【正文】 the classroom for broader reasons of radical education reform.，有些人為教育的徹底改革中更為廣泛的理由為教室里放置電腦而辯，這兩群人之間有一條無形的界線。57. The examples of Virtual Vineyards, , and other pioneers show that a Web site selling the right kind of products with the right mix of interactivity, hospitality, and security will attract online customers. Vineyards，Amazon．這樣的先驅(qū)網(wǎng)站表明，一個將交互性、熱情服務(wù)和安全性合理結(jié)合以銷售同類商品的網(wǎng)址是可以吸引網(wǎng)上客戶注意的。55. At the same time, the American Law Institutea group of judges, lawyers, and academics whose remendations carry substantial weightissued new guidelines for tort law stating that panies need not warn customers of obvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy list of possible ones.，美國法律研究所由一群法官、律師和理論專家組成，他們的建議分量極重發(fā)布了新的民事傷害法令指導(dǎo)方針，宣稱公司不必提醒顧客注意顯而易見的危險(xiǎn)，也不必連篇累牘地一再提請他們注意一些可能會出現(xiàn)的危險(xiǎn)。54. While warnings are often appropriate and necessarythe dangers of drug interactions, for exampleand many are required by state or federal regulations, it isn39。53. Wearing a seat belt saves lives。52. The relative motion of the plates carrying these continents has been constructed in detail, but the motion of the plates with respect to another cannot readily be translated into motion with respect to the earth39。s surface。51. Unlike most of the world39。s, to percentlittle more than two thirds the 196039。50. As a result, California39。s head counting.、經(jīng)濟(jì)在未來幾年的潛在的強(qiáng)有力的影響一一使得南部在全國人口普查中有史以來首次成為美國人口最密集的地區(qū)。48. This developmentand its strong implication for US politics and economy in years aheadhas enthroned the South as America39。47. The 39。45. Defenders of science have also voiced their concerns at meetings such as The Flight from Science and Reason , held in New York City in 1995, and Science in the Age of (Mis) information, which assembled last June near Buffalo.，比如1995年在紐約市舉行的 逃離科學(xué)與理性會議，以及去年6 月在布法羅附近召開的(錯誤)信息時(shí)代的科學(xué)會議。這種經(jīng)濟(jì)還受許多其他因素的驅(qū)動，比如結(jié)合設(shè)備和機(jī)械上的投資、新技術(shù)，以及在教育和培訓(xùn)上的投資。42. The Aswan Dam, for example, stopped the Nile flooding but deprived Egypt of the fertile silt that floods leftall in return for a giant reservoir of disease which is now so full of silt that it barely generates electricity.，阿斯旺大壩使得尼羅河不再洪水泛濫，但是它也奪去了埃及以前所享有的洪水留下的肥沃淤泥這些換宋的就是這么個疾病滋生的水庫，現(xiàn)在這個水庫積滿了淤泥，幾乎不能發(fā)電了。41. The most thrilling explanation is, unfortunately, a little defective. Some economists argue that powerful structural changes in the world have upended the old economic models that were based upon the historical link between growth and inflation.，這最令人震驚的解釋有一點(diǎn)缺陷。40. Economists have been particularly surprised by favorable inflation figures in Britain and the United States, since, conventional measures suggest that both economies, and especially America39。39. Much of the language used to describe monetary policy, such as steering the economy to a soft landing of a touch on the brakes ， makes it sound like a precise science. Nothing could be further from the truth.，例如輕踩剎車以操縱經(jīng)濟(jì)軟著陸，使貨幣政策聽起來像是一門精確的科學(xué)。s ills and even cited his son, a teacher in the Bronx, New York, who uses rap to municate with students.，萊文宣稱說：音樂不是社會問題的原因，他甚至還以他的兒子為例。s stockholders39。36. Is this what you intended to acplish with your careers? Senator Robert Dole asked Time Warner executives last week. You have sold your souls, but must you corrupt our nation and threaten our children as well?：難道這就是你們希望能夠成就的事業(yè)?你們已經(jīng)出賣了自己的靈魂，但是難道你們還非要腐化我們的國家，威脅我們的孩子們嗎?37. The test of any democratic society, he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column39。34. We live in a society in which the medicinal and social use of substances (drugs) is pervasive: an aspirin to quiet a headache, some wine to be sociable, coffee to get going in the morning, a cigarette for the nerves.(毒品)的醫(yī)學(xué)用途和社會用途都很廣泛的社會里：一片用來止頭痛的阿斯匹林，一些用來社交的葡萄酒，早上自己提提神所喝的咖啡，一支用來定神的香煙。在美國，心胸狹窄的官員，粗魯?shù)膫髡撸蜎]有禮貌的出租車司機(jī)也并不少見。32. In Australia where an aging population, lifeextending technology and changing munity attitudes have all played their part other states are going to consider making a similar law to deal with euthanasia.，延長壽命的技術(shù)和變化看的社會態(tài)度，這些因素都在發(fā)揮作用一一其他的州也會考慮制定相似的關(guān)于安樂死的法律。31. Some have breathed sighs of relief, others, including churches, righttolife groups and the Australian Medical Association, bitterly attacked the bill and the haste of its passage. But the tide is unlikely to turn back.，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，尖銳地抨擊這個法案，指責(zé)法案的通過過于匆忙。 30. After six months of arguing and final 16 hours of hot parliamentary debates, Australia39。29. On 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.，史蒂芬?杰伊?古爾德寫道：這本書本身就代表理性。28. In the last three chapters, he takes off his gloves and gives the creationists a good beating. He 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.，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一種視覺的、非語言表述的過程宋處理的……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. ，我將挑選出這些：這個國家優(yōu)秀的小學(xué)教育：歡迎新技術(shù)的勞動者們：獎勵發(fā)明者的做法；而且最重要的是美國人在對那些技術(shù)性事物的非言語的、空間性的思考方面的天賦。25. Among the many shaping factors, I would single out the country39。24. The 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 patriarchal system of the old family business now passing away.，但是就連他對工人們也沒有那種熟識的私人之間的了解。這些人依賴于其豐厚收入而不工作，他們除了分紅和偶爾參加一下股東大會，向管理層口授一下自己的命令之外，跟社會的其他階層毫無瓜葛。22. Towns like Bournemouth and East bourne sprang up to house large fortable classes who had retired on their ines, and who had no relation to the rest of the munity except that of drawing dividends and occasionally a