【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 is, meet it and live it。do not shun it or call it hard is not so bad as you looks poorest when you are faultfinder will find faults even in your life, poor as it may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a setting sun is reflected from the window of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man?s abode。the snow melts before its door as early in the do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a town?s poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of they are simply great enough to receive without think that they are above being supported by the town。but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by dishonest means, which should be more poverty like a garden herb, like not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or to the old, turn to do not change。we your clothes and keep your 11 Man Is Here for the Sake of Other Men Strange is our situation here upon of us es for a short visit, not knowing why, and yet sometimes seeming to divine a the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is here for the sake of other men — above all for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have peace of mind is often troubled by the depressing sense that I have borrowed too heavily from the work of other ponder interminably over the reason for one?s own existence or the meaning of life in general seems to me, from an objective point of view, to be sheer yet everyone holds certain ideals by which he guides his aspiration and his ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and make a goal of fort and happiness has never appealed to me。a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of 12 The Ways to Duck out of Work Want to watch the World Cup in peace without the boss over your shoulder? Simple, con British Internet site offered fans an ingenious range of ways to duck out of work so they can watch games in timings of the games, in the early morning or at midday, have posed a dilemma to millions of soccermad Britons used to watching games in the evenings or at weekends and desperate to follow England and Ireland?s World Cup progress British government has already urged employers to bow to the inevitable and take a flexible attitude to working hours or set up TV screens.“The last thing we want is the entire workforce taking an announced sickie on the day of a big match,” Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt British sports pany Umbro was urging fans to take the matter into their own Web site was offering a convincinglooking false sick note signed by a fictitious doctor, , to be printed off and taken to work in , its “Top Ten Bunk Off Ideas” included such improbable excuses as: “I will be late for work today because I have to pick my uncle up from the train has two bags but only one arm.” For another game, a fan might claim: “My dog ate my car ?re going to hitchhike to the vet.”Passage 13(91)The First Calendar Future historians will be in a unique position when they e to record the history of our own will hardly know which facts to select from the great mass of evidence that steadily is more, they will not have to rely solely on the written , videos, CDs and CDROMs are just some of the bewildering amount of information they will will be able, as it were, to see and hear us in the historian attempting to reconstruct the distant past is always faced with a difficult has to deduce what he can from the few scanty clues to now, historians have assumed that calendars came into being with the advent of agriculture, for then man was faced with a real need to understand something about the scientific evidence seems to indicate that this assumption is have long been puzzled by dots, lines and symbols which have been engraved on walls, bones, and the ivory tusks of nomads who made these markings lived by hunting and fishing during the last Ice Age which began about 35,000 ended about 10,000 correlating markings made in various parts of the world, historians have been able to read this difficult have found that it is connected with the passage of days and the phases of the is, in fact, a primitive type of seems that man was making a real effort to understand the seasons 20,000 years earlier than has been 14 How to Ask for a Raise One of the most intimidating things to do in the business world is to ask for a raise at your current , the boss just does not pay you enough what do you do about it? There is a way to request a raise, but you had better be careful when doing best way to make more money within a pany is to be in the direct flow of the will want to keep you around if you have some a direct cause of their profits is a great way to gain some mistake that people always seem to make is that they are never sure exactly how much money to ask you are going to ask for a raise, then you should have some figure in mind of how much more you you are successful in meeting with your boss and making your case, then it will look awful if you sit there with a blank stare as he asks you how much you a realistic percentage, but be willing to negotiate in some research and figure out exactly how much folks make in your profession that have had similar experience and not ask for a raise based solely upon your personal , concentrate solely on your achievements, merits, and worth concerning the doing this, you will create a professional environment in which you will establish some 15 Police and Communities Few institutions are more important to an urban munity than its police, yet there are few subjects