When Ellen M. Roche， 24， volunteered for the asthma experiment， she didn’t expect to benefit from it——except for the $365 she’d be paid. Unlike clinical trials， in which most patients hope that an ex...
Scientists have known for more than two decades that cancer is a disease of the genes. Something scrambles the Dna inside a nucleus， and suddenly， instead of dividing in a measured fashion， a cell be...
Dr. Wise Young has never met the hundreds of thousands of people he has helped in the past 10 years， and most of them have never heard of Wise Young. If they did meet him， however， they’d want to shak...
Valeta Young， 81， a retiree from Lodi， Calif.， suffers from congestive heart failure and requires almost constant monitoring. But she doesn’t have to drive anywhere to get it. Twice a day she steps o...
一位科幻小说作家There is no question that science-fiction writers have become more ambitious, stylistically and thematically, in recent years. (46) But this may have less to do with the luring call of academi...
甘地的和平主义Gandhi’s pacifism can be separated to some extent from his other teachings. (46)Its motive was religious, but he claimed also for it that it was a definite technique, a method, capable of produ...
战争Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete.（46）There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destruct...
相对论Relativity theory has had a profound influence on our picture of matter by forcing us to modify our concept of a particle in an essential way. （47）In classical physics, the mass of an object had al...
社会保障The value which society places on work has traditionally been closely associated with the value of individualism and as a result it has had negative effects on the development of social security. ...
艺术的价值Theories of the value of art are of two kinds, which we may call extrinsic and intrinsic. The first regards art and the appreciation of art as means to some recognized moral good, while the secon...