Not long after the telephone was invented, I assume, a call was placed. The caller was a parent saying, Your child is bullying my child, and I want it stopped!” the bully’s parent replied,...
In the late 1980s, Akio Morita, the co-founder of Sony Corp. , embarked on the most costly shopping expedition of his long career. A visionary who believed that Sony’s future lay in the converge...
BBC ‘s Casualty programme on Saturday evening gave viewers a vote as to which of two patients should benefit from a donation. But it failed to tell us that we would not need to make so many life...
Islamic terrorism may be a distant threat for Shearer Lumber Products, a timber company based in Idaho. But eco-terrorism is a very real one. In November, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an undergro...
Talk to any parent of a student who took an adventurous gap year (a year between school and university when some students earn money, travel, etc.) and a misty look will come into their eyes. There ar...
The National Association of Securities Dealers is investigating whether some brokerage houses are inappropriately pushing individuals to borrow large sums on their houses to invest in the stock market...
Modern technology has put men on the moon and deciphered the human genome. But when it comes to brewing up flu to make vaccines, science still turns to the incredible edible egg. Ever since the 1940s,...
考研讲理性，切莫听妖言。老邪一席话，试比各家言。由一道题，引出考研阅读实战的四个要素。依法修为，自可成器。若觉不爽，改投别派可也。考...
阅读理解是考研英语的一个重要部分，这个部分的得分对于考试能否通过起着举足轻重的作用。但是很多同学会有疑问，感觉看得懂的文章做对做错的...
Passage 10The poverty line is the minimum income that people need for an acceptable standard of living. People with incomes below the poverty line are considered poor. Economists study the causes of p...