【正文】 For now, it is more profitable to treat fat patients than to try to make them ，治療肥胖患者還是要比讓他們減肥更有利可圖。Qnexa bines two treatments that are already on the 。However, the agency may yet reject the 。The FDA rejected Vivus s Qnexa in 2010 over concerns for the safety of pregnant women andthe quickening of patients heart ，因?yàn)閾?dān)心該藥對(duì)孕婦的安全造成傷害，擔(dān)心該藥會(huì)加快患者的心率。It has been 13 years since the FDA approved a prescription diet 。There is some scepticism about his chances of success: The fact that banding is not as goodas bypass has been known by everybody except the PR firms for the band, says LeeKaplan, director of the Weight Centre at Massachusetts General ：“事實(shí)上使用束帶不必胃繞道手術(shù)好，所有人都知道，除了束帶的公關(guān)公司，”馬薩諸塞州中心醫(yī)院體重中心主任Lee Kaplan如是說(shuō)。In January David Pyott, Allergan s chief executive, said he would scrap an effort to marketthe band for ，Allergan公司首席執(zhí)行官David Pyott說(shuō)，他將放棄在年輕人束帶市場(chǎng)的努力。Some patients have had bands removed because they slipped or proved ，因?yàn)槭鴰Т蚧蛘邲](méi)有效果。Allergan has captured about 70% of the worldwide market for gastric bands and balloons, 可銳教育官網(wǎng)butsales are now %，但是如今銷(xiāo)量卻有所下降。Allergan, best known for selling Botox, has tried to use its LapBand to tap the ，嘗試用產(chǎn)品LapBand打入減肥市場(chǎng)。Bariatric surgery can lead to weight loss in the long can make money fromall bariatric procedures, including gastric bypasses , but the gastric band is a rareexample of an opportunity for devicemakers to profit from weight 。This is not for lack of 。Pharmaceutical and medicaldevice panies are quite good at treating the conditions thate with 。However, the pill s longawaited final approval may not e until April, if at 但是，如果獲得批準(zhǔn)，該藥品的漫長(zhǎng)的最終肯定直到四月份才會(huì)到來(lái)。A mittee advising America s Food and Drug Administration remended that itapprove Vivus s diet drug, ，Vivus制藥公司朝著這個(gè)目標(biāo)前進(jìn)了一步。Find a way to battle the bulge and a huge profit might be ，說(shuō)必定就此大賺一筆。二．A big, bad business點(diǎn)肥成金不現(xiàn)實(shí)Medical firms struggle to profit from weightloss treatments制藥公司試圖從減肥治療中獲利OBESITY is an epidemic to some and an opportunity to ，對(duì)別的一些人來(lái)說(shuō)則是機(jī)遇。可銳教育官網(wǎng)Likewise, 41% of bosses say their firm rewards performance based on values rather thanmerely on financial ，41%的老板稱其公司對(duì)績(jī)效的獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)是建基于價(jià)值觀之上的，而不僅是業(yè)績(jī)。Some 27% of bosses believe their employees are inspired by their %的老板認(rèn)為自己公司的員工能夠被公司所激勵(lì)。Tragiically, the study found that bosses often believe their own guff, even if theirunderlings do ，研究還發(fā)現(xiàn)老板們時(shí)常對(duì)自己瞎掰的那一套信以為真，即便員工們不以為然。More than 90% of employees in selfgoverning firms, and twothirds in the informedacquiescence category, agreed that good ideas are readily adopted by my %的員工承認(rèn) 絕妙的想法很容易會(huì)被公司采納，選擇性順從型公司中也有三分之二的員工這樣認(rèn)為。Yet only a quarter of those in the blindobedience firms said they were likely to blow thewhistle, pared with over 90% in selfgoverning ，在盲目服從型企業(yè)中只有約四分之一的員工說(shuō)他們可能會(huì)揭發(fā)這種行為，而在自我管理型企業(yè)中卻有90%的員工會(huì)進(jìn)行揭發(fā)。The study found evidence that such differences ，證明這些公司文化之間的差異事關(guān)重大。The largest category, 54%, saw their employer s culture as topdown, but with skilledleadership, lots of rules and a mix of carrots and sticks, which Mr Seidman calls ，即有54%的人認(rèn)為其公司文化自上而下型的，但公司的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)也有技巧可言，只是規(guī)則繁多并存在軟硬兼施的手段，塞德曼先生稱這種為 知情服從型。Commissioned by Dov Seidman, boss of LRN, a firm that advises on corporate culture, andauthor of How ，LRN的老板、同時(shí)也是《怎么做到的?》a book arguing that the way firms do business matters as much as what they do, andconducted by the Boston Research Group, the National Governance, Culture and LeadershipAssessment is based on a survey of thousands of American employees, from every rung ofthe corporate ?塞德曼委托波士頓研究集團(tuán)進(jìn)行這項(xiàng) 國(guó)家治理、文化和領(lǐng)導(dǎo)能力評(píng)估 的研究，該研究是以對(duì)來(lái)自公司各個(gè)級(jí)別的數(shù)千位美國(guó)雇員的調(diào)查為基礎(chǔ)的。Nearly every big firm claims to be building a more caring and ethical 幾乎每一家大型企業(yè)都宣稱自身正在發(fā)展更為關(guān)懷體貼、合乎道德的企業(yè)文化。PepsiCo has started preaching a creed of performance with ： 目的性績(jī)效。and is trying to instil a valuesbased culture, in which employees can be trusted to do theright thing because they know what the firm stands ，沃爾瑪正嘗試逐漸培養(yǎng)一種以價(jià)值觀為基礎(chǔ)的公司文化，在這種文化中，員工了解公司的主張，所以能夠得到公司的信任，去做他們認(rèn)為正確的事情。AS WALMART grew into the world s largest retailer, its staff were subjected to a long list ofdos and don ts covering every aspect of their ，其員工在工作的各方各面都受到了一大堆規(guī)則的限制。 Australiawhere an aging population, lifeextending technology and changing munityattitudes have all played their partother states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia.[參考譯文]在澳大利亞人口老齡化，延長(zhǎng)壽命的技術(shù)和變化看的社會(huì)態(tài)度，這 些因素都在發(fā)揮作用一一其他的州也會(huì)考慮制定相似的關(guān)于安樂(lè)死的法律。 have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, righttolife groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its the tide is unlikely to turn back.[參考譯文]一些機(jī)構(gòu)終于松了一口氣，但是其他一些機(jī)構(gòu)，包括教堂，倡導(dǎo)生命之 權(quán)的團(tuán)體和澳大利亞醫(yī)學(xué)協(xié)會(huì)，尖銳地抨擊這個(gè)法案，指責(zé)法案的通過(guò)過(guò)于匆忙。 six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia39。 the dust jacket of this fine book, Stephen Jay Gould says: “This book stands for reason itself.” And so it doesand all wound be well were reason the only judge in the creationism/evolution debate.[參考譯文]在這本杰出的書(shū)的外紙封面上，史蒂芬?杰伊?古爾德寫(xiě)道：“這本書(shū)本 身就代表理性。” the last three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the creationists a good describes their programs and, tactics, and, for those unfamiliar with the ways of creationists, the extent of their deception and distortion may e as an unpleasant surprise.[參考譯文]在最后三章中，他脫下手套，將神造論者好好地揍了一頓。這些東西在他的思維中是通過(guò)一種視覺(jué)的、非語(yǔ)言表述的過(guò)程宋處理的……設(shè)計(jì)者和發(fā)明者……能夠在他們的腦中裝配并操作那些還不存在的裝置。and above all the American genius for nonverbal, “spatial” thinking about things technological.[參考譯文]在許多形成因素當(dāng)中，我將挑選出這些：這個(gè)國(guó)家優(yōu)秀的小學(xué)教育：歡 迎新技術(shù)的勞動(dòng)者們：獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)發(fā)明者的做法；而且最重要的是美國(guó)人在對(duì) 那些技術(shù)性事物的非言語(yǔ)的、“空間性的”思考方面的天賦。 the many shaping factors, I would single out the country39。 paid manager acting for the pany was in more direct relation with the men and their demands, but even he had seldom that familiar personal knowledge of the workmen which the employer had often had under the more patr