Research into Population Genetics While not exactly a top selling book, The History and Geography of Human Genes is a remarkable collection of more than 50 years of research in population genetics. It stands as the most extensive survey to date on ho...
The Cunning Smuggler You may suppose that national borders are nothing to get excited about. However, Canada and the United States are very proud of theirs. These two countries share a common border that runs for thousands of kilometers, with not a s...
The Biggest Threat to the Role of Police Officers (The Biggest Threat to the Role of Police Officers) Every summer about a dozen journalists gather at a former army training camp north of London to spend the day watching the traini...
Bribery and Business Ethics (Bribery and Business Ethics) Students taking business courses are sometimes a little surprised to find that classes on business ethics have been included in their schedule. They often do not realize that bribery in variou...
An Indian Arranged Marriage We sat around the dining table, my family and I, full to bursting from yet another home-cooked South Indian dinner. It was my younger brother who asked the question. Shoba, why don't you stay back here in India for a few m...
Roommate Conflicts Identical twins Katie and Sarah Monahan arrived at Pennsylvania's Gettysburg College last year determined to strike out on independent paths. Although the 18-year-old sisters had requested rooms in different dorms, the housing offi...
MP3|Lrc下载文本下载上一课下一课返回列表文章内容Choose to Be Alone on Purpose Here we are, all by ourselves, all 22 million of us by recent count, alone in our rooms, some of us liking it that way and some of us not. Some of us div...
Privacy in the Information Age Imagine a small plastic card that holds all manner of information about you on a tiny memory chip (芯片): your date of birth, Social Security Number, credit and medical histories. And suppose the same card lets you dr...
The Information Superhighway Are you too tired to go to the video store but you want to see the movie Beauty and the Beast at home? Want to listen to your favorite guitar player's latest jazz cassette? Need some new reading material, like a magazine...
The Telecommunications Revolution (The Telecommunications Revolution) A transformation is occurring that should greatly boost living standards in the developing world. Places that until recently were deaf and dumb are rapidly acquiring up-to-date tel...
