【正文】 O f course she di d not do al l the work on her ther Quaker wom en hel ped her and went around the country rai si ng m oney for her wprk. Som e peopl e di d not li ke her i deas and quarel ed wi th her. They sai d that she shoul d spend m ore tim e wi th her fam il y. O ther peopl e sai d she enjoyed bei ng fam ous toom owever, her husband, Joseph, supported and encouraged her, so she conti nued worki ng to hel p i m prove the li ves of poor pri soners til lshe di ed. H er i deas di d not di sappear after her death and her work was rem em bered i n 1947 when the Quakers were given the N obl e Peace Pri ze. Uni t 2 A pi oneer for al l peopl e Al though he i s one of China’s m ost fam ous sci enti sts, Yuan Longpi ng consi ders hi msel f a farm er, for he works the l and to do hi s research. Indeed, hi s sunburnt face and arm s and hi s slim , strong body are just l ike those of m il li ons of Chi nese farmers, for whom he has struggl ed for the past fice decades. Dr Yuan Longping grows what is cal ed super hybri d ri ce. In 1974, he becam e the fi rst agri cul tural pi oneer i n the worl d to grow Ri ck that has a hi gh output. Thi s special strai n of Ri ck m akes i t possi bl e to produce onethird m ore of the crop i n the sam e fi el ds. Now m ore than 60% of the ri ce produced i n Chi na each year i s from thi s hybri d strai n. Born i nto a poor farm er’s fam il y i n 1930, Dr Yuan graduated from Southwest Agri cultural Col l ege i n 1953. Si nce then, fi ndi ng ways to grow m ore ri ce has been hi s l i fe goal. As a young m an, he saw the great need for i ncresi ng the ri ce output. At that tim e, hunger was a di sturbi ng probl em i n m any parts of the countrysi de. Dr Yuan searched for a way to i ncrease ri ce harvests wi thout expanding the area of the fi el ds. In 1950, Chi nese farm ers coul d produce onl y fi fty mi l i on tons of ri ce. In a recent harvest, however, nearl y two hundred mi l i on tons of ri ce was produced. These increased harvests mean that 22% of thwart worl d’s peopl e are fed from just 7% of the farml and i n Chi na. Dr Yuan i s now ci rcul ati ng hi s knowledge i n Indi a, Vi etnam and m any other l ess devel oped countri es to increase thei r ri ce harvests. Thanks to hi s research, farm ers are produci ng harvests twi ce as large as before. Dr Yuan i s qui te sati sfi ed with hi s li fe. H owever, he doesn39。t care about being fam ous. H e feel s i t gi ves him l ess fredom to do hi s research. H e woul d rather keep ti m e for his hobbi es. H e enjoys l i steni ng to vol in m usi c, pl ayi ng m ahjong, swim ming and readi ng. Spendi ng money on himself or leadi ng a fortabl e l ife al so means very l ittle to him. Indeed, he bel ieves that a person with to much m oney has more rather than fewer 第六章 裝修管理手冊 by the afternoon and she i s ri owever, the eveni ng m akes i t al worthwhil e. We watch the m other chim pand her babi es pl ay i n the tree. Then we see them go to sl eep together i n thei r nest for the ni ght. We real i ze that the bond between mem bers of a chim p fam il y i s as strong as i n a hum an fam il y. N obody before Jane ful y understood chi mp behavi our. She spent years observi ng and recordi ng thei r dai l y acti vi ti es. Si nce her chil dhood she had wanted to work wi th anim al s in thei r own environm ent. H owever,thi s was not easy. When she first arri ved i n Gom be i n 1960, it was unusual for a wom an to l i ve in a nl y after her m other cam e to hel pher for the fi rst few m onths was she al owed to begi n her er work changed the way peopl e thi nk of chim ps. For exam pl e, one im portant thi ng she di scovered was that chim ps hunt and eat m eat. Unti l then every thought chim ps onl y eat fruit and nuts. She also di scovered how chi m ps m uni cate wi th each other, and her study of thei r body l anguage hel ped her work out thei r soci al system . For forty years Jane Goodal has beenoutspoken about m aki ng the rest of the worl d understand and respect the li fe of these anim als. She has argued that ani mal s shoul d be l eft i n the wil d and not used for entertainm ent or advertisem ents. She has hel ped to set up speci al pl aces where the can li ve safel y. She i s l eadi ng a busy li fe but she says: “Once I stop, i t al l es crowding i n and I rem em ber the chim ps i n l aboratori es. It’s terri bl e. It affacts m e when I watch the wil d chim say to m ysel f,’Aren’t they l ucky?’And then I thi nk about sm al l chim ps i n cages though they have done nothing you have seen that you can never fet…“ She has achieved everything she wanted to do:working with animals in their own environment,gaining a doctor’s degree and showi ng that wom en can li ve i n the forest as m en can. She i nspi res those who want to cheer the achievem ents of wom en. WH Y NOT CARRY ON H ER WORK? I enjyed Engl ish , bi ol ogy, and chem i stry at school, but whi ch one shoul d I choose to study at uni versi ty ?i di d not know the answer unti l one eveni ng when I sat down at the puter to do som e research on great wom en of Chi na. By chance I came across an article about a doctor called Lin Qiaozhi, a specalist in women’s diseases. She lived from 1901 to 1983 . It seem ed that she had been very busy i n her chosen career ,travl i ng abored to study as wel as wri ti ng boks and arti cl ne of them caught m y eye. It was a sm al book expl ai ning how to keeping babi es cl ean, heal thy and free from si ckness. Why di d she wri te that?Who were the wom en that Li n Qi aozhi thought needed thi s advi ce?I l ooked careful y at the text and real i ze that i t was i ntended for women i n the countrysi de. Perhaps i f they had an em ergency they coul d not reach a doctor. Suddenl y i t hi t m e how di ffi cul t i t was for a wom an to get medical training ata that time. That was a generation when girls’ education was always placred decond to boys