Fifty years ago parents still asked boys if they wanted to grow up to be president, and asked it not jokingly but seriously. Many parents who were hardly more than paupers still believed their sons co...
I was at my parents’ house ringing the doorbell，praying that dad would answer the door. I was afraid if mom answered that l would give up and tell her instead.
Andrew Reynolds, acheerful fellow in his early 30s, pilots Sydneyferryboats for a living. I spent the whole morning shuttling back and forth acrossthe harbor. After our third run Andrew shut down the...
文士们通过书写来管理伟大的帝国，他们关于记录和检索信息的知识对管理复杂的社会是必不可少的。Scribes administered great empires by writing, their knowledge of recording and retrieving information essenti...
Ever since her childhood, Ginni, now71, has had a deep love for travel. Throughout her career (职业) as a professional dancer, shetoured in the UK, but always longed to explore further. When she retir...
It spread through France, where wild rabbits are not generally regarded as a pest but as sport and a useful food supply, //and it spread to Britain where wild rabbits are regarded as a pest //but wher...
Another interesting thing about kabuki is the exchange between the performers and the audience. Whereas most live theater around the world has a strong division between the two—with spectators quietly...
In humans, babies can put a round shape in a round hole from aroundone year of age, but it will be another year before they are able to do thesame with less symmetrical (对称的) shapes. This ability t...
The most powerfulearthquake in the past 40 years caused a tsunami that crashed into coastlinesacross Asia yesterday, killing more than 6,500 people in Indonesia, India,Thailand, Malaysia, and at least...
The house he built was a spacious one. There was a courtyard in front of the place and two gardens in back, one to provide vegetables, one to delight the eye in the formal Japanese fashion. One of the...