Section (C) Easy Ride in a Taxi Taxi travel can be safe anywhere in the world as long as visitors understand the rules, says travelexpert Stacey Ravel Abarbanel. In some cities, it is common for people to approach you and offer youa ride. Often they...
Section(B) The Ride of My Life I climbed into the back-seat of the world's hottest jet fighter, the F-16. Clouds hung over our airbase, but I knew that soon I would be above the clouds, where the sun was shining. A mechanic strapped me into my harnes...
Unit 10 Section (A) The Bermuda Triangle Phenomenon At 2 PM on December 5, 1945, five Navy aircraft took off in perfect flying weather from a naval airinstallation in southeastern Florida, on a routine training mission over the Atlantic Ocean. Less t...
Section(C) A Male Nanny The woman next to me in the bread caf on 67th Street wants to know how much my baby weighs. Idon't tell her that he's not my baby because I'm tired of explaining. Instead, I look at Sam's year-oldbody. I have never been good a...
Section(B) Is the Traditional Family Structure at Risk? Around the world, in rich and poor countries alike, the structure of family life is undergoing extremechanges, a new analysis of research from numerous countries has concluded. The idea that the...
Unit9 Section(A) Premarital Agreements A future husband wanted to be sure that if his marriage didn't work out, he could keep his treasuredice-cream collection safely stored away in a freezer. A woman insisted on verifying who would walk thedog. One...
Section (C) Twins Six Years Apart Scientists in Scotland recently announced that, for the first time, they have cloned an exact copy ofan adult mammal. The cloned lamb, named Dolly, has the exact same genes as the adult sheep fromwhich she was cloned...
Section(B)Who Will Take Advantage of Human Cloning? Last week's news that scientists had cloned a sheep sent academics and the public into a panic at theprospect that humans might be next. That's an understandable reaction. Cloning is a radical chall...
Unit 8 Section (A) Legal and Moral Implications of Cloning At first it was just plain surprising. Word last week that a scientist named Ian Wilmut had succeededin cloning an adult mammal an achievement long thought impossible caught the imagination o...
Section(C) Suggested Technique to a Speedy Recovery Open-heart surgery at the Medical Center Hospital of Vermont (佛蒙特州) used to cost patients an average of $26,300. Today it's $3,000 less. Also saved: patients' discomfort. They used to suffer...
