瑰和白玫瑰，记得有一段非常难忘的独白，我至今记得（应该是在高二的时候看的吧）“在男人的情感世界里，永远盛开着两朵玫瑰，一朵白玫瑰，一朵红玫瑰,如此的难以割舍,难以抉择,无法释怀......选择了白玫瑰,久而久之,白玫瑰就变成了嘴角的一粒米饭,而红玫瑰却是心头的一颗朱砂痔.当选择了红玫瑰,久而久之,红玫瑰就变成了墙上的一抹蚊子血,而白玫瑰却是床前的明月光......”记得讲的是30，40年代老上海的生活小事，振保在白玫瑰和红玫瑰间徘徊...... 而今，当我开始发现我的印象中只有白色和红色的时候，我就屡屡犯错误。以前交往的女朋友，我根本就不能清楚的记得她当时穿衣服的颜色。所以每每谈到颜色的时候，我就知道我说的不对，对方会以为你的心中还有别的女人，其实不然。但是在我的记忆中，的确就是红色或者白色的。 白色是纯洁的，简朴实在的，红色是浪漫的，欲望缤纷的。或许每个男人的心里，都有一朵白玫瑰和红玫瑰吧。女人，或许也是一样。在爱情的平面里浪漫和平实仿佛是两条看似永远没有交集的平行线。浪漫的爱情香槟玫瑰花前月下你侬我侬，让人充分体验乘坐过山车般的惊险和刺激。平实的爱情平平淡淡简简单单慢慢悠悠，却多了一份隽永窝心的满足永驻心间。 “在我的心里，有两朵玫瑰，一朵是我的白玫瑰，一朵是我的红玫瑰...”或许每个人的心中都有两朵玫瑰。而我对于爱情的记忆，也只有两种颜色。 Post by algorithm @ 14:24 枕头 男人 深夜 音乐 女人

2004-06-09 14:52 夏天，深夜，月光洒满窗前，没有睡意，听着平时最喜爱的音乐。我伏在床上，抱着枕头，发现自己还是喜欢抱着枕头最软的一角。我有两个枕头，一个是用来枕头的，一个是用来抱的。夏天的晚上，不想盖被，又怕着凉，胸口抱着一个枕头，很舒服，肚子也不会着凉。寂寞的时候我也会抱着枕头睡觉。就像小女孩会在床上摆一个泰迪熊一样。男人也是柔软的，在夜深的时候。在面对自己内心的时候，这，不是旁边睡个女人就可以解决的。要和自己的心对话，恐怕就只有自己。 （未完） Post by algorithm @ 14:52 dreamcatcher（捕梦者）

2004-06-08 21:28 故事发生在一个叫德里的偏僻小城，四个一起长大的男孩子决定凭借自己的力量去完成一件非同寻常的正义任务，他们团结一致，并肩作战，终于很勇敢地做成了这件甚至可以称之为伟大的事情，事后，他们都得到了一种神奇的力量作为对他们的报偿。 25年后，当年的4个孩子早已长大成人，各奔东西，为自己的生活和未来而努力打拼，但是每年一到了狩猎季节，他们仍要相约重聚在缅因州的森林里，重温儿时的快乐记忆。 这一年，聚会的一切都很正常，直到一场暴风雪毫无预兆地肆虐而至，把他们困在森林中，而夜晚，一个陌生人看起来狼狈不堪、跌跌撞撞地闯进了他们的宿营帐篷，此人神智不清，两颗门牙不见了，样子诡异，神态惊惶，他仿佛从很远的地方跋涉而来，记忆混乱，语无伦次，不停地嘟囔着什么天空中的光。 这显然是一个不祥之兆，四个好朋友渐渐意识到，和这场暴风雪同时降临的还有一股来自外太空的邪恶势力，这股恐怖的势力试图从这个小镇开始对人类的控制，为了遏制它，当地的驻军接到命令要对无辜的老百姓展开屠杀，四个好朋友自然不肯袖手旁观，他们首当其冲卷入了这场与地外生物的恐怖战斗。要把自己和众多手无寸铁的平民从这场浩劫中拯救出来，他们似乎只有一个办法：打开他们尘封已久的对过去时光的回忆，找到他们的“捕梦者”，用儿时曾经具有的神奇力量战胜敌人。 不用多说，这部影片摆明就是在卖斯蒂芬・金这块金字招牌，翻翻好莱坞这几年的影片名录，就可以看到有多少部被盛赞为经典的恐怖片或剧情片改编自他的小说――《恶兆》、《闪灵》、《魔女嘉丽》、《危情十日》、《肖申克的救赎》、《绿里》、《亚特兰蒂斯之心》……很难再找出另外一位在出版业和电影业都具有如此影响力的通俗小说作家，他的每部小说都是一经面市就能迅速窜上畅销小说排行榜，席卷全美，甚至蔓延世界，到处都有他的忠实读者，沉迷在他营造的那个阴郁而恐怖的心理世界中。 在大约3年前，金在自家门口被一辆卡车重重地撞了一下，于是世界上身价最高的畅销书作家差点儿丢了性命，所幸抢救及时没有性命之虞，但经历了这一场生死大劫的金性情却从此大变，不时做出令人瞠目结舌的举动――先是在网上发行自己的电子书，引爆整个电子书市场，继而又宣布他的“金氏三自”政策――自己写书，自己发行，自己挣钱，以此来做“大出版商的掘墓人”。 而这本《Dreamcatcher》正是金复出以后完成的第一部长篇恐怖小说，大概也是金笔下的头一本以外星人题材的小说，他因此加入了“外星人作家俱乐部”，希望可以凭着自己的号召力，令得连年走下坡路的外星人文学市场东山再起，再度壮大。因此在这部新作中，斯蒂芬・金充分运用了他天马行空的想象力，进一步发展了外星人的外型和它们入侵地球和手段。书中中，外星人用作自己寄生的宿主不再仅仅局限于是别人的身体，而是人的精神，显然有点“运筹帷幄决胜千里”的意思，小说当然依然卖得红火，但是把要书里用文字描写，用个人的想像渲染的那种恐怖惊悚意味表现到视觉上，令众多挑剔的“金迷”们看着满意，那可的确是对导演和编剧的严峻考验了。 一人身兼导演、编剧、制片三副重担的劳伦斯・卡斯丹名头并不算是太响亮，之前他执导过的影片中，最有名气作品当算是惊悚题材的《体热》、喜剧片《大寒》(The Big Chill)和浪漫爱情喜剧《法兰西之吻》。不过，在做导演之前，他曾担任了《帝国反击战》、《杰迪归来》和《夺宝奇兵》这三部大片的副编剧，在同斯皮尔伯格和卢卡斯的合作中，卡斯丹实在是受益非浅，斯蒂芬・金称赞在这位导演身上，“兼具了非凡的幽默感和制造惊悚气氛的天赋，他能使影片在幽默和恐怖之间任意游走”。对这位导演的风格，主演之一蒂摩西・奥立芬特说：“他的导演让这部片子体现出一种奇妙的层次，你会发现，同一个场面，可能会让你同时体验到好笑、恐怖、紧张甚至忧伤，这听来有点不可思议，但是导演确实做到了这点。” Post by algorithm @ 21:28 徐静蕾档案

2004-06-08 20:07 英文名：Jing Lei Xu 生日：1974年4月16日（星期二） 星座：白羊座 血型：O 型 身高：168 厘米 体重：49 公斤 三围：B83cm-W64cm-H89cm 出生地：北京 家庭：徐子健（父亲） 、于淑荣 （母亲）、徐新宇（弟弟） 学历：北京电影学院 最喜欢的颜色： 黑、白 最喜欢的城市： 北京、罗马 最喜欢的花： 郁金香 最喜欢的饰品： 没有 最喜欢的事情： 逛街 最难忘的事情： 睡懒觉 最喜欢的运动： 乒乓球 最喜欢的画家： 高更、莫奈 最喜欢的女演员： 阿佳妮 最喜欢的男演员： 梅尔・吉布森、凯文・科斯特纳 最喜欢的电影作品： 《杀手・蝴蝶・梦》 等 徐静蕾：优雅盛开的菊花 徐静蕾自成名以来，那清丽的女孩形象一直是许多人心目中的偶像，有一点梦幻有一点倔强有一点恬淡还有一点说不清楚……徐静蕾就是这样出现在我们视野里。有人说，徐静蕾清淡如菊；也有人说她芳雅似兰；还有人说她是绿茶，嗅之芳香扑鼻，入口清凉回味长久……这些个性，是那些错过追星年龄的人或者不屑于追星的人，都会深深喜欢她。 徐静蕾那种举手投足间淡然流露出的优雅、纯情，迷倒无数少男少女的心。当年报考中央戏剧学院舞美系化妆专业时，徐静蕾楞是被拒之门外。没成想出来的时候遇上一导演，错把冯京当马凉，冲着她那股纯情少女的味道，便以为她是北京电影学院的表演系学生，就这样阴差阳错给影视圈造就出个人物来。 徐静蕾的艺术简历 ： 话剧 －－－ 1994年《我爱XXX》 电影 －－－ 1997年《爱情麻辣烫》《风云》《一夜富贵》 1998年《忽然丈夫》 2001年《花眼》《开往春天的地铁》 《我爱你》 《北雁南飞》 电视剧 ： 1994年《同桌的你》《新言情时代》 1995年《一场风花雪月的事》 1996年《北京爱情故事》 1997年《霹雳菩萨》 1998年《龙堂》《将爱情进行到底》 1999年《财神到》《情书》 2000年《世纪之战》《让爱作主》《旅“奥”一家人》 2001年《堆积情感》 徐静蕾所获的奖项 1998年 第三届最受大学生欢迎的当代女星 1998年《新周刊》十大惊艳 1999年 第七届电影表演学会奖 1999年《大众电视》“青春之星” 2001年 首届中国大学生电视节最受欢迎的女演员 2002年 首届北京大学生女生节形象大使 2002年 第九届北京大学生电影节最受欢迎的女演员 Post by algorithm @ 20:07 冷山(cold mountain)

2004-06-08 15:15 《冷山》是米拉麦克斯公司冲击2004年奥斯卡最佳影片的力作。整个故事好似一个南北战争版的《奥德塞》，同样描述的是受尽战火洗礼的主人公漫长艰难的回家历程。一路上，男主角英曼遇到了凶残的变态牧师，一个山里人和他好色的亲戚，一个饱受摧残的怀孕少女……，他们中的有些人迫害他，千方百计阻拦他回家；有的接纳他，向他伸出援手。千难万苦动摇不了英曼回家的执着，归乡旅途上的种种遭遇是从战场重归冷山，从破损重归完整的必由之路。 英曼是美国南北战争末期一名受伤士兵，在灵魂仿佛燃尽之后，对家园强烈的渴望支撑他站立起来，踏上了艰辛漫长的归家旅程。他的情人艾达则在山影交错的乡间忍受孤独，度过了失怙独立的蜕变期，学会了如何与粗砺尖锐的生活抗挣。战争摧毁了一切，而依然兀立的冷山是他们之间唯一的联系，也是他们回忆与想望的地方――一个即使你所信仰的天堂已然破灭，却仍能为你疗伤止痛的美好国度。 Post by algorithm @ 15:15 最后的爱，最初的爱

2004-06-08 15:08 本片讲述的是一部纯净、令人感伤的爱情故事：一个被自己所信赖的友情、爱情背叛，深受心灵创伤的日本男子――早濑(渡部笃郎饰)，被日本某汽车公司派到上海分公司任职。面对2003年日新月异的上海，本已深受内心创伤的早濑，因偶然的机会和两位上海女性邂逅――一对相差7岁的姐妹方敏(徐静蕾饰)和方琳(董洁饰)。一位沉稳而美丽，让他感到有种来自内心深处的共鸣，另一位活跃而充满幻想，在他落寂的心田上洒落一缕明媚阳光。 一个与社会脱节、时间好似凝固的男子，一个心灵深处隐藏着神秘情感的女子和一个憧憬着美好未来的女大学生，三人邂逅在上海这样一个充满希望、色彩和活力的城市。 不过本片并不是仅仅以恋爱为主题的影片，它更是描写受伤的心灵如何相互牵引、如何在相互之间找到彼此来自内心的自我、并面对真正爱情的心路过程的影片。同时，该片还描绘了一个悲观失望的人物形象，记录了主人公在面对充满无限希望的大都市时如何迸发希望之火焰的过程，这就是“最后的爱，最初的爱”。 这部片子很悲情，拍摄的景色和音乐都很美，由于在上海拍的，我方佛看到了很多我自己曾今生活的场景。徐静蕾很美啊！比董洁显得更加有韵味，难怪男主角也要选择她。喜欢里面的一些场景。 看了不少徐静蕾的电影，觉得真的成熟了。 Post by algorithm @ 15:08 有关于或许

2004-06-07 11:25 “或许”这样的字眼总是不确定的。或许是这样，或许是那样，或许是对的，或许是错的，或许有时间，或许没有时间，或许爱你，或许不爱你。“或许”读起来会让人舒服的，因为根本就没有表明任何观点，只是在朦胧的说话，人们喜欢这种朦朦胧胧，半遮掩的感觉，赤裸裸的反而便没有了感觉。或许这就是中国人的传统吧，只可意会不可言传。 最近工作很忙，不，应该说是从毕业后一直都很忙。但我仍然有时间来写一些与工作无关的东西，仍然有时间去看喜欢的电影，仍然有时间去听喜欢的音乐，仍然有时间去打球。甚至在过去的一年忙的时间里，仍然可以花掉大量的时间去谈恋爱。或许，我根本不忙吧。但是不忙才怪，我经常熬夜，经常一忙就一整天，经常整天很紧张。经常晚上还要加班，忙这样那样的项目。或许我是忙的，或许我又是很闲的。因为我无法确认什么时候会很忙，什么时候又不忙，所以我只能忙里偷闲，用尽我不忙的时间。所以我开始烦恼“或许”这样的词汇了。我不喜欢这样的不确定性。 很多人是喜欢坦白的，赤裸裸的。喜欢直奔主题。而我，只能说，或许我也是吧，说或许的时候，就表明自己是不确定的，有的时候我可能喜欢这种直接，这种直指主题的。有的时候我可能并不喜欢。你对自己了解吧，你只能说，或许我是了解的。因为还有很多，你可能并不了解。 或许你是对的。或许是。因为或许，你要想很久。所以，或许会让人累的。直到有一天，你或许不想累了。就不用或许了。 Post by algorithm @ 11:25 The day after tomorrow 后天

2004-06-06 22:31 该片由《独立日》导演罗兰・艾默里奇执导，影片讲述未来世界，地球由于温室效应而进入第二冰河时期，气候恶劣，灾难连连，丹尼斯・奎德扮演的气象学家被紧急应召以对付洛杉矶的龙卷风和袭击纽约的海啸。尽管成本高昂，但该片的演员阵容却是相当低调，导演艾默里奇表示，之所以不用巨星，是因为绝大部分资金都要用于特效拍摄上，以精心制作出震撼观众的逼真视听效果。的确，该片融合了《龙卷风》和《天地大冲撞》的耗资1.25亿美元，它那惊心动魄的浩大场面和以假乱真的特技镜头足以令观众翘首以待。故事则力图说明，如果温室效应和全球变暖的趋势进一步不可遏止地发展下去，势必引起世界范围内的重大灾难，使全人类遭受灭顶之灾，有一定警世意义。 据悉，为保证全球上映时间同步，《后天》将同样采用英文对白中文字幕版，稍后一周才会有中文配音版出现。但大多数业内人士认为，这没什么影响，因为观众更容易接受原版配中文字幕，不会太多考虑中文配音版。 Post by algorithm @ 22:31 《救命》

2004-06-04 16:07 看到最后，才知道很好看！！也不恐怖 《救命》的最大魅力来自于两位女主角的表演。林嘉欣和李心洁是当仁不让的美女，又是目前炙手可热的明星，根据那么多恶俗而畅销的偶像电影的成功经验，这二位只要在最完美的化妆术的帮助下，在最讲究的光线里，用最酷最炫的造型在镜头前亮个相，卖座的全部要素就算备齐了。 然而《救命》并没有走这条捷径，在很多镜头里，摄影机不是掩饰，反而放大了两位演员外形上的缺点：林嘉欣裹在深红色皮夹克里的肩膀显得过于厚实，她粗壮的小腿也经常大大方方地露出裙摆；李心洁单薄的身体不止一次地被强调，还有她那一排并不整齐的牙齿，每每随着灿烂的笑容一齐绽放。所有这些都在提示观众：孙玲（林嘉欣饰）出身贫寒，意志坚定，富有行动力；子清（李心洁饰）生活优越但体弱多病，再乐观开朗的性格也无法照亮心灵深处因长年病痛留下的阴影。 除对演员的外部形象主动、自觉的设计外，《救命》对两位女主角的内在气质有更为独到的挖掘。相较于影视圈中众多的漂亮脸蛋和惹火身材，林嘉欣富有力量的沉默、李心洁善良而脆弱的神经质都更显珍贵。在林嘉欣的沉默下，孙玲的郁郁寡欢呈现出耐人咀嚼的多重意味，那既是一个弱女子身上多重生活压力（家庭的经济困境、心爱男人的轻蔑和玩弄、对子清的嫉妒和爱）的胶着，也是善良本性在众多矛盾情感下的挣扎求存。在李心洁的神经质里，隐隐若现着子清用任性包裹着的心灵创痛，用执拗、不近人情小心维护着的自尊，用伤害别人的方法来避免自己遭受伤害的孩子气。演员与角色的气质如此浑然天成，让人很难分清究竟是演员在用娴熟的演技诠释角色，还是角色本身即为演员量体订做。 放弃对脸蛋和身材的廉价卖弄，真正进入角色的内心，试图讲述一个真实的人的故事，对于一部影片来说，虽然是更为费力和冒险的做法，但无疑更为打动人心；对于一个演员来说，可能会暂时损失一些年轻影迷的尖叫，但却可以因此保有更长久的艺术生命力。 在看完《救命》这样一部悬疑惊悚片许久之后，我会忘记看电影时的恐惧和惊吓，忘记一波三折的情节，忘记片中曼妙的女声吟唱，忘记那些精致的五官，但绝不会忘记那两个敢爱敢恨却又困于爱恨的女子。 Post by algorithm @ 16:07 FireLight （心火）

2004-06-04 16:02 Year: 1998 Country: France / United Kingdom Genre: Drama Length: 1:43 Directed by: William Nicholson Written by: William Nicholson Company: Hollywood Pictures Starring: Sophie Marceau, Stephen Dillane, Kevin Anderson, Joss Ackland, Lia Williams 8.5 /10 (16 votes) In 1838, lovely governess Elisabeth agrees to bear a child of anonymous English landowner, and he will in return pay her father's debt. At birth she, as agreed, gives up the child. Seven years later she is hired as governess to a girl on a remote Sussex estate. The father of the girl, Charles Godwin, turns out to be that anonymous landowner. So Elisabeth has to be her own daughter's governess, and she can't reveal the secret of her tie with little Louisa. Post by algorithm @ 16:02 再看《阳光灿烂的日子》

2004-06-04 15:56 你还记不记得自己第一次抽烟的情形? 你还记不记得自己第一次跟人打架的样子? 你还记不记得自己第一次对女孩子动心是在什么时候? 你还记不记得自己第一次被爹娘发现抽烟时的神情? 你还记不记得自己第一次被人搜钱时的松样? 你还记不记得自己第一次被女人拒绝的时候想的是什么? ---howie个人荐碟之《阳光灿烂的日子》 这是howie在去年初出江湖的时候写下的文字，我想不到有比它更好的开头。 当马小军从公安局里出来回到家里，对着镜子大骂解气的时候，我看到了自己。 当马小军为了在米兰面前表现自己爬上了烟囱，我看到了自己。 当他们在一起抽烟，在一起打架，在一起聊女人，彼此开着放肆的玩笑，我看到了自己。 你也许难以想象我在看这部电影时是多么的放松，你也许可以想象当我看到马小军在吹气球的时候我的脸上有会心的笑容；而我也相信当你们看见这些少男少女内心蠢蠢欲动的欲望，在性的世界里带着胆怯与好奇开始彼此探索，当你们看见他们只能将无处发泄的欲望诉诸于青春的暴力，你们是如此惊讶的看到了自己；而当你们看着马小军在暴雨中拼命呼喊着米兰的名字，也许你们和我一样的不知道那样的一天，自己的脸上流的是雨水，还是眼泪。 重要的是这部电影并不仅仅是对回忆与青春的再现，就好象姜文的旁白说的那样：当回忆在脑子里重新浮现，真实和幻想往往搅和到了一起。是啊，谁不是在回忆里重新构架起自己的过去，谁又不是在虚幻里感受到属于自己的真实？ Post by algorithm @ 15:56 MYSTIC RIVER（神秘之河）

2004-06-04 15:48 吉米-马库(西恩-潘)，戴夫-博伊尔(蒂姆-罗宾斯)和西恩-德维(凯文-贝肯)三个孩子是形影不离的好朋友，他们都住在波士顿的一个贫民街区，一起游戏一起成长，这份美好 的童年友谊是如此单纯而牢固，似乎他们注定了会是一辈子的好朋友，直到一天其中一位的人生偏离进另一条轨道，他们的人生被永远改变了――10岁那年，戴夫在一次玩耍的时候不幸遭人绑架并受到性虐待，被营救回来后的戴夫对所有的朋友亲人都产生了隔阂，三个好朋友的友谊也慢慢疏远破碎，世事变迁，他们最终失去了联络。 25年以后，三个童年好友被另外一起悲剧事件再度联系在一起。吉米19岁的女儿凯蒂被残忍地杀害了，而负责这起案件的警官正是西恩和他的搭档惠特尼(劳伦斯-费什伯恩)，他既要面对看起来毫无头绪的案子，又要面对痛失爱女急于复仇的吉米，但最让西恩无法预料的是，案件中显现的点滴线索把凶手的嫌疑指向了戴夫！儿时被绑架造成的心理阴影这多年始终挥之不去，导致了戴夫婚姻事业上的失败，谁也不知道，在他温文平和的外表下，隐藏着人格上的阴暗和压抑…… 三个儿时的好友，现在一个是一桩残忍谋杀的最大嫌犯，一个是负责案件的警探，一个是一心亲手为女儿报仇的父亲，三个人绷成了一个紧张的三角关系，每个人都面临着矛盾挣扎，每个人都被迫着去面对内心那个真正的自我，每个人，也都必须回头去注视自己不为人知的过去，不管是美好，还是痛苦。 Post by algorithm @ 15:48 盲人

2004-06-04 15:18 大学时代写的 ，应该是2000年的冬天，2001.05.07 14:22 发表在榕树下 盲人 我很爱哭，真的很爱哭，看电影，看电视我都经常哭的，我知道我是一个性情中人。无论是做事还是工作。今天我又看了电影《伴我同行》讲的是一个香港的盲人程文辉的故事，据说故事是根据真人的传记改编的。 一个盲人就这样能干，做出了自己的一番成就，而我呢，做为一个正常的人，还经常这样，怨天尤人，两次英语六级没有过，我就想放弃了，这样怎么能做大事呢，其实我真的觉得人活在世上，要为别人多做一点事，要学会克服困难，勇敢的面对生活，面对我们的现实，做好我们自己的事珍惜我们的生活。 我们真的应该要努力的，如果不努力的话，对得起那些对我好的人吗？我们有双手，有眼睛有大脑，为什么我们就不能做事呢？认真的对待我们的事情，我们会好起来的。这么一些困难都克服不了，将来怎么做事呢？ 我真的好开心，因为我已经明白了生活的意义，其实我们的人生不一定要赚很多很多的钱，关键是我们自己要努力，要自己对得住自己。关键的是奋斗的过程。真的是这个样子的。我们是正常的人，我们有眼睛，可以看到世界上这么多的东西，世界是美好的，有这么多可爱的人。 我真的很愿意。我应该要学习，要努力，做出一番成绩。不应该学坏，学一些不正当的东西，我们应该努力的呀！真的应该。我想我会努力的。不甘于现状，努力拼搏，新的一年又来了，我们要好好的把握。时光真的过得很快，要努力的，时间也真的不多了，为了自己的目标努力吧！ 寒假也快要过完了，想想自己先前做了些什么东西，也真够遗憾的，还好，我把电脑带了回来，要不然的话，我可真的惨了，寒假根本什么都学不会，这样还可以学点c语言的东西。 我会努力的，我的目标都会实现的，我一定要努力学习，天天向上，认真的为未来做准备。我有很多的朋友，我会珍惜我的朋友的，还有我的亲人，所有对我好的人，我会努力，将来好好报答他们的。 英语六级我是一定要过的，还有计算机四级 我也是要过的，这是我大学的两个基本的东西，我绝对不能放弃。真的害怕以后离开了大学，才发现自己一无所有。那样岂不是很遗憾吗？我们应该要做无怨自己，无怨别人和社会的事。 好好的努力，相信自己，就一定会成功的。 有好多的人在为我祝福，我会努力和拼搏的，我应该请求别人的原谅，包括我以前所有的好朋友！真的，我们不应该是这样的。真的应该，或许是因为我们还没有真正的长大，或许我们还没有真的看清这个社会，没有体会到人生的意义。只要我们努力，我想我们会做好更多事情的。 没有什么理由让我们放弃现在和我们的梦想，每个人都有自己的梦想的，每个人都会有自己的生活方式，我想我们都会找到一条属于各自的生活道路的。没有了朋友的日子，没有了亲人的关怀我们会变得坚强的，我们一样会很好的走下去，我们会说现在风真的很轻，云真的很淡，天气不是很好吗？我们不是可以做得很好吗，没有理由的，我们没有理由会差的，有什么理由我们不学好呢？我们不趁着现在的大好时光努力拼搏努力呢？ 说的真的太多了，我们应该要多做事少说话，这才是真的道理，我们没有什么理由不这样的，记住这些我们就可以开始上路了。 由 一部电影，我想到了我自己现在的生活。我们应该要好好珍惜生活的，珍惜我们好不容易才来一趟世上的。时光宝贵，你我当珍惜此次机会，我宁愿相信是主给了我们这样的机会，让我们来到了这个世界上，所以我们没有理由不做好的，一个盲人就能做得这么好，我们呀……应该更努力，做得更好！ Post by algorithm @ 15:18 我的文学梦

2004-06-04 15:13 大学时代写的 于 2001.05.08 12:11 发表在榕树下 我的文学梦 最终我还是选择了理科，现在念的是工科的生物工程，但我永远不会忘记我那永远的文学梦想。 我总以为我有文学的天赋，与生俱来。从小学一直到高中，我的作文都写得很好，被老师当作范文在班上朗读，给其它同学作为榜样。我想我是一个弱者，生为弱者，所以我与文学为友。 在文学的天地里，我能够自由歌唱，能够尽情倾诉，能尽情渲泄。快乐的时候，我的语言如小溪的流水，悲伤的时候，就会象在秋天的氛围，吟着“问君能有几多愁，恰似一江春水向东流”的诗句。壮志成城的时候，我们犹如带兵的将军，声势浩大，下定决心要成就一番事业。受到挫折的时候，就会觉得世界一片凄凉，道不尽无穷的苦诉。 我就是这样的一个多愁善感的人，或者说，我是个易于感动且敏感的人。每天我都被一些事感动着，被一些事忧伤着，我觉得自己不是为自己而活，而是为了他们而活，我活在一个情感的世界。 高一的时候，我有幸担任校文学社副社长和记者团团长，但迫于学习的压力，我也实在是没有太多的精力去参与到真正的文学社的活动中去，只不过好象是挂了一个名，参加了几次活动，在校刊上发表了几篇文章罢了。现在想起来，还真有点后悔当初没有把文学社发展好。 高二文理分科的时候，恰恰是那次期末考试，我考得特别好，班上是第一名，全校第三名，要知道我们可是省重点高中。本来想念文科的，但班主任让我念理科，前途无限，家长也是这么说的，当时虽然想念文科，但想到以后的发展趋势，也没有多加考虑。我还是呆在原班不动，念了理科。这样，在我的人生之中，我觉得自己是走错了一步。 尤其让我伤心的事，我们一上高二就换了班主任，我跟新班主任的关系一直很紧张，也比较讨厌他，当然是指他的为人师表方面，这样的情绪一直呆了两年。抑郁的心情一直保持了两年，高考也考砸了。 现在的我，在一所普通的大学校园里坚强地生活着，我活得紧张而活泼，大学校园里有充裕的时间也有条件让我去追逐我的梦想，去追寻文学中的朵朵小花，我始终在寻觅着，寻觅着，我愿付出我的真心去寻找，去挽回当年我的一念之差…… 后来的我经常在想，如果当初我选择文科的话，我现在会做什么，我会考上什么样大学，我的一个好朋友，我们的性格非常相似，在文学方面，我们也都差不多，我的成绩甚至要比他好，他当年居然考了我们的文科状元。如果我报了文科，那个状元会不会是我？我笑了，我又哭了…… 现在的我虽然时有文章见报，但总是让我自己很不满意，不过我告戒自己，要珍惜自己的所有，人生不可能没有遗憾，你已经失去了太阳和月亮，就不要再错过星星了。每当你身处逆境的时候都不要悲伤，否者的话只可能是越走越远，越来越掉队，我们现在不是很好吗？因为我们珍惜了生活，我们没有自己瞧不起自己，我们没有忘记自己曾经的梦想，我想，走过去的话，前面是片天。我会努力写好我的文章，好吗？我的文学梦。 Post by algorithm @ 15:13 真实生活回忆录

2004-06-04 11:19 这是我大学时代写的 2001.05.09 14:00 发表在榕树下 ，应该是大三下学期五一写的。又翻了出来贴在了这里 真实生活回忆录 一向我写小说的时候都是我很不痛快的时候，或许现在也是 我以前一直把在杂志上发表小说，评论看得很神秘，可是现在看着自己的一篇一篇的评论，小说在报纸上发表，我在窃笑，这就是我么？我也可以这样做？我到底讲了多少真话？ 我的文章实在是很次，决不敢轻易推荐给人看的，我虚伪，我不诚实，我疯狂，我无知，有时我象是乞丐，我抓不住任何东西，我是汪洋大海中的一只不会游泳的鱼，我只是偶尔呼吸点空气，我勉强生存，甚至生存得有点窒息，这时间我就只有看书，写作，学习，工作，我因逃避而学习，而工作，而疯狂，我一无所获，我生活颠倒，没有白天黑夜…… 在这样的日子里我疯狂的长大，我很少有高兴的时候，甚至觉得自己跟这个社会有点格格不入，或许总有“天下有难，匹夫有责”的劣根？但夜深人静的时候我总是勉励自己：不管怎么样，我总该可以做个好人吧！ 我没有上过很好的大学，我不知道他们的大学，他们所处的环境是否跟我们是一样，但我仍会加倍的努力，尽管疲惫而艰难。不知不觉我已大三了…… 我仍在思考，仍在努力。我处在一种生活的病态。如果我可以认真回顾我走过的日子，如果我再认真的仔细的想想，我就真的发觉，我是在病态的生活……或许在大多数的眼里，病态这样的词用得真的不爽，但是我愿意，我愿意称我先前走过的路为“病态”。我愿回顾…… 不知从何时起，我竟意识到我处在生活的一种病态，在我以前的日子了，我可以清楚的描绘出我的样子，上学之前无忧无虑，没有烦恼。上小学一年级时，整天只知道玩，被老师放在教室的最后一排，并且最后的一排凳子和桌子都是很高的，大约是前面高度的两倍，每天我的生活就是打闹，玩耍。中午午睡的时候我会趁着别人睡着的时候去拉他坐的凳子，让他摔上一跤，然后就跑；课堂上我们后面的伙伴会讲故事而于老师于不顾，用纸做的玩具发出啪啪的响声，我那时从不知道有什么学习成绩，有什么学习压力，只有天性和自由，我想那时我是真正快乐的。 后来成绩实在是太差，学校建议我留级，爸妈都同意了，我似乎开始也有点懂事了。我不知道我是怎么变好的。只记得有一次老师点名让我读书，我读得很好，后来老师就让我领班上的同学一块读，当时觉得读的感觉也是非常的不错，第二天老师就宣布让我做班长，后来我就真的走了班长，于是什么事我都得以身作则，严格要求自己，我开始考了第一名，都是满分的课程。 于是我开始变乖了，成了老师眼里的好学生，每次考试不是99就是100。就这样一直到了小学五年级每次我都是班上的第一名，都是一个好班长。小学五年级的时候，区里搞了一次小学生的奥林匹克选拔赛，我有幸进入了当时的奥赛班。可是我进入的时候，真的有一段数学我从未学过，而这对于竞赛又是很重要的。还记得那是关于最小公倍数和最小公约数的东西。于是我转校了，每周只能回一次家要背上一周的粮食走上几里的路，但那时的我是快活的。虽然我在半上的成绩不怎么样，但是我的压力也不是太大，因为班上总共只有二十四个层层选拔的人才。那时的学习负担实在很重，我们男生的床就排在教室的四周，中间是学习的桌子和椅子，每天打扫卫生我们的床总免不了有很多的灰，早晨起床第一件事是读书，然后是大家都到学校的井旁打水洗漱吃早点，然后又是上课，吃饭，再上课，再吃饭，再上课，然后是睡觉，就这样一日又一日。我终于体会到那些奥赛冠军是怎么来的。 那时的题目是你永远都做不完的，黑板上的题目一抄完你就得跟着抄完，然后又是一黑板你又得跟着抄，根本就来不及做，后来到了学期结束的时候我一看我的本子抄了三大本的数学竞赛题，真正做过的不过几十道。 但那时我管不了这么多，每天都是一样的抄题，考试。唯一欣慰的是夏天的晚上我们可以把床搬到外面的走廊上去睡。于是我们便可在外面互相交谈，讲故事，开玩笑。每天晚上成了我们一天中最轻松的时候。 就这样熬了一年到了参加竞赛的时候由于我学的实在太差，也没有偷过老师的试题，所以就没有参加国家的决赛。于是只一年时间，我们的班级，我们短暂的特殊训练，一个令无数同龄人羡慕的班级就这样解散了。 我又回到原来的学校继续念我的六年级，我的回来得到了我的老师们的欢迎，我成了他们的英雄。小考的时候，我以246分的成绩取得了区第三名，本来可以入选上重点中学的，可是那时政策一变只能就近入学。我就进入离家近的一所普通初中。 我知道我们区的第一名，也是我们市的第一名，进了市重点初中，第二名也进入了另外的一所重点初中，因为那所初中就招他们那里的学生。我于是以小考第一名的成绩进入另外我所在的初中。于是同样我又被老师器重，当上了班长，开始我我的又一段初中的生涯故事。我敢肯定，初中三年是我生活最自由和我读书最快乐的日子。因为那时我就是我，我主宰我生活中的一切，我快乐，活泼，开朗有朝气。 如果硬要我一点一点地去回顾我初中三年的日子，我想我会写得象《三重门》一样的厚，但那同时又是让人痛苦的写作方式，如果让一个现在不快乐的人去回顾他从前的快活的日子，或许会得到一些宽慰，但当你明白那一切不再的时候，你就会很懊悔。而且回忆也是一件很令人费神和浪费时间的事情。 可以说初中之前我几乎一帆风顺，我是一个乖孩子，一个好班长，一个优秀的学生，一个活泼开朗，做事稳重的人，一个感情丰富，有文采和才华的人。 我的身边总是少不了女孩子，在她们的心目中，我意识到我很崇高，因为有一次我说了脏话，班上的一个女生居然瞪大了眼睛，笑嘻嘻的对我说：原来班长也会说不文明的话呀。 初中快要毕业的时候，我有喜欢过班上的一位女生，可是临近考试的时候我们都是压抑的，如果那时我们互相勉励的话，我想中考的时候我们都会考得更好一点的。 中考前夕，我显然是老师心目中的苗子，是考省重点高中的最佳人选，但最终的结果出来我显然很令老师们失望，我只考了531分，我死活都不肯相信。因为这样的分数连我们市里的省重点高中都上不了541分，而我们隔班的却有一个考取了省里的重点高中，这对于我，真的是一次很大的打击，我以为我会去念中专的，但我仍然要求去核查分数。 查分的结果是数理化三门由于评卷的失误给我各少加了10分，这样总分就少加了30分，我真的很疑虑，为什么就刚好少家了30分？偏偏三门课都碰到了我的头上？可是那仍然是一个令人欣慰的分数561，可是上市里的省重点了。我原本以为中考至少可以考到580分以上的，我对于市里的评卷工作产生了很大的疑问.于是我依旧可以去上很好的学校。可是从531到561之间，我想到了好多的事情，有感情，有家庭，有社会。我总以为我开始长大是在初中毕业的时候，以后的日子里，我似乎沉默多了，心里多了一种烦恼，多了一种无所谓，有一点点地看不起人。 带着这样的心态我进入了省重点高中，开始了我是生活中新的篇章。上了高中，我发现城里的人就是有点不一样，城里的女孩子也要好看，他们更懂礼貌，但我总以为他们的学习肯定不是太好。从上高中的第一天见到坐在我前面的一个女孩子，我就已深深的喜欢上了她。她穿着粉红的短袖上衣，粉红的短裤，每天上学的时候会带上一顶太阳帽带上一壶水，搭着一个书包，那时我就想：我将来一定要娶到她。我要让她知道我是多么的优秀，可是当我们的新班主任念中考分数的时候她是最高的，她考取了省里的名牌高中，可是她却没有去，因为我们的高中实在也是挺不错的。我到现在也不知道她当初为什么没去省里的高中，可能是因她家在市里，或者是她不想去碰到更多的高手和一个人去面对新的生活？ 一下子就给了我一个下马威，那么我有什么优势呢？高一那年，我担当了班上的团支书，没有去做班长，以前上初中根本就没有什么团支书这样的职位.于是在平静的日子里我们继续着学习，我似乎已经从中考的影子中走了出来，我又开始了活泼，开朗，我甚至加入了学校的文学社，还当了文学社副社长和记者团的副团长，我雄心壮志，因为我一直认为自己是一块文学的料。 成绩再次向我拉响了警钟，我在班上的排名大概只有七八名的样子，这对于一般人来说是可以知足的，在我们的高中，有这样的名次本科是绝对没有问题的。可是对于一向好胜的我，没有第一和第二那就意味着我的失败。于是我尽力地去追赶，就象是一场赛跑，我看到我前面的选手，我就只有跑，继续赶，但是始终没有发现自己是跑在最前面。 高一下学期的时候，班主任到我家家访，对我进行了贴心的关怀，我以为我又恢复了小学一年级因为老师的一次器重而改变了我的全部，后来真的我变得更努力了，全身心的投入了，因为我只是需要别人的注意和器重，那一年的结业考试，我考了650分，排名全校第三，班上第一，我对于自己终于有了信心，我也可以拿第一的。 本来是怀着胜利的心态去面对我的分科选择。我想就我的性格我应该去上文科的，因为我敏感，想象能力强，写作语言水平很好，感情丰富，可是最终没有太多的选择，为了前途我背弃了自己，念了理科。灾难性的降临我想是因为我换了一个新的班主任，因为我对我以前的班主任是很有感情的，因为他了解我，他注意我。新来的班主任没有丝毫的特色，他一点都不关心我，二年来他从没有找我谈过心里话，也没有切实得关注过我，好象我这样的孩子永远都 不需要别人来问也能够自我控制，奋发向上的。他不了解我是一个需要被人关注的人，其实我想或许每个人都是这样的。 后来我的成绩下降了，但他 没有一丝的反映，我单科考了第一，他提都不提，在没有表扬和批评的环境里，我似乎是在自生自灭，我疯狂，我玩耍，我堕落没人会注意，试想想我以前的日子，我是不会少了注意那种东西的。 我沦落了，在自生自灭的日子里。我的语文成绩拿到了多次校第一名，作文也写得很棒，经常作为范例在高三年级的十一个班中传阅。除了这些，我少能发现自己的闪光点。高二下我迷上了香港的三级片，通宵的去看，去玩。我在寻找着一种感情的寄托，在并不存在的虚构的故事里，我上瘾了……跟我一起落水的还有另外的一位同学，我们一起下了自习，买东西吃，玩游戏机，泡通宵的电影…… 我的成绩仍是平地起步，上了高三，我已经意识到了问题的严重甚至产生了自责，内疚，正象是后来我看到的心理学家写的那样：每一种瘾都是为了缓解感情上的痛苦，为了获得快乐。在第一阶段，它甚至能使人的自信心暂时得到提高。但是到了第二阶段，瘾带来的只有痛苦，内疚，羞耻，自我仇恨...甚至心灵枯竭，自我毁灭。 我想虽然我没有达到那样的境地，但这样的确对我造成了一定的影响。我把我自己的堕落归于另外的那位同学，因为每次的消费他都是担当了大部分的费用，我不要再去过以前的日子了，可是他仍然和我在一起，象往常一样地玩，有天我跟他说，为了个人的前途，我们不能再堕落了，后来我打了他，胸中不满的怒火扑在了他的身上，他的头被我打出了血。 很快就惊动了学校的保卫科，为了这件事，班主任只有一句话：这件事我管不了，一切由保卫处来处理。于是我写检讨，悔过，每天下午还要在教室里当着全班的面被穿制服的人传唤，曾经优秀的我居然沦为了一个打架斗殴的人！一个曾经优秀，稳重的学生居然现在是如此的下场！ 想必你也知道了当时我的心理的压力有那么的大，在面临高考压力的前夕！我更加沉默，更少说话了。在我的生活中，我似乎已不太重要，潮起潮落，做一个落寞的人。高考填志愿前，父母要带我去班主任家让他参考参考，我是极反对的，因为只有我知道，班主任跟我在心底都是有着很大的矛盾的。班主任说，你的目标不要太高，除此之外没有其他的意见，他根本就没有一点点的鼓励和打气的话，我父亲听了很不好受，因为他是一个极其要面子的人，一个极自尊的乡村农民。 高考终于考完了，高考终于结束了。我原以为自己上重点是肯定没有问题的，620多分总该有吧，可是后来分数出来我只考了580多分，主要就是物理相差太大了，而这又恰恰是班主任的课，问分数的那天我没有去，我父母晚上去班主任家的甚至还给他带了一个大西瓜，记得以前过节的时候，我父母还要给他送好多的东西。可是他们的愿望，只不过是说让他们自己心里好受一点罢了！ 后来的事情想必大家也都能猜出来，我进了天津***的食品与生物工程系成为发酵专业的一名学生，我感谢我的父母，因为有他们的关怀和照顾，他们永远都是我最亲的人，不论我有什么要求，他们都最大可能的满足于我，在我初三的时候，他们在经济极其不宽裕的情况下给我买了一台小霸王学习机，他们在极困难的情况下给了我很多的钱让我自己处理，我感谢他们。 似乎说到那里，我的生活的日子会结束了，因为我现在正在上大三，我用极少的语言简要的概括了我从前主要的学习的生活的经历，但其中的还有很多的细节我都忽略了未谈，或许你从上面的文字就能大致了解我是怎样的一个大致轮廓的人，我想每一个人都会有自己成长的历程。 想想大学的日子吧，当没有了注意，没有了诱惑，我是不是依然个会健康的长大？我学习，写作，读书，玩电脑，上网，有许多的时候我甚至没有白天和黑夜，似乎是存心要跟自己过不去似的。有时也会没有友谊没有爱情，没有信任，没有一点注意的目光，我只有一个人，象世俗的人们一样，去追逐成功，然而成功是永远没有终点的，尤其对我这样的人来说。我很矛盾，我不喜欢自己的专业，我学习了许多的计算机的知识，或许电脑会成为我的一个很好的伙伴。当然人终究是要长大的。我22岁，我还年轻，我知道年轻没有失败，只要我们努力，生命的绿枝条会垂向我们的。我或许曾取得过一些小小的成绩，但那都是极微不足道的。睁开眼看看外面的世界我发现自己真的很渺小，我快要大学毕业了，时间过得真快呀 ，明年的这个时候我就该踏入社会了。大学毕业了又能怎么样呢？还不是一样的生活，一样的工作，同样面对新的生活？ 看看过去的路，我姑且叫他为病态的生活，因为我想从中能得出点什么东西，想找到自己病态的东西----我当然向往健康的生活。上面的一段小小的记录如果你能读出点什么的东西的话，我想那是最好不过的了，但愿以前的日子组成的现在的我能平静的面对生活，努力长大。 人的一生如果真的那么短暂，如果只是上面的文字，那该有多可惜呀？人最重要的还是要做回自己，前面的路还很长，有自己的日子一定会很快乐，短暂的文字让我相信人生的意义知识在于它的过程而不是它最终的结果。无论一件什么样的事情只要你自己尽力了，就没有什么可以后悔的，哪怕它没有成功。 生活很平淡，我们不能太在意别人的目光，要做回自己，人不能总是去追求尽善尽美，否则压力太大人生是会过得很累的。 这个社会或许不公，或许很黑暗，我们会慢慢适应。既然我们无法去改变这个社会，那我们总该做过好人吧。无心去追逐官场的勾心斗角，逢场做戏，知识该界自己要实实在在的为这个社会做点什么，不求高官，不求达世，只求心平气和，勤奋踏实为这个社会而工作，我会尽自己最大的努力，毕竟我们的社会很可爱。 我的短暂的浅薄的生活经历似乎让我已无从下笔，当我已经回顾过我曾走过的日子并且得出相应的经验的时候，我似乎枯竭了。对于我们的社会我们的校园，有许多美好的和丑陋的东西，我想现在我还不能用笔把他记录下来；而对于我们的爱情，我总是不屑一顾，我常以为他们是那么的没有风趣。可是我发现我错了，我算是什么。世界很美好，一切美好的东西远比我写的要好得多。 Post by algorithm @ 11:19 杀气腾腾还是冷汗涔涔：生于70年代 三十而栗!

2004-05-31 16:39 似乎是不经意之间，一批20世纪70年代，现在30岁上下的年轻人，逐渐跳上了潮头，占据了桥头堡，成为了社会的“白骨精”(白领、骨干、精英分子)，在承担责任的同时，他们也成为时下消费的中流砥柱。于是有关“生于70年代”的话题被各路人马炒得沸沸扬扬，房子是给“生于70年代”盖的，车子是给“生于70年代”开的，就连手纸，“生于70年代”的都和其他年代不同。然而，这一切都有个前提，“三十而立”！ 不是吗，现在连概念都是用钱堆出来的，“中产”、“BOBO”、“小资”，包括“生于70年代”本身哪个不是金光闪闪而又杀气腾腾？捧给“生于70年代”的玫瑰身上的倒刺扎得这群三十出头的人冷汗涔涔。生于70年代，三十而栗 按照孔子时代的理想版本来对照，孔子在三十岁的时候绝对是个失败者，这个周游列国、四处碰壁的老夫子竟然给后人扔下本《论语》做“人间指南”，要后人“三十而立、四十不惑、五十知天命……”一代又一代不甘平庸的人们用这把尺子暗暗衡量着自己，或志得意满或一头冷汗。时过境迁，“四十”往后已经没人提了，只有“三十而立”。究其原因，惑不惑，知不知，顺不顺，都不重要了，只有“立不立”是古今中外的人们不能不耿耿于怀的。 生于70年代，活得像个胳膊肘 “生于70年代”幸福吗？私车洋房，写字楼，是广告中描绘的幸福时光，然而回顾这代人的成长史，你会看见整个社会变革的缩影。从某种意义上讲，这些新世纪主人翁的成长中含着些许的悲壮和尴尬： 70年代们赶着“文革”的尾巴出生，从小就被要求“为革命保护视力”，长大要做“共产主义的接班人”，那年代教育绝对抹杀个性，谁要和别人不一样，不仅老师不答应，同学也不放过。然而时过境迁，社会却需要有个性的青年一代，好容易被划一的个性过时了；苦干实干加蛮干挤进大学以后，高考录取率已由10：1变成2：1甚至1：1,红皮本本滥了市；好不容易毕业了，又发现不仅国家不包分配，而且连本科文凭都不值钱了，硕士、博士、MBA、托福、双学位才算拉风；更要命的是，等到毕业了千辛万苦进了党政机关企事业单位，以为捧上“铁饭碗”了，却赶上人家下岗，全国取消福利分房；紧接着为了生存和发展的需要，不由自主地经历和参与了互联网泡沫、爱情泡沫、以及紧跟其后的是媒体泡沫，在一个接一个的泡沫中，活得像只缺氧的鱼…… “三千年一现，起码一百年未有”的社会变革中，尚在半生不熟状态的70年代生人懵懵懂懂就被带进去了，于是他们的传统和现代都不够彻底。背负着传统文化的良知、责任和主义的包袱，70年代们试图在新秩序里种块自留地，以自己的价值观为准则来“扬弃”，但往往因为他们的特殊身份，又最先失去话语权。这份成长经历注定70年代生的人要永远生活在传统和理想主义之间。与其说这代人是个断层，不如说他们是粘合剂。他们这代人用他们的全部书本知识、个体经验作支撑，正面迎接了社会转型时期的剧激对冲。他们活得就像一个肘关节，功能就只是连接60年代和80年代两根主要骨干，保证肢体运动的正常自如。 人到三十天过晌，受尽夹板气 就因为活得像个胳膊肘，70年代们让两头都不待见，在60年代人眼里他们是叛逆的一代，而在80年代人眼里，他们和四五六十年代人一样，统统落伍了……可怜的70年代们，刚到“而立”之年，本以为该是大显身手的时候了，却不知到什么时候已经被80年代的小字辈强了班篡了权。 这个世界已经是更年轻的80年代的天下。设计师、广告人、评论家、作家……说起这些名衔，如果你联想到的是成熟稳重的中年人的话，那你真是落伍得不可救药了。权威们在一个个领域里被迅速打倒，80年代毫无顾忌、毫不留情地迈过他们的身体，直接向最高点发起冲锋。与前辈相比，他们起点高、视野宽、触觉敏锐、行事干脆，没有谁没有什么能挡在他们面前。于是权威们显得不堪一击。就连“著作等身”这个老词，也不一定与年纪连在一起。国家要求一个专业作家一年发表3万字，可对于一个自由作家来说，一个月不写这么多字他就没法养活自己。 在一些青春行业，事情就显得更为残酷。在15岁的名模比比皆是的模特业，25岁的姑娘已经被怀疑是残花败柳。虽然歌手被分为偶像派和实力派，但当年就未达顶峰的如今卷土重来的屠洪纲、杭天棋等让人感觉无比凄凉―――如果你当年得不到现在就更不可能了。演艺圈更是年轻人的天下，希区柯克拍出《房客》和斯皮尔伯格拍出《大白鲨》一举成名的时候，都才只有27岁。年轻貌美的女演员更是占尽了便宜。除非你长得像葛优那么有特色，不然就别指望奇迹发生。 就连人们心目中的传统行业，也在不知不觉中发生变化。5年前，30岁当上教授会引起媒体的争相报道，而现在大学里通行观点是：如果你35岁以后才评上教授，那肯定是靠资历而不是靠真本事了。就在几年前，一个30岁的年轻人当上处长还被称为“破格提拔”，现在，30岁左右的专业型处级干部到处都是。 都三十了，立得住吗? “而立”的年龄被提得越来越早，过去是30岁以上给社会制定“游戏规则”，而如今这个权利转移到了二十来岁人的手中，腿脚稍微不利索就会被“生猛海鲜”们撞个人仰马翻。加上诸如“三十而立”、“人过三十天过晌”等等来自民间、一代一代沿袭下来的说法，逼得那些为人生有所设计的70年代们要跳墙。 对于一腔雄心、壮志未酬的70年代们，“三十而立”就像身后追逐的野兽。耳边是野兽爪子踩过落叶的嚓嚓声音，脊背是一层一层的凉意，这代人身体斜曲成弓形，紧张奔跑一刻也不敢停留，甚至不敢回头。累伤的70年代们发出一声浩叹，想坐下来略微停停，或者伸伸腰杆，捶一捶发木的小腿。然而，停留的间隙，追逐的野兽从头顶上呼啸而过，虎视眈眈截住了去路……越是临近30岁的年龄，这样的想象越是频繁地出现在他们的梦里。人们都知道询问女孩的年龄是一件不礼貌的事情。而今在这“时不我待”的年代里，壮怀激烈的男人同样脆弱，他们的梦境深处发出羔羊的叫声：“妹妹，别问哥的年龄”。一个个关卡，在你没起步的时候就屹立在远方，等待着你走到它面前的时候深刻反省：如果侥幸合格，你的心情会稍微有些放松，但穿过那高高的门楼，短短的隧道，不远处又一道关卡映入了眼帘，容不得你歇息，你不得不铆足劲儿往前冲；如果没有通过，甚至三十岁了，你既无事业的根基，也没有能给人“打杂”的高学历，没有人来指责你，你的感受也不会好过“万箭穿心”。 社会竞争犹如赛跑，后面是轰隆作响的轧路机，要么“而立”下去，要么被轧成路标，而有些人到三十还没找到北呢，只是原地转圈傻唱着“从终点又回到起点到现在才发觉……”发觉了什么，发觉如果“三十不立”，房子没你的份，事业不沾边，车子没的开，自然当不上消费的主人翁，脑袋上空顶着个“生于70年代”还有什么意义？不是吗，现在连概念都是用钱堆出来的，“中产”、“BOBO”、“小资”，包括“生于70年代”本身哪个不是金光闪闪而又杀气腾腾？捧给“生于70年代”的玫瑰身上的倒刺扎得这群三十出头的人冷汗涔涔。生于70年代，三十而栗！ Post by algorithm @ 16:39 什么是你生命中的大石头?

2004-05-31 16:32 一天，时间管理专家为一群商学院学生讲课。他现场做了演示，给学生们留下一 生难以磨灭的印象。 站在那些高智商高学历的学生前面，他说："我们来个小测验"，拿出一个一加仑的广口瓶放在他面前的桌上。 随后，他取出一堆拳头大小的石块，仔细地一块块放进玻璃瓶里。 直到石块高出瓶口，再也放不下了，他问道： "瓶子满了吗？ "所有学生应道："满了"。 时间管理专家反问："真的？"他伸手从桌下拿出一桶砾石，倒了一些进去，并敲击玻璃瓶壁使砾石填满下面石块的间隙。 "现在瓶子满了吗？"他第二次问道。 但这一次学生有些明白了，"可能还没有"，一位学生应道。 "很好！"专家说。 他伸手从桌下拿出一桶沙子，开始慢慢倒进玻璃 沙子填满了石块和砾石的所有间隙。 他又一次问学生："瓶子满了吗？""没满！"学生们大声说。 他再一次说："很好。" 然后他拿过一壶水倒进玻璃瓶直到水面与瓶口平。 抬头看着学生，问道："这个例子说明什么？" 一个心急的学生举手发言："它告诉我们：无论你的时间表多么紧凑，如果你确实努力，你可以做更多的事！"。 "不！"，时间管理专家说，"那不是它真正的意思。这个例子告诉我们：如果你不是先放大石块，那你就再也不能把它放进瓶子里。那么，什么是你生命中的大石块呢，与你爱人共度时光，你的信仰，教育，梦想，或是和我一样，教育指导其他人？切切记得先去处理这些"大石块"，否则，一辈子你都不能做到。" 那么，今晚，或许是今晨，你正在阅读这篇短文，可曾试着问自己这个问题：我今生的"大石头"是什么？然后，请把它们先放进你人生的瓶子。 Post by algorithm @ 16:32 男人最大的秘密是啥―男女关系30种比喻

2004-05-31 16:28 1、每个女人都有两个版本：精装本和平装本，前者是在职场、社交场合给别人看的，浓妆艳抹，光彩照人；后者是在家里给最爱的人看的，换上家常服、睡衣，诉苦。婚姻中的丈夫往往只能看到妻子的平装本和别的女人的精装本――婚外恋的动机之一。 2、漂亮是女人的通行证――一句老话而已，也算颠扑不破的真理。明明是糖衣炮弹，最后也不见得赢得美人归，但就是死心塌地讨好她。而那些缺乏视觉效果的女子尽管有的明明是良药，因为苦口，男人常常下不了决心娶她。 3、婚姻是一把伞。有了它，风雨烈日时自然舒适无比，但更多平平淡淡的天气里，多了一把伞难免是累赘。 4、女人问：“你爱我吗？”男人答：“我喜欢你！”男人问：“你为什么不接受我？”女人答：“你能找到比我更好的”――看来男女之间喜欢用近义词，不过是香蕉外面多加了一层皮，或者棉花里面藏着一根针。 5、妻子如衣服――流行如此变幻，衣服的开销日渐昂贵；男人没有一个好东西――但它毕竟是女人最大的买方市场。 6、相爱时，男人把女人比作星辰、飞鸟、天使等等与天空有关的事物；恩断情绝时，男人把天空据为己有，把爱过的女人放回到地面上去。 7、老夫老妻越长越像。有人说因为他们相爱。但医生说，起因是朝夕相处，饮食结构相同、作息规律同步。同一棵树上的树叶也是越长越像的。 8、大龄未婚男女像是坐巴士坐过了站。有时是因为巴士上的座位太舒适了，简直不愿下车；有时是因为不认识自己该下的站台。终身不结婚的男女呢？他们是巴士司机! 9、从青梅竹马能一直顺利地走到花前月下，简直是奇迹。就像当初打算从北京走路去广州，一路上总有诱惑的声音：“上车吧”。你的脚很难再一往无前。 10、我很忙――听到这句话时，父母担心的是孩子的身体健康；朋友心想这哥们儿事业有成；妻子马上觉得自己家务的担子重了；女朋友流泪了，她开始意识到自己在他心目中的位置不一定有他的事业重要，甚至简直就是一个分手的信号或借口。 11、一群人在讨论现代做什么事最冒险？登山、滑翔、极限运动。。。说什么的都有。其实，感情才是最大的冒险，而且在任何时代都如此。因为种种冒险行为大不了一死，但感情的折磨却让人生不如死。 12、示爱者是动物，被爱者是植物。如果爱被拒绝，离开的当然是动物，因为植物是不会生出脚来跑路的。 13、许美静有一首歌叫《你抽的烟》，写一个痴情女子跑遍小镇去买他抽的烟。电影《人在黄昏》里，女鬼站在梁家辉的身后问小店员：有ERE香烟吗？还有“手指淡淡烟草味道，记忆中爱的味道”。――为什么总是烟、而不是别的更能唤起女人的缅怀？只有一种解释：男人对香烟牌子的专一对应了女人对爱情的专一。 14、某人向牧师忏悔，他在二次世界大战时把一个人藏在家里，并且收他的房租。牧师安慰说这并无过错。可是，此人问道，我该不该告诉他战争已经结束了呢？――当我们相信爱情还在，可它毕竟过去了，而我们不愿面对现实，好像蒙在鼓里。问题是：谁在收我们的“房租”呢？ 15、先有爱后有性，先有性后有爱，就像先有蛋后有鸡，先有鸡后有蛋一样，很难说哪种是真理，哪种比另一种更高尚。 16、男人最大的秘密往往告诉红颜知己，不是同性、家人或妻子。当红颜知己成了妻子，她的这部分权力马上被取消了。这叫做有得有失。 17、许多唱情歌的歌手从未爱过，这是最可笑的事，也是最合乎常理的事。爱过就不会唱得这么陶醉了。 18、关系越深入越长久，关心就越来越具体，从雅到俗，从精神到肉体。热恋时她问他“你的心情靓不靓？”，结婚后她问他“你的痔疮好了没有？” 19、婚姻是键盘，太多秩序和规则；爱情是鼠标，一点就通。男人自比主机，内存最重要；女人好似显示器，一切都看得出来. 20、好女人是男人的学校。好女人却希望这个好学生永远不要毕业。 21、一未婚女子感叹：为什么成熟的男人、好男人全成了人家的老公，没结婚的男人没一个像样的？有人提醒她：妻子们培养好丈夫都是自产自销，没有男人能自学成材！ 22、还记不记得大学或公园草坪上和树阴下的爱情？如今草坪换成了进口草皮，树也越来越少了。 23、摇滚歌手何勇唱过：找个女朋友，还是养条狗？今天这话该由金丝鸟来说了：傍个男朋友，同时养条狗。 24、男人往往把工作上的拍档与生活中的伴侣分得很清楚，所以，他会喜欢与女强人合作同时爱上温柔的女子，跟前者喝酒跟后者饮茶，所以，《堕落天使》里，杀手黎明跟李嘉欣拍档多年了仍是生意关系而对街女莫文蔚一遇钟情。 25、我很丑，可是我很温柔――今天的男人和女人一起改编了赵传的版本：我不完美，可是我很真实。也就是说，我不漂亮，可是我很酷；我不富有，可是我很快乐；我不成功，可是我很自信；我不多情，可是我懂得珍惜。 26、生日是一个舞台，一次考验，一个机会。恋爱时，男人更会利用这一点；结婚后，女人更会利用这一点。 27、电台里常有人点歌，希望爱着的那个人可能听到。听到的可能性极小，但居然每每有奇迹发生。有人说爱情是一场高烧，但说爱情是奇迹才确切。人生中再也没有比爱情典型的奇迹了，它能使不可能的事变得可能。 28、年轻时候，拍下许多照片，一本本摆在客厅给别人看；等到老了，方才明白照片是拍给自己看的。厚厚的一生的镜头摆在眼前，连写回忆录都省下了。 29、不结婚也可以有爱有性，就像不结果实也能有春夏秋冬四季。但是，不结婚就分不到福利房。 30、有了自己的房子，未婚女子就像是凭空小了几岁，又有耐心慢慢地挑选爱人了。一男向一女征询意见：我们先租房子住，结了婚攒了钱再买房子吧？女答：那我还不如先租丈夫呢！ 31、目前男女都趋向晚婚。但再怎么晚，还是男大女小的主结构。女人一方面享受着被呵护的感觉，一方面希望自己比他老得更慢。 32、小时候把一次吃上30个包子当作人生理想时，感觉很幸福；当月收入5000以上之后，我仍然感觉不到快乐；当事业、爱情、家庭、金钱什么都不缺的时候，人们经常还缺一样东西――饥饿感。保有底限的欲望是幸福的。 Post by algorithm @ 16:28 年薪1万10万100万元的不同生活

2004-05-31 16:20 时光倒流20年，“万元户”人人艳羡，希望集团的刘永好为了成为“万元户”而下海。今天，“万元户”差不多已成了低收入阶层的代名词，年薪10万的人成为缴纳个人所得税的中坚力量，而年薪百万的人大多来自各类赢利的经济实体的领导人和受益阶层。 2002年，在不同的城市里，年薪1万、10万、100万的人们分别过着怎样的生活呢？ 年薪1万：幸福感+郁闷 他大学毕业后，就在内地某小城市或并不算发达的中等城市工作，月薪800元，工作轻松，生活节奏较慢。 职业生涯 每天早上8点上班，他不提前也不迟到。拎着在街口买的包子油条等早餐来到办公室，先倒了一杯热茶，坐下来，边吃早餐，边看当天的《人民日报》、《参考消息》、《中国青年报》和本省的报纸。差不多半个小时之后，他开始工作。 午饭是在单位食堂吃，4块钱左右，单身的职工们在此相聚，成了家的同事大多回家吃饭，因为中午有两个小时的休息时间。在饭桌上，他与其他月薪800元的同事聊着社会上的杂事，偶尔发一点对单位的小牢骚，但基本上这些牢骚并不足以导致他们跳槽。很多时候，打听与传播本单位有关感情的私隐成为了大家的共同话题和乐趣。 下午注定有同事要提早下班，去接他们在幼儿园上学的小孩，然后回家做晚饭。各自的家庭背景家庭成员家庭住址个人嗜好近期家事，同事之间了如指掌。上班时间经常有各人的私交为私事而来。一般而言，每个同事都乐于口头卖弄自己吃得开的社会关系。单位经常要开会传达精神，每次会议的结果对大家并不怎么惊动，除非是人事任免、竞聘、工资改革之类。在单位获得提拔需要良好的人际关系和熬年头。 他少有出差，因此到北京上海等大城市出差的机会成为同事们打破头闹翻脸也要据理力争的事，但大致上每次都是论资排辈地去。而从大城市出差回来的同事，在多年以后闲聊时还经常“不经意”地提到“上次我在北京的时候……”于是从未去过首都的同事暗自羞愧，他们之中有相当多的人一生从未坐过飞机。 收入及福利 工资在每月初就领了，公积金大家都要交，而用煤气罐是一种待遇，只有结婚了或在单位工作5年以上单位才能供应。在不多的工资之外，特别的日子令大家有特别的期待：夏天有降温费，冬天有取暖费，五一中秋元旦都有钱和东西发，春节有年终奖金。分房随着国家政策而取消，但单位号召集资建房；90%的同事住着单位分的房子，另10%住的是集体宿舍，一人或两人或三人一室，一室14平米，每月交3块钱。年假可休7天，晚婚者可休18天，产假可休4个月，剖腹产休四个半月。 对单位中人来说，培训是一种待遇，旅游是一种待遇，陪主管领导出差也是一种待遇。单位有医疗所，小病自己出5%的医药费，大病到大医院治，单位全报。单位有男女浴室，普通职工每月5张，有人将澡票以5元1张卖出去。 消费 他买的多是几块钱一条的内裤，当然也有三枪牌内衣和几百块钱的西装，而同样收入的女朋友有几十块钱一件的文胸。批发市场、百姓超市和杂货店是他经常光顾之地，他一般不买名牌，除了打折季节和假冒货；名牌店他也常逛，当作风景和解馋。在国际名牌店，他一脸严肃地摸摸天价时装的衣料和标价签，然后在女店员的注视下有点猥琐和心虚地离去。 他买了手机，每月话费基本控制在百元以下，用了多年的呼机还留着，打长途用200卡或IP卡。他不抽烟，或抽三五块钱的烟，烟瘾不敢太大，在一些体面场合也买红塔山抽。 他有车，自行车，骑着上下班和社交，也经常搭公交，极少打的。同城的朋友们不时聚会，轮流坐庄而不是AA制；若谁有喜事朋友们准当作请客撮一顿的理由，一百多块钱可以吃得很体面；同事结婚送60元，朋友结婚送100-200元不等；结了婚的同事朋友不出一两年陆续生了小孩，用不起一次性尿片，所以男的都要洗尿布。 出于兴趣，他也买书，但没有固定买报纸和杂志的习惯，铜版纸杂志的生活离他挺远。一般他按时睡眠，有时上网吧，有一些不太费钱的个人爱好，夜生活不过是和女友逛街看电影看电视或厮守，不会熬夜很晚，除非打牌。他几年下来存了一万多块钱，部分炒了股；如果要筹划婚礼或买房，父母是最大的赞助商。 状态 这是一种人情味很浓的生活，身体健康，衣食无忧，同事融洽，家庭和睦，轻松悠闲，一切按步就班，他大多数时候习惯了；有时很享受，并从中获得幸福感(调查表明月收入500-1500元的人是中国最有幸福感的一类人)；偶尔也郁闷，憧憬大城市和另一种生活方式，想改变，但害怕代价太大，本事不够。 年薪10万：优越感+压力 他有一技之长和职业追求，是在北京上海广州等大城市工作的白领一族，月薪8千，高学历、高智商、高收入、高消费、压力大、节奏快。 职业生涯 他的上班时间固定而灵活，但一上班往往就像打仗一样忙碌，因为老板或客户盯着出活儿，也因为薪水是以工作量计。 因为忙和注重私隐，同事之间有合作也有距离。他在公司接打电话都非常职业化，讲求效率和服务意识，并综合电话、传真、上网等方式来处理工作。每件工作都有一个明确的时间表，延迟意味着公司与个人的经济和信誉损失。 他与所有同事一样，追求资讯的海量和效率最大化，因此网络是日常工具。他经常出差，坐飞机是家常便饭，在城市之间处理业务、结交同行、获取信息并以此站在行业的最新前沿；只要干得好，他有大把提拔的机会。 因为工作没有规律，经常加班，他与同事常叫外卖，有时间有心情的时候也与朋友到档次讲究一点的馆子吃饭，事实上他乐于在本城新开的地方菜馆尝鲜。 与收入获得的满足相衬，他大部分时间不得不更处于工作状态。他是靠专业吃饭的，是食脑一族，竞争对手不但是同事，而且是全国的同行。如果有必要，他随时要充电要学习，但他的身体也在透支。 他的工作有付出必有回报，但工作的惯性使他不付出都不行，而回报的不合理则可能导致他的跳槽。他所处的行业跳槽算是平常事，但工作环境和性质没有太大区别。已经开始有猎头公司关注他。糟糕的是，他的工作与生活不分，生活成了工作的组成部分。因此他没有太多时间顾及家庭及感情生活，相关问题由此而生，倒是办公室恋情在这个阶层显露迹象。 开会是日常工作密不可分的一部分，务虚的会基本不开。他的性格再内向也走向了沟通与合作。他可以基于私人的理由选择在不同的城市工作，却很难有决心和胆量尝识换一个行当。 收入及福利 他的工作业绩被记录下来，体现在月底发放在工资卡里的钱或额外奖励，因为进入高收入阶层，所以被税务局盯得很紧，每月纳税。培训和旅游的福利随公司的制度而定。同事之间因业绩不同的收入差异彼此保密，工作满一定年份即享受7天带薪年假。公司或可租房供其居住，或有通讯交通和伙食补贴，出差补贴或高于国家机关标准。公司为其购买养老保险和医疗保险，或许有部分公司股。公司还可能有逐年加薪制度。 消费 他追求时尚，有品牌观念，对时装及日用品、聚会性质、吃饭场所、购物场所、居住场所甚至打火机都有口味选择；他完全有能力按揭供楼，选择潮流社区楼盘，并倾向于个性化装修；他有旅游或摄影爱好，对祖国的名山大川有自己的视点；当然，他也小有出国旅游的机会和实力，只要有时间。 习惯固定阅读一份或几份报纸杂志，经常自己掏钱买来看；他可以用手机煲电话粥直至没电，可以周末看一场演唱会或到邻近城市只为探一位朋友；他不自觉地归入某个共同趣味的圈子，以此展开社交；他也看电影，但看的是VCD和DVD碟，在家庭影院体验音响效果。 他是持卡一族，有若干张银行卡，存款不等，日常开销毫无金钱的后顾之忧，出行偏向坐地铁和打的，有购车的短中期目标，有初级状态的投资观念，比如炒股、炒外汇、买足彩；他的夜生活丰富，可呆家，可泡吧，可购物，可上KTV，可……因为工作的压力大，所以夜生活是他喘息之机，而加班和城市的繁华使他养成晚睡习惯。 状态 优越感和压力感并存，一方面他比很多人有事业成就感和生活质素上的优越感，自认是城市精英，另一方面工作压力不断掏空他的智慧和体力，淘汰的危机与发展的危机四伏。他处在不穷也不富的尴尬阶段，放弃工作等于一穷二白，努力向上亦难成百万富翁。他的身心高度紧张，患得患失，工作的余暇获得的不像是幸福而更像偷来的快乐。 年薪100万：成就感+责任 她是民营企业老总或IT业的CEO或上市公司董事长，平均月薪8万有余，压力与风险巨大，对团队和企业负有责任。 职业生涯 她的工作重心在于决策和管理，因此她的私人时间与工作能否区分开来，取决于她的管理方式和管理水平。一般来说，上下班的概念于她形同虚设。 她的视野在于全国或全球，根据商机在任何可能的地方会见生意伙伴，因此她是标准的“空中飞人”。她会有秘书或助手处理事务，她的日程与企业的发展和命运息息相关。她还负有从团队中培养和提拔后起之秀之责，向团队灌输经营理念。在发掘人才的同时，她本人也很容易地成为了猎头公司的重点布控目标，因为她属于职业经理人或金领之列。 在适当的时机和场合她要代表企业接受媒体采访，出席各种有关的行业论坛会议，并在任何时候都能把握政策的走向带来的变化，制定出应对之策；她要面对危机进行公关，在整个市场发生变化之后把企业带入安全航道；而在平时，她要维护企业形象和市场渠道，创造企业的新赢利点和项目。 在工作上，她可能要百分百地漠视自己的性别，而纯以生意人的身份与外界打交道。她的个性为企业所用，而她别的方面的才华在很大程度上要隐藏起来，甚至窒息阉割掉；偶尔她以公众人物的身份出席在与企业无关的传媒场合，也算在另一种意义上为企业宣传加分。 收入与福利 她的收入是一个组合：除了可观的现金之外，还有企业的股份、期权以及各种达到企业当年赢利目标之后的奖金。 汽车、住房和通讯工具是企业配备给她享用的硬件，秘书和司机服务是企业配备给她的软件；而在员工所能拥有的补贴和保险之外，她的个人补贴会比员工更多、各项保险会比员工更高。因为拥有决策权，所以她的个人福利会主动与她的贡献平衡，基本到了随心所欲的范畴。 消费 从时间、精力和金额上，她在生意上的企业公关消费多过于个人的生活消费。 她已跨入中国社会的富人阶层，房子和车子在身份和品位上的象征意义多过了实用价值。旅游实际上被商务旅行所代替，频繁程度和地域之广非常人可比拟。 她没有太多余暇来执着于消费的细节，除非是个人非常偏爱的某些癖好，因此名牌几乎成了她最有效率最经济学的选择；她的社交圈子与商务活动紧密结合，生意上的朋友的消费观念在很大程度上能影响到她。 匀出整块的时间看电视于她是奢侈的事，相比之下，用数万元买一张俱乐部会员卡于她倒不奢侈；对于高科技消费，她不是时尚科技产品的试验者，而更愿做成熟科技产品的使用者。因为工作对私人时间的侵占，所以在消费上她愿意予家人和朋友大方的补偿；与消费品的售价相比，她更在乎服务的质量，因她是尊贵的信用卡一族。她从事健身运动的成本比市价高出很多，但高级会所能让她感觉到私隐的尊重和与众不同。 状态 心系企业安危，她享受工作，胜过享受生活。企业发展壮大、带出一个优秀团队所给予她的成就感，替代了个人成就感。她的抱怨很少来自生活，多是来自对体制和政策妨碍企业发展或竞争对手恶性竞争的抱怨。她进入社会财富的最大创造者之列的同时，也进入了社会财富的最大拥有者之列。 Post by algorithm @ 16:20 创业

2004-05-31 10:42 开一家科学咖啡店 you can get the detail information from this url. Post by algorithm @ 10:42 How to Start A Science Cafe

2004-05-31 10:33 Science equals entertainment at many evening spots | By Jill U. Adams Ned Shaw Imagine an entertaining evening out on the town and talking science. Sound unlikely? Not to attendees of science cafés in Europe, North America, and Australia. Perhaps these comments, collected from Australian audiences, will sway naysayers to look more closely: "I love the exchange of ideas." "Provocative and fun." "I like seeing the 'techos' come out of the closet." Science cafés aspire to promote discussion of science in a community setting. Held in venues ranging from cafés to pubs, museums to nightclubs, the atmosphere is emphatically informal and, yes, entertaining. The concept came to life in the late 1990's with the first "café scientifique" in the United Kingdom and "bars des sciences" in France. Dozens more have cropped up across the globe, and organizers report success in terms of community response and personal rewards. Here's their advice for starting a science café in your town. A typical evening begins with a scientist making a presentation. Conspicuously avoiding any semblance to formal lectures (and the lethargy they might induce), speakers do not use lecterns or slides. A short break allows patrons to "stretch their legs and top up their drinks," says Yvonne Fullwood, organizer of a London café scientifique. The break also gives participants an opportunity to chat with their friends and gain the confidence to speak up during the discussion, the raison d'etre of science cafés. Like a good cocktail, success lies in the mix of ingredients rather than any one part. Start with a compelling topic and a good speaker, add a good-sized crowd, shake, decant into the proper venue, and garnish with a chairperson (or not). "They all work, every topic and every speaker, in their own way." says Fullwood. As organizer, your main commitment is time, for inviting speakers, securing venues, and advertising the events, particularly when starting a new café. Costs are low as speakers and venues receive no payment. Organizers often get a sponsor to help defray marketing and occasional travel costs. Once established, the cafés provide their own momentum and thus require less time commitment. Many cafés have a host venue, so logistical challenges of seating, sound, and sightlines are tackled only once. E-mail lists provide an easy way to alert participants to future events, and the venue manager helps with promotion as well. "The public actually do want to be critically engaged in science and they want to have a proper dialogue with it, as opposed to just being [given] information," Fullwood says. Simply by participating, nonscientists feel a dash of empowerment. Science becomes tangible and accessible, rather than something that happens "over there" (at the university), "up there" (over their heads), and "out there" (irrelevant to life). Advice From The Experts Sponsors The Australian science café travels around the country and is a large production, with two radio personalities cohosting a panel of as many as four scientists. Three sponsors help with costs and planning efforts: the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the British Council, and the New Scientist. Two UK cafés, in London and Exeter, are held at art centers. In London, the venue serves as a sponsor and helps with planning and publicity. In Exeter, the café is sponsored by the Met Office, the national meteorological service. In Victoria, Texas, organizer and local professor Richard Gunasekera has no sponsor and does minimal advertising (beyond word-of-mouth). Yet the event outgrew its first home at a tacqueria and is presently splitting the seams at a larger café. New Scientist sponsors the café in Boston, Mass., and provides information on starting cafés in the United States. Venues Think pubs, cafés, nightclubs, band venues, and museum restaurants. Thomas recommends a "quiet, peaceful sort of venue," without distractions such as pool tables or video games. Venues will be interested in boosting a traditionally slow night (not the weekend) with a well-attended event. The challenge is to balance the need for relative quiet with the desire for a bar atmosphere. People should "feel free to ask a question, to get up at any time" says Abigail Thomas, who helps organize the Australian science cafés. Some cafés use a back room or separate space. But be careful: Don't close the door to drop-in participants. Formats Most science cafés use a single speaker; however, panels have worked quite well Down Under. Keep the presentation short, well under an hour. "We say 15 minutes because if you tell a scientist 15 minutes, it can mean anything!" says Eugenie Reich in Boston. In Exeter, the speaker chairs the discussion; organizer Ginny Russell advises them to encourage participation "so it's not just Q&A." Speakers and Topics Speakers are not paid, although they might get free drinks and perhaps a reimbursement for their travel expenses. "Go for local people," says Fullwood. She contacts potential speakers by E-mail, explaining the café scientifique concept and why they have been invited. "Practically everyone has said yes." For topics, Fullwood advises finding subjects of local interest; speakers and audience members can make suggestions. For more ideas, surf Web sites of other cafés, as well as the Dana Centre in London, which always advertises a full slate of talks. The Audience Cafés attract a mixed crowd of people differing in ages, professions, and café experiences. Generally it's an adult crowd, from college-age to retirees, and not just scientists, but lawyers, artists, and students. The regular attendees in Boston "feel like they have to be there," says Reich. But there are always newcomers, "people who've just heard about it." "People tend to muck in together," says Australia's Thomas. "It's a really good opportunity to meet other people." London's Fullwood says the "beauty is when there's a dialogue between different members within the audience," breaking down boundaries between experts and nonexperts. Coda Abigail Thomas illustrates the power of a science café on a seemingly unlikely audience in a tiny outback town in Australia. She describes cattlemen and miners, "pretty rough-looking," drinking beers at the local pub. "All of a sudden, Paul [the chair] hops up and announces, 'We're going to be talking about how the universe was formed,'" she relates. "And [the locals] all had this look on their face, like 'what [is] going on here?' But we had a couple of fantastic astronomers on that panel and by the break, I heard a couple of these pretty wild-looking men actually arguing about Einstein's theory of relativity." Resources Café Scientifique www.cafescientifique.org/index.htm Links to UK and worldwide cafés; practical advice for café organizers New Scientist www.newscientist.com/hottopics/cafescientifique Links to US, UK, and Australian cafés; contact info for help in setting up a café Dana Centre www.danacentre.org.uk Ideas for topics Jill U. Adams ( jilluadams@aol.com ) is a freelance writer in Delmar, NY. Post by algorithm @ 10:33 Hydrogen: Car Fuel of the Future

2004-05-29 20:58 Could the simplest element be the car fuel of the future? With energy and pollution concern worldwide, German auto giant BMW is experimenting with hydrogen as an alternative power source for its vehicles. The company’s main obstacles are their current cars limited driving range and a lack of service stations to stock up on hydrogen. Although it is unclear when hydrogen fuel could become widely used, company and environmental officials are excited about its use as a clean, sensible power source. No more smelly fumes at the gas station. No more polluting CO2 emissions. Far less dependence on uneven supplies of fossil fuels. An end to fluctuating gas prices, largely controlled by OPEC, that caused an uproar in Europe and elsewhere in the world last fall. The company demonstrated its hydrogen-powered vehicles during a global road show, “The Clean Energy World Tour 2001,” that kicked off in Dubai in February. By mid-year BMW will also have given like demonstrations in Brussels, Belgium; Milan, Italy; Tokyo, Japan; and Los Angeles, California. ① Years of promoting mass transit, air pollution and fluctuating gas prices have not ended love affairs with the car in any industrialized country. So the mindset now in some transportation circles and smoggy city governments is to at least get drivers into low―or non-polluting vehicles. Officials hope public buses will soon run on hydrogen. While hydrogen is the lightest known element, it has some tricky characteristics. It only becomes liquid at dramatically low temperatures �C 423 degrees Fahrenheit (-253 degrees centigrade ). To keep the fuel that cold, furl tanks in the BMW cars are made of 70 layers of fiberglass and aluminum. Hydrogen fuel is now created through an electrolysis process, in which electrodes (stimulated by light) split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen is then separated and kept cool �C and liquid �C before it is placed in fuel tanks. “We have problems with our CO2 emissions concerning the climate ,” says BMW’s Pehr. “Especially with big cities. Look at Mexico City (Mexico), Athens (Greece), or Los Angeles (California). We can solve these problems just by a new energy carrier in the future.” A few pilot projects using hydrogen fuel exist in the United States. Several are in California, where residents are more in tune with energy alternatives such as solar and wind power to generate electricity �C not to mention the state’s ongoing energy shortage. Post by algorithm @ 20:58 Americans: a Definition

2004-05-29 20:57 ① Americans seem to live and breathe and function by paradox ; but in noting are we so paradoxical as in our passionate belief in our own myths. Americans are restless, a dissatisfied, a searching people. We are alert , curious and hopeful. We believe implicitly that we are the heirs of the pioneers; that we have inherited self-sufficiency and the ability to take care of ourselves, particularly in relation to nature. But there isn’t a man among us in ten thousand who knows how to butcher a cow or a pig and cut it up for eating, let alone a wild animal. The Paradoxes are everywhere. We are able to believe that our government is weak, stupid, arbitrary , dishonest, and inefficient, and at the same time we are deeply convinced that it is the best government in the world, and we would like to impose it upon everyone else. We speak of the American Way of Life as though it involved the ground rules for the governance of paradise . We shout that we are a nation of laws, not men �C and then proceed to break every law we can if we can get away with it. We proudly insist that we base our political positions on the issues �C and we will vote against a man because of his religion, his name, or the shape of his nose. We fancy ourselves as hard-headed realists, but we will buy anything we see advertised, particularly on television; and we buy it not with reference to the quality or the value of the product, but directly as a result of the number of times we have heard it mentioned. The most arrant nonsense about a product is never questioned. We are afraid to be awake, afraid to be alone, afraid to be a moment without the noise and confusion we call entertainment. We boast of our dislike of highbrow art and music, and we have more and better-attended symphonies, art galleries, and theaters than any country in the world. We detest abstract art and produce more of it than all the rest of the world put together. ② The result is that we seem to be in a state of turmoil all the time, both physically and mentally. We work too hard, and many die under the strain; and then to make up for that we play with a violence as suicidal. We are self-reliant and at the same time completely dependent. We are aggressive, and defenseless. We are complacent in our possessions, in our house, in our education; but it is hard to find a man or woman who does not want something better for the next generation. Americans are remarkably kind and hospitable and open with both guests and strangers; and yet they will make a wide circle around the man dying on the pavement. Fortunes are spent getting cats out of trees and dogs out of sewer pipes; but a girl screaming for help in the street draws only banged doors, closed windows, and silence. Post by algorithm @ 20:57 Recreation

2004-05-29 20:56 The word “recreation” brings to mind activities that are relaxing and enjoyable. Such activities as an evening walk around the neighborhood, a Sunday picnic with the family, and playing catch in the yard with the children seem relatively spontaneous and relaxing. ① Much American recreational activity, however, seems to foreign visitors to be approached with a high degree of seriousness, planning, organization, and expense. Spontaneity and fun are absent, as far as the visitor can tell. “These crazy Americans!” a South American exclaimed on seeing yet another jogger go past her house in sub-freezing, winter weather. Many Americans jog every day, or play tennis, handball, or chess. They go on vacations, ski trips, and hunting or fishing expeditions that require weeks of planning and organizing. In the Americans’ view, all these activities are generally fun and relaxing, or are worth the discomfort they may cause because they contribute to health and physical fitness. Much American recreation is highly organized. There are classes, clubs, leagues, exhibitions , and conventions centered on hundreds of different recreational activities. People interested in astronomy , bird watching, cooking, dancing, ecology, fencing, gardening, hiking �C and on �C can find a group of like-minded people with whom to meet, learn, and practice or perform. In America recreation is big business. Many common recreational activities require supplies and equipment that can be quite costly. Recreational equipment used for traveling and usually including provisions for sleeping, cooking, and bathing can cost as much as $35,000. In 1984 Americans owned approximately 3,982,000 recreational vehicles, valued at about $7,733 million. Jogging shoes, hiking boots, fishing and camping supplies, cameras, telescopes, and bowling balls are not low-cost items. Beyond equipment, there is clothing. The fashion industry has successfully persuaded many Americans that they must be properly dressed for jogging, playing tennis, skiing, swimming, and so on. Fashionable outfits for these and other recreational activities can be surprisingly expensive. A final point that foreign observers notice is the relationship between social class and certain recreational activities. In general, golf and yachting are associated with wealthier people, tennis with better-educated people, outdoor sports (camping, fishing, hunting, boating) with middle-class people. Those who bowl or square dance regularly are likely to represent the lower-middle class. Foreign observers will be able to find other examples of these relationships in whatever part of the United States they come to know. Post by algorithm @ 20:56 Amazing Aspirin

2004-05-29 20:55 This “ miracle drug” is even better than we thought. Aspirin may be the most familiar drug in the world �C but its power to heal goes far beyond the usual aches and pains. ① Exciting new studies suggest that aspirin can help fight a wide range of serious illnesses. Over the last decade there has been keen interest in the use of aspirin to prevent cancer. “Experiments have shown that aspirin inhibits tumors in a whole array of cancers, including cancers of colon and stomach.” says Dr. Michael Thun, vice president for epidemiology and surveillance research for the American Cancer Society. At Harvard Medical School, the long-term Nurses’ Health Study (which involves nearly 90,000 female nurses), has reveled a 30-percent reduction in colorectal cancer among those women who used aspirin regularly for ten to 19 years and a 44-percent reduction after 20 years of consistent aspirin use. Most of us know that the Food and Drug Administration recommends aspirin as a way of preventing heart attacks in those known to have a heart condition, but few of us realize it can help at the onset of an attack. In 1998 the FDA advised that individuals experiencing the symptoms of a heart attack should immediately take aspirin. A worldwide study of 17,187 patients directed by Dr. Hennekens has shown that there is a 23-percent reduction in the death rate when aspirin is taken within 24 hours of experiencing heart-attack symptoms. Doctor Debra Judelson has seen its benefits firsthand. On an airplane flight, a fellow passenger turned pale, began suffering chest pains and had trouble breathing. She quickly gave the man two aspirin, and in a few moments his pain abated , his lungs cleared and his color returned. “If you think you’re having a heart attack, chew two aspirin,” advises Dr. Judelson. “Chewing leads to more rapid absorption than swallowing whole. With a heart attack, minutes mean muscle. The longer you wait, the more muscle is damaged.” Before beginning daily aspirin use, check with your physician. Despite their enthusiasm for aspirin, doctors remind us there can be significant risk for some people in taking the drug. By thinning the blood, aspirin can retard clotting and cause excessive bleeding. So regular aspirin use may not be appropriate for people with digestive disorders or bleeding problems. Those planning to undergo even minor surgery should tell their doctors if they’re on aspirin therapy. Also, aspirin isn’t recommended for children and teens because of its association with Reye’s syndrome, a rare but dangerous childhood disease. For many, however, aspirin may be just the therapy to help prevent some of our most dreaded illnesses. “I think it’s the wonder drug of the 21 st century,” says Dr. Hennekens. Post by algorithm @ 20:55 Could Economic Decline Return?

2004-05-29 20:52 Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return? Sine OPEC agreed to supply-cuts in March, the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $26 a barrel , up from less than $10 last December. This near -tripling of oil prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shock, when prices quadrupled, and 1979-80, when they also almost tripled. Both previous shocks resulted in double digit inflation and global economic decline. So where are the headlines warning of gloom and doom this time? The oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil exports. Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere , could push the price higher still in the short term. Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be less severe than in the 1970s. In most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s. In Europe, taxes account for up to four-fifths of the retail price, so even quite big changes in the price of crude have a more muted effect on pump prices than in the past. Rich economies are also less dependent on oil than they were, and so less sensitive to swings in the oil price. Energy conservation, a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy, energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption. Software, consultancy and mobile telephones use far less oil than steel or car production. For each dollar of GDP (in constant prices) rich economies now use nearly 50% less oil than in 1973. The OECD estimates in its latest Economic Outlook that, if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year, compared with $13 in 1998, this would increase the oil import bill in rich economies by only 0.25―0.5% of GDP. That is less than one-quarter of the income loss in 1974 or 1980. On the other hand, oil-importing emerging economies �C to which heavy industry has shifted �C have become more energy-intensive, and so could be more seriously squeezed. One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil price is that, unlike the rise in 1970s, it has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand. A sizable portion of the world is only just emerging from economic decline. The Economist’s commodity price index is broadly unchanging from a year ago. In 1973 commodity prices jumped by 70%, and in 1979 by almost 30%. Post by algorithm @ 20:52 Rules for Behavior in Public Places

2004-05-29 20:45 Line up, and wait your turn. When they are in situations where a group of people want attention or service from someone, Americans line up (or “ queue, ” as some people say). In the bank, at the theater box office, or at the university registrar’s counter, the latest person to arrive will step to the end of the line and patiently (patiently unless it becomes clear that the service the people in the line are getting is slower than it ought to be) wait their turn. This behavior reflects their notion that all people are equal, in the sense that no one has the privilege of going directly to the front of a line. It also reflects their aversion to touching, which is much less likely to happen in a line than in a crowd jostling to get service. People who do not go to the end of the line and wait their turn, but who instead go to the head of the line and try to push their way in front of others, will usually evoke a hostile reaction. First-come, first-served. Related to the “line up” rule is the first-come, first-served rule. The general notion is that the person who arrives first gets attention first. Alternative notions, such as giving priority to older people or richer ones or males, do not normally occur to equality- minded Americans. Don’t block the traffic. ① Generally, Americans give priority to people who are moving rather than to those who are stationary. A person who is in a moving crowd and who wishes to stop or to go more slowly than others is expected to move to the side or otherwise get out of the way of those who are continuing to move. It is considered inconsiderate to obstruct other people’s paths. Don’t’ block the view. It is also deemed inconsiderate to obstruct another person’s view when the person is trying to watch a public event, such as a parade, athletic contest, or theater performance. This rule can be interpreted as yet another manifestation of Americans’ assumptions about equality and individualism Anti-smoking . In recent years and anti-smoking movement has made considerable headway in the United States. Some states and localities have outlawed smoking in certain public places. Some restaurants, like airplanes, have areas designated for smokers and for non-smokers. Many organizations have formulated rules about smoking, usually rules that specify where people can and cannot smoke. Nonsmokers who feel discomfort in the presence of cigarette smoke often ask smokers to extinguish their cigarettes. Vigorous campaigns in the public schools are aimed at discouraging young people from taking up the habit. Foreign visitor who smoke will want to notice, before they light up, whether others in the group are smoking and, if they are, whether they are confining themselves to a particular part of the room or building. Asking those around them, “Do you mind if I smoke?” is a good idea, and so is acceding to the wishes of those who say they mind. Post by algorithm @ 20:45 truth or dare

2004-05-28 12:47 那天我们几个同学聚会，同学聚会，无非就是聊天，吃饭，然后打牌，玩游戏。打牌的时候谈到输赢的问题，玩个什么游戏，有的说喝水，吃东西，钻个什么东西，大喊什么，我说，那就干脆来"truth or dare"吧。 "truth or dare"是从那个“六楼后座”片子里学到的。真疯狂，可惜我们不敢了。玩truth也就是："你的最大的愿望是什么？" "你最喜欢谁" "你＊＊有没有传过情书"之类，大胆呢,也就是"作个动作，表演个什么节目，唱首bt的歌". 所以玩起来呢，也就没有多大意思了。改天了，还是找几个比较铁的人一起玩，呵呵，可能我们大陆年轻人玩不起这个，放不开啊 Post by algorithm @ 12:47 ALL IN

2004-05-27 10:53 喜欢这种all in的感觉，有时手上是一副烂牌，但你全押，你也能成功。又有什么是不可能的呢。感觉那部片子的男一号最后又回到了起点。经历了很多很多，可能最后又回到了开始的地方，这就是生活吗？ Post by algorithm @ 10:53 真情大赌注

2004-05-27 10:47 <真情大赌注>那个韩剧总算是放完了，34集，昨天圆满结局，有情人终成眷属。这应该算是韩剧的一个特点吧。金仁贺和闵书荫这一对演员也假戏真做，在现实生活中拍拖了。不错不错，该剧的主题曲更是好听"像第一天一样",网上有这个的原声CD下。太好听了，每次男一号和女一号相思，就会想起这首浪漫的音乐，推荐 ,大家可用google查阅相关资料。 Post by algorithm @ 10:47 做个记号

2004-05-25 14:48 断肠散：给红杏出墙妻子的一封信 http://www.tianyaclub.com/new/Publicforum/Content.asp?idWriter=0&Key=0&strItem=feeling&idArticle=179331&flag=1 最让我动情的10个情景 http://www.tianyaclub.com/new/Publicforum/Content.asp?idWriter=0&Key=0&strItem=feeling&idArticle=232592&flag=1 Post by algorithm @ 14:48 旅游的梦想

2004-05-25 10:40 上大学的时候很穷，每年都只有生活的经费，一般都是父母一次给齐，直到一个学期的结束，一般是一个学期2000－3000块钱。现在想来，真是有点不可思议，不过就算这个样子我觉得我在大学过得很好。虽然家里没有给我创造很好的条件，但我觉得我已经是非常幸运了，因为我没有受到这些的影响。 学校每个月有60块的补贴，再加上几百块钱的奖学金，就这么过一个学期。现在想起来，大学就几乎没有去过什么地方旅游，一是没有钱，二是没有女朋友，所以每到五一或者十一，我都在学校打球，看书，上网。 我承认一个富裕的家庭能给予一个人很好的支持，的确有时这种支持是很重要的。在你出了社会的时候能给你独立和自由。因为很多时候，你没有钱，就没有自由，这是事实。很多人都在用自由换取金钱，大部分都是。 大学毕业后，我决定趁着年轻，每年都要去几个不同的地方。02年毕业，下半年十一的时候，本来准备去杭州，结果因为做水稻的项目没有去成。03年5月去了一趟四川，呆了一周；7月去了一趟大连，呆了一周。04年准备去上海，南京那边吧。 我现在没有继续深造的打算，去念研究生或者博士，因为我就在这样的一个群体中生活了快两年，我深深知道他们的处境。我不认为这对于我来说是一个损失。这只不过是一个不同的选择。 我倒愿意，年轻的时候多做一点事情，多去一些地方，多见识一些，但只要搂着一个女人睡觉。等到我年老的时候，不至于在冬天的晚上感到寒冷，而是可以不断的回忆，写字。 Post by algorithm @ 10:40 Pretty boy

2004-05-24 15:49 I lie you awake at night See things in black and white I’ve only got you inside my mind You know you have made me blind I lie awake and pray That you will look my way I have all this song in my heart I knew it right from the start Oh my pretty pretty boy I love you Like I never ever loved no one before you Pretty pretty boy of mine Just tell me you love me too Oh my pretty pretty boy I need you Oh my pretty pretty boy I do Let me inside Make me stay right beside you I used to write your name And put it in a frame And sometime I think I hear you call Right from my bedroom wall You stay a little while And touch me with your smile And what can I say to make you mine To reach out for you in time Oh my pretty pretty boy I love you Like I never ever loved no one before you Pretty pretty boy of mine Just tell me you love me too Oh my pretty pretty boy I need you Oh my pretty pretty boy I do Let me inside Make me stay right beside you Oh pretty boy pretty boy pretty boy say you love me too Oh my pretty pretty boy I love you Like I never ever loved no one before you Pretty pretty boy of mine Just tell me you love me too Oh my pretty pretty boy I need you Oh my pretty pretty boy I do Let me inside Make me stay right beside you M2M（窈窕美眉）是由两个来自挪威的小女孩Marit （乖乖美眉玛莉特）及Marion （好动美眉玛莉安）所组成的团体，由于两人名字都是M开头，所以就叫M2M。 Marit与Marion两人认识于1990年（大约五岁时），由 于对音乐的喜爱，两人成了好朋友，并常在一起为家人及朋友表演。他们的第一张唱片是八岁时以挪威语灌录的儿童专辑Synger Kjente Barnesanger (Sings Famous Children's Songs)，这张专辑也获得Spillemanspriest （相当于挪威的葛莱美奖）《最佳儿童专辑》的提名。当时他们的团名是Marit & Marion。 M2M于1998年7月与Atlantic唱片公司签约，首支单曲Don't Say You Love Me，由 M2M一起谱写，并由Celine Dion（席琳狄翁）与Jennifer Paige（珍妮佛佩姬）的专辑制作人共同制作，并成为“神奇宝贝口袋饼干皮卡丘”（Pokemon：the First Movie） 电影主题曲， 并配合电影的上映目前已在全美电台获得广大的回响并持续发烧中，单曲销售量目前高居第五名，已经超过40,000张纪录。M2M首张专辑Shades Of Purple已于2000年3月发行，M2M包办所有的词曲创作，并请到 Spice Girls（辣妹）、Backstreet Boys（新好男孩）、Britney Spears（小甜甜布兰妮）…… 等当红艺人团体的专辑制作人倾力操刀。 Post by algorithm @ 15:49 大陆偶像

2004-05-24 13:07 中国内地第一个也是唯一一个签约全球五大唱片公司的少女组“美眉”首张专辑《怕什么！》于2004年3月3日正式上市。这是“美眉”在签约华纳唱片后，潜心训练整整一年后的首次出击！ 这是华纳在大陆打造的MM偶像,听说为她们订身打造的偶像剧今年就可以看到了。真是太好了，大陆的娱乐市场希望他们能带个好头。一群有才艺的女生。超喜欢他们的style。 Post by algorithm @ 13:07 美眉组合 和 她们的第一张专辑《怕什么》

2004-05-24 12:58 Post by algorithm @ 12:58 Focus On Careers: Bioinformatics Science

2004-05-21 16:03 bioinformatics, the use of computer technology to manage biological information, made its spectacular debut a few years ago, as the first trickles of gene sequence information from the Human Genome Program (HGP) and other sequencing projects grew into a deluge. Individuals with the skills to work on the interface between molecular biology and computer science instantly became some of the most sought-after job applicants in the biopharma world. With about 3 billion base pairs on its agenda, and a target completion date of 2005, HGP alone should foster a continuing explosion of data and a robust job market for computational biologists. "Career opportunities in bioinformatics are very, very good," said John M. Greene, senior staff scientist, bioinformatics research, at Gene Logic Inc., Gaithersburg, Maryland. "It seems that every time you turn around a company has decided to set up a bioinformatics group, or expand an existing group. Many scientists are turning their careers in this direction." But Greene notes that breaking into the field may not be as simple as all the talk about a feeding frenzy for personnel suggests. He cites the common misperception that a person can take a course in C, the programming language, acquire some database knowledge, and be deluged with high-paying job offers. Salaries around the six-figure mark are possible in bioinformatics, but getting them or even an entry-level position requires more planning than was common in the past. Not many of today's bioinformatics people planned it. Many started out doing something else, entered the field before it had a name, and learned key skills on the job. Some were computer scientists who learned biology. Others were life scientists who learned computing. After getting a Ph.D. in genetics from Harvard University, Greene did a postdoc, and worked for almost a year at a start-up antisense company. His career path led to Human Genome Sciences (HGS) and a job that involved substantial Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) analysis on expressed sequence tags (ESTs) to identify genes with possible medical applications. BLAST programs are basic tools for searching DNA and protein databases for sequence similarities. Greene liked the work and finally switched into bioinformatics full time at HGS. He recently moved up to Gene Logic, which offers pharmaceutical companies technology to speed up development of drug targets. Gene Logic has a proprietary technology that identifies changes in gene expression associated with disease. It is developing a flow-through DNA chip to gauge drug efficacy and toxicity by analyzing gene changes, and an object-oriented database of gene expression patterns to identify new drug targets. Strongest demand today exists for individuals with degrees in the life sciences and computer sciences, and multiple years of programming and database development experience, Greene says. Typical combinations include a Ph.D. in molecular biology, cell biology, or biochemistry and a B.S. in computer sciences. Life science Ph.D's, largely self-taught in key computer skills, with industry experience, have good opportunities. People who emerge from the few doctoral programs in bioinformatics also will be "incredibly marketable," especially those with industry experience. This range of individuals, very difficult to find, often wind up heading bioinformatics departments or programs. At the staff scientist and senior staff scientist levels, biopharma companies now tend to place emphasis on applicants with computer science skills. That's largely because databases and search tools are still being developed. Greene thinks that emphasis will shift in a few years to interpreting information in databases. Companies will then look for individuals who first and foremost are biologists but have key computational skills. What are those skills? Greene's list includes knowledge of UNIX, the operating system used for many computational biology programs; a good grasp of the concept of relational databases, which are the heart of bioinformatics; and skill with Structured Query Language (SQL), a language used to query databases. In the future, knowledge of object-oriented databases may be increasingly important. Programming skills also are essential. Skills with C, the programming language, will help individuals learn Perl, the scripting language widely used in bioinformatics. Object-oriented languages, such as Java, will be increasingly important. Expert knowledge of sequence-analysis programs like BLAST and FASTA is critical. Web skills, of course, are necessary, including the ability to write some Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). What gives one applicant an edge over another? Recruiters get excited over applicants who have applied computational biology skills in a practical way. The individual who wrote a program, for instance, and used it in thesis or postdoctoral work, might have an advantage over a similar individual who just took programming courses. "For individuals who thrill at being on the cutting edge of science, with the skills to excel in two very different worlds, bioinformatics can be an extraordinarily good career," Greene said. "For me, the switch was the best step I've taken in the last decade." Post by algorithm @ 16:03 最近几天沉底了

2004-05-19 18:17 这两天真是见鬼了，泡在了天涯里，看了很多感情的帖子，呵呵。感觉还真好。有点浪费时间了。有些帖子很好了，做个记号：至于自己对待之前的那段感情，就让他过去吧，没什么好留恋的。没有失去处男之身，我想男人也要自爱一点吧。继续精彩的生活，这个社会很美好，有很多东西值得我们为之奋斗。 结婚五年间――在婚姻中成熟 http://www.tianyaclub.com/New/PublicForum/Content.asp?idWriter=0&Key=0&strItem=feeling&idArticle=149443&flag=1 一个30岁男人的爱情婚姻思考 http://www.tianyaclub.com/new/Publicforum/Content.asp?idWriter=0&Key=0&strItem=feeling&idArticle=216169&flag=1 一个23岁女子眼中的男人和女人 http://www.tianyaclub.com/new/Publicforum/Content.asp?idWriter=0&Key=0&strItem=feeling&idArticle=218817&flag=1 Post by algorithm @ 18:17 最后一封email

2004-05-17 22:03 真的很佩服你。你比我活得洒脱多了！呵呵，选择分手是你的权力，我尊重你。我能包容你的错误，你却不能忍受我的差异，所以分开对彼此都有好处。 我算是一个好男人吧，至少我通情达理，重感情，有责任心，上进，优秀，长得还算端庄，懂得尊重女孩子的自由，没有什么宗教信仰，也没有什么坏的嗜好，工作还算不错，人品还好，我不是个坏男孩，但却不是个好的男朋友？呵呵，好男人对女人来说，也是一所好的学校，只是女人常常也需要转学重修，等到她开始明白的时候，却发现青春已经过去了，已经没有大把的时间去找回那个人了。所以那就随便找个凑合的人结婚吧，结婚不能真正消灭孤独，但它并非没有用处――它可以用烦恼来代替孤独，很多人这么过了一辈子。也就这么过吧。 呵呵，我并不是个经验丰富的人，但我是个喜欢读书，懂得求知和进取的人。我为我们两个人的感情而感到惋惜，同时也为你吧，因为你失去了一个这个世界上最爱你的人，能为你献出生命的人不是吗？而我只不过是失去了一个不爱我的人。就把这当作这是一曲挽歌，和你道别之后，我们就各自走各自的路吧。 如果爱一个人却不能相守，那就把他放在心底，封存好。从中吸取爱情的养料，走好各自彼此以后的人生之路。这是我给你的最后一封email，就让一切都过去吧。亲爱的，你说要做我的妹妹，我可不要，就让一切都过去吧，最后一次说“我爱你”！我们彼此不要再见了吧！呵呵～～ byebye！ Post by algorithm @ 22:03 冬眠（英文版）－薛凯琪

2004-05-14 17:44 Light's dimmed Hair down Printing a portrait of maybe you and me How to when to tell you I love you so you would hear this DE-DA Closing my eyes I see no other now that you''ve found me I was told and told that you''ve got me all my friends agree DE-DA I saw you holding her hands by that window yesterday I was out of luck I see I wish you were holding my hands by this window today My lock just fails me

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2004-05-13 18:06 已经下了薛凯琪 的处女专辑 《‘F’Debut》 ，不错的声音。喜欢！ Post by algorithm @ 18:06 你不�槿酥�的一面

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2004-05-12 10:28 克林顿总统就职演说 My fellow citizens: Today, we celebrate the mystery of American renewal. This ceremony is held in the depth of winter. But, by the words we speak and the faces we show the world, we force the spring. On behalf of our nation, I salute my predecessor President Bush for his half-century of service to America, ① and I thank the millions of men and women whose steadfastness and sacrifice triumphed over depression and fascism. Communications and commerce are global; investment is mobile; technology is almost magical; and ambition for a better life is now universal . We earn our livelihood in America today in peaceful competition with people all across the earth. This new world has already enriched the lives of millions of Americans who are able to compete and win in it. But when most people are working harder for less, when others cannot work at all, when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to bankrupt our enterprises, great and small, when fear of crime robs law-abiding citizens of their freedom and when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead �C we have not made change our friend. ② Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our renewal. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America. To renew American, we must be bold. Americans deserve better. And in this city today, there are people who want to do better. So I say to all of you here, let us resolve t o reform our politics, so that power and privilege no longer shout down the voice of the people. Let us put aside personal advantage so that we can feel the pain and see the promise of America. When our vital interests are challenged, or the will and conscience of the international community is defied, we will act �C with peaceful diplomacy whenever possible, with force when necessary. The brave Americans serving our nation today in the Persian Gulf, in Somalia, and wherever else they stand are testament to our resolve. To that work I now turn, with all the authority of my office, I ask the Congress to join with me. But no president, no Congress, no government, can undertake this mission alone. My fellow Americans. You , too, must play your part in our renewal. And so my fellow Americans, as we stand at the edge of the 21 st century, let us begin with energy and hope, with faith and discipline , and let us work until our work is done. Bible says, “ And let us not be weary in welldoing, for in due season, we shall reap, if we faint not.” Post by algorithm @ 10:28 Postwar America

2004-05-12 10:27 ① A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap , but, if properly handled , it may become a driving force. When the United States entered just such a glowing period after the end of the Second World War, it had a market eight times larger than any competitor, giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale. Its scientists were the world’s best, its workers the most skilled. America and Americans were prosperous beyond the dreams of the Europeans and Asians whose economies the war had destroyed. It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer. Just as inevitably, the retreat from predominance proved painful. ② By the mid-1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial competitiveness. Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics, had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign competition. By 1987 there was only one American television maker left, Zenith. Foreign-made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic market. America’s machine-tool industry was on the ropes. For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors , which America had invented and which sat at the heart of the new computer age, was going to be the next casualty. All of this caused a crisis of confidence. Americans stopped taking prosperity for granted. They began to believe that their way of doing business was failing, and that their incomes would therefore shortly begin to fall as well. The mid-1980s brought on inquiry after another into the causes of America’s industrial decline. Their sometimes sensational findings were filled with warnings about the growing competition from overseas. How things have changed! In 1995 the United States can look back on five years of solid growth while Japan has been struggling. Few Americans attribute this solely to such obvious causes as a devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle. Self-doubt has yielded to blind pride. “American industry has changed its structure, has gone on a diet, has learnt to be more quick-witted,” according to Richard Cavanagh, executive dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School Government. “It makes me proud to be an American just to see how our businesses are improving their productivity,” says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, a think-tank in Washington, DC. And William Sablman of the Harvard Business School believes that people will look back on this period as “a golden age of business management in the United States”. 名人名言 The Bible says that “the love of money is the roof of all evil” . That is, money sought for its own sake is the cause of all sorts of evil �C lying, stealing, cheating, robbery, and even murder. This is the best reason for avoiding the loving of money. Post by algorithm @ 10:27 Arctic Ocean Will Soon Be an Open Sea

2004-05-13 10:25 Colonel Bernt Balchen, polar explorer and flier, is circulating a paper among polar specialists proposing that the Arctic pack ice is thinning and that the ocean at the North Pole may become an open sea within a decade or two. ① He bases his thesis on predictions in recent years by several experts in polar weather and ice behavior. The warning sounded by Colonel Balchen has stirred up enough excitement in Washington for the Navy to ask Dr. Norbert Untersteiner of the University of Washington to prepare an assessment of trends in the pack. However, interviews with a number of other specialists have shown a widespread belief that the progressive shrinkage over the last century has reversed itself, at least temporarily. Disappearance of the Arctic pack would enable the largest tankers to reach the newly discovered oil fields of northern Alaska. However, of major concern is the possibility of catastrophic climate changes. A number of specialists believe that an ice-free Arctic Ocean would not freeze again. If so , it has been predicted that storm paths would change and food-producing areas of the Central United States and Eurasia might become deserts. The Russians, because of their dependence on sea routes to ports along their long Arctic coastline, keep the closest watch of anyone on weather trends and the drifting pack ice of the Arctic Ocean. A number of Russian and American specialists agree with Colonel Balchen that the ice cover of that ocean is “ vulnerable ” A moderate increase in solar heat production or a change in transparency of the atmosphere could remove the ice. The Arctic pack is a thin crust of ice over a deep ocean. Thus, it differs basically from the Antarctic ice sheet, which rests on lofty continent. Whereas melting of the Antarctic ice would raise sea levels throughout the world by many feet, the melting of the Arctic would have no such effect. This is because floating ice displaces just as much water as the water produced when the ice melts. When ice cubes in a glass melt, for example, the water level does not rise. Unlike other oceans, the Arctic Ocean is almost landlocked, but warm Gulf Stream water flows into it from the Atlantic and lesser amount of heat is also carried in from the Pacific through the Bering Strait. Some specialists believe that the ocean would not freeze again, even in the winter, ocean the pack had disappeared. If the ocean were free of ice, storm paths, it is thought, would move further north, depriving the plains of North America and of central Eurasia of rainfall. Winds blowing off the Arctic Ocean would become moist, and snowfall on mountains in the path of those winds would be almost continuous. This would start the formation of ice sheets such as those that several times have flowed south across North America and Eurasia. Post by algorithm @ 10:25 Every Person Is Responsible for His/Her Actions

2004-05-13 10:24 A wise man once said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. So as a police officer, I have some urgent things to say to good people. Day after day my men and I struggle to hold back a tidal wave of crime. Something has gone terribly wrong with our once-proud American way of life. It has happened in the area of values. A key ingredient is disappearing, and I think I know what it is: accountability. Accountability isn’t hard to define. It means that every person is responsible for his or her actions and liable for their consequences. Of the many values that hold civilization together �C honesty, kindness, and so on �C accountability may be the most important of all. Without it, there can be no respect , no trust, no law �C and, ultimately, no society. ① My job as a police officer is to impose accountability on people who refuse, or have never learned, to impose it on themselves. But as every policeman knows, external controls on people’s behavior are far less effective than internal restrains such as guilt, shame and embarrassment. Fortunately there are still communities �C smaller towns, usually �C where schools maintain discipline and where parents hold up standards that proclaim: “In this family certain things are not tolerated �C they simply are not done!” Yet more and more, especially in our larger cities and suburbs, these inner restraints are loosening. Your typical robber has none. He considers your property his property; he takes what he wants, including your life if you enrage him. ② The main cause of this break-down is radical shift in attitudes. Thirty years ago, if a crime was committed, society was considered the victim . Now, in a shocking reversal, it’s the criminal who is considered victimized: by his underprivileged upbringing, by the school that didn’t teach him to read, by the church that failed to reach him with moral guidance, by the parents who didn’t provide a stable more. I don’t believe it. Many others in equally disadvantaged circumstances choose not to engage in criminal activities. If we free the criminal, even partly, from accountability, we become a society of endless excuses where no one accepts responsibility for anything. We in America desperately need more people who believe that the person who commits a crime is the one responsible for it. Post by algorithm @ 10:24 Recommend：我的最��

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2004-05-10 16:04 Not long ago I told my father that I’m a workaholic . He startled me by saying, “Yes, dear, you are.” It was a shock to think that getting hooked on work �C especially work I love �C could be a problem. My addiction was exacting a toll on my marriage and pushing my towards burnout. It was hard to admit this, but once I did, I realized what I needed to do: less. That’s true for all of us, because we’re all engaged in the work of the world, giving in countless ways �C as partners , parents, children, friends, colleagues , gardeners, teachers, artists and listeners. This work is endless. ① But we all need to recharge and renew out own reserve, and there’s no better time than on long, warm days when nature beckons us outside. Finally, I’m surrendering. I’m taking nature’s cues to get out of my brain and into my body. ② To keep it real, I’ve compiled a to-do list to post on the wall. It’s radically different from last year’s, and it goes like this: 1. Get up an hour earlier. I’ve already started doing this. I step outside, smell the air, listen to the birds, meditate, fix myself some pancakes. I try to remember to give thanks for what’s going right in my life. 2. Stay out of the supermarket. When the growing season is under way, I try to shop at local farmers’ markets. I love the colors, textures and smells of the food harvested just hours before. I also like to thank the farmers for growing beautiful food. 3. Eat outside. Yes, more picnics. To bring: a big blanket, a straw hat, a basket of fresh bread, cheese, fruit, wine, a few friends. 4. Say no. I don’t want to miss a single event, turn down one invitation, or tell anyone they can’t come to visit. But I’m trying to say firm to save some time for myself: to loll, nap , daydream. 5. Find a hayfield. After the hay has been cut, drive by at dusk with the windows rolled down. I like to stop the car and just sit here, breathing in the sweet, green fragrance, watching the swallows flying in circles over the darkening fields. 6. Go outside at night. Walking around after dark, admiring the Milky Way, the stars, how the clouds look in the moonlight. Walking outdoors at night heightens the senses. 7. Let go. At least a little. Sometimes I feel paralyzed by all the suffering in the world, the pain of family and friends, and out own struggles. But if I give myself some sanctuary , some breathing room every day, I find I can better face these things. When we make the time to replenish our reserves, we find new energy to reach out in ways large and small, to change the world, to change ourselves. Post by algorithm @ 16:04 Reflections on Life

2004-05-10 16:02 I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days at some time during his early adult life. ① Darkness would make him more appreciative of sight; silence would teach him the joys of sound. Sometimes I have thought it would be an excellent rule to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Such an attitude would emphasize sharply the values of life. We should live each day with a gentleness, a vigor , and a keenness of appreciation which are often lost when time stretches before us in the constant panorama of more days and months and years to come. There are those, of course, who would adopt the motto of “Eat, drink, and be merry, ” but most people would be purified by the certainty of impending death. It has often been noted that those who live, or have lived, in the shadow of death bring a mellow sweetness to everything they do. Most of us, however, take life for granted. We know that one day we must die, but usually we picture that day as far in the future. When we are in good health, death is all but unimaginable. We seldom think of it. The days stretch out in an endless vista. So we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life. ② The same lethargy, I am afraid, characterizes the use of all our faculties and senses. Only the deal appreciate hearing, only the blind realize the manifold blessings that lie in sight. Particularly does this observation apply to those who have lost sight and hearing in adult life. But those who never suffered impairment o f sight or hearing seldom make the fullest use of these blessed faculties. Their eyes and ears take in all sight and sounds hazily, without concentration , and with little appreciation. It is the same old story of not being grateful for what we have until we lose it, of not being consciou s of health until we are ill. If I were the president of a university I should establish a compulsory course in “How to Use Your Eyes”. The professor would try to show his pupils how they could add joy to their lives by really seeing what passes unnoticed before them. He would try to awake their dormant and sluggish faculties. 名人名言 Suppose you set your mind to work on the problem of how you would use your own eyes if you had three more days to see. If with the oncoming darkness of the third night you knew that the sun would never rise for you again, how would you spend those three precious intervening days? What would you most want to let your gaze rest upon? I, naturally, should want most to see the things which have become dear to me through my years of darkness. You, too, would want to let your eyes rest long on the things that have become dear to you so that you could take the memory of them with you into the night that loomed before you. Post by algorithm @ 16:02 Hollywood Legend �C Marilyn Monroe

2004-05-09 16:00 ① Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood legend , famous even among the famous, began life as plain or not so plain Normer Jean Baker. Already at sixteen, Something of a stunner , she was soon spotted by a photographer who gave her name to a model agency. Normer Jean was in the fast lane to the cinema. Some acting lessons, a few small parts in B movie films and within no time at all, Marilyn Monroe, as she had now been named, was mixing it with Hollywood greats. Her firs big break came alongside Jane Russell in Gentlemen Preferred Blondes. It was enough of a success for her to join the stars whose handprints are set in concrete on Sunset Boulevard. In 1954, at the age of 27, Marilyn married another all-American superstar, the baseball player, Joe Demagio. It seemed a perfect match. He came from a large family. Here it seemed it was the security she’d lacked as a child, but it wasn’t to be. Marilyn was now at the height of her fame. She had traveled a road from a lonely obscure teenager to a glamorous, self-assured celebrity, and all in the space of less than ten years. But the price she’d pay was enormous. She now had friends in the very highest places. She was flattered by writers, artists, playwrights as well as the world of entertainment. Behind all the adulations though, something a good deal more sinister was developing in her life. It was the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the political atmosphere was almost as intense as the public pressure on the stars. The FBI were convinced Marilyn was mixing with known communists. They opened the file on her as a possible subversive . Then’ suddenly in August 1962 she died, apparently from an overdose of barbiturate. ② It was ironic that for someone who lived in the glare of publicity, the death should have taken place in such shadowy circumstances. Was it murder, accident or suicide? No one really knows. But whatever the answer to that, there is no doubt that Marilyn Monroe was a Hollywood giant who gave delight to millions during her short, glamorous life. 名人名言 Now we must create more opportunities for people to serve all year long and, through service, to reach out to one anther across the lines that divide us. In honor of the spirit of citizen service embodied in the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the Congress has designated the Martin Luther King holiday as a day of national service. Dr King once said that, “Everybody can be great because anybody can serve �C you only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love.” -----------B. Clinton 生词与联想词 Post by algorithm @ 16:00 Address before the Congress Following the Moon Landing

2004-05-09 15:59 Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen: ① It is with a great sense of pride as an American and with humility as a human being that I say to you today what no men have been privileged to say before : “We walk on the moon.” But the footprints at Tranquility Base belong to more than the crew of Apollo 11. They were put there by hundreds of thousands of people across this country, people in the government, industry and universities, the teams and crews that preceded us, all who strived throughout the years with Mercury, Gemini and Apollo. Those footprints belong to the American people and you, the representatives, who accept it and support it, the representative, who accept it and support it, the inevitable challenge of the moon. And, since we came in peace for all mankind those footprints belong also to all people of the world. As the moon shines impartially on all those looking up from our spinning earth so do we hope the benefits of space exploration will be spread equally with a harmonizing influence to all mankind. Scientific exploration implies investigating the unknown. The result can never be wholly anticipated. Charles Lindberg said, “Scientific accomplishment is a path, not an end; a path leading to and disappearing in mystery.” Our steps in space have been a symbol of this country’s way of life as we open our doors and windows to the world to view our successes and failures and as we share with all nations our discovery. The Saturn, Columbia, and Eagle and the Extravehicular Mobility Unit have prove to Neil, Mike and me that this nation can produce equipment of the highest quality and dependability. This should give all of us hope and inspiration to overcome some of the more difficult problems here on earth. The Apollo lesson is that national goals can be met where there is a strong enough will do so. The first step on the moon was a step toward our sister planets and ultimately toward the stars. ② “ A small step for a man,” was a statement of a fact, “a giant leap for mankind,” is a hope for future. Thank you. 名人名言 The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievement, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others �C this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world’s peoples. ------------------G. G. Will Post by algorithm @ 15:59 Disputes on Euthanasia

2004-05-11 15:48 It was 3:45 in the morning when the vote was finally taken. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia’s Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die. The measure passed by the convincing vote of 15 to 10. Almost immediately word flashed on the Internet and was picked up, half a world away, by John Hofsess, executive director of the Right to Die Society of Canada. He sent it on via the group’s online service, Death NET. Says Hofsess: “We posted bulletins all day long, because of course this isn’t just something that happened in Australia. It’s world history.” ① The full import may take a while to sink in. The NT Rights of the Terminally III law has left physicians and citizens alike trying to deal with its moral and practical implications. Some have breathed signs of relief, others, including churches, right-to-life groups and the Australia Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back. In Australia �C where an aging population, life extending technology and changing community attitudes have all played their part �C other stages are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia. In the US and Canada, where the right to die movement is gathering strength, observers are waiting for the dominoes to start falling. Under the new Northern Territory law, an adult patient can request death �C probably by a deadly injection or pill �C to put an end to suffering. The patient must be diagnosed as terminally ill by two doctor. After a “cooling off” period of seven days, the patient can sign a certificate of request. After 48 hours the wish for death ban be met. For Lloyd Nickson, a 54-year-old Darwin resident suffering from lung cancer, the NT Rights of Terminally III law means he can get on with living without the haunting fear of his suffering: a terrifying death from his breathing condition. “I’m not afraid of dying from a spiritual point of view, but what I was afraid of was how I’d go, because I’ve watched people die in the hospital fighting for oxygen and groaning at their masks, ” he says. 名人名言 The United States, whose people are linked by long ties of friendship with the great Chinese peoples, is confident that with renewed dedication to the principles of the Charter we can move toward peace and justice in the world. ② We shall not cease to work here with all who share that hope and who wish to co-operate in its realization. ---------------G. Bush Post by algorithm @ 15:48 Small Enterprises

2004-05-11 15:44 Large, multinational corporations may be the companies whose ups and downs seize headlines . But to a far greater extent than most Americans realize, the economy’s vitality depends on the fortunes of tiny shops and restaurants, neighborhood services and factories. Small businesses, defined as those with fewer than 100 workers, now employ nearly 60 percent of the work force and are expected to generate half on all new jobs between now and the year 2000. Some 1.2 million small firms have opened their doors over the past six years of economic growth, and 1999 will seen an additional 200, 000 entrepreneurs striking off on their own. ① Too many of these pioneer, however, will blaze ahead unprepared. Idealist will overestimate the clamor for their products of fail to factor in the competition. Nearly everyone will underestimate, often fatally, the capital that success requires. Midcareer executive, forced by a takeover or a takeover or a restructuring to quit the corporation and find another way to support themselves, may savor the idea of being their own boss but may forget that entrepreneurs must also, at least for a while, be bookkeeper and receptionist, too. According to Small Business Administration data , 24 of every 100 businesses starting out today are likely to have disappeared in two years, and 27 more will have shut their doors four years form now. By 1995, more than 60 of those 100 start-ups will have folded. A new study of 3,000 small businesses, sponsored by American Express and the National Federation of Independent Business, suggests slightly better odds : Three years after start-up, 77 percent of the companies surveyed were still alive. Most credited their success in large part to having picked a business they already were comfortable in. Eighty percent had worked with the same product or service in their last jobs. ② Thinking through an enterprise before the launch is obviously critical. But many entrepreneurs forget that a firm’s health in its infancy maybe little indication of how well it will age. You must tenderly monitor its pulse . In their zeal to expand, small-business owners often ignore early warning signs of a stagnant market or of decaying profitability. They hopefully pour more and more money into the enterprise, preferring not to acknowledge eroding profit margins that mean the market for their ingenious service or product has evaporated. Only when the financial well runs dry do they see the seriousness of the illness, and by then the patient is usually too far gone to save. Frequent checks of your firm vital signs will also guide you to a sensible rate of growth. To snatch opportunity, you must spot the signals that it is time to conquer new markets, add products or perhaps franchise your hot idea. Post by algorithm @ 15:44 理了个青皮

2004-05-09 03:23 五一没怎么出去玩，到处都是人！！出去做什么啊。看看夕阳，听听音乐，和亲人一起做饭聚餐，也很爽啊。 而且，不知道什么原因，去理了个青皮，就差不多光头了。够清爽，前一阵子把头发留得老长，可以扎辫子了。所以去剪头之前，还特意留影了。哈哈！现在总算可以看清楚自己的脑袋什么样。吴宗宪老是说自己的头很大，和我有得一拼，不过我比他高了。 想想自己，也就小时候才理过这么短的头发。二十年了，虽然知道这个发型不够帅，但是还过得去吧。希望不愉快的事情和烦恼也随同留了好久的长发一起剪掉吧。 Post by algorithm @ 03:23 又熬到这么晚了

2004-05-09 02:45 希望这个科研项目早点结束。快承受不了了。damn ! 毕业后的这两年，真辛苦，薪水不高，又超累！ Post by algorithm @ 02:45 The Great American Millionaires

2004-04-30 11:31 ① The American millionaire is the personification of the American Dream. Few millionaires started with inherited wealth . It’s an interesting phenomenon. Many, having devoted their youth to making money, spent their later year giving money away. Henry Clay Frick (1849―1919), the iron and steel magnate , was a hard master. He exploited immigrant workers. He made them work excessively long hours for much too little money. But he gave the wonderful collection of pictures, sculptures and furniture to the City of New York, along with the elegant mansion on Fifth Avenue where they are house. Frick’s great friend and colleague, Andrew Carnegie (1835―1919), a Scot by birth, said ，“ The man who dies rich, dies disgraced. ” With money be earned from steel, he bought up steamship lines, railroads, coal mines, oil fields, and was worth, when he retired, 400 million. But he felt guilty about his wealth, and at the age of 65 he began to give it away. He is most famous for the 3,000 public libraries ht founded in America, Britain and other English-speaking countries. He left his wife comfortably off, but insisted that with her death her pension should die with her. He did not believe in inherited fortunes, perhaps because of what he witnessed in the “little rich boy” colony at Newport, Rhode Island. Here the sons and daughters of wealthy New Englanders built themselves “summer palaces,” where they lived in indescribable luxury for only seven weeks of the year. However, the sons of some millionaires were as dedicated to their work as their fathers. William Henry Vanderbilt inherited 90 million from his famous father, Cornelius Vanderbilt (1974―1877), which he proceeded to double in ten years. J. P. Morgan (1837―1913), J. P. Getty (1892―1976) and Howard Hughes (1905―1976) were other sons of American millionaires who vastly increased the wealth they had inherited. Cormelius Vanderbilt, who made his fortune on steamship and railroad lines, was worth $100 million towards the end of his life. He felt the time had come to give most of it away. So he endowed a university in Nashville, Tennessee, which was called after him �C Vanderbilt University. The Rockefeller family who made their money through banking and oil, donated 530 million to medical research and education. They founded two national parks, and in the 1930s and 1940s built the vast Rockefeller Center in the middle of Manhattan, with its movie house (the biggest in the world), its open air skating rink, and its outdoor café. The first Rockefeller (John D.1839 �C 1937), who started life as a clerk, led a life of complete simplicity. Meyer and Daniel Guggenheim, father and son, spanned the 19 th century with their activities. They made a fortune from copper . But the family is best known for its gift to New York City of a wonderful collection of modern art and a museum to house it in. Many find it hard to understand why these American millionaires labored so hard to acquire wealth, then gave so much of it away. The answer may be guilt or even pride. ② Perhaps it is only that materialism and generosity exist side by side in the character to many Americans. Post by algorithm @ 11:31 Religions in the World

2004-04-30 11:28 From the earliest times, men have held religious beliefs . Religions arise from the idea that forces more powerful than man control him and the universe. Primitive man worshipped objects, such as rivers and mountains, or the sun or moon. Later people, such as the Egyptians and the Greeks and Romans, believed in a number of gods. Sometimes they made models, or images , of their gods, and sometimes worshipped the images themselves. Many religions today teach that there is only one God. Jews and Christians share this belief. The followers of most of the main religions also believe in some kind of life after death. In addition, many religions tell their followers how they should behave on earth. Christianity Christianity is the faith of those who believe that JESUS, a young Jewish teacher, was in fact the Son of God sent on earth to show men how to live. ① Thousands flocked to hear Jesus preach , but the also had powerful enemies . He was put to death in about A. D. 30, but His followers, said that He had risen again and that people had seen Him. Several wrote down all they remembered about Jesus. These sacred writings are called the Bible. Jesus was also called Christ. His followers came to be called Christians. Soon they spread all over the Roman Empire . In A. D. 380, Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion. Buddhists Siddhartha Gautama, founder of Buddhism, was a Hindu prince , born about 550 B. C. He is called the Buddha, or “the enlightened one”. ② He thought deeply about pain and the best way to live in the world. He spent most of his life teaching people to follow the law of Karma, which meant giving up earthly desires to reach the perfect peace of Nirvana. In order to do this a man must follow the Noble Eightfold Way, which lays down rules for correct behavior. Buddhists believe that creatures are born many times. They also consider it wrong to kill. Today about one-fifth of the human race follow Buddhism. Most Buddhists live in China, Japan, and other parts of Asia. Islam Islam means ‘to submit’ . It is the religion of the Moslems who live in the Arab countries, Pakistan, and other parts of Asia. They have one God, Allah, and their sacred book is the Koran. Like Jews and Christians, Moslems believe in the Old Testament prophets , or teachers, such as Moses. They say also that JESUS was a great prophet but not the Son of God. They think that the greatest prophet of all was Mohammed, the founder of Islam, an Arab who died in A. D. 632. Judaism Judaism is the religion of the Jew. Jewish teaching is based on the books of the Old Testament, and a collection of writings called the Talmud. Jews believe that, through their teacher Moses, God gave them the Ten Commandments, and other rules for living. Like Christians, Jews believe in one God. Strict Jews keep Saturday as their Sabbath, or day of rest. They must not marry non-Jews. They may not eat pork. Today Jewish people live all over the world, as well as in Isreal. Post by algorithm @ 11:28 Entropy 熵

2004-04-29 15:08 Disorder is the natural order of things in the universe. There is even a precise measure of the amount of disorder, called entropy . Unlike almost every other physical property (motion, gravity, energy), entropy does not work both ways. It can only increase. Once it’s created it can never be destroyed. The road to disorder is a one-way street. Because of its irreversibility, entropy has been called the arrow of time. We all understand this instinctively . Children’s rooms, left on their own, tend to get messy, not neat. Wood rots, metal rusts, people wrinkle and flowers wither . Even mountains wear down; even the nuclei of atoms decay . In the city we see entropy in the rundown subway s and worn-out sidewalks and torn-down buildings, in the increasing disorder of our lives. Entropy is no laughing matter, however, because with every increase in entropy energy is wasted and opportunity is lost. Water flowing down a mountainside can be made to do some useful work on its way. But once all the water is at the same level it can work no more. That is entropy. Of course the energy is not really lost, but it has defused and dissipated into a chaotic caldron of randomness that can do us no possible good. Entropy is chaos. It is loss of purpose. People are often upset by the entropy they seem to see in the hazardness of their own lives. They feel that they have lost their sense of direction, that they are wasting youth and opportunity at every turn. It is easy to see entropy in marriages, when the partners are too preoccupied to patch small things up, almost guaranteeing that they will fall apart. There is much entropy in the state of our country, in the relationships between nations �C lost opportunities to shop the avalanche of disorders that seems ready to swallow us all. Entropy is not inevitable everywhere, however. Crystals and snowflakes and galaxies are islands of incredibly ordered beauty in the midst of random events. If it was not for exceptions to entropy, the sky would be black and we would be able to see where the stars spend their days; it is only because air molecules in the atmosphere cluster in ordered groups that the sky is blue. The most profound exception to entropy is the creation of life. A seed soaks up some soil and some carbon and some sunshine and some water and arranges it into a rose. A seed in the womb takes some oxygen and milk and transforms it into a baby. The road to disorder is all downhill but the road to creation takes work. Though combating entropy is possible, it also has its price. That’s way it seems so hard to get ourselves together, so easy to let ourselves fall apart. Worse, creating order in one corner of the universe always creates more disorder somewhere else. We create ordered energy from oil and coal at the price of the entropy of smog. Social institutions �C like atoms and stars �C decay if energy is not added to keep them ordered. ① Friendships and families and economies all fall apart unless we constantly make an effort to keep them working and well-oiled. And far too few people, it seems to me, are willing to contribute consistently to those efforts. Post by algorithm @ 15:08 The Second Industrial Revolution

2004-04-29 15:05 Automation refers to introduction of electronic control and automatic operation of productive machinery. ① It reduces the human factors, mental and physical, in production, and is designed to make possible the manufacture of more goods with fewer workers. The development of automation in American industry has been called “ the Second Industrial Revolution. Labor’s concern over automation arises from uncertainty about its effects on employment, and fears of major changes in jobs. In the main, labor has taken the view that resistance to technological change is futile. In the long run, the result of automation may well be an increase in employment, since it is expected that vast industries will grow up around manufacturing, maintaining, and repairing automation equipment . Unquestionably , however, there will be major shifts in jobs within plants, and displacement of labor from one industry to another. The interest of labor lies in bringing about this transition with a minimum of inconvenience and distress to the workers involved. Also, union spokesmen emphasize that the benefit of the increased production and lower costs made possible by automation should be shared by workers in the form of higher wages, more leisure, and improved living standards. To protect the interests of their members in the era of automation, union have adopted a number of new policies . One of these is the promotion of supplementary unemployment benefits plans. It is emphasized that since the employer involved in a SUB plan has a direct financial stake in preventing unemployment, he will have a strong incentive for planning new installations so as to cause the least possible disruption in jobs and job assignments. Some unions are working for dismissal pay agreements, requiring that permanently laid off workers be paid a sum of money based on length of service. Another approach is the idea of “improvement factor”, which calls for wage increases based on increases in productivity. It is probable, however, that labor will rely mainly on reduction in working hours in order to gain a full share in the fruits of automation. Post by algorithm @ 15:05 Imagining Science

2004-04-29 15:02 Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth. Its satisfactions come from the realization of imagination in well-designed experiments. That realization is like the satisfactory scratching of a mental itch. If you lose the itch or you feel that the mere working out of details will not scratch the itch you have, it is time to consider changing fields. --Gerald Edelman, 1972 Nobelist and director of the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego Post by algorithm @ 15:02 Yesterday

2004-04-27 11:22 昨天下午回家的时候，走在路上的感觉真好，空气湿湿的，凉凉的，夕阳很美，红红的，暖暖的，树叶上还挂着雨珠，透着光泽，地上的小草也都在顽皮的笑着，随着风儿轻轻摇摆着舞姿。一只小狗也悠闲的在草边散步，走路一晃一晃，很有几分韵律。 陶醉于北京难得的雨后天气。也只有在这个时候才会想到体会大自然的感觉真好。用心去体会，真好。 Post by algorithm @ 11:22 意识到英文写作能力差

2004-04-27 11:09 经过crystal的推荐，看了很多英文的blog。写的很简单，很好。没有太生的词汇，但是很通顺，读起来感觉很舒服。可每每自己动笔开始写英文的时候，总感觉到不知道用哪些词汇合适，用什么样子的“英文“句型，而不是机械式的中国式英文 Chinglish 。得加强英文的写作，无论是写些日常的小日记，还是写一些research paper，到时候总得要拿得出手才行。 Post by algorithm @ 11:09 Vegetable Live in the city

2004-04-27 11:03 Preface Chapter1 老房子 （ The Old House ） Chapter2 露天的电影院 （ Countryside Outdoor Cinema ） Chapter3 远离菜地 （ Away From the Vegetable Soil ） Chapter4 五彩霓虹灯 （ colorful neon light ） Chapter5 呼吸 (Breathe) Chapter6 城市里的蔬菜（ Vegetable in City ） End I will notice everybody that this book based on my real experience in my life, include the feeling from my fellows and acquaintances. It is not an autobiography, I wish what I wrote is not only me But the groups of our society who came from countryside and live in our city, they strive for the life belong to theirs. They are young, the common people like vegetable which was born in countryside but now in the loudness city. Post by algorithm @ 11:03 Physician-assisted suicide

2004-04-24 23:12 The Supreme Court’s decisions on physician assisted suicide carry important implications for how medicine seeks to relieve dying patient of pain and suffering. Although it ruled that there is no constitutional right to physician-assisted suicide, the Court in effect supported the medical principle of “double effect,” a centuries-old moral principle holding that an action having two effects �C a good on that is intended and a harmful on that is foreseen �C is permissible if the actor intends only the good effect. Doctors have used that principle in recent years to justify using high doses of morphine to control terminally ill patients’ pain, even though increasing dosages will eventually kill the patient. Nancy Dubler, director of Montefior Medical Center, contends that the principle will shield doctors who “until now have very, very strongly insisted that they could not give patients sufficient mediation to control their pain if that might hasten death.” George Annas, chair of the health law department at Boston University, maintains that, as long as a doctor prescribes a drug for a legitimate medical purpose, the doctor has done nothing illegal even if the patient uses the drug to hasten death. “It’s like surgery,” he says. “We don’t call those deaths homicides because the doctors didn’t intend to kill their patients, although they risked their death. If you’re a physician, you can risk your patient’s suicide as long as you don’t intend their suicide.” On another level, ① many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying. Just three weeks before the Court’s ruling on physician-assisted suicide, the National Academy of Science (NAS) released to two -volume report, Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life. It identifies the undertreatment of pain and the aggressive use of “ineffectual and forced medical procedured that may prolong and even dishonor the period of dying” as the twin problems of end-of-life care. ② The profession is taking steps to require young doctors to train in hospices, to test knowledge of aggressive pain management therapies , to develop a Medicare billing code for hospital-based care, and to develop new standards for assessing and treating pain at the end of life. Annas says lawyers can play a key role in insisting that these well-meaning medical initiatives translate into better care. “Large numbers of physicians seem unconcerned with the pain their patients are needlessly and predictably suffering,” to the extent that it constitutes “systematic patient abuse.” He says medical licensing boards “must make it clear… that painful deaths are presumptively ones that are incompetently managed and should result in license suspension.” Post by algorithm @ 23:12 Lions Give Birth to Tigers

2004-04-24 23:11 Lions will give birth to tigers in an experiment that could revolutionize the preservation of endangered species. A team of scientists who have successfully used a domestic cat as a surrogate mother for an African wildcat have frozen 170 tiger embryos , ready for implantation in lionesses within the next eight weeks. The project is aimed at preventing endangered species from disappearing by creating a crypto -zoo where frozen embryos from rare and even extinct species can be matched to suitable surrogates from other species. Betsy Dresser, professor in endangered species at the University of New Orleans, who led the team that produced the world’s first test -tube gorilla five years ago, said inter-species transfer has important implications for the preservation of threatened animals. “We have assembled a large group of young lionesses who are reproductively sound. We have colleted eggs from tigers and produced embryos and we are hormonally synchronizing the lions to reach the point where we can make the transfer, probably in about two months ’ time,” said Dresser. ① The key to success is ensuring that implantation occurs at the right hormonal time in the lionesses. Ultrasound scans for the lion ovaries are used to determine the prime time for the transfer of the tiger embryos. Embryos will be implanted directly into the lion uterus and the gestation period is expected to be about 110 days. Dresser does not expect any problems with rejection because foreign tissue in the uterus does not seem to trigger and immune response. The first embryos will be Bengal tigers. She and her team do not want to use material from rarer types such as the Siberian tiger until they have proof that the technique works. Cross-species animal will stay with their surrogate mothers until they are weaned but the eventual goal is to release the rare animals into the wild. “The general idea is very good. ② It sounds interesting and is certainly worth pursuing. Anything that helps us to conserve animals is welcome,” said Dr Alan Cooper, molecular evolutionist at Oxford University and a specialist in species conservation. Post by algorithm @ 23:11 Intelligent Gizmos

2004-04-25 23:11 ① Since the dawn of human ingenuity , people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with work that is dangerous, boring , burdensome, or just plain nasty . That compulsion has resulted in robotics �C the science of conferring various human capabilities on machines. And if scientists have yet to create the mechanical version of science fiction , they have begun to come close. As a result, the modern world is increasingly populated by intelligent gizmos whose presence we barely notice but whose universal existence has removed much human labor. Our factories hum to the rhythm of robot assembly arms. Our banking is done at automated teller terminals that thank us with mechanical politeness for the transaction. Our subway trains are controlled by tireless robot-driver. And thanks to the continual miniaturization of electronic and micromechanics, there are already robot systems that can perform some kinds of brain and bone surgery with submillimeter accuracy �C far greater precision than highly skilled physicians can achieve with their hands alone. But is robots are to reach the next stage of laborsaving utility, they will have to operate with less human supervision and be able to make at least a few decisions for themselves �C goals that pose a real challenge. “ While we know how to tell a robot to handle a specific error,” says Dave Lavery, manager of a robotics program at NASA, “we can’t yet give a robot enough ‘common sense’ to reliably interact with a dynamic word.” Indeed the quest for true artificial intelligence has produced very mixed results. Despite a spell of initial optimism in the 1960s and 1970s when its appeared that transistor circuits and microprocessors might be able to copy the action of the human brain by the year 2010, researchers lately have begun to extend that forecast by decades if not centuries. What they found, in attempting to model thought, is that the human brain’s roughly one hundred billion nerve cells are much more talented �C and human perception far more complicated �C than previously imagined. They have built robots that can recognize the error of a machine panel by a fraction of a millimeter in a controlled factory environment. But the human mind can glimpse a rapidly changing scene and immediately disregard the 98 percent that is irrelevant, instantaneously focusing on the monkey at the side of a winding forest road or the single suspicious face in a big crowd. The most advanced computer systems on Earth can’t approach that kind of ability, and neuroscientists still don’t know quite how we do it. Post by algorithm @ 23:11 The Aral Sea �C Saving the Last Drop

2004-04-25 23:10 Can what remains of the Aral Sea be saved? People living around what were once its northern shores in Kazakhstan think they can salvage something from one of the world’s biggest environmental disasters. They hope to separate their part of the sea from the rest to prevent it from drying out further. The Aral Sea was once the world’s fourth-largest inland sea. But since the 1960s it has lost three-quarters of its volume . Towns that were once ports are now far from the water. As it shrinks, the sea has started to divide into a smaller northern section and a larger southern one. The trickle of water that joins the two could be gone completely within a few years. The cause of the water loss goes back to the days of the old Soviet Union and its diversion of the main river which feed the Aral Sea in order to irrigate vast areas for cotton production. In the process, new deserts have been created. Nowadays the winds blow salt across an increasingly barren landscape and the health of the local people suffers. ① To the north, hopes are pinned to the construction of a 12km(7.4 mile) dam between the two sections of the sea. This, the local hope, will cause the water level in the northern part to rise, thus restoring the fishing industry. Two years ago the regional government teamed up with local people to raise money an build the dam themselves. But, lacking good construction materials, they used sand. The dam did not last long and was swept away last year by a storm. Zhaksibek Kulekeev. Kazakhstan’s economy minister, criticizes the locals for imprudently pressing ahead with a scheme without conducting studies or consulting specialists. Few people in the area have any regrets. Many think they proved a point because for a short time the water level rose by four meters. Fish were introduced into what they called the “Little Aral Sea” and thrived; some birds which had not been seen in years started to return, according to Kuanishkali Shapshanov, and official in the regional capital Kyzyl-Orda. The World Bank is showing some interest and is currently discussing a $ 50m loan to Kazakhstan government for development projects that would include a dam. An agreement might be signed early next year with construction taking two year. 名人名言 ② Whatever their differences and their condition, the people of the world want peace. So let guns fall silent. Let us agree to cease-fire and negotiate a peace. Let us resolve that the second 25 years of the United Nations shall offer to the world a full generation of peace. ----------------------R. Nixon Post by algorithm @ 23:10 Implications of the Private Car

2004-04-23 11:10 ① When the private automobile began to arrive on the scene early in this century, most urban and rural areas enjoyed rather adequate public transit systems. In fact, the electric tram �C here in this country called streetcar or trolley �C was conquering the world. It was clearly a time to recognize and appreciate a good thing when one saw it. We could consider forever as to whether the authorities stopped to think hard enough about the implications of the private car, which was initially intended only for the distinguished. If they had, their correct conclusion could hardly have been anything else but severe shrinkage if not a total prohibition. Nothing of the sort did happen, and the disastrous consequences have been with us ever since �C and they are getting worse all the time. While feeling sorry for this development, most commentators take for granted that it is too late to reverse this course of event; the costs would be prohibitive, too many people would resist , and we would be left with a permanent feeling of regret and shame for all the wasted resources, human, monetary and natural, if we should have to start all over. Nevertheless , an opposite view presents itself. Though it would have been vastly preferable if governments had always paid attention to the old saying “To rule is to foresee,” the trend in this century has been “Seeing is believing.” If the private car had been stopped suddenly, people would have continued to thirst for it, refusing to believe that traveling by car simply could not work on any large scale. So the lesson, however costly it has been, may be seen as historically unavoidable among people who are less than perfect. Having come to this conclusion, we ought to begin immediately with a gradual withdrawal of private autos in favor of public transit vehicles . One particular obstacle must be overcome in this effort: the false idea that we need mass transit only during rush hours, and that cars are no problem in the quiet of the day. In my opinion, mass transit should be built up as rapidly as possible to become so attractive that more and more people will decide for replacing their cars when the time is up. For, as has been stressed in much of the literature on the subject, today’s population has not really chosen them. Instead, for lack of an alternative, the auto was forced on us. 名人名言 It is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. A liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. ② Speech is silver, silence is gold. Post by algorithm @ 11:10 Noise Pollution

2004-04-23 11:09 If you live in a large city, you are quite familiar with some of the problems of noise, but because of some of its harmful effects, you may not be aware of the extent of its influence on human behavior. Although everyone more or less knows what noise is , i. e, it is sounds that one would rather not hear, it is perhaps best to define it more precisely for scientific purposes. One such definition is that noise is sounds that are unrelated to the task at hand. Thus stimuli that at one time might be considered relevant will at another time be considered noise, depending on what one is doing at the moment. In recent years there has been a great deal of interest in the effects of noise on human behavior, and concepts such as “noise pollution ” have arisen , together with movements to reduce noise. Exposure to loud noises can definitely produce a partial or complete loss of hearing, depending on the intensity, duration, and frequency composition of the noise. ① Many jobs present noise hazards, such as working in factories and around jet aircraft, driving farm tractor, and working (or sitting) in music halls where rock bands are playing. In general, continuous exposure to sounds of over 80 decibels (a measure of the loudness of sound) can be considered dangerous. Decibel values correspond to various sounds. Sounds above about 85 decibels may, if exposure is for a sufficient period of time, produce significant hearing loss. Actual loss will depend upon the particular frequencies to which one is exposed, and whether the sound is continuous or intermittent. Noise can have unexpected harmful effects on performance of certain kinds of task, for instance, if one is performing a watch-keeping task that requires vigilance, in which he is responsible for detecting weak signals of some kind (e. g. , watching a radar screen for the appearance of aircraft ) ② Communicating with other people is unfavorably affected by noise. If you have ridden in the rear of a jet transport, you may have noticed that it was difficult to carry on a conversation at first, and that, eventually, you adjusted the loudness of your speech to compensate for the effect. The problem is noise. 名人名言 As the call, so the echo. The more light a torch gives, the shorter it lasts. The camel going to seek horns lost his ears. Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. Post by algorithm @ 11:09 Children’s Speech Acquisition

2004-04-23 10:21 ① Is language, like food, a basic human need without which a child at a critical period of life can be starved and damaged? Judging from the drastic experiment of Frederick II in the thirteenth century, it may be. Hoping to discover what language a child would speak if he heard no mother tongue, he told the nurses to keep silent. All the infants died before the first year. But clearly there was more than lack of language here. What was missing was good mothering. Without good mothering, in the first year of life especially, the capacity to survive is seriously affected. Today no such severe lack exists as that ordered by Frederick. Nevertheless, some children are still backward in speaking. Most often the reason for this is that the mother is insensitive to the signals of the infant, whose sensitive periods are neglected, the ideal time for acquiring skills passes and they might never be learned so easily again. Experts suggest that speech stages are reached in a fixed sequence and at a constant age, but there are cases where speech has stated late in a child who eventually turns out to be of high IQ. At twelve weeks a baby smiles and makes vowel -like sounds; at twelve months he can speak simple words and understand simple command ; at eighteen months he has a vocabulary of three to fifty words. At three he knows about 1,000 words which he can put into sentences, and at four his language differs from that of his parents in style rather than grammar. Recent evidence suggests that an infant is born with the capacity speak. What is special about man’s brain, compared with that of the monkey, is the complex system which enables a child to connect the sight and feel of , say, a toy-bear with the sound pattern “toy-bear”. And even more incredible is the young brain’s ability to pick out an order in language from the mixture of sound around him, to analyze, to combine and recombine the parts of a language in new ways. ② But speech has to be induced, and this depends on interaction between the mother and the child, where the mother recognizes the signals in the child’s babbling, grasping and smiling, and responds to them. Sensitivity to the child’s non-verbal signals is essential to the growth and development of language. 名人名言 Peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it ; ③ we will not surrender for it �C now or ever. -----------------R. Reagan We recall in special times when we have stood briefly, but magnificently , united. But we cannot dwell upon remembered glory. The powerful must not persecute the weak, and human dignity must be enhanced. -------------J. Carter Post by algorithm @ 10:21 Agriculture in America

2004-04-23 10:19 The farm is a major marketplace for millions and millions of tons of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides , and for advanced machinery and the fuel required to run it. ① The modern super farm, large and highly capitalized, is resource-dependent compared with the diversified small farms that were once dominant. On diversified farms, major energy needs may be supplied by resident humans and animal. Particularly relevant to today’s mainstream agriculture are the energy-saving practices on large “organic” farms, which are thoroughly mechanized but which minimize the use of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers. By comparison , mainstream American agriculture has until lately been careless in its use of energy, water, and land. When fossil energy was cheap, applications of fertilizers and pesticides paid large dividends , so farmers were encouraged to use these products. Soon most farmers used too much fertilizer and pesticide. Farmers in dry regions enjoyed an era of cheap water, obtained from publicly subsidized irrigation systems or from pumping groundwater using inexpensive energy. The soil too was expendable as demand grew for US agricultural products. The period of extraordinary profligacy in the use of soil, water and fossil fuels may well be at an end. The new structure of large farms is quit sensitive to cost factors. These adaptive farms, whose development was assisted by public tax, subsidy and research policies, have access to capital, technologies, and management skills, enabling them to switch relatively quickly to resource-conserving practices �C for example, to low-tillage system that requires less fuel, that shepherds soil moisture , and that may reduce soil erosion. It seems likely that federal programs that have enlarged our farms, therefore, have had a further result of creating the potential for a more conserving agriculture. With respect to energy use, for example, energy costs per unit of output are lower for large farms, mainly because these farms quickly economized on energy as costs rose. In the future, according to one authoritative assessment, “agricultural production is likely to use capital and land more intensively but energy, fertilizer and labor less intensively.” 名人名言 ② The decisive choice is seldom the latest choice in the series. A liar is not believed when he speaks the truth. A thousand probabilities do not make one truth. Mercy to the criminal may be cruelty to the people. Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain Post by algorithm @ 10:19 GM Food

2004-04-22 11:14 At almost every public lecture I give, someone asks me my opinion on genetic modification �C whatever be the topic of the lecture. Genetic modification (GM) has the power to save lives through its use in medicine, such as the production of insulin for diabetics or the treatment of genetic disorders. The current outcry comes when it is used to produce food. There are two main concerns. Scientists can now take a gene for resistance to a particular herbicide and transfer it to a crop: when these plants are sprayed with weed- killer, the weeds are destroyed while the crop is unharmed. A prime concern is the harmful effect this could have on the biodiversity of farmland, where so many germs , insects , birds and other animals depend upon “weed” species . Another fear is that alien genes from a GM plant could escape into a wild population of a related species. Since plants are fertilized by pollen that is carried through the air, often for great distances, this is entirely possible. A wild species modified in this way with pesticide resistance could become a “super-weed,” while a species that becomes unnaturally resistant to animals that feed on it could disrupt the food chain. I would not hesitate to eat a GM vegetable �C it is most unlikely that the current modifications are harmful to the consumer, despite what we read in the press. However, the introduction of animal genes into food plants presents considerable ethical difficulties to vegetarians and members of religions that forbid the eating of certain animals. This is one of the reasons people are demanding that all genetically modified food products be clearly labeled. The public have a right to know what they are eating and right to choose. I believe that in my own nation GM is well regulated, but this cannot be said for some other countries. One of the problems is that at the moment ① this technology is commercially motivated. Because the companies developing GM food want to introduce, as quickly as possible in my opinion, it is being rushed into without adequate researches or precautions. 名人名言 Only the United Nations offers a global forum where all Member States, large and small, can take part in making decisions on world affairs. No country takes precedence over another in the U. N. Each member’s rights and obligations are the same. All must contribute to the peaceful settlement of international disputes, and members have pledged to refrain from the threat or use force against other states. ② It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed. Oppression makes a wise man mad. Give a slave a rod, and he’ll beat his master. Post by algorithm @ 11:14 Cholesterol and Heart Diseases

2004-04-22 11:12 Fat has been staple of the human diet since our remote ancestors started eating meat more than two million years ago. In the 1960s, however, researchers began to notice that patients who had elevated blood levels of cholesterol �C a fatty substance found in meal, poultry , eggs and dairy products �C also tended to suffer heart disease. Cholesterol by products would form thick, tough deposits on the inner walls of arteries , stiffening them and then starving the heart of blood and creating choke points where a clot could stop the flow entirely. At first blush, the solution seemed obvious: consume low-cholesterol food; switch from butter to vegetable-oil; eat fewer eggs; eat less meat. Indeed, it was the best advice at the time, based on the limited knowledge available. As scientists learned more about how the body works, however, that prescription prove too simplistic. Some people’s cholesterol levels stayed high, no matter what they ate. And a lot of heart-disease patients had normal cholesterol levels. Only recently have reasons emerged . For one thing, ① how much cholesterol you eat doesn’t necessarily determine how much ends up in your blood. The body, it turns out, also manufactures its own cholesterol. And some people’s bodies are just less efficient at vacuuming up excess cholesterol than others, for reasons that are largely genetic. So, in the next phase of research, the object became keeping cholesterol levels in the blood under control and not necessarily keeping the cholesterol out of the diet. But how to do it? Again the key seemed to be eating less meat, cream and butter, but it was based not so much on cholesterol as on saturate fat. Reason: saturated fat increases blood cholesterol. So eggs, high in cholesterol but not in saturated fat, were taken off the forbidden list. How about staying away from fat entirely? Bad idea. The body needs fats, in part because vitamins like A and D must dissolved in fat to enter the body or move about within the body. What about the super-low-fat diets, advocated by people like Dr. Dean Ornish, director of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in California? They seem to work but perhaps not because they are low fat; the key may be the types of foods �C beans, grains, vegetables, instead of meats and cheeses. 名人名言 It is the peculiarity of knowledge that those who really thirst for it always get it. ② The poet is a heroic figure, belonging to all ages. ③ Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. No man ever yet became by imitation. The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. Post by algorithm @ 11:12 Humor

2004-04-21 22:53 If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view ① Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment o n their disorganized bosses. Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses’ convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch , the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table by himself. “Who is that?” the new arrival asked St. Peter. “Oh, that’s God,” came the reply, “but sometimes he thinks he’s a doctor.” If you are part of the group which you are addressing, ② you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it’ll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman’s notorious bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn’t attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent a n outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen or their chairman. ③ You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the post office or the telephone system. If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it becomes more natural. Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it’s the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that raise eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a light-hearted remark. Look for the humor. It often comes from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote “If at first you don’t succeed, give up” or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and understatement. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor. 名人名言 Money is the oil that lubricates the social machine He who is the most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in the performance of it. A straightforward man has a large number of friends; a straight piece of timber has a variety of uses. Post by algorithm @ 22:53 The Impact of WTO on China’s Telecommunications

2004-04-21 20:50 If China/WTO becomes a reality? Obviously, the consequences will be huge the world’s capital flows, especially in the fields of banking, insurance and telecommunication. China has 40 million cell phone users in a population of 1.4 billion, only a 3% market penetration. It is believed that telecom use, land-based and wireless combined, will grow 50% of more during the next three years. Where is the capital going to come from to build up the phone systems? Foreigners have been officially prohibited from owning Chinese telecommunications companies. But the deal for China’s admission to the WTO calls for a relaxation of the rules. Within a few years foreigners could buy up to 49% of Chinese telecom firms; after two more years holdings could be raised to 50%. China’s two legal telecommunications carriers China Telecom, which has a 90% market share, and China Unicom, which holds less than 10% -- are expected to benefit from WTO. Foreign makers of telecom equipment are also expected to prosper from WTO. Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and Qualcomm have significant investments in China. Under WTO these firms will have more freedom to manufacture, distribute and market within the country. Qualcomm has recently become a serious contender. The company has licensed its CDMA ( code division multiple access) technology to China Unicom. Right now CDMA has only a toehold in Asia, but it could become the standard there if it’s successful in China. 名人名言 ① Books possess an essence of immortality. They are by far most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay, but books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds ages ago. What was then said and though still speaks to us as vividly as ever from the printed page. The only effect of time has been to sift out the bad products; for nothing in literature can long survive but what is really good. -----------S. Smiles A news story is a fragile thing. It is like a hot-air balloon . It needs a constant additive of more hot air in the form of new revelations , new actions, new suspicions, Without this, the air cools, the big bad wrinkles, sign, settles to the ground and disappears. -------------MacDonald Post by algorithm @ 20:50 跟着感觉走(译文)

2004-04-21 11:29 跟着感觉走 黄诗厚 Alice Shih-hou Huang 中国文化崇尚万般皆下品，惟有读书高。在中国的文献中，处处表现出对知识的尊重。历史上，如何成为学者有明确的途径。父母会发现其子女中哪些是最聪慧的，然后聘请老师到家里来专门为他们辅导。学成后，他们还需要通过由国家组织的一系列考试，其中的佼佼者会成为大学士。中国的学者们需要经过多年寒窗苦读勤练，而只有极少数才能通过这一狭窄的独木桥求得功名。 今天，在很多中国家庭中，科学和技术已经取代了传统的科举概念。当我几年前访问北京时，我要求年轻人说出一位20世纪的英雄。他们没有说出一位政治家，或电影明星，或百万富翁，却说出了一位科学家∶爱因斯坦。 在向那些也想成为爱因斯坦这样的人物的年轻人提出忠告之前，我们最好先客观地分析一下这些年轻学生为什么想成为科学家。父母鼓励子女成为科学家，是因为科学是一个受人尊敬的职业，失业率低。崇拜爱因斯坦的朋友从中看到了可能获得的名与利。老师们指导学生从事科学，是因为他们看到科学是理性的，是准确的。 但是，所有这些顾问们和支持者们对当今世界的科学家们所处的变化中的市场的了解都很有限。他们中很多人仍然将科学看作是一个技术行业，需要记忆大量信息。实际上，科学信息数量巨大，不能死记硬背。而且，解决问题的老方法现在可以通过计算机更快、更准确地得到应用，特别是当它们需要进行大量的计算时。知识和“技巧”在实验科学中仍然很有价值，但如果没有科学思维、运筹方法、解决问题和交流能力方面的训练，每个研究人员将会发现自己不可能在国际科学舞台上成功地进行竞争。 如果说现代科学家相当于过去的中国学者，那么重要的是要认识到成功的道路不再只有一条，成功的目标也不再只有一个。现在，有很多目标和很多途径。分析一下今天成功的科学家们的生活可以发现，现在的事业是国际化的，报偿是各不相同的，途径也常常是不可预测的。要面对这一新世界，科学家们在其训练以及整个职业生涯中都必须是灵活的。他们必须接受新的机会，必须愿意到他乡去工作，也必须有雄心壮志。 知道何时该合上书本。只有当学习用于迎接新的挑战时，学习现有的方法才会有用。 Trygve Bolstad / Panos Pictures 我希望，大家可以原谅我用自己的经验来阐述我的观点。当我开始学习医学时，我对未来知之甚少。事实上，我不可能想象自己今天所从事的职业。孩提时代在贵阳的时候，我就崇拜传教士医生，心想我长大后能够做的最好的事情就是治病救人。所以，当我有机会进入约翰・霍普金斯大学医学院的时候，我便抓住了这个机会。但很快，与长期卧床不起的重病患者打交道、日复一日地与常见病打交道的枯燥乏味把我对医学所抱有的浪漫幻想一扫而空。通过研究工作来发现疾病的原因、并寻找治疗它们的方法似乎更为激动人心。与此同时，当时正在兴起的新的MD/PhD（医学博士和哲学博士双学位）项目，通过政府奖学金为合格者授予这种双学位。 在刚刚进入该项目、第一次从事严肃的实验室研究时，我知道自己已经找到了值得从事的事情。让自己的余生在一个实验室中度过、从事病毒研究将会实现我的梦想。我可以培育病毒、纯化病毒、并通过观察它们在单层培养中的细胞上的间接效应来对估计其数量。在我所做的关于病毒纯化过程的最早的实验之一中，我发现了病毒粒子的一个单独的亚类，它们是有缺陷的，可能会干扰标准病毒（参考资料1）的生长。这是对一种特殊类别的病毒变体的首次定性，从这组变体中人们有可能找到控制病毒疾病、尤其是植物病毒疾病的一种自然方法。它们的性质是如此让我着迷，以至于我在获得PhD学位后竟然没有完成获得MD学位需要完成的工作。 我的教授说，我今后应当成为一名教授，这是对我提出的挑战。我过去从来没有想过这个，因为我看到的女教授寥寥无几，而却有很多妇女在实验室中工作。成为一名教授是一个新目标。我除了继续对研究工作感兴趣外，也对教学工作、对参加大学各种委员会的工作、对负责一个关于传染病的系的管理工作、对为无数的非赢利组织以及政府部门提供咨询服务等产生了兴趣。在我被提升为哈佛大学医学院终身教授后，我不知道我下一步应该做什么。院长对我说，作教授是一个理想的工作，在大学的工作环境中有相当大的自由和权力，特别是在美国。教授经常会有一个实验室，并培养学生，直到他们活到80好几，只要他们能从政府或非赢利机构获得独立的研究经费就行。 但是，长期从事学术工作并不适合我。我确信我会继续出成果，但我也意识到，我为我的实验室争取到的经费由一位有新鲜思想的年轻研究人员来使用会更好。对我来说，从事研究管理可以满足我协调不同科学领域、传播不只是一个学科的前沿思想的愿望。我对自己能够帮助的下一代科学家所取得的成功也感到欣慰。我所从事的咨询工作的数量也在继续增加。这些咨询工作来自大学、外国政府和投资团体等各种不同机构。提名合格的同事去晋升或获奖是另一个让我感到满足的体验。我还应职业团体的邀请去做关于职业发展、科学政策和多样性等方面的报告。科学研究是一项竞争性非常强、非常无情的工作。相比之下，我最近的所有活动都安排得比较悠闲，所以有时间与家人相处、旅行和培养新的爱好。 今天，科学家选择不同职业道路并不少见。很多人从事科研管理或进入生物技术公司。一种极端的情况是进入非赢利的社会活动组织。有这样一个例子∶一位分子生物学家成为“公益性科学中心”（Centre for Science in the Public Interest）的创始人兼主任，该中心分析经过加工的食品，确保其成分已经弄清，并有益于健康，以此来保护消费者。其他人，特别是在发展中国家，进入了政界，加入了由成功的技术官僚们构成的一个不断壮大的群体。我的父母对我当初没有完成MD学业感到不高兴，但由于我是在跟着自己的感觉走，我了解自己的能力，所以为自己作出了正确的选择。 对那些在其职业生涯中更为成功、负责培养科学家的读者们，我要说的是，他们所提供的培养不应单单基于技术。选择一个重要课题、提出正确问题、并提出假说来进行验证的能力对所有科学家来说都是必需的工具。不应只鼓励年轻科学家走老师的路，而应鼓励他们探索新路。年轻科学家需要给予相信自我感觉的信心。 如果你是中国的一位有远大理想的年轻科学家，你正在开始一个很好的职业，充满了各种各样的可能性，那么，你可能会像你的教授那样最终在学术机构从事工作，但你也可能从事看起来很不相关的工作，如金融投资、新闻或慈善事业。不要自己限制自己。世界是向你们开放的。在科学方面的良好培养会使你为所有这些可能性做好准备。尽管跟着感觉走。不要固步自封。 黄诗厚 加州理工学院， Pasadena, California 91125 , U.S.A. 黄博士是美国加州理工学院的 Senior Councilor for External Relations and Faculty Associate in Biology ，是台湾中央研究院院士。她以前是美国哈佛大学医学院微生物学和分子遗传学教授、纽约大学（NYU）理学院院长。 Post by algorithm @ 11:29 Follow your nose

2004-04-21 11:13 Follow your nose ALICE SHIH-HOU HUANG Alice Shih-hou Huang is senior councilor for external relations and faculty associate in biology at the California Institute of Technology, Mail Code 1-9, Pasadena, California 91125, USA. Alice Shih-hou Huang draws on her own experience to highlight the many careers and opportunities open to scientists in the West and in China. When I visited Beijing a few years ago, I asked the young people I was talking to to name a twentieth-century hero. They did not name a politician, movie star or a millionaire; they named the scientist Albert Einstein. Scientific research is now considered one of the most prestigious occupations in China ― with a reputation to rival that of the ancient imperial scholars. Historically, parents identified their brightest child and prepared them for intellectual pursuits by hiring tutors. After successfully completing a series of national exams, the brightest of them were included in the emperor's court as valued advisers. Such exalted levels were only achieved after many lonely hours spent studying and practising calligraphy. Science is now attracting the same calibre of students, but those advocating this discipline often know little about modern research. Gone are the days of rote learning, now scientists are equipped with a wide range of skills, from problem solving to communication. These accomplishments mak students and researchers ideal for many careers. If you're brave and follow your instincts, there are amazing opportunities open to young scientists ― in China and around the world. Before offering advice to young people wishing to become scientists, we should ask why this area is so attractive. Parents encourage their children into this field because it is a respected profession, with low unemployment. Students, thinking of well-known scientists, expect fame and fortune, and teachers direct students into science when they see pupils with rational and quantitative capabilities, believing that these attributes will be rewarded. New skills But those advocating science still often see it as a technical trade that requires students to memorize endless facts. In reality, there is too much information for such an approach to be useful. Also, problems that involve massive quantities of data are much easier and more accurately solved by computer than by a researcher laboriously working through the information. Technical expertise and 'good hands' are still valued in the experimental sciences, but training in scientific thinking, priority setting, problem solving and clear communication is just as important for success in the international scientific arena. There is no longer a rigid path to success. To face this new world, scientists have to be flexible during their training and throughout their careers. They must be open to new opportunities and be willing to move to where the best jobs are. When I started studying medicine, I hardly knew what to expect. In fact, I could not have imagined the life I am leading now. Ever since I was in Kweiyang (southwest China, Kweichow province) as a young child, I admired the missionary doctors and thought that the most wonderful thing I could do when I grew up would be to cure diseases and save lives. When I had the chance to enter Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, I grabbed it. But it wasn't very long until sick patients with bedsores and the time-consuming, repetitive boredom of dealing with common illnesses took away any romantic notions I had about medicine. Research to uncover the causes of illnesses and find new ways to combat them seemed much more exciting. At the time, new PhD programmes aimed at medical students were being developed, and I jumped at this chance. Upon entering the programme and carrying out serious research for the first time, I knew I had found something I was better suited to, and that I loved. Spending the rest of my days in a lab working on viruses would have fulfilled my dreams. I grew viruses, purified them and counted them by observing their indirect effects on cells grown in a single layer in a Petri dish. In one of my first experiments, in which I was purifying viruses, I discovered a separate subclass of viral particle that was defective and could interfere with the growth of the standard virus 1 . This was very exciting: a mutant particle such as this could be used to control viral diseases, especially those of plants. Its properties so intrigued me that I did not finish the requirements for the MD degree after I received my PhD. One day, the head of the lab challenged me to become a professor. This thought had never crossed my mind, because I saw so few women professors, although there were many female researchers. This was a new goal. I continued to enjoy the research, but I took on extra responsibilities: teaching, being a member of various university committees, leading a division studying infectious diseases, and providing advice to numerous non-profit organizations and government agencies. After a while, I was promoted to a tenured professorship at Harvard Medical School, but as much as I enjoyed it, I wondered what to do next. The dean advised me that being a professor is the perfect job, with considerable freedom and power, especially in the United States. Professors often keep working and maintain their own lab and students until they are well into their 80s, so long as they obtain independent funding from government or non-profit agencies. But the long scholarly life was not for me. I was sure that I could continue to produce good research, but I also realized that the money I obtained for my lab would probably be better used by a younger investigator with fresher ideas. I looked around for an alternative and was attracted by research administration. When I moved from Boston to New York, an opportunity to become dean of science at New York University was offered to me. Although I was supported by a Merit Award from the National Institutes of Health at the time, I was able to explore the new administrative role together with my research for a three-year period. Now as senior councilor for external relations, a part-time position, I coordinate different areas of science and promote ideas at the frontier of more than one discipline. Also, I vicariously enjoy the success of the next generation of scientists whom I able to help. To nominate worthy colleagues for promotion or awards is another gratifying experience. The number of consultations both within the university and externally continues to increase. They come from institutions as diverse as universities, foreign governments and investment groups. In addition, I receive many invitations to give talks on career development, science policy and diversity from professional groups. Unlike research, which is a very competitive and relentless, my activities take place at a more leisurely pace, so that there is time for family interactions, travel and new hobbies. Instinctively right It is not unusual for scientists these days to follow different career paths. Many go into academic administration or into various biotechnology or pharmaceutical companies. An extreme alternative is going into non-profit advocacy: an example being the molecular biologist, Michael Jacobson, who is the founding director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, based in Washington DC, which protects the consumer by examining prepared foods to ensure that their ingredients are properly identified and healthy. Other scientists, especially in developing countries, have gone into politics and, either by election or appointment, become high-ranking government officials. My parents were unhappy when I did not complete my initial training as a doctor, but by following my nose and knowing my own strengths, I made the right decision for me. To those readers who are more established in their careers and responsible for the education of scientists, I say that it is imperative that the training their students receive should be more than just technical and limited to a narrow field of science. Instead, they should develop the ability to chose an important problem, ask the right questions and design hypotheses ― all essential tools for scientists. Young scientists should be encouraged to explore new paths and to have the confidence to follow their instincts. If you are an aspiring young scientist in China, you are entering a wonderful career, full of all sorts of possibilities. You may end up in academia, but you may also end up working in areas such as financial investment, journalism or philanthropy. Do not limit yourself. A science background prepares you for all these possibilities. Do not bind your feet to prevent your own progress. Post by algorithm @ 11:13 On Patents

2004-04-19 10:32 When an invention is made, the inventor has three possible courses of action open to him: he can give the invention to the world by publishing it , keep the idea secret, or patent it. ① A granted patent is the result of a bargain struck between an inventor and the state, by which the inventor gets a limited period of monopoly and publishes full details of his invention to the public after that period terminates. Only in the most exceptional circumstances is the lifespan of a patent extended to alter this normal process of events. The longest extension ever granted was to Georges Valensi. His 1939 patent for color TV receiver circuitry was extended until 1971 because for most of the patent’s normal life there was no color TV to receive and thus no hope of reward for the invention. Because a patent remains permanently public after it has terminated, the shelves of the library attached to the patent office contain details of literally millions of ideas that are free for anyone to used and, if older than half a century, sometimes even re-patent. Indeed, patent experts often advise anyone wishing to avoid the high cost of conducting a search through live patents that the one sure way of avoiding violation of any other inventor’s right is to plagiarize a dead patent. Likewise, because publication of an idea in any other form permanently invalidates further patents on that idea, it is traditionally safe to take ideas from other areas of print. Much modern technological advance is based on these presumptions of legal security. Anyone closely involved in patents and inventions soon learns that most “new” ideas are, in fact, as old as the hills. It is their reduction to commercial practice, either through necessity or dedication , or through the availability of new technology, that makes news and money. ② The basic patent for the theory of magnetic recording dates back to 1886. Many of the original ideas behind television originate from the late 19 th and early 20 th century. Even the Volkswagen rear engine car was anticipated by a 1904 patent for a cart with the horse at the rear. 名人名言 There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than 10,000 tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love. ③ Greatness has its beauties, but only in retrospect and in imagination. Youth is not like a new garment, which we can keep fresh and fair wearing sparingly. Youth, while we have it, we must wear daily, and it will wear fast away. ----------------E. M. Foster Post by algorithm @ 10:32 Vocabulary Evolution

2004-04-19 10:30 ① “Internet” has created a new vocabulary that has come to represent a historical era of change. Ask John Morse, publisher of Merriam- Webster Dictionaries, to name the word that defines the close of the century and he doesn’t hesitate: “Internet.” “No other word has become part of people’s lives so quickly or has had such an impact ,” he says. ② The Internet has swept into the American vocabulary and given birth to so many new words and phrases �C “netizen,” “chatroom” and “homepage,” among them �C that it has come to represent an era in social history, he says. And more remarkably , “Internet” has managed to become the most significant word of the century in less than a decade. “We first started seeing a number of citations in 1994, and by 1998 it was established in the dictionary,” Morse says, “It was just astounding. ” No other new word has gained such widespread acceptance so quickly, he says. Just a century ago, another form of communication swept into the language. In the 1898 edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, the hot new word was “telephone”. “It brought massive social change and reshaped the way people did business, just as the Internet is doing today,” Morse says. “Telephone” was no easy linguistic act to follow. It helped bring into popular usage a wide range of new words and phrases �C busy signals, wrong numbers, voice mail, cell phone. It also gave the United States its standard greeting: Hello. “That’s how vocabulary evolves, ” Morse says. Allan Metcalf, a professor at MacMurray College in Illinois, helps put together a list of words of the year for the American Dialect Society. He says the word “Internet” is a strong candidate to define the end of the century. At Merriam, new words earn a place in the dictionary simply by repeated use in the popular press. Merriam’s lexicographers spend a large part of their day reading newspapers, magazines, and now Internet publications. Each new word �C along with a copy from the publication showing how it was used �C goes into an electronic database. 名人名言 The millionaire class, a small but growing one into which any of us may be flung tomorrow by the accidents of commerce, is perhaps the most neglected in the community. As far as I know, this is the first tract that has ever been written for millionaires. ---------------Bernard Shaw Post by algorithm @ 10:30 National Parties in the United States

2004-04-18 09:50 National parties in the United States have generally been weak in structure and wary of ideology. Many writers have said that American parties are the least centralized in the world. However, the argument that parties can be pushed too far. For example, in this century, at least the Republicans have been more committed than the Democrats to a market- oriented economy, while the Democrats have been more prepared to use government to address economic problems. Within both parties there has been wide variance on issues, but in general the Republicans have been the more conservative and the Democrats the more liberal. Both parties, however, have resisted reducing these tendencies in their social, economic, and moral belief systems to a rigid ideology. And neither, until recently, vested much authorit y in its national party structure. ① At state and local levels, on the other hand, party organizations often achieved impressive levels of solidarity and internal discipline. Both Democrats and Republicans maintained potent local political organizations in many cities and states. Whatever their merits or demerits, the traditional organizations went into steep decline during the 1950’s and 1960’s. The old organizations lost the ability to maintain internal discipline. The share of voters regarding themselves as political independents, that is, people not affiliated with either of the major parties, rose. There were several reasons for the loss of effectiveness of the major party organizations. Development of a welfare state administered by the federal government established some of the services that had formerly been dispensed by the organizations as political favors. As recent immigrants became more educated they were less dependent on party workers. The inclusion of more state employees under civil service protection dried up some of the old wells of patronage. ② Growing unionization of public employees after 1960 struck as even more serious blow at the patronage system. Television brought candidates into voters’ living rooms, thereby antiquating some of the communication and education functions of party workers. Most of all, perhaps, the old tribal differences associated with the parties began to seem irrelevant to members of generations that sought fresh identities. 名人名言 No one can degrade us except ourselves. -----------B.T. Washington Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the lord’s Prayer the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God on an empty stomach. Post by algorithm @ 09:50 Global Warming Hits Oceans

2004-04-18 09:50 Global warming could disrupt the ability of a large portion of the world’s oceans to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere , ① setting off a vicious cycle in which the earth gets even hotter, researchers said. Evidence from a new study indicates that some conditions scientists think will occur with global warming may promote the growth of algae in the Southern Ocean that do not absorb carbon dioxide as well as others. These waters around Antarctica make up 10 percent of the world’s oceans and play a significant role in soaking up carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas seen as one of the main causes of global warming. “The capacity for the Southern Ocean to take up carbon dioxide might be reduced,” Dr. Arrigo, a biologist in Maryland, said in a telephone interview. Since carbon dioxide contributes to global warming, scientists believe a growing build-up of the gas would make the environmental problem increasingly worse. Plants “breath” carbon dioxide and help control the balance of the gas in the atmosphere. About half the plants that use this gas are in the oceans. Writing in the journal Science, the researchers said increasing stratification of the Southern Ocean, or differences in water density at different depths, was the change causing algae to dominate the environment. If global warning continues with increased precipitation in the Southern Ocean, there will be more stratification and that will favor algae. ② Knowing how much atmospheric carbon dioxide the oceans use is important for scientists when trying to predict climate change. “We need to understand the capacity of the world’s oceans to take up all this carbon dioxide,” Dr. Arrigo said. “At some point the ocean might reach its limit and shut off.” 名人名言 You can’t have a good view of the plains unless you climb up a high mountain; you can’t become a fighter unless you have tempered yourself in struggles In order to temper cast iron into steel, you must intensify heat in the furnace Better die standing than live kneeling ③ Living well is the best revenge No amount of merit is any pretext for enjoying privileges of any kind. ④ Look not too high, lest something fall into your eye. Post by algorithm @ 09:50 The Prospects for Cancer Treatment

2004-04-17 09:49 ① “I have great confidence that by the end of the decade we’ll know in vast detail how cancer cells arise ,” says microbiologist Robert Weinberg, and expert on cancer. “But,” he cautions , “some people have the idea that once one understands the causes, the cure will rapidly follow. Consider Pasteur. He discovered the causes of many kinds of infections , but it was fifty of sixty years before cures were available.” This year, 50 percent of the 910,000 people who suffer from cancer will survive at least five years. In the year 2000, the National Cancer Institute estimates, that figure will be 75 percent. For some skin cancers, the five-year survival rate is as high as 90 percent. But other survival statistics are still discouraging �C 13 percent for lung cancer, and 2 percent for cancer of the pancreas. With as many as 120 varieties in existence , discovering how cancer works is not easy. The researchers made great progress in the early 1970s, When they discovered that oncogenes , which are cancer-causing genes, are inactive in normal cells. Anything from cosmic rays to radiation to diet may activate a dormant oncogene, but how remains unknown. If several oncogenes are driven into action, the cell, unable to turn them off, becomes cancerous. The exact mechanisms involved are still mysterious, but the likelihood that many cancers are initiated at the level of genes suggests that we will never prevent all cancers. “Changes are a normal part of the evolutionary process,” says oncologist William Hayward. Environmental factors can never be totally eliminated; as Hayward points out, “We can’t prepare a medicine against cosmic rays.” ② The prospects for cure, though still distant, are brighter. “First, we need to understand how the normal cell controls itself. Second, we have to determine whether there are a limited number of genes in cells which are always responsible for at least part of the trouble. If we can understand how cancer works, we can counteract its action.” 名人名言 Life is compared to voyage Look before you leap , for snake among sweet flower do creep A good conscience is a soft pillow Time is like the water in sponge ; if you squeeze, you can always get some. Distance is naught while heart with heart can meet Post by algorithm @ 09:49 Is It Safe to Buy Online?

2004-04-17 09:48 Is it safe to buy online? This is one of the most common questions I hear from new visitors to the World Wide Wed. Sure, there are a lot of tempting goods for sale online. But electronic commerce (ecommoerce) is so new that most people have yet to try it. According to Forrester Research, only 10% of us bought online last year. That first online purchase can be intimidating. Will my credit card be protected from hackers? Fortunately, online shopping is actually very safe. Password Protection: If you shop using any up-to-date Internet browser like Microsoft’s Internet Explorer of America Online, your credit card number is well protected. Each shopping site will ask you to create a unique user name and password to identify yourself. ① Use some numbers and punctuation makes in your password to foil attempts to guess your password. Encryption Security: Your browser scrambles important data before sending it. This “encryption” is so hard to crack that the government doesn’t allow the strongest encryption to be sold overseas. You can tell that your data has been protected, because the browser puts a small image of a key or lock in the lower corner. It will also pop up a reminder that you have just entered a secure connection. When you finally send your credit card number out into cyberspace, only the site where you are shopping has the key to unscramble it. Government Guarantee : Even if your credit card number falls into the wrong hands, you are still protected by the Fair Credit Billing Act. Your credit card company cannot charge you any more than $50 of an illicit purchase made with your card (as long as you report the incorrect billing within 60 days). You also don’t have to pay while the credit card company investigates . And now, most major credit card companies tell me they have changed their policies so you don’t have to pay that & 50, even if you report a bogus charge months or years later. Go ahead. Give it a try. You might just like it. 名人名言 ② Repentance is good, but innocence is better. Many lords, many laws. ③ Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. Suspicion is the poison of friendship. Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. Post by algorithm @ 09:48 Don’t Try to Clone Humans

2004-04-16 15:31 When a Scottish research team startled the world by revealing 3 months ago that it had cloned an adult sheep, President Clinton moved swiftly. Declaring that he was opposed to using this unusual animal husbandry technique to clone humans, he ordered that federal funds not be used for such an experiment �C although no one had proposed to do so �C and asked an independent panel of experts chaired by Princeton President Harold Shapiro to report back to the White House in 90 days with recommendations for a national policy on human cloning. ① That group �C the National Bioethics Advisory Commission (NBAC) �C has been working feverishly to put its wisdom on paper, and at a meeting on 17 May, members agreed on a near-final draft of their recommendations. NABC will ask that Clinton’s 90-day ban on federal funds for human cloning be extended indefinitely, and possibly that it be made law. But NBAC members are planning to word the recommendation narrowly to avoid new restrictions on research that involves the cloning of human DNA or cells �C routine in molecular biology. The panel has not yet reached agreement on a crucial question, however, whether to recommend legislation that would make it a crime for private funding to be used for human cloning. In a draft preface to the recommendations, discussed at the 17 May meeting, Shapiro suggested that the panel had found a broad consensus that it would be “morally unacceptable to attempt to create a human child by adult nuclear cloning.” Shapiro explained during the meeting that the moral doubt stems mainly from fears about the risk to the health of the child. The panel then informally accepted several general conclusions , although some details have not been settled. NBAC plans to call for a continued ban on federal government funding for any attempt to clone body cell nuclei to create a child. Because current federal law already forbids the use of federal funds to create embryos (the earliest stage of human offspring before birth) for research of to knowingly endanger an embryo’s life, NBAC will remain silent on embryo research. NBAC members also indicated that they will appeal to privately funded researchers and clinics not to try to clone humans by body cell nuclear transfer. ② But they were divided on whether to go further by calling for a federal law that would impose a complete ban on human cloning. Shapiro and most members favored an appeal for such legislation, but in a phone interview, he said this issue was still “up in the air” Post by algorithm @ 15:31 There is More We Can Do

2004-04-16 15:29 After last week’s deadly shootings, President Clinton provided written answers to questions from NEWSWEEK’S Debra Rosenberg. NEWSWEEK: Why not register all guns? CLINTON: We have licenses for driving and for hunting; I think we should have them too for buying new handguns. Under my plan, new handgun purchasers would first have to get a state-issued photo license showing that they passed the Brady background check and a gun-safety training requirement. NEWSWEEK: Is there any chance Congress will pass your plan this year? CLINTON: It’s always tough to break the stranglehold the gun lobby has on the leaders of this Congress. But we’ve taken on the gun lobby before and won. The Brady Law is a great example. NEWSWEEK: In 1998 you celebrated the fact that several major gun companies agreed to ship guns with safety locks. But now this doesn’t seem to be enough. What do you say to those who see your efforts as the first step toward an outright ban on gun ownership ? CLINTON: I applaud the responsible leaders in the gun industry who agreed to ship guns with child safety locks, but there is clearly more we can do. I fired my first 22 when I was just a boy. I grew up in a state where half the people have a hunting of fishing license. This isn’t about infringing on the ability of hunters and sportsman to get their firearms. It’s about saving lives. Some say that no law could have kept this handgun out of a 6-year-old’s hands. We can never know if any one proposal could have prevented these tragedies . I’ve proposed $ 10 million fund the development and expansion of “smart gun” technology that can limit a gun’s use to the proper adult owner. ① I’ve offered legislation to punish adults who recklessly let children have access to deadly weapons . A dozen children a day are killed by gunfire. NEWSWEEK: What else can Americans do to end the sort of violent episodes that we witnessed last week? CLINTON: Last week’s deadly incidents differed in many ways, but they shared one key element: guns in the wrong hands. So Congress can do its part by sending me commonsense legislation that can help keep guns away from criminals, children and others who should not have them. The media and entertainment industries can help change a culture that too often glorifies violence. ② And most fundamentally , parents can talk to their children, teach them to resolve their conflicts peacefully, raise them with the right values. In spite of last week’s awful events, I still believe we can make this the safest big country in the world. Post by algorithm @ 15:29 Copies key for gene networks

2004-04-15 12:52 Majority of network evolution appears to have occurred by duplication and divergence | By Cathy Holding Although the understanding of gene regulation networks and their importance has grown, how these complex pathways evolved has been poorly understood. New research in the April 11 Nature Genetics suggests that during evolution gene duplication and subsequent divergence could have been responsible for up to 90% of the interactions seen in gene regulatory networks. Sarah A. Teichmann and M. Madan Babu at the Medical Research Council in Cambridge, UK, looked for homologous genes in known genetic networks in Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae to discover instances of duplication. Teichmann said that their approach to identifying and quantifying effects of duplication was different from previous attempts in that they were looking at both transcription factors and target genes together. They had captured both recent and distant evolutionary relationships by using information about structural domains in homologous genes, using a hidden Markov model database called SUPERFAMILY. “The general principle behind this is that structure changes more slowly than sequence,” Teichmann said. “Things can be conserved at the level of three-dimensional structure, whereas the amino acid sequence can be completely different.” By mapping domains of known structure onto transcription factors and their target genes, a much more complete picture of the evolutionary relationships of the entire regulatory network was obtained, she said. The authors' results indicated that the 90% observed duplication of gene networking interactions could be further broken down. Simple duplication while retaining the interactions of the ancestor accounts for about 50% of duplications, and the remaining half of duplication cases involve inventing new interactions relative to their ancestors. “When we say 90%… we're including those [new interaction] cases, and that's not to be sniffed at either; that occurs fairly frequently as well,” Teichmann said. Teichmann described two recently discovered topological elements involving transcription factors and target genes in network connectivity. In the feed-forward mechanism, two transcription factors act on one target gene. In single-input modules, one transcription factor acts on two target genes―single input because there is only one input of one transcription factor. “Given these building blocks, [we asked whether either of] these structures has been copied as a module, as a whole, within the network,” she said. The results show that instead of duplicating whole modules, individual interactions have been created by duplication, and hence each module is built up in a stepwise manner. “It is as if you were designing a kind of electrical circuit board,” said Matthew W. Hahn , from the Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California at Davis, who was not involved in the study. “If an engineer did it, there would be certain kinds of circuits that were most robust to failure, and… what they're saying is that nature makes the best circuit often.” The same circuits are evolving independently in multiple genomes, Hahn said, but it doesn't seem to be that the whole circuit is kept over time. “You see different genes that are in these same kinds of circuits, but in different organisms. So in E. coli and Saccharomyces , the same kind of feed-forward motifs or single-input modules occur, but with different genes in each of the different genomes,” Hahn said. John F.Y. Brookfield , from the Institute of Genetics at Nottingham University, said the authors had used quite sophisticated techniques to try and identify genes that were truly homologous, and therefore the result of gene duplication. However, the timing of the duplication events―which could be millions of years apart―had not been considered. “I think it will be interesting to see the extent to which billion-year-old genes and million-year-old genes, to take extreme examples, differ in the extent to which they have different roles in the network,” said Brookfield, who was not involved in the study. Links for this article S.A. Teichmann, M. Madan Babu, “Gene regulatory network growth by duplication” Nature Genetics, DOI:10.1038/ng1340, April 11, 2004. http://www.nature.com/ng/ Post by algorithm @ 12:52 Postwar Japan

2004-04-15 09:52 ① Aimlessness has hardly been typical of the postwar Japan whose productivity and social harmony are the envy of the United States and Europe. But increasingly the Japanese are seeing a decline of the traditional work values. Ten years ago young people were hardworking and saw their jobs as their primary reason for being, but now Japan has largely fulfilled its economic needs, and young people don’t know where they should go next The coming of age of the postwar baby boom and an entry of women into the male-dominated job market have limited the opportunities of teenagers who are already questioning the heavy personal sacrifices involved in climbing Japan’s rigid social ladder to good schools and jobs. In a recent survey , it was found that only 24.5 percent of Japanese students were full satisfied with school life, compared with 67.2 percent of students in United States. In addition , far more Japanese workers expressed dissatisfaction with their jobs than did their counterparts in the 10 other countries surveyed. ② While often praised by foreigners for its emphasis on the basics, Japanese education tends to stress test taking and mechanical learning over creativity and self-expression. “Those things that do not show up in the test scores �C personality, ability, courage or humanity �C are completely ignored, ” says Toshiki Kaifu, chairman of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s education committee “Frustration against this kind of thing leads kids to drop out and run wild.” Last year Japan experienced 2,125 incidents of school violence , including 929 assaults on teachers. Amid the outcry, many conservative leaders are seeking a return to the prewar emphasis on moral education. Last year Mitsuo Setoyama, who was then education. minister, raised eyebrows when he argue that liberal reforms introduced by the American occupation authorities after World War II had weakened the “Japanese morality of respect for parents.” But that may have more to do with Japanese lifestyles. “In Japan,” says educator Yoko Muro, ③ “it never a question of whether you enjoy your job and your life, but only how much you can endure ” With economic growth has come centralization; fully 76 percent of Japan’s 119 million citizens live in cities where community and the extended family have been abandoned in favor of isolated, two-generation households. Urban Japanese have long endured lengthy commutes (travels to and from work) and crowded living conditions, but as the old group and family values weaken, the discomfort is beginning to tell. In the past decade, the Japanese divorce rate, increased by more than 50 percent, and suicides have increased by nearly one-quarter. Post by algorithm @ 09:52 The Merging of Man and Computer in 21st Century

2004-04-15 09:50 Education in 2009: Toward Computer-Aided Self-Learning Students typically have a computer of their own, a thin, tablelike device weighing under a pound, with a very-high-resolution display suitable for reading. Learning materials are accessed through wireless communication. The traditional mode of a human teacher instruction a group of children is still prevalent, but schools increasingly rely on software approaches. Teachers primarily attend to issues of motivation, psychological well-being, and socialization. Business in 2009: Virtual Commerce Grows At least half of all transactions are conducted online. ① There is a strong trend toward the geographic separation of work groups. People are successfully working together despite living and working in different places. The average household has more than 100 computers, most of which are embedded in appliances and built-in communication systems. Household robots have emerged but are not yet fully accepted. Health Care in 2009: Electronic Paramedics Telemedicine is widely used: Physicians examine patients using visual, auditory examination from a distance. Computer-based pattern recognition is routinely used to interpret imaging data and other diagnostic procedures. Lifetime patient records are maintained in computer databases. The Arts in 2009: Media- Enhanced Expression The computer screen is the medium of choice for visual art, which is becoming a collaboration between human artists and their intelligent art software. Technology allows nonmusicians to create music, such as cybernetic music-creation systems and software to create music from a person’s brain waves. Writers use voice-activated word processing and style-improvement software. 名人名言 To flee vice is the beginning of virtue; and to have got rid of fool is the beginning of wisdom. ② Confessing a fault makes half amends for it. Jealousy is cruel as the grave. Time partially reconciles to anything. Post by algorithm @ 09:50 Alphabet for the Effective Manager

2004-04-14 13:15 A �C The manager is AMBITIOUS B �C BACKS his people C �C COMMUNICATES well with subordinates , peers, superiors D �C DELEGATES deftly , start small �C increasing E �C is ETHICAL, give a kind of model to his people F �C is FAIR but FIRM, justice comes before charity G �C Catalyst for GROWTH, planned program of development H �CHUSBANDS his resources, avoid wasting resources I �C INSPIRES respect and confidence J �C Has good JUDGEMENT �C Nobody is perfect K- KNOWS the system within which he must work L �C LEADS, 3 alternatives: drives his people, pulls his people, seeks relationship M �C MOTIVATES, opportunities for subordinates to motivate themselves N �C is open to the New and novel , improvement, innovation O �C ORIENTED to the future, forecasting P �C PATIENTLY persistent, see everything, overlook a lot, correct a little Q �C Asks the right QUESTIONS such as “what is your opinion?” R �C REVIEWS the work of his people �C preventative management S �C STAFFS efficiently, seek out and promote those who are able T �C Is a TEACHER and does not get tired of it U �C UNDERSTANDS himself, is aware of his assets V �C Is VEXED by the right things W �C ① WEARS well, distinguish between being merely slick and truly smooth X �C EXAMINE causes, not symptoms Y �C Never YIELDS his basic convictions Z �C Has a ZEST for the work be does 名人名言 Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood ② Craft must clothes, but truth loves to go naked. A quiet conscience sleeps in thunder Post by algorithm @ 13:15 A New Currency “Euro”

2004-04-14 13:13 ① A new currency called the “Euro” was launched in Europe. It will replace eleven currencies by the year 2002 so that eleven European countries will share a common euro currency. The euro will make it easier for these countries to trade with each other and for other countries to trade with them. The euro is the latest in a global economy of money which sees frantic trading of currency hours a day. Every day trillions of dollars are moved around the world via banks’ computers. Even as nations sleep, the fiber optic cables, fax and phone lines, and Internet cyberspace highways are humming with the trade in money. This new form of electronic money is taking the place of the cash that we know from everyday dealings. Money has been used for many centuries but not always in form of coins and notes. Some cultures used shells, cloth and precious stones. Early Maori traded items of value such as food and greenstone. Historically , gold, silver, copper and brass became the commonest currency, used by the Chinese, Greeks, Romans, Arabs and Indians. Paper money was used in China as early as a thousand years ago. Over time, the introduction of cheques, plastic credit cards, and recently electronic banking, have meant that new standards for measuring the value of money have been sought. You can seen the fluctuating value of money when you compare the buying power of the dollar over time �C because of inflation, one dollar today buys less than a tenth of that one dollar could buy in 1967. The constant which could be guaranteed to measure the value of money used to be the gold bar. But gold has fluctuated since the standard price of gold (a constant at $ US 35 an ounce for decades) became moveable. Today gold is bought and sold daily. It has moved as high as $ US 800 an ounce, and now hovers around the $ US 250 to $ 270 mark. Stock exchangers are no guarantee of permanent values either. ② Constancy is not constancy, to paraphrase Shakespeare, “which alters when its alteration finds.” 名人名言 ③ Courage is not he towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. -----------Alice Swain History is the essence of innumerable biographies . -------------Tomas Carlyle Errors like straw upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below. -------------John Dryden The slightest stretch of any truth will produce an absurdity. Post by algorithm @ 13:13 Tips for Writing Research Papers

2004-04-14 11:25 You don't have to dread writing research papers; all you've got to do is take the time to organize and prepare yourself for them. With proper planning you can write a better paper more efficiently. Don't be intimidated by the amount of work you'll have to do. Keep this chinese proverb in mind when you start: A journey of a thousand miles is begun with a single step. Don't let the fear of the paper keep you from... Getting Started

1. The first thing you want to do is give yourself enough time to work. For an average length (10-20 pgs) paper you should give yourself a month to adequately collect the library research and materials. At a bare minimum you should give yourself a week. Organization will help you make the most of however much time you have. Write a quick schedule to help you keep track of time: list the days you have left and the time during the day you'll be able to work. You will need to allot yourself time to go to your school library, take notes, write an outline, write a first draft, and revise the paper. Try not to set yourself up for a lot of late nights, unless you're a night person. Generally, people do better work when they're alert.
2. It's very important to start out your research with a solid Thesis Statement. This is the question you propose to answer in the paper. Some professors will want to see the proposed thesis statement before you start your research. A couple of hints:

• Keep it simple; you don't need an enormous subject to work with.
• Make it specific. It's much easier to do research on a narrowly selected subject than a massive idea. Help yourself by sharpening it down.
• Make sure your idea will work. Check with your professor about the suitability of the thesis to the assignment. Do a little preliminary research in the library to make sure there's enough available material on your topic.

3. Take some time to familiarize yourself with the libraries you'll be using. Each library has it's own system for reference materials, and, chances are, they'll have separate technologies to help you along. It's a good idea to talk to one of the reference librarians about where and how to start. If you're under deadline, you don't want to waste precious time trying to locate materials. Every minute counts. Taking Notes

4. Use small (4"x 6", 5"x 8") index cards. If you can, buy several different colors. If your subject has two or three separate main ideas you can color code the research.

5. Make sure you include authors' names, date and page number at the top of the card. Also, on a separate index card, write down all the bibliography information in the proper form for your reference list or bibliography. This will help you identify footnotes and citations and make typing the references easier.

6. Try to be as accurate as possible when you write down statistics and direct quotes. Be sure to check for errors when you're finished.

7. It's good to have a lot of pertinent quotes when your finished, but keep in mind that no more than 10-15% of your finished paper should be quotations. Outline This is the critical step in the process. Your paper will only be as good as the outline you write for it.

8. Write your introduction at the top. This, essentially, is your Thesis Statement expanded to a paragraph. Set up your statement carefully, and make sure it matches the material you've gathered.

9. Underneath the intro, have your first main heading. Write subheadings underneath that and list your main points in the paragraph.

10. Take your note cards and figure out which of them you will use to illustrate your points. It should look something like this: Introduction: Expand your thesis here. It should be concise and definite. Don't put opinionated statements like "I think..." or, "In my opinion...". This reduces your credibility. For example, if you were to write a paper on the economic factors involved in World War II, you might start like this: Germany's involvement in WW II was predicated by the purposeful dismantling of the country's economic power by the Allied Nations. Main Headings: This is where you begin to answer the questions you posed in your introduction. Systematically go over each resonant point in your argument. If you're dealing with a historical paper, you might begin with the background and history of your material. eg. Germany's post-war economy. Sub Headings: Here, you break down your Main Heading into smaller paragraphs of information. Each paragraph should have clear, well thought out points. eg. Production. A: One important idea you want to convey in your paragraph. If you intend to use one of your note cards, you can actually tape the card to your paper. eg. Manufacturing of exports.

11. An even smaller bite of information you want to make sure you cover. eg. Reisling Company's profits down 65%% by 1937.

12. An additional bite you feel is appropriate. eg. Co-owner was eventual Nazi conspirator, Max Heinrich.

Follow this method all the way to your last, concluding statement. Your Conclusion should be a final synopsis of the paper; a summary of the Thesis Statement you started out with. When you edit your outline, make sure each point is clearly made and that the flow of the paper works to make a convincing case. By the end of the outline you should have covered all the main points you posed in your thesis statement.

Rough Draft

Write your first draft as freely as possible, following your outline closely. Use all the notecard information you feel is relevant and important. Don't pad your paper with excessive quotes. When you've finished the rough draft, check for accuracy and completeness of facts. If you think certain sections are too long or too skimpy, rework them until you feel they're the strongest you can make them.

Final Draft

Revise paragraphs for unity and coherence. Reword your sentences for effectiveness of structure, grammar and punctuation. Use a dictionary to check your spelling and usage, or, if you have a computer, run a spell check. You might want to read the paper aloud to yourself to see how it flows and to correct any awkward sentences.

Footnotes and Bibliography

You should consult a style manual to find the correct forms to use.

Here are a few very good manuals you can try:

Campbell, W.C. & Ballou, S.V. (1990). Form and Style: Theses, Reports, Term Papers

Strunk, W. Jr. & White, E.B. The Elements of Style (1972).

Turabian,K.V.(1987)A Manual of Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations

Final Words

When you've finished the paper, take some time for yourself before you re-read it. Make sure your quotes and citations are accurate; keep your note cards. Take a minute and congratulate yourself, unless you're already late for class. Post by algorithm @ 11:25 Credit Card

2004-04-13 11:33 ① America’s love affair with the credit card began in 1949. When businessman Frank McNamara finished a meal in a New York restaurant and then discovered he had no cash. In those days, gasoline and store charge cards were common, but cash was standard for almost everything else. McNamara called his wife, who rushed over to bail him out. His embarrassment gave him the idea for Diners Club. Within a year some 200 people carried the world’s first multi-use card. For an annual fee of $5, these card holders could charge meals at 27 restaurants in and around New York City. By the end of 1951 more than a million dollars had been charged on the growing number of cards, and the company was soon turning a profit. The problem was to persuade enough people to carry the cards. Diners Club turned to promotions. It gave away a round-the-world trip on a popular television show. The winners charged their expenses and made it “from New York to New York without a dime in their pocket”. By 1955 the convenience of charging was catching on in a big way. The first to turn a profit was Bank of America’s Bank Americard. Bankers from all over the country descended on it’s California headquarters to learn the secret of its success �C so many that in 1966 Bank Americard began forming alliances with banks outside the state. Five million holiday credit card shoppers would have created a bonanza for banks, but in the dash to market, the banks had been less than cautious in assembling their lists. Some families received 15 cards. Dead people and babies got cards. Hundreds of Chicagoans discovered they could use of sell a card they “found” and by law, the person whose name appeared on it was liable for the charges �C even if he or she had never requested of received the card. ② The disaster sparked a movement to regulate the industry. Public Law 91-508, signed by President Nixon in October 1970, prohibited issuers from sending cards to people who hadn’t requested them and all but eliminated card-holder liability for charges on a card reported lost or stolen. Later, the Fair Credit Billing Act set standard procedures for resolving billing disputes. Of course, Credit cards have not only replaced cash for many purposes, but also in effect have created cash by making it instantly available virtually everywhere. Experts estimate there are from 15,000 to 19,000 different cards available in his country. ③ So the revolution that began in 1949 with a embarrassed businessman who was out of cash now seems complete. What Alfred Bloomingdale, then president of Diners Club, predicted more than 30 years ago seems to have come true: an America where “there will be only two classes of people―those with credit and those who can’t get them.” Post by algorithm @ 11:33 How New York Became America’s Largest City

2004-04-13 11:31 In the 18 th century New York was smaller than Philadelphia and Boston. Today it is the largest city in America. How can the change in its size and importance be explained? To answer this question we must consider certain facts about geography, history, and economics. Together these three will explain the huge growth of America’s most famous city. The map of the Northeast shows that the four areas with the largest populations in this region are around seaports. At these points materials from across the sea enter the United States, and the products of the land are sent there for export across the sea. We know that places where transportation lines meet are good places for making raw materials into finished goods. That is why seaports often have cities nearby. But cities like New York needed more than their geographical location in order to become great industrial centers. About 1815, when many Americans from the east had already moved toward the west, transportation routes from the seaports to the central regions of the country began to be a serious problem. The slow wagons of that time, usually draw by horses, were too expensive for moving heavy freight very far. ① In New York a canal seemed the best answer to the transportation problem. From the eastern end of Lake Erie all the way across the state to the Hudson River there is a long strip of low land. Here the Erie Canal was built. After several years of work it was completed in 1825. The canal produced an immediate effect. Freight costs were cut to about one tenth of what they had been. New York City, which had been smaller than Philadelphia and Boston, quickly became the leading city of the coast. The coming of the railroads made canal shipping less important, but it tied New York even more closely to the central regions of the country. It was easier for people in the central states to ship their goods to New York for export overseas. Exports from New York were greater than imports. ② As a result, shipping companies made every effort to fill their ships with passengers on the return trip from Europe. And so passenger could come from Europe very cheaply. Thus New York became the greatest port for receiving people from European countries. Many of these people remained in the city. For these great numbers of new Americans New York had to provide homes, goods and other things. Their labor helped the city become great. 英语谚语 ③ A stitch in time saves nine. No bees, no honey ; no work, no money. Greatest genius often lies concealed. Post by algorithm @ 11:31 Entrepreneur

2004-04-12 09:35 A woman goes to work for a large corporation like IBM. She is intelligent , ambitious and hard-working. She is also good at solving problems. She likes the security of a definite salary and the security of knowing that there will always be a defined job to be done, a definite direction in which to exert her abilities. Perhaps the consciousne ss that ability will be rewarded is also important. A man goes to work for the government service. He is competent and hard-working but he is not ambitious. He does not like to work under pressure or in a competitive environment. His real interests lie outside work in his love of music. ① Another brash young man who wants only to work for himself proceeds to set up his own business, starting with a hamburger franchise for which he borrows money. His satisfaction is to see things happen. He wants to be able to make things happen. He wants to look at the accounts at the end of the month and see what has happened. He wants the maximum responsibility and the maximum reward; he does not mind the risk. ② It is the urge to bring something about that defines the entrepreneur. This urge is not unlike that of the painter of writer. There is an urge to make something happen, something that was not there before. The medium chosen by the entrepreneur is action or operation. The aesthetic satisfaction is that of seeing something happening effectively, of seeing decisions correctly made. This satisfaction is made concrete by money. ③ Money is the indicator of success but not necessarily the driving factor. The test would be simple: if an entrepreneur was suddenly given as much money as he wanted, would he stop his activities of use the money to develop new ones? History is very much on the side of the new activities. The entrepreneur seeks out opportunities; he tries things out; he makes decisions based as much on hunch as on analysis. Quite often he starts up a successful business which grows to such a size that his entrepreneurial style of management is no longer the best and he has to resign if the company is to survive. Entrepreneurs are the risk element in society, the evolutionary element that brings about change as distinct from the operating element that keeps things ticking over. In too many countries they are discouraged as being greedy and selfish. 英语谚语 The life of the wolf is the death of the lamb. There comes nothing out of the sack but what is in it. Death pays all debts. Post by algorithm @ 09:35 Bring Birth Rate Under Control

2004-04-12 09:34 It remains to be seen whether the reserves of raw materials in the year 2000 will be sufficient to supply a world economy which will have grown by five hundred per cent. South-East Asia alone will have an energy consumption five times greater than that of Western Europe in 1970. Incidentally , if the underdeveloped countries started using up petrol at the same rate as the industrialized areas, then world reserves would be exhausted by 1990. ① All this only goes to show just how important it is to set up a plan to conserve and divide up fairly natural resources on a worldwide scale . This is a matter of life and death because world population is expanding at an incredible rate. By the middle of the next century population will expand every year by as much as it did in the first 1500 years after Christ. In the southern, poor parts of the glove, the figures are enough to make your hair stand on the end. Even supposing that steps are taken to stabilize world population in the next fifty years, the number of inhabitants per square kilometer will increase by from 4 in the United States to 140 in South East Asia. What can we do about it? In the first hypothesis we do nothing. By the year 2000, the southern parts of the world would then have a population greater than the total world population today. Alternately we could start acting right now to bring birth rate under control within fifteen years so that population levels off. Even then the population in the southern areas would not stop growing for seventy-five years. And the population would level off at something like twice today’s figure. Finally, we could wait ten to twenty years before taking action. If we wait ten years the population of the southern area would stabilize at 3,000 million. Even today the number of potential workers increases by 350,000 people per week. By the end of the century this figure will reach 750,000. In other words, it will be necessary to find work for 40 million people per year �C not to speak of food. What this means in practical term we can scarcely imagine. ② But clearly if we do nothing, nature will solve the problem for us. But at what cost! 名人名言 ③ The liberty of the individual must be thus limited: he must not make himself a nuisance to other people ------------Mill Peace does not rest in charters and treaties alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of the people. ----------Kennedy Isolation means, in future, death and ruin of the country -----------------------Nethru Post by algorithm @ 09:34 Economics: a Precise Science?

2004-04-11 09:31 ① Much of language used to describe monetary policy, such as “ steering the economy to a soft landing” or “a touch on the brakes ”, makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing could be further from truth. The link between interest rates and inflation is uncertain. And there are long, variable lags before police changes have any effect on the economy. Hence the analogy that likens the conduct of monetary policy to driving a car with a blackened windscreen, a cracked rear view mirror and a faulty steering wheel. Given all these disadvantages, central bankers seem to have had much to boast about of late. Average inflation in the big seven industrial economies fell to a mere 2.3% last year, close to its lowest level in 30 years, before rising slightly to 2.5% this July. This is a long way below the double- digit rates which many countries experienced in the 1970s and early 1980s. It is also less than most forecasters had predicted. In late 1994 the panel of economists which The Economist polls each month said that America’s inflation rate would average 3.5% in 1995. In fact, It fell to 2.6% in August, and is expected to average only about 3% for the year as a whole. In Britain and Japan inflation is running half a percentage point below the rate predicted at the end of last year. ② This is no flash in the pan. Over the past couple years, inflation has been consistently lower than expected in Britain and America. Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially America’s, have little productive slack. America’s capacity utilization, for example, hit historically high levels earlier this year, and its jobless rate (5.6% in August) has fallen bellow most estimates of the natural rate of unemployment �C the rate below which inflation has taken off on the past. Why has inflation proved so mild? ③ The most thrilling explanation is, unfortunately, a little defective. Some economists argue that powerful structural changes in the world have up ended the old economic models that were based upon the historical link between growth and inflation. 名人名言 Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness. ------------------G. Washington Post by algorithm @ 09:31 Develop a Peaceful Heart

2004-04-11 09:27 Make Peace with Imperfection. ① I’ve yet to meet an absolute perfectionist whose life was filled with inner peace. The need for perfection and the desire for inner tranquility conflict with each other. Whenever we are attached to having something a certain way, better than it already is , we are focused on what’s wrong with something and need to fix it. When we are zeroed in on what’s wrong it implies that we dissatisfied, discontent. Whether it’s related to ourselves �C a disorganized closet, a scratch on the car, an imperfect accomplishment , a few pounds we would like to lose �C or someone else’s “imperfections”―the way someone looks, behaves, or lives their life �C the very act of focusing on imperfection pills us away from our goal of being kind and gentle. ② This strategy has nothing to do with ceasing to do your very best but with being overly attached and focused on what’s wrong with life. It’s about realizing that while there’s always a better way to do something, this doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy and appreciate the way things already are. The solution here is to catch yourself when you fall into your habit of insisting that things should be other than they are. Gently remind yourself that life is okay the way it is, right now. In the absence of your life, you’ll begin to discover the perfection in life itself. Count to Ten. When I was growing up father used to count out loud to ten when he was angry with my sisters and me. It was strategy he, and many other parents, used to cool down before deciding what to do next. I’ve improved this strategy by incorporating the use of the breath. All you have to do is this: When you feel yourself getting angry, take a long, deep inhalation , and as you do, say the number one to yourself. Then, relax your entire body as you breathe out. Repeat the same process with the number two; all the way through at least ten (if you’re really angry, continue to twenty-five). What you are doing here is clearing your mind with a mini version of a meditation exercise. The combination of counting and breathing is so relaxing that it’s almost impossible to remain angry once you are finished. The increased oxygen in your lungs and the time gap between the moment you became angry and the time you finish the exercise enables you to increase your perspective. It helps make “big stuff ” look like “little stuff.” The exercise is equally effective in working with stress or frustration. Whenever you feel a little off, give it a try. The truth is, this exercise is a wonderful way to spend a minute or two whether or not you’re angry. ③ I’ve incorporated this strategy into my daily life simply because it’s relaxing and I enjoy it. Often, it helps me to keep from getting angry in the first place. Post by algorithm @ 09:27 What Is Drug?

2004-04-10 21:09 Technically, any substance other than food that alters our bodily of mental functioning is a drug. Many people mistakenly believe the term drug refers only to some sort of medicine or an illegal chemical taken by drug addicts. They don’t realize that familiar substances such as alcohol and tobacco are also drugs. This is why the more neutral term substance is now used by many physicians and psychologists . ① The phrase “substance abuse ” is often used instead of “drug abuse” to make clear that substances such as alcohol and tobacco can be just as harmfully misused as heroin and cocaine . We live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances (drug) is prevalent : an aspirin to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable , coffee to get going in the morning, a cigar for the nerves. When do these socially acceptable and apparently constructive uses of a substance become misuses? First of all, most substances taken in excess will produce negative effects such as poisoning or intense perceptual distortions . Repeated use of a substance can also lead to physical addiction or substance dependence . ② Dependence is marked first by an increased tolerance, with more and more of the substance required to produce the desired effect, and then by the appearance of unpleasant withdrawal symptoms when the substance is discontinued. Drugs (substances) that affect the central nervous system and alter perception, mood, and behavior are known as psychoactive substances. Psychoactive substances are commonly grouped according to whether they are stimulants, depressants , or hallucinogens. Stimulants initially speed up or activate the central nervous system, whereas depressants slow it down. Hallucinogens have their primary effect on perception, distorting and altering it in a variety of ways including producing hallucinations. These are the substances often called psychedelic (from the Greek work meaning “mind- manifesting ) because they seemed to radically alter one’s state of consciousness. 名人名言： My philosophy of life is work. I want to bring out the secret of nature and apply them for the happiness of man. I know of no better service to render for the short time we are in his world. ---------Adison ③ Love your neighbor �C yet don’t pull down your hedge. -----------Franklin People who are very quick are apt to be too sure. Slow and steady win the race. -------------Aesop Post by algorithm @ 21:09 Want-to-dos or Have-to-dos?

2004-04-10 21:07 A patient came to see me about the stress in her life. She described all the things she had to do �C one was to make her bed �C from the moment she woke up until she flew out the door for work. I suggested she experiment by not making her bed for two weeks. She was appalled , probably thinking I’d been raised by wolves in a forest. However, she went along with my idea. Two weeks later she breezed into my office beaming. She had left her bed unmade for the first time in 42 years �C and nothing bad had happened. “And you know what?” she said. “I don’t dry my dishes anymore, either.” This woman had made two major breakthroughs . One was discovering that she had choices in her life that she had never seen before. The other was giving herself permission to be less than perfect. It was a watershed experience. ① This story illustrated an important principle about managing time: No one can do it all. Each of us has to make choices and accept trade-offs. The problem is, many people choose in ways that put themselves and their health last. They take better care of their houses and cars than they do of themselves. They put everyone else’s needs ahead of their own. That’s fine if it’s occasional. It would even be okay if there was a balance. But most people living that way are wearing themselves out, feeling out of control. Fortunately, life doesn’t have to be like that. Notice how it happens: ② Folks get busy and run short of time; they stop exercising or start skipping meals; next they steal time from their sleep. Soon they get too busy to see friends; they stop reading and playing ball, and six months go by without a long walk. That’s not a great way to live. So what is the solution ? In a word, prioritize . Decide what you want in your life, and put that first. On a daily basis, that should include regular meals, adequate sleep and time with your family. ③ Exercise, leisure, friendships and hobbies should also be regular aspects of life. The point is to do something for yourself every day. The choice is yours: whatever makes you feel good about yourself and your life. Take a nap. Take a walk. Take time to play the piano. Of course, you’ll have to trade off some things that are currently clogging your schedule to make room for your new priorities . Stop bringing your briefcase home from the office. Stop keeping your house as clean as your mother kept hers. Fill more of your time with want-to-dos instead of have-to-dos Post by algorithm @ 21:07 Personality and Environment

2004-04-09 10:35 Personality to a large extent inherent �C A-type parents usually bring about A-type offspring . But the environment must also have a profound effect, since if competition is important to the parents, it is likely to become a major factor in the lives of their children. One place where children soak up A- characteristics is school, which is, by its very nature, a highly competitive institution. Too many schools adopt the “win at all costs” moral standard and measure their success by sporting achievements. The current passion for making children compete against their classmates of against the clock produces a two-layer system , in which competitive A-types seem in some way better than their B-type fellows. ① Being too keen to win can have dangerous consequences : remember that Pheidippides, the first marathon runner, dropped dead seconds after saying: “Rejoice, we conquer!” By far the worst form of competition in schools is the disproportionate emphasis on examinations. It is a rare school that allows pupils to concentrate on those things they do well. The merits of competition by examination are somewhat questionable, but competition in the certain knowledge of failure is positively harmful. ② Obviously, it is neither practical nor desirable that all A-youngster change in B’s. The world needs A-types, and schools have an important duty to try to fit a child’s personality to his possible future employment. It is top management. If the preoccupation of schools with academic work was lessened, more time might be spent teaching children surer values. Perhaps selection for the caring professions, especially medicine, could be made less by good grades in chemistry and more by such considerations as sensitivity and sympathy. It is surely a mistake to choose our doctors exclusively from A-type stock. B’s are important and should be encouraged. 名人名言 If you lie upon roses when young, you’ll lie upon thorns when old. ③ Fire is the test of gold; adversity of friendship. Bread nourishes the body, and books enrich the mind. Talents come from diligence , and knowledge is gained by accumulation. Don’t count your chickens before they are hatched. Name not a rope in the house of a man that hanged himself. Post by algorithm @ 10:35 Economic Models of the World

2004-04-09 10:34 A summary of economic models’ best and worst features : The American Model. ① Good points: flexible labor and product markets; low taxes; fierce competition; and shareholder capitalism , which puts pressure on managers to maximize profits. Bad points: wide income inequalities; low welfare benefits , poor quality of “public good”, such as primary and secondary education; low investment and very low savings rates. The Japanese Model. Good point: lifetime employment encouraged loyalty and high skill levels; public service, especially education, of high quality; close relations between banks and other firms; corporate cross-shareholdings shelter managers from impatient shareholders, allowing them to take a long term view of investment. ② This, it was once argued, gave Japan an advantage over American capitalism, obsessed with short-term profit. Bad points: these “virtues” are now seen as vices at the root of the country’s problems: firms sheltered from the full force of the market feel little pressure to use capital efficiently. The East Asian Model. The region has long been an intellectual battleground for economists. Some saw East Asia’s rapid growth as proof of the virtues of market-friendly policies --- low taxation, flexible labor markets and open trade. Others argued that South Korea’s industrial policy was evidence of the possible gains from selective government intervention. The truth is that there is no single “East Asian model”: economic policies vary hugely from relatively liberal Hong Kong to heavy-handed South Korea; from widespread government corruption in Indonesia to clean Singapore. What the East Asian countries shared was an openness to trade and higher savings than in other emerging economies. The German Model. Good points: excellent education training, a generous welfare state and narrow wage dispersion breed social harmony, close relations between firms and banks assist high investment. Bad point: overly powerful trade unions , high taxes, overgenerous jobless benefits and widespread labor and product market restrictions have led to persistently high unemployment. The Swedish Model. Once advertised as a “third way” between capitalism and socialism. Good points: relatively open market combined with a comprehensive welfare state, narrow wage dispersion and employment schemes that pushed the jobless back into work. ③ Bad points: rising inflation and recession increased the budget deficit, and as unemployment rose, costly job schemes were no longer affordable; high personal taxes blunted incentives to work. Post by algorithm @ 10:34 Who Is Liable for Customers’ Misfortunes?

2004-04-08 10:01 It’s a rough world out there. Step outside and you could break a leg slipping on your doormat. Light up the stove and you could burn down the house. Luckily, if the doormat or stove failed to warn of coming disaster , a successful lawsuit might compensate you for your troubles. Or so the thinking has gone since the early 1980s, when juries began holding more companies liable for their customers’ misfortunes . ① Feeling threatened , companies responded by writing ever-longer warning labels , trying to anticipate every possible accident. Today, stepladders carry labels several inches long that warn, among other things, that you might ---- surprise! �C fall off. The label on a child’s Batman cape cautions that the toy “does not enable user to fly.” While warnings are often appropriate and necessary �C the dangers of drug interactions, for example ---- and many are required by state or federal regulations, it isn’t clear that they actually protect the manufactures and sellers from liability if a customer is injured. About 50 percent of the companies lose when injured customers take them to court. Now the tide appears to be turning. As personal injury claims continue as before, some courts are beginning to side with defendants , especially in cases where a warning label probably wouldn’t have changed anything. In May, Julie Nimmons, president of Schutt Sports in Illinois, successfully fought a lawsuit involving a football player who was paralyzed in a game while wearing a Schutt helmet. “We’re really sorry he has become paralyzed, but helmets aren’t designed to prevent those kinds of injuries,” says Nimmons. The jury agreed unanimously that the nature of the game, not the helmet, was the reason for the athlete’s injury. At the same time, the American Law institute �C a group of judge, lawyers, and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weight �C issued new guidelines for tort law stating that companies need not warn customers of obvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy list of possible ones. ② “ Important information can get buried in a sea of trivialities ”, says a law professor at Cornell Law School who helped draft the new guidelines. If the moderate end of the legal community has its way, the information on products might actually be provided for the benefit of customers and not as protection against legal liability . Post by algorithm @ 10:01 Gene Therapy

2004-04-08 09:59 Human genetic engineering , also know as gene therapy , is based on the premise that our genes are the defense and healing system of our body. It is our genes that protect our body from the assaults of nature; it is our genes that repair the damage caused by disease and restore us to health; ① it is our genes that, when they function abnormally, contribute to cancer, heart disease, and mental illness. If we want to cure a disease, therefore, we must do it at the level of the genes. There are two primary ways that genes can be used to treat disease. The first is gene therapy, in which one or more genes are injected into the patient to replace those that are absent or not working properly. This approach has been used to treat rare enzyme disorders , including one known as ADA deficiency , and clinical trials have employed gene therapy against a broad range of disorders: heart disease, many forms of cancer, and AIDS. The second way to exploit genes to treat disease is known as small- molecule therapy. In this approach, a small molecule (that is, a drug) is given to the patient to modify the function of one or more genes in the body. As the Human Genome Project identifies all of the 70,000 to 13, 0000 human genes and, in time, teaches us what they do, we will rapidly develop the ability to screen for defect or weaknesses in all of our genes. By “weaknesses” we mean genes that do not function optimally for the environment in which the individual livers, which man be unusually stressful because of diet , toxins, radiation or some other factor and therefore will result in the patient’s developing a disease. Once a defective or poorly functioning gene is discovered, we will be able to give the individual a more effective gene to replace the “weak” one. Or if the gene is making a normal product but just too much or too little of it, a small molecule (drug) can be given to regulate production. Thirty years from now, essentially every disease will have gene-based therapy as a treatment option. Gene therapy is still too inefficient to be helpful in most cases. ② But progress is rapid, and the first treatments are expected to be available to the public over the next five years. The greatest success so far has been in stimulating new blood-vessel growth in the heart to treat heart failure or in the limbs to correct faulty circulation . Treatment of a number of genetic diseases, such as hemophilia, appears promising as well. There has also been significant progress in the use of gene therapy to deliver vaccines for protection against AIDS and several types of cancer. Most physicians expect that in the first 10 years of the new century we will see an explosion of gene- therapy treatments for many maladies that have been a scourge to human health. ③ Genetic engineering should allow people to lead healthier, happier lives and add decades to our life span. Post by algorithm @ 09:59 The Virtue Americans Value Highly

2004-04-07 17:17 A report consistently brought back by visitors to the US is how friendly, courteous , and helpful most Americans were to them. To be fair, this observation is also frequently made of Canada and Canadians, and should best be considered North American. There are, of course, exceptions. ① Small-minded officials, rude waiters, and ill-mannered taxi drivers are hardly unknown in the US. Yet it is an observation made so frequently that it deserves comment. For a long period of time and in many parts of the country, a traveler was a welcome break in an otherwise dull existence. Dullness and loneliness were common problems of the families who generally lived distant from one another. Strangers and travelers were welcome sources of diversion , and brought news of the outside world. ② The harsh realities of the frontier also shaped this tradition of hospitality. Someone traveling alone, it hungry, injured, or ill, often had nowhere to turn except to the nearest cabin or settlement. It was not a matter of choice for the traveler or merely a charitable impulse on the part of the settlers. It reflected the harshness of daily life: if you didn’t take in the stranger and take care of him, there was no one else who would. And someday, remember, you might be in the same situation. Today there are many charitable organizations which specialize in helping the weary traveler. Yet, the old tradition of hospitality to strangers is still very strong in the US, especially in the smaller cities and towns away from the busy tourist trails . “I was just traveling through, got talking with this American, and pretty soon he invited me home for dinner �C amazing. ” Such observations reported by visitors to the US are not uncommon, but are not always understood properly. The casual friendliness of many Americans should be interpreted neither as superficial nor as artificial, but as the result of a historically developed cultural tradition. ③ As is true of any developed society, in America a complex set of cultural signals, assumptions, and conventions underlies all social interrelationships. And, of course, speaking a language does not necessarily mean that someone understands social and cultural patterns. Visitors who fail to “translate” cultural meanings properly often draw wrong conclusions. For example, when an American uses the word “friend” , the cultural implications of the visitor’s language and culture. It takes more than a brief encounter on a bus to distinguish between courteous convention and individual interest. Yet, being friendly is a virtue that many Americans value highly and expect from both neighbors and strangers. Post by algorithm @ 17:17 Professionals and Amateurs

2004-04-07 17:13 ① Specialization can be seen as a response to the problem of an increasing accumulation of scientific knowledge. By splitting up the subject matter into smaller units, one man could continue to handle the information and use it as the basis for further research. But specialization was only one of a series of related developments in science affecting the process of communication. Another was the growing professionalisation of scientific activity. ② No clear-cut distinction can be drawn between professionals and amateurs in science: exceptions can be found to any rule. Nevertheless, the word “amateur” does carry a connotation that the person concerned is not fully integrated into the scientific community and, in particular, may not fully share its values. The growth of specialization in the nineteenth century, with its consequent requirement of a longer, more complex training, implied greater problems for amateur participation in science. The trend was naturally most obvious in those areas of science based especially on a mathematical of laboratory training, and can be illustrated in term of the development of geology in the United Kingdom. A comparison of British geological publications over the last century and a half reveals not simply an increasing emphasis on the primacy of research, but also a changing definition of what constitutes an acceptable research paper. Thus, in the nineteenth century, local geological studies represented worthwhile research in their own right; but in the twentieth century, local professionals only if they incorporate , and reflect on, the wider geological picture. Amateurs, on the other hand, have continued to pursue local studies in the old way. The overall result has been to make entrance to professional geological journals harder for amateurs, a result that has been reinforce d by the widespread introduction of refereeing, first by national journals in the nineteenth century and then by several local geological journals in the twentieth century. As a logical consequence of this development, separate journal have now appeared aimed mainly towards either professional or amateur readership. A rather similar process of differentiation has led to professional geologists coming together nationally within one or two specific societies, whereas the amateurs have tended either to remain in local societies or to come together nationally in a different way. Although the process of professionalisation and specialization was already well under way in British geology during the nineteenth century, its full consequences were thus delayed until the twentieth century. ③ In science generally, however, the nineteenth century must be reckoned as the crucial period for this change in the structure of science. Post by algorithm @ 17:13 Genes constantly evolve

2004-04-07 11:36 Drosophila fixed coding regions duplicate and degenerate to rapidly create new genes | By Cathy Holding A novel gene genesis mechanism suggests that the Drosophila genome is highly flexible and that even seemingly fixed genes are constantly evolving. This new research shows that genes are continuously created and altered by gene fission in a process of retroposed duplication followed by partial degeneration. In the April 4 Nature Genetics , Wen Wang and colleagues in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago looked for young genes―those that had originated within the last 1 or 2 million years―to observe the early stages of gene creation. The team identified a group of genes with additional members and locations in members of the species Drosophila melanogaster subgroup that diverged less than a million years ago. Each subspecies has a parental gene sequence on one chromosome and different numbers of new copies on different chromosomes. The new copies are very young genes in evolutionary terms and so all the intermediate steps from the original parental sequence to the newest copies are visible. The gene family was named 'monkey-king' after the mythical Chinese character who could transform his hairs into offspring. The authors observed that one single ancestral gene in the family―containing two functional domains―duplicated to produce an intronless copy. “The ancestral gene degenerates one of their domains in the 5' side, then the new gene duplicates, and that also degenerates and destroys the other domain,” said Manyuan Long , senior author of the paper. This also provides a mechanism to create new introns in the degenerate region of a previously intronless gene by creating new splice signals. “The intron can evolve from the exon if the exon becomes degenerated,” Long said, suggesting that the coding portion of the genome is evolving. The idea of gene duplication as a means of gene evolution has been around from some time, according to Wojciech Makalowski , associate professor in the Department of Biology at Pennsylvania State University. Here, the gene is duplicated without introns or regulatory regions and, in order to function, must land close to preexisting regulatory sequences. In the classical model of segmental duplication, the whole gene is duplicated together with introns and regulatory elements, mutations in which may result in differential tissue expression. In addition, if the original gene had different splice variants and different exons were used in different tissues, exons could be lost after duplication. “In this paper, it would be yet another mechanism along this line: Instead of degeneration of the single exon, now we have degeneration of the whole domain, so it really nicely complements the development of the theory,” Makalowski, who was not involved in the study, said. Berend Snel , from the Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics at the University of Nijmegen, said he did not know if this mechanism was likely to occur in prokaryotes, as the mechanisms involved―such as retrotransposition―are eukaryotic features. “The components replace the ancestral composite form, and this is typically more of a eukaryotic story of allowing for new functions,” he said. “When people think about evolution, they intuitively expect it to take some sort of direction towards more complexity―that is, multidomain proteins with more complex functions,” said Snel, who was not involved in the study. “Sometimes, there's no such direction. That's why gene fission I think has been overlooked by some people.” Makalowski agreed. “Creating multidomain proteins with multidomain functions on the same protein to me is increasing complexity of the whole system―and now we are going back to the more simple system,” he said. Links for this article W. Wang et al., “Duplication-degeneration as a mechanism of gene fission and the origin of new genes in Drosophila species,” Nature Genetics, DOI:10.1038/ng1338 April 4, 2004. http://www.nature.com/ng/ Post by algorithm @ 11:36 Dance of Death

2004-04-07 09:20 At the age of 21, Patrick Bissell burst upon New York as principal dancer of the American Ballet Theatre. Rarely had a man so young dazzled so many in the intensely competitive world of ballet. He was praised, in the word of Mikhail Baryshnikov, as “one of the brightest lights in the entire ballet world.” Patrick Bissell also helped bury the American myth that ballet is for sissies . At six feet two inches tall, Patrick was a tough, hard-drinking kid from Texas with a passion for motorcycles, cowboy boots and women. He was a muscle man who could twirl ballerinas into the air and make them look as graceful as butterflies . Seven months after his birth in 1957, baby Bissell was not walking, according to his mother; he was actually running. When Patrick was ten, his sister bribed him with her allowance to come to her dance class, because she needed a partner. ① His natural gifts of coordination and stamina were stunning, and from that point on, his destiny was dance. ② The ballet world is notoriously brutal in its physical and emotional demands. T he primary goal is absolute perfection . Unlike a professional athlete, which many believe Bissell could have become, a ballet star never has the satisfaction of knowing a final score, or of beating the competition. He competes only against himself �C and for a perfectionist this may be the harshest competition of all. When young Bissell set off for life, his mother believes he carried with him seeds that would lead to his destruction. Every indication is that, even early in his career, Bissell was addicted to cocaine , alcohol and other drugs. But his strength and skill were so tremendous that he was able to perform the most demanding work without his managers’ knowing the truth. In June 1981, only three years into his career, Bissell slashed his wrist. When the doctors reached him, Bissell slashed a bottle to use for a weapon and fought them off. Next day, he was bandaged and back onstage. In the fall of 1987, the ballet company sent Bissell away for treatment to the Betty Ford Center in California. He told friends that he was ready to clean up his life. He wanted a fresh start. He was released a week early and returned to New York. During December, Amy Rose, a ballerina he had become engaged to, was on tour in California and would return to New York after the holidays. Alone, Bissell got Christmas tree and decorated it for their apartment. On December 23, he had a long telephone conversation with his parents. His mother begged him to join them at home. He declined , explaining that being alone during Christmas was a chance for him to show that he was strong enough to live without cocaine. Four days after Christmas, Amy Rose let herself into the apartment. She discovered Patrick’s body on the living-room couch . Patrick Bissell was dead of an overdose of cocaine and other drugs. He had just turned 30. Post by algorithm @ 09:20 Kind Bill Gates

2004-04-07 09:18 Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, announced last week a gift of $100 million to speed the delivery of four vaccines to developing countries. ① The couple, now expecting a second child, wants to give more people better access to new vaccines against a group of respiratory , intestinal and liver diseases, which together take the lives of more than 2 million children a year worldwide. On a trip to New York, Gates spoke to NEWSWEEK about the donation , the ongoing antitrust suit against Microsoft and other challenges. NEWSWEEK: Why specifically this cause, and why his specific sum of money? GATES: You think, “How could I (use the ) resources I have to make an impact ?” Contributing to the world’s health has got to be a great opportunity. These vaccination programs, from 1980 to today, went from 5 percent of kids to 80 percent getting six vaccines, and that has saved more lives than any medical effort in history. Four additional new vaccines really should be in the package ; there’s just literally hundreds of thousands of kids who die because they don’t get(them). About a month ago the plan came together, and we decided to fund it very aggressively , because vaccines can have such a huge impact, and yet there hasn’t been that much private funding. NEWSWEEK: Do you think about a specific amount of money or percentage of your wealth that you want over time to be giving away? GATES: I’m 43 years old, and contrary to what anybody might think, ② Microsoft’s(continued) success is anything but assured . I’ve got a full-time job there, and how well I do that, I and all the other people in the company, how well we do our job will determine the value of the part ownership of Microsoft I have. And as I get older, I might get to put more time into this. Melinda and my dad, of course, get to put quite a bit of time into it. NEWSWEEK: Some people might think this is really an effort to improve your image, which has taken some hits at the antitrust trial. GATES: We’ve been giving gifts for quite some time, and we’ll keep giving gifts, and we do that because we think is can have some positive impact. If I was going to pause and not give until Microsoft was noncontroversial , you know, a lot of kids would go without vaccines for a lot of time. 名人名言 Define success. ③ Make it clear to your employees what constitutes success and how they should measure their achievements. Goals must be realistic. Project schedule, for example, must be set by the people who do the work. People will accept a “bottom-up” deadline they helped set. Unachievable goals undermine an organization. Post by algorithm @ 09:18 雨后（张绍涵）

2004-04-06 17:12 乌云来了　星星走了 尽管我是多么舍不得 没有什么是停止的 曾经热络　再失去联络 告别就是成长的　第一课 一个人等雨后的彩虹 又像洒脱又寂寞　不确定喜欢自由 一个人熬过像苏醒了 淋过雨滴的心头　有种子又发芽了 冬天来了　秋天走了 思念不在风吹时飘了 能够死心是种解脱 犹豫不决　去留都折磨 放弃才是坚强的　第一课 Repeat 这种子　让心暖和 Post by algorithm @ 17:12 怎样 （戴佩妮）

2004-04-06 15:49 歌词名称 ： 怎样 我这里天快要黑了　那里呢 我这里天气凉凉的　那里呢 我这里一切都变了　我变的懂事了 我又开始写日记了　而那你呢 我这里天快要亮了　那里呢 我这里天气很炎热　那里呢 我这里一切都变了　我变的不哭了 我把照片也收起了　而那你呢 如果我们现在还在一起会是怎样 我们是不是还是深爱著对方 像开始时那样　握著手就算天快亮 我们现在还在一起会是怎样 我们是不是还是隐瞒著对方 像结束时那样　明知道你没有错 还硬要我原谅 我不会原谅　我怎么原谅 Post by algorithm @ 15:49 credit card

2004-04-06 09:46 One hundred and thirteen million Americans have at least one bank-issued credit card. They give their owners automatic credit in stores, restaurants, and hotels, at home, across the country, and even abroad , and they make many banking services available as well. More and more of these credit cards can be read automatically, making it possible to withdraw or deposit money in scattered locations , whether or not the local branch bank is open. For many of us the “cashless society” is not on the horizon --- it’s already here. While computers offer these conveniences to consumers, they have many advantages for sellers too. ① Electronic cash registers can do much more than simply ring up sales. They can keep a wide range of records, including who sold what, when, and to whom. This information allows businessmen to keep track of their list of goods by showing which items are being sold and how fast they are moving. Decisions to reorder or return goods to suppliers can then be made. At the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employees are the most efficient , allowing personnel and staffing assignments to be made accordingly. ② And they also identify preferred customers for promotional campaigns. Computers are relied on by manufactures for similar reasons. Computer-analyzed marketing reports can help to decide which products to emphasize now, which to develop for the future, and which to drop. ③ Computers keep track of goods in stock, of raw materials on hand, and even of the production process itself. Numerous other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more efficient services to consumers through the use of computers. 名人名言 Living without an aim is like sailing without a compass. Life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels. Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone. Chiefly the mould of a man’s fortune is in his own hands. You must reap what you have sown. Life is an encyclopedia. Post by algorithm @ 09:46 Information is Power

2004-04-06 09:43 In such a changing, complex society formerly simple solutions to informational needs become complicated. Many of life’s problems which were solved by asking family members, friends or colleagues are beyond the capability of the extended family to resolve. Where to turn for expert information and how to determine which expert advice to accept are questions facing many people today. ① In addition to this, there is the growing mobility of people since World War II . As families move away from their stable community , their friends of many years, their extended family relationships , the informal flow of information is cut off, and with it the confidence that information will be available when needed and will be trustworthy and reliable. The almost unconscious flow of information about the simplest aspects of living can be cut off. Thus things once learned subconsciously through the casua l communications of the extended family must be consciously learned. ② Adding to social changes today is an enormous stockpile of information. The individual now has more information available than any generation, and the task of finding that one piece of information relevant to his or her specific problem is complicated, time-consuming and sometimes even overwhelming . ③ Coupled with the growing quantity of information is the development of technologies which enable the storage and delivery of more information with greater speed to more locations than has ever been possible before. Computer technology makes it possible to store vast amounts of data in machinereadable files, and to program computer to locate specific information. Telecommunications developments enable the sending of messages via television, radio, and very shortly, electronic mail to bombard people with multitudes of messages. Satellites have extended the power of communications to report events at the instant of occurrence. Expertise can be shared worldwide through teleconferencing, and problems in dispute can be settled without the participants leaving their homes and/or jobs to travel to a distant conference site. Technology has facilitated the sharing of information and the storage and delivery of information, thus making more information available to more people. ④ In this world of change and complexity, the need for information is of greatest importance. Those people who have accurate, reliable up-to-date information to solve the day-to-day problems, the critical problems of their business, social and family life, will survive and succeed. “Knowledge is power” may well be the truest saying and access to information may be the most critical requirement of all people. Post by algorithm @ 09:43 Research Careers in Europe

2004-04-05 17:52 European nations have started to unify the nature of scientific training and research careers throughout the continent. The result: improved opportunities for young scientists who are willing to travel. When he wrote about “the sense of multiplicity in uniformity,” philosopher George Santayana had in mind the beauty of nature. But his phrase applies equally to the goal of a burgeoning movement in European science. “We need a common framework of rules and principles while at the same time allowing universities to be autonomous,” says Eric Froment, president of the European University Association. “It’s really difficult to find the right balance.” The concept of harmonization may be controversial in several aspects of the European Union’s activities, but scientists stand to benefit from a uniformity of practice among EU members and other European nations. The past five years have seen a variety of moves intended to ensure common forms of training for young European scientists while allowing the cultural differences within scientific teams that can improve the creativity of research efforts. Initiatives such as the Bologna process, which aims to unify degrees throughout the continent, as well as international collaborations among research institutions and universities aim to give Europe a stronger profile in the world of life science. At the same time they promise to equip Europe’s young scientists with the skills and training necessary to ensure better career opportunities in their own continent and throughout the world. Not surprisingly, the initiatives have encountered some controversy. The idea of changing the nature of scientific training and research career tracks has struck a particularly off-key chord in France. “This is a very hot subject here,” says Christian Bréchot, general director of the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (Inserm), the country’s institute for health and medical research. “We had about a month of protests by scientists a year ago. But now many scientists are coming to the idea that they have to evolve. The community accepts the idea of change.” Post by algorithm @ 17:52 creative people

2004-04-05 12:58 When we think of creative people ,the names that probably spring to mind are those of men such as Leonardo da vinci,i.e.great artists, inventors and scientists a selected and exceptionally gifted body of men with rare talent and genius. The tendency to regard creativity and imaginative thinking as the exclusive of a lucky few disregards the creative and imaginative aspects inherent in the solution of many of the tasks we regularly have to face---the discovery and development of new methods and techniques, the improvement of old methods, existing inventions and products. Everyone has creative ability to some extent. Creative thinking involves posing oneself a problem and then originating or inventing a solution along new and unconventional lines. It involves drawing new analogies, discovering new combinations, and/ or new applications of things that are already known. It follows , then ,that a creative person will exhibit great intellectual curiosity and imagination. He will be alert and observant with a great store of information which he will be able to sort out and combine, in the solution of problems, he will be emotionally receptive to new and unconventional ideas and will be less interested in facts than in their in implications. most important of all, he will be able to communicate uninhibitedly and will not be too concerned about other people’s reaction to his apparently ‘crazy’ notions. People called the Wright brothers mad but it did not stop them from becoming the first men to construct and fly a heavier---than---air craft Post by algorithm @ 12:58 Netiquette (2)

2004-04-05 09:42 Rule 3: Respect other people’s time and bandwidth . People today seem to have less time than ever before. When you send email or post to a discussion group, you’re taking up other people’s time (or hoping to). It’s your responsibility to ensure that the time they spend reading your posting isn’t wasted. The word “bandwidth” is sometimes used synonymously with time, but it’s really a different thing. Bandwidth is the information-carrying capacity of the wires and channels that connect everyone in cyberspace. There’s a limit to the amount of data that any piece of wiring can carry at any given moment---even a up-to-date fiber-optic cable . The word “bandwidth” is also sometimes used to refer to the storage capacity of a host system. Rule 4: You not the center of cyberspace. ① Presumably , this reminder will be superfluous to most readers. But I include it anyway, because when you’re working hard on a project and deeply involved in it, it’s easy to forget that other people have concerns other than yours. So don’t expect instant responses to all your questions, and don’t assume that all readers will agree with --- or care about ---your passionate arguments. Rule 5: Make yourself look good online. ② I don’t want to give the impression that the net is a cold, cruel place full of people who just can’t wait to insult each other. Networks---particularly discussion groups----let you reach out to people you’d otherwise never meet. You won’t be judged by the color of your skin, eyes, or hair, your weight, your age, or your clothing. You will, however, be judged by the quality of your writing. For most people who choose to communicate online, this is an advantage ; if they didn’t enjoy using the written word, they wouldn’t be there. So spelling and grammar do count. Rule 6: Share expert knowledge. Finally, after all that negativity , some positive advice. The strength of cyberspace is in its numbers. The reason asking questions online works is that a lot of knowledgeable people are reading the questions. And if even few of them offer intelligent answers, the sum total of world knowledge increases. The Internet itself was founded and grew because scientists wanted to share information. Gradually , the rest of us got in on the act. It’s especially polite to share the results of your questions with others. When you anticipate that you’ll get a lot of answers to a question, when you post a question to a discussion group that you don’t visit often, it’s customary to request replies by email instead of to the group. When you get all those responses, write up a summary and post it to the discussion group. That way, everyone benefits from the experts who took the time to write to you. Post by algorithm @ 09:42 Netiquette

2004-04-05 09:40 What is Netiquette ? Simply stated, it’s network etiquette----that is ,the etiquette of cyberspace . And “etiquette” means “the forms required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be required in social or official life.” In other words, Netiquette is a set of rules for behaving properly online. ① When you enter any new culture you’re liable to commit a few social blunders . You might offend people without meaning to. To make matters worse, something about cyberspace makes it easy to forget that you’re interacting with other real people ---- not just ASCII characters on a screen, but live human characters. The list of core rules below, and the explanations that follow, are offered here as a set of general guidelines for cyberspace behavior. They won’t answer all your Netiquette questions. But they should give you some basic principles to use in solving your own Netiquette dilemmas . Rule 1: Remember the human. When you communicate electronically, all you see is a computer screen. You don’t have the opportunity to use facial expressions, gestures , and tone of voice to communicate your meaning ;words-----lonely written words-----are all you’ve got. And that goes for your correspondent as well. It’s ironic , really. ② Computer networks bring people together who’d otherwise never meet. But the impersonality of the medium changes that meeting to something less well, less personal. Humans exchanging email often behave the way some people behind the wheel of a car do : they curse at other drivers, make obscene gestures, and generally behave like savages . The message of Netiquette is that it’s not acceptable. Yes, use your network connections to express yourself freely, explore strange new worlds, and boldly go where you’ve never gone before. But remember the Prime Directive of Netiquette: Those are real people out there. Rule 2: Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life. Guy Kawasaki tells a story about getting email from some fellow he’s never met. Online, this fellow tells Guy that he’s a bad writer with nothing interesting to say Unbelievably rude? Yes, but unfortunately, it happens all the time in cyberspace. Maybe it’s the awesome power of being able to send mail directly to a well-known writer like Guy. Maybe it’s the fact that you can’t see his face crumple in misery as he reads your crude words, whatever the reason, it’s incredibly common. Guy proposes a useful test for anything you’re about to post or mail: Ask yourself, “Would I say this to the person’s face?” If the answer is no, rewrite and reread. ③ Repeat the process till feel sure that you’d feel as comfortable saying these words to the live person as you do sending them through cyberspace. Post by algorithm @ 09:40 How to See a Person’s Growth

2004-04-04 10:59 There are two basic ways to see growth: one as a product, the other as a process. People have generally viewed personal growth as an external result or product that can easily be identified and measured. The worker who gets a promotion , the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language --- all these are examples of people who have measurable results to show for their efforts. ① By contrast , the process of personal growth is much more difficult to determine, since by definition it is a journey and not the specific signposts or landmarks along the way. The process is not the road itself, but rather the attitudes and feelings people have, their caution or courage, as they encounter new experiences and unexpected obstacles . In this process, the journey never really ends; there are always new ways to experience the world, new ideas to try, new challenges to accept. In order to grow, to travel new roads, people need to have a willingness to take a risks , to confront the unknown ,and to accept the possibility that they may “fail” at first. How we see ourselves as we try a new way of being is essential to our ability to grow. Do we perceive ourselves as quick and curious? If so, then we tend to take more changes and to be more open to unfamiliar experiences. Do we think we’re shy and indecisive? Then our sense of timidity can cause us to hesitate, to move slowly, and not to take a step until we know the ground is safe. Do we think we’re slow to adapt to change or that we’re not smart enough to cope with a new challenge? Then we are likely to take a more passive role or not try at all. These feelings of insecurity and self-doubt are both unavoidable and necessary if we are to change and grow. If we do not confront and overcome these internal fears and doubts, if we protect ourselves too much, then we cease to grow. We become trapped inside a shell of our own making. 名人名言 ② Education in any society is a mirror of that society. In that mirror we can see the strengths, the weaknesses, the hopes, the prejudices , and the central values of the culture itself. The great interest in exceptional children shown in public education over the past three decades indicates the strong feeling in our society that all citizens, whatever their special conditions, deserve the opportunity to fully develop their capabilities. Exceptional children are different in some significant way from others of the same age. ③ For these children to develop to their full adult potential , their education must be adapted to those difference. Post by algorithm @ 10:59 American Economic System

2004-04-04 10:52 The American economic system is organized around a basically private- enterprise, market- oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most. Private businessmen, striving to make profits , produce these goods and services in competition other businessmen; and the profit motive, operating under competitive pressures, largely determines how these goods and services are produced. Thus , in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it. ① An important factor in a market-oriented economy is the mechanism by which consumer demands can be expressed and responded to by producers. In the American economy, this mechanism is provided by a price system, a process in which prices rise and fall in response to relative demands of consumers and supplies offered by seller-producers. If the product is in short supply relative to demand, the price will be bid up and some consumers will be eliminated from the market. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. Thus, price is the regulating mechanism in the American economic system. The important factor in a private-enterprise economy is that individuals are allowed to own productive resources(private property ), and they are permitted to hire labor, gain control over natural resources, and produce goods and services for sale at a profit. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual. 名人名言： ② The newspaper must provide for the reader the facts, objectively selected facts. But in these days of complex news it must provide more; it must supply interpretation , the meaning of the facts. This is the most important signment confronting journalism --- to make clear to the reader the problems of the day, to make international news as understandable as community news, to recognize that ③ there is no longer any such thing as “local” news, because any event in the international arena has a local reaction. Post by algorithm @ 10:52 El Nino

2004-04-03 10:14 El Nino is the term used for the period when sea surface temperatures are above normal off the South American coast along the equatorial Pacific, sometimes called the Earth’s heartbeat, and is a dramatic but mysterious climate system that periodically rages across the Pacific. El Nino means “the little boy” or “the Christ child” in Spanish, and is so called because its warm current is felt along coastal Peru and Ecuador around Christmas . ① But the local warming is just part of an intricate set of changes in the ocean and atmosphere across the tropical Pacific, which covers a third of the Earth’s circumference .. Its intensity is such that it affects temperatures, storm tracks and rainfall around the world. Droughts in Africa and Australia tropical storms in the Pacific, torrential rains along the Californian coast and the Peruvian deserts have all been ascribed to the whim of El Nino. ② This at least is the theory, and it has worked pretty well over the past century, with El Nino occurring about every three to five years and La Nina in between. But there have been some baffling developments in recent years. For one thing, El Nino has returned three times in the past four years. For another, since 1976 El Nino has dominated relative to the cooler phase (La Nina). There has been only one significant La Nina, but five El Ninos, including an extremely severe one in 1982-83 that caused damage costing 8 billion dollars. Moreover a huge pool of warm water has settled down near the dateline in the central Pacific. Yet it is important to understand the changes if scientists are to be able to forecast the climatic effects of El Ninos with any degree of accuracy . This is not just an academic task― accurate forecasts can spell out feast or famine in many tropical countries around the world. Forecasting efforts have focused on El Nino, whose effects are generally more severe than those of La Nina. A worrying possibility is that the changes maybe due to greenhouse warming. If so, the recent fluctuations may be an early glimpse of worse things to come. 名人名言： The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man may answer in a year. If things were to be done twice, all would to wise. Post by algorithm @ 10:14 Hackers: The Enemy on the Internet

2004-04-03 10:08 Until comparatively recently the opportunities for criminal activity on the Internet have been low. However, the volume of business done on the Internet is growing rapidly, ad people order books and other products and make money transactions. All this is creating temptations for hackers. Hackers are often young people who are obsessed by computers. They use them to prowl the Internet, looking for ways to break into computer systems run by banks, telephone companies and even government department. They look for samples of credit cards and try to steal the numbers. Recently in America, hackers have been caught testing the security system at the Pentagon, headquarters of the American Defense Department. But still the hackers persist often for a dare “because it’s there” although with what success nobody really knows. ① Estimates for worldwide sales on the Internet now range between $US 40 billion and $US 90 billion by the end of the year 2000. Much of this is in publishing and software purchases, which require the disclosure of credit card numbers, but there is really no limit to what can be conducted on the Internet. “You just don’t give your credit card out to anybody,” experts say. “And in the same way that you should regularly change your credit card access number, you can defeat hackers by regularly changing your Internet password. If you don’t ,it’s like leaving the bank vault door wide open.” When it comes to creating your password, experts recommend including a few punctuation marks and numbers rather than relying on letters in the alphabet. Telecom media communications manager Gien Sowry says that when it comes to security of credit cards, the Internet offers a higher standard than many others whose honesty is taken for granted. For example, few people think twice about giving a credit card number over the phone and many are equally careless about what happens to the carbon copy when completing a transaction over the counter. Some customers may inadvertently reveal their passwords to hackers via what is known as a Trojan horse form of virus . ② These are attached to documents or messages being received, and lodge in a computer’s hard drive. Next time the customer logs on to an Internet service provider the virus reveals where it is and the password to anyone who is prowling the Net looking for such information. They can then tap in. The two ways to defeat such snooping are: 1) to have an up-to-date virus scanner which can recognise the invader and delete it, and 2) constant password changes. 名人名言： Glass, porcelain and reputation are easily cracked and never well mended. -----------Franklin Post by algorithm @ 10:08 Career for B.S. and M.S. Scientist

2004-04-02 19:56 I ndividuals with B.S. and M.S. degrees in life science, chemistry, or related fields provide the backbone for much of the work in the R&D labs of pharmaceutical firms, biotechnology companies, and chemical suppliers. Those same scientists also have opportunities for satisfying careers outside the laboratory. Jobs in clinical trials, regulatory affairs, sales and marketing, technical assistance, and other fields beckon individuals with non-Ph.D. degrees who want to use their scientific knowledge but don't want to stay at the bench. The proportion of research sector jobs available to non-Ph.D. scientists has fallen steadily as the number of alternative career paths has increased. Those alternatives promise particular benefits for degree holders who want to remain in science without staying in the lab. Holders of science degrees can also move beyond scientific companies if they wish. Consulting firms and financial organizations such as investment banks now recruit scientists who can apply their investigative and problem-solving skills to areas such as management consulting and evaluation of firms that plan to go public. A particular piece of good news is the fact that the financial downturn has had little impact, if any, on jobs in life science. The downsizing experienced by the dot-com and information technology sectors has yet to show up in biology and medicine. Few observers expect that situation to change. Indeed, as approaches to drug discovery based on genome sequencing start to bear fruit, demand will increase for scientists at the Bachelor's and Master's levels to join teams involved in clinical trials, regulatory affairs, and sales and service. Identifying the right area of opportunity doesn't come easily. Academic career advisers, corporate managers of human resources, and scientists in charge of industrial laboratories all advise students to think about their career choices early in their undergraduate days. As a guide to the possibilities try reading Alternative Careers in Science : Leaving the Ivory Tower , edited by Cynthia Robbins- Roth (Academic Press, 1993). Students should also start to obtain as soon as possible experience that will serve them in a variety of career options. A student trying to decide what type of career she or he wants should realize that no choice is cast in stone. Just as technology changes at a rapid pace, so do job options. Today's researcher may well become tomorrow's sales representative. Nor does a job after receiving a B.S. or M.S. degree put a Ph.D. out of range. Students can always return to college to obtain higher degrees, sometimes at the expense of their employers. Students should continually polish up the basic qualities essential for any career. Those include communication skills ― in writing, speaking in person and on the phone, and presentation ― and collegiality, a significant factor in a multidisciplinary era. Research experience in undergraduate projects or industrial internships can help to kick-start scientific careers even outside the research laboratory. Don't be afraid to volunteer for projects and to network with academic advisers, college career advisers, recent alumni, and individuals who can act as mentors in the outside world. As the time for a job search comes closer, students should take a proactive approach. They should do as much detective work as possible on companies and other institutions that interest them as possible job sources. That means checking through web sites, talking to corporate representatives at local career fairs, and even requesting visits to the target firms for informational interviews that will tell the student more about the company and vice versa. When job interviews finally arrive, students should go into them with confidence born in the knowledge that they have prepared as thoroughly as possible. They should show their enthusiasm for science and for the company they wish to join. And they should do what comes naturally to most sales people: sell themselves and their abilities. Here we discuss opportunities for holders of B.S. and M.S. degrees with industrial scientists, specialists in human resources, college career counselors, and professional recruiters. They provide insiders' advice on the types of opportunities available and the best ways to prepare to take advantage of them. Post by algorithm @ 19:56 A Ph.D. Is Not Enough

2004-04-02 17:50 A Ph.D. Is Not Enough: A Guide to Survival in Science by Authors: Peter J. Feibelman Released: January, 1994 ISBN: 0201626632 Paperback price: $11.55 Very informative book This short book gives a lot of advices that should be carefully considered for all budding scientists. Of course, if you are a tenured university professor, this might not be the book for you -- but it might be valuable to your students. My current academic status is a graduate student in biophysics. I am a weighing my options of either going to industry or academia after graduation. This book has given me a lot of worthwhile suggestions. There are certainly some factors that I havent even considered until I read this book. The book also taught me a lot of survival skills that I should start practicing. I believe that a lot of my peers are going through graduate school with ignorance on skills that are not directly related to physics, such as presentation skills, publishing and writing skills, and communication skills. These are probably more important in finding a secure job than a high IQ brain. One of the main goal of this book is to help us consider the ingredients needed for a secure and stable scientific career. I believe this will save some of us a lot of headaches in the future. For negatives, I believe that the author tries to assume that we (the audience) are all high caliber students and postdocs. I definitely dont consider myself someone who will make any major contribution to science, or being capable of publishing 1 paper every year or so. I dont know if I can even produce 1 publication within my entire graduate career. Furthermore, I really wish there were more in-depth discussion on finding the right mentor in the academic and industrial world. Despite the cons, I still think this book should be read by all serious researchers. A Big Little Book This book should be standard issue to graduate students (and any PhD who did not get it graduate school). Its a reminder that sheer brain power alone is not sufficient to be a successful scientist. Its also important to have a research plan and be able to articulate that plan. Indeed, the central theme of the book is the importance of communication at levels of a science career (talks, papers, grants, interviews, etc.). His guidelines for paper writing and giving talks are especially fine. Feibelman is a solid state physicist, but nearly everything he says was equally applicable to my field (astronomy). I didnt give this excellent book five stars because it is such a short book, and short on concrete detail and example. If youre serious about the issues discussed in the book, youll want to pick up one or more related books out there (which often cite this one positively, by the way). Dont skip this one, though. You can read it in a hour or two every few years as a reminder/checklist about what you should be doing. Excellent book This is a great book for absolutely anyone working on his/her PhD or looking for career advice at the end of their PhD. In fact, it will be a great help even to those who are long finished with their PhDs especially if they are currently advising their own students. The writing style is very friendly and straightforward, as if the author is talking to you, sitting across from you. More importantly, the advise is very practical and comes from someone who has a lot of experience in academia Post by algorithm @ 17:50 Mad Cows Fears

2004-04-02 15:30 ① The Unite States on Friday followed Canada’s lead in temporarily suspending imports of Brazilian beef, gelatins and other processed beef products as a precaution against mad cow disease. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said although there was no evidence of mad cow disease in Brazil, it was concerned that certain Brazilian beef products may have come into contact with beef from Europe, which has been hit with an outbreak of the brain-wasting disease. “This decision is a temporary action,” USDA said in a statement .Further action would be taken if needed to keep the disease out of the United States, which has never had a case. Mad cow disease is believed to have spread from Britain to other countries when the bones and other remains of diseased cattle were ground up for use in livestock feed. Nearly 90 people in Britain, France and Ireland have died from mad cow disease. Canada is the leading exporter of beef to the U.S., with 345,069 tons shipped in 1999, according to the USDA. Brazil shipped 50,376 tons of beef to the U.S. in 1999, up from 33,534 tons in 1998. Brazil’s ministry said canned beef exports to the United States were worth around $82.5 million per year while sales to Canada were about $5.5million. Earlier Friday, Canada became the first NAFTA country to announce it was banning Brazilian beef products after receiving information that Brazil had imported live animals from Europe until 1999. Ottawa said it was suspending all imports of Brazilian canned beef and would pull the products from grocery store shelves. Mexico, the other U.S. trade partner under the North American Free Trade Agreement, said it expected to issue its own ban on Brazilian beef products. An angry Brazil criticized Canada for overreacting and initiating a ban that would force similar action by NAFTA partners. “Brazil.’s beef is absolutely safe, and there is no mad cow in Brazil.” Said Marcio Fortest, executive secretary of the agricultural ministry. ② Brazil home to the world’s largest herd of cattle, is locked in a bitter trade battle with Canada. The USDA said it was working with Brazilian agriculture officials to complete a mad cow risk assessment in Brazil as quickly as possible. “Once this data has been received and USDA is assured that Brazil has taken sound measures to prevent mad cow disease, the suspension will be lifted.” the USDA said. 名人名言： There is no royal road to science , and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. -----------------Marx Post by algorithm @ 15:30 Web Business

2004-04-02 14:18 In the year or so of Web business, most of the action has revolved around efforts to tap the consumer market. More recently, as the Web proved to be more than a fashion, companies have started to buy and sell products and services with one another .Such business-to-business sales make sense because business people typically know what product they’re looking for. ① Nonetheless , many companies still hesitate to use the Web because of doubts about its reliability . ” Businesses need to feel they can trust the pathway between them and the supplier,”says senior analyst Blane Erwin of Forrester Research .Some companies are limiting the risk by conducting online transactions only with established business partners who are given access to the company’s private internet ② Anther major shift in the model for internet commerce concerns the technology available for marketing. Until recently, Internet marketing activities have focused on strategies to “pull” customers into sites. In the past year, however, software companies have developed tools that allow companies to”push”information directly out to consumers, transmitting marketing messages directly targeted customers. Most notably, the Pointcast Network uses a screen saver to deliver a continually updated stream of news and advertisements to subscribers’ computer monitors. Subscribers can customize the information they want to receive and proceed directly to a company’s Web site. Companies such as Virtual Vineyards are already starting to use similar technologies to push messages to customers about special sales, product offerings, or other events. But push technology has earned the contempt of many Web users. Online culture thinks highly of the notion that the information flowing onto the screen comes there by specific request. Once commercial promotion begins to fill the screen uninvited, the distinction between the Web and television fades. That’s a prospect that horrifies Net purists. ③ But it is hardly inevitable that companies on the Web will need to resort to push strategies to make money. The examples of Virtual Vineyards,Amazon.com,and other pioneer show that a Web site selling the right kind of products with the right mix of ineractivity,hospitality ,and security will attract online customers. And the cost of computing power continues to free fall, which is a good sign for any enterprise setting up shop in silicon . People looking back 5 or 10 years from now many well wonder why so few companies took the online plunge . 名人名言： Nature is conquered by obeying her. Nature never deceives us, it is always us who deceive ourselves. ------Rousseau Post by algorithm @ 14:18 总有这种感动

2004-04-01 11:36 我需要的很简单 一碗饭 一杯水 一句我爱你 我只希望饭是你做的 水是你倒的 我爱你是你亲口对我说的！ Post by algorithm @ 11:36 人生充满变数

2004-03-27 13:17 孤单的时候喜欢独处，开心的时候便喜欢热闹。 Post by algorithm @ 13:17 朋友

2004-03-30 11:31 有幸交了一些好的朋友，有些是终生受益的。男生或者女生，时常让人觉得这一生中拥有这样的朋友是多么的难能可贵。回想起朋友，有个儿时的朋友，一直都同甘共苦。大学的朋友大都没有多大联系了，只有同宿舍的，大家一起住宿，一起生活了四年，什么方面交情都很好，有个很好的朋友考上了飞行员，去了美国，要一年多才回来。还有一个很要好的女生朋友老鞠，老鞠其实并不老，是个大姐式的女生，总能给我一些好的建议。工作之后，朋友也多了，大都是高素质的，至少在学历或者智商方面。我在与他们同行中受益。有些人可能不是那种很好的朋友，但是对你的人生也提供了很多的帮助，因为反面的刺激能更好的帮助我们成长。还有一类不仅是朋友，是恋人，也能帮助我们更深刻的体会生活，了解这个缤纷的世界；无论是一个什么样的恋人，都能从中学点东西。 我感谢现在的朋友的圈子，很好。感谢所有认识鼓励和帮助过我的朋友。 Post by algorithm @ 11:31 Dynamic Programming

2004-03-26 18:08 Dynamic Programming refers to a very large class of algorithms. The idea is to break a large problem down (if possible) into incremental steps so that, at any given stage, optimal solutions are known to sub-problems . When the technique is applicable, this condition can be extended incrementally without having to alter previously computed optimal solutions to subproblems. Eventually the condition applies to all of the data and, if the formulation is correct, this together with the fact that nothing remains untreated gives the desired answer to the complete problem. Post by algorithm @ 18:08 First Long Novel

2004-03-26 18:04 I will write a long novel in this year... It will be shown in this blog... For sb want to create a teleplay from the novel God bless me Post by algorithm @ 18:04 篮球比赛

2004-03-21 14:16 在老地方和科学院自动化所 打了一场篮球比赛，可惜我们输了，对手果然实力比较强 Post by algorithm @ 14:16 A draft of these two years In my career

2004-03-26 10:49 A draft of these two years In my career When I graduated from the university, I got my first job. I went to Beijing Genomics Institute. In my college life, my major is fermentation but now my work is bioinformatics. In this field, I worked for nearly two years. In the beginning of my scientific career, I joined a very young group. I took part in some big genome projects, The Rice Genome Finishing Project, The Silkworm Genome Project and The chicken Project, also, I've done some other works, for example, do SAGE analysis in Dynamic Genome Platform and setup the analysis flow. In the rice project, I've done some works: use Bacends and genetic markers to map the assembly scaffold to the rice chromosome; use full-length-cDNA to calculate the 9311,RGP and syngenta's genome coverage; draw some figures such as geneIsland etc. In working of the Serial Analysis of Gene Expression (SAGE), I designed many flow, and use Perl to accomplish the data analysis. Also, use this flow to do the rice sage analysis. In 2003,I join the silkworm genome project. Many fields I've done in this project, include repeats, syntenic-group, RNA gene，PesudoGene，regulator，GO-Tree for web genome annotation, compare-genome analysis between fly and mosquito . It is very helpful to me when I did this project, for I used some new tools, new methods. In the spring of 2004, I'm as an assistant to do the Chicken project, do some SNP analysis of different chickens. It is a very trivial and subtle work that we do this work carefully because our data will be published in the ftp site, provide the information to the world and the researchers will download our data from the website. This is the simple draft of my work in bioinformatics in these two years. It is hardship but it is very meaningful. Science work is very difficult, but I like to do. I think I am in progress attended by our very young scientific group. Post by algorithm @ 10:49 终于开通了

2004-03-26 10:38 期盼了这么久，开通了，真好。希望以后不要再次出现被关的情况。 Post by algorithm @ 10:38 打球

2004-03-07 13:49 在老地方和军事医学科学院的一帮同行打了一场篮球赛。去了西单，没有看到喜欢的手机，如果可以选的话就把现在用的卖了。因为现在开始喜欢简单，直接，朴实。 Post by algorithm @ 13:49 听音乐的习惯

2004-03-10 13:42 习惯于反复的听一首歌，想把一首歌听懂，听懂这首歌到底在讲些什么，反复的听，直到有个时候发觉已经可以明白内心的感动。喜欢深夜里关了灯，打开电脑，戴上耳机，把声音开很大，细细的听跳动的音符带来的感动。这个时候，心情平静，没有杂念，没有烦恼就会感觉还有点像个孩子，可以很幸福的睡觉。 同一首歌曲，不同的人唱，是能够唱出不同的韵味。细细的品一首歌，你也会法觉歌者不同的情感。前一阵子一直在听"世界末日". 想笑 来伪装掉下的眼泪 点点头 承认自己会怕黑 我只求 能借一点的时间来陪 你却连同情都不给 想哭 来试探自己麻痹了没 全世界 好象只有我疲惫 无所谓 反正难过就敷衍走一回 但愿绝望和无奈远走高飞 天灰灰 会不会 让我忘了你是谁 夜越黑 梦违背 难追难回味 我的世界将被摧毁 也许事与愿违 累不累 睡不睡 单影无人相依偎 夜越黑 梦违背 有谁肯安慰 我的世界将被摧毁 或许颓废也是另一种美 天灰灰 会不会 让我入睡 夜越黑 梦违背 有谁安慰 Post by algorithm @ 13:42 毕业工作的两年

2004-03-09 21:18 时间过得好快，算起来工作快两年了。客观的讲，也算是过得很有意义。虽然苦和累。水稻项目，家蚕项目和鸡多态性项目。期间还有sars的一些工作。 Post by algorithm @ 21:18 一次报告会的震撼

2004-03-04 21:56 下午的时候,国家登山队队长等来到我们单位,给我们讲述了登山的故事和他攀登七大洲最高山峰的照片.还有其他一些名人,比如王秋杨(今典集团),王石(万科物业),张朝阳(搜狐),还有好几个都是投资公司的.整个就是一个 "富人俱乐部".又一次让我们见识了中国所谓上流社会人的生活方式. 关于王秋杨： http://ent.sina.com.cn/s/2003-10-20/1622217809.html http://www.yangtse.com/gb/content/2003-08/19/content_137751.htm 关于王勇峰： http://www.china.org.cn/chinese/zhuanti/jnzf/335705.htm http://www.greencamping.com/wangyongfeng/wyf.htm 王石与登山： http://economy.enorth.com.cn/system/2003/05/31/000570948.shtml 张朝阳与登山： http://it.sohu.com/59/83/article209648359.shtml http://www.tobaccochina.com/manage/manage_content.aspx?id=1003 关于华大基因： http://www.genomics.org.cn Post by algorithm @ 21:56 近期准备写作的一个目录

2004-03-04 13:27 1.互联网行业的机会 2.考研与读研 3.创业与学习 4.大学时代我和n个女生的流水帐 5.柳下惠这个人 最近想写的这个条目,陆续推出中 Post by algorithm @ 13:27 冷冷的月光

2004-03-03 15:34 昨天晚上回家的时候,天很冷,风也很大,月光幽幽的,冷冷的,是惨白的月光,让人心寒,整个世界都很凄凉.我一个人在急着赶路,在过红绿灯的时候,一辆大货车呼啸而过,全然不管红灯的警示.当时我在想,如果这个时候发生车祸了,一定是冷冷的,血肉模糊,身上的热血一定会很快凝固,大脑也一定会很快停止思考.而这一切，都不会影响到冷冷的月光，地球依旧这样转动，而明天，灿烂明媚的阳光一定会按时出现。谁也不会在乎这个世界上曾今存在了这样一个人。而我的母亲，我想一定会为失去亲爱的儿子而伤心很久很久。 但是这个世界上，除了为数不多的几个亲人，还有谁会关心你呢。前几天看HBO的节目，一个人一生只能认识5000个人，而和他有亲密关系，经常接触的通常不超过150人。原来人的圈子只有这么小。无论这个人是名人还是市井之人，在这个数据上都不会差别很多。所以，还是珍惜和你认识的人吧，无论怎么样，他在你的生命中存在过，珍惜自己的生命，同样也珍惜和你相处的人。 Post by algorithm @ 15:34 说两句oscar

2004-03-02 16:33 昨天晚上看了第76的奥斯卡颁奖晚会。发现其英文为The 76th Annual Academy Awards，原来奥斯卡奖也叫学院奖，是由美国电影艺术与科学学院颁发的， http://www.oscar.com/oscarnight/winners/index.html （英文） http://www.chinatranslate.net/world/usa-guide/Entertainment/oscar/backdrop/index.html （中文） 奥斯卡是好看的，因为都是俊男美女，还因为他们善于演戏，善于搞笑。电影是一门艺术，在一个个虚构的故事中，让人有悲有喜，把作家的小说现于银幕，把一个一个的故事展现在观众的前面，让人又多活了一回。 我看的电影多不胜数，比一般人要多，因为从上初中开始，我就开始了经常性的看电影，高中的时候一度入迷，从而导致学业的荒废。一部好的电影，能告诉人们很多道理，给人以力量和鼓励，让人回味一生。而一部坏的电影，却不仅是让人浪费了时间，而且会对其思想进行毒害。 电影有很多种，据我的理解，大致可分为艺术片，故事片，纪录片，色情片。高中的时候，这些类型的片子我都看，曾今一度沉迷于香港的色情片，像邱淑贞，叶玉卿，陈宝莲，李丽珍，舒淇等一代艳星的片子在那时几乎都看过，大学的时候看过A片。当然我看的电影太杂了，五花八门，有好的有坏的，不懂得挑选。 现在看来，看电影就得要取其精华，弃其糟粕。学会用自己的眼睛去判断看到的一切。现在偶尔也看看色情片，但已经极少了。因为毕竟多了一份判断，也就习以为常了。再也不是‘狼来了’，不会刻意去排斥了。更多的时候喜欢去看一些外文的片子，没有中文字幕原声的电影。这样也可以练练听力，渐渐的也就快适应了。上次我们这里的老板做一个讲科研写作的报告，还说“要多看oscar电影，一是可以锻炼听力，二是熟悉国外的风俗习惯，适应外国人的思维方式”。 看样子电影还得坚持看，多看好电影。好在我们这里上网方便，有什么新出的电影都能够及时得到。 Post by algorithm @ 16:33 关于03年的碎片

2004-03-01 12:44 2002年夏天毕业，我来到北京，开始了自己的职业生涯，2003年，日子过得断断续续的，不连贯，很琐碎，很烦心，悲喜参半，有点梦想，有点现实。这期间，写过不少心情日记，把它贴出来，取名为：03年碎片。这个blog真正意义上的日记是从2月28号开始的。诞生的日子是2月9日。不管怎么样，03年已经过去，做什么事情都得向前看......就像标题说的“ 记录着，我生命中走过的每一段日子，无论怎么样，无论痛苦还是快乐，我们的生活继续着，我庆幸，我还能思考 ”... Post by algorithm @ 12:44 难忘的日子

2004-02-29 22:15 或许算得上是一个难忘的日子，只因为一场难忘的篮球比赛。下午一点，我们在民航管理干部学院和Sgi中国公司的员工进行了一场比赛。sgi（Silicon Graphics，Inc）是一家美国的计算机公司，在大型服务器领域，图形化处理，存贮器，软件等方面都领先于世界。在我们的眼中，很多方面甚至都已经超过了IBM，SUN等大型的计算机公司。 他们的亚洲区的副总裁出席了这场比赛，甚至还有几个老外，有一个据说是Australia的铁人三项赛的冠军。但是他们的篮球水平实在是太差，我们只能是照顾他们的面子，让着他们，即使这样，他们仍然进不了球，最后我们派出了一名队员（我们头）加入对方阵营。 比赛不算激烈，在很愉快的气氛下进行。双方的老板还进行了一些切磋。很有意思，sgi还带了一些女员工，不时发出欢呼，中场休息的时候，还进行了投篮比分。赛后，大家互相留影作为纪念。 下午回来的时候，去吃了煲饭，在万科新开的一家饮食店，名曰“汤”，颇有南方的特色，甚至有一些菜是典型的湖北味，包括这个煲饭，但却也很不正宗，因为我吃过的煲饭，上面放的菜等，大都是一些切的比较碎的，带有汤的。这样的话，客人才能吃到别有风味的锅巴，和朝鲜的盖浇饭有点类似，但却不同。而且一般要这个饭的，饭店都是免费送汤，因为饭吃起来会有一点硬(有锅巴）。但这里却没有，真是很遗憾。所以要想吃到地道的南方菜，还真得要去南方。这里做得最好的也最有特色的是这里的汤，有各式的，甜的，咸的都有，几乎都是大补的，不算是很贵。下次有机会再尝尝这里的汤. 太累了，回家洗了个澡，准备看《怒海争峰》，04年的新片，导演是澳洲的彼得・威尔，对这个导演我不是很熟悉，等片子看完了，再来个评价... Post by algorithm @ 22:15