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RSS订阅原创 2019-Text2
Text 2Grade forgiveness allows students to retake a course in which they received a low grade, and the most recent grade or the highest grade is the only one that counts in calculating a student’s overall GPA.The use of this little-known practice has a
2020-11-16 19:30:45
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原创 2015Text4
Text4Two years ago, Rupert Murdoch’s daughter, Elisabeth, spoke of the “unsettling dearth of integrity across so many of our institutions.” Integrity had collapsed, she argued, because of a collective acceptance that the only “sorting mechanism” in so...
2020-11-09 21:42:31
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原创 2015Text1
Text1King Juan Carlos ofSpain once insisted “kings don’t abdicate, they die in their sleep.” But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down. So, does t...
2020-10-23 19:32:16
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原创 2014Text4
Text 4“The Heart of the Matter,” the just-released report by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences(AAAS), deserves praise for affirming the importance of the humanities and social sciences to the prosperity and security of liberal democracy in Ameri.
2020-10-21 21:35:04
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原创 2014Text3
Text 3In the idealized version of how science is done, facts about the world are waiting to be observed and collected by objective researchers who use the scientific method to carry out their work. But in the everyday practice of science, discovery frequ
2020-10-19 21:46:39
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原创 2009Text4
Text 4The most thoroughly studied intellectuals in the history of the new world are the ministers and political leaders of seventeenth-century New England. According to the standard history of American philosophy, nowhere else in colonial America was “so
2020-09-13 08:32:17
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原创 2010Text3
Text 3In his book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell argues that “social epidemics” are driven in large part by the acting of a tiny minority of special individuals, often called influentials, who are unusually informed, persuasive, or well-con...
2020-09-07 21:35:55
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原创 2010Text2
Text 2Over the past decade, thousands of patents have been granted for what are called business methods. Amazon.com received one for its "one-click" online payment system. Merrill Lynch got legal protection for an asset allocation strategy. One inventor.
2020-08-27 14:56:33
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原创 2010Text1
Text 1Of all the changes that have taken place in English-language newspapers during the past quarter-century, perhaps the most far-reaching has been the inexorable decline in the scope and seriousness of their arts coverage.It is difficult to the poin
2020-08-26 15:20:56
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原创 2011PartB
[G] The subtle and intelligent little book The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American Universityshould be read by every student thinking of applying to take a doctoral degree. They may then decide to go elsewhere. For something curiou.
2020-08-23 15:35:43
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原创 2006Text1
Text 1If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006’s World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players are more likely to have been born in the earlier months of the year than in the
2020-08-04 13:56:06
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原创 2003Text4
Text 4It is said that in England death is pressing, in Canada inevitable and in California optional. Small wonder. Americans’ life expectancy has nearly doubled over the past century. Failing hips can be replaced, clinical depression controlled, cataract
2020-07-29 18:10:55
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原创 2011 PartB
[G] The subtle and intelligent little book The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American Universityshould be read by every student thinking of applying to take a doctoral degree. They may then decide to go elsewhere. For something curiou.
2020-07-28 17:26:23
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原创 2003Text2
Text 2 To paraphrase 18th-century statesman Edmund Burke, “all that is needed for the triumph of a misguided cause is that good people do nothing.” One such cause now seeks to end biomedical research because of the theory that animals have rights ruling
2020-07-27 17:38:23
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原创 2002Text3
Text 3Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return? Since 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 scar
2020-07-26 18:01:18
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原创 2009Text1
Text 1Habits are a funny thing. We reach for them mindlessly, setting our brains on auto-pilot and relaxing into the unconscious comfort of familiar routine. “Not choice, but habit rules the unreflecting herd,” William Wordsworth said in the 19th century
2020-07-22 17:48:19
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原创 2007Text4
Text 4It never rains but it pours. Just as bosses and boards have finally sorted out their worst accounting and compliance troubles, and improved their feeble corporation governance, a new problem threatens to earn them—especially in America—the sort of
2020-07-18 17:34:30
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原创 2007Text3
Text 3During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itself financially secure has been transformed by economic risk and new realties. Now a pink slip, a bad diagnosis, or a disappear
2020-07-16 18:36:05
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原创 2007 Text2
Text 2For the past several years, the Sunday newspaper supplementParadehas featured a column called “Ask Marilyn.” People are invited to query Marilyn vos Savant, who at age 10 had tested at a mental level of someone about 23 years old; that gave her a..
2020-07-14 16:30:34
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原创 2007Text1
Text 1If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006’s World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players are more likely to have been born in the earlier months of the year than in the
2020-07-12 17:34:42
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原创 2006 Text3
Text 3When prehistoric man arrived in new parts of the world, something strange happened to the large animals: they suddenly became extinct. Smaller species survived. The large, slow-growing animals were easy game, and were quickly hunted to extinction.
2020-07-10 17:29:34
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原创 2004 Text4
Text 4Americans today don't place a very high value on intellect. Our heroes are athletes, entertainers, and entrepreneurs, not scholars. Even our schools are where we send our children to get a practical education—not to pursue knowledge for the sake.
2020-07-08 17:14:58
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