【正文】 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?　　37. The test of any democratic society,he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column39。ors stockholders39。s ills and even cited his son,a teacher in the Bronx,New York,who uses rap to municate with students.　　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.　　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。 meeting to dictate their orders to the management.　　23. The shareholders as such had no knowledge of the lives,thoughtsneeds of the workmen employed by the pany in which he held shares,and his influence on the relations of capital and labor was not good.　　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.　　25. Among the many shaping factors,I would single out the country39。 the practice of giving premiums to inventors。　　27. Robert Fulton once wrote,The mechanic should sit down among levers,screws,wedges,wheel,etc,like a poet among the letters of the alphabet,considering them as an exhibition of his thoughts,in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea。s Northern Territory became the first legal authority in the world to allow doctors to take the lives of incurably ill patients who wish to die.　　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.　　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.　　33. There are,of course,exceptions. Small——minded officials,rude waiters,and ill mannered taxi drivers are hardly unknown in the US. Yet it is an observation made so frequently that it deserves ment.　　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.　　35. Dependence is marked first by an increased tolerance,with more and more of the substance required to produce the desired effect,and then by the appearance of unpleasant with drawal symptoms when the substance is discontinued.　　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?　　37. The test of any democratic society,he wrote in a Wall Street Journal column39。ors stockholders39。s ills and even cited his son,a teacher in the Bronx,New York,who uses rap to municate with students.　　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.　　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?！　　笆孢m”階級提供居住場所?！　　肮蓶|”對他擁有股份的公司所雇用的工人們的生活、思想和需求一無所知，而且他們對勞資雙方的關(guān)系都不會產(chǎn)生積極的影響。而在現(xiàn)在正在消失的古老家族公司的那種更加家長式的制度下的雇主們卻常常對他們的工人有這樣的私人關(guān)系。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。弗格森所指出的那樣：“一個技術(shù)專家思考那些不能被簡化成能被清楚的語言描述的東西。”　　”　　，他脫下手套，將神造論者好好地揍了一頓。熟悉的人來說，神造論者的欺騙和扭曲事實的程度可能會令這些人有一種不快的詫異。杰伊”而它確實是這樣的——而且如果理性成為神造論/地化論之間的辯論中的惟一評判標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的話，一切就都好辦了?！　。瞧渌恍C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?！　　丝诶淆g化，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。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也并不少見?！　?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。　?。骸半y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.“對任何一個民主社會的考驗，”他在《華爾街雜志》的一個專欄文章中寫到，“不在于它能夠多有效地控制各種意見的表達(dá)，而在于這個社會是否能給予思考和表達(dá)的盡可能廣泛的自由，不管有時候這種結(jié)果是多么的富有爭議或令人不快…”　　，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?！　。纭拜p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)。　　，因為傳統(tǒng)的計量方法顯示兩國的經(jīng)濟(jì)，特別是美國的經(jīng)濟(jì)，幾乎沒有生產(chǎn)蕭條的時候?！　?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.　　 ways of organizing the workplace——all that reengineering and downsizing——are only one contribution to the overall productivity of an economy,which is driven by many other factors such as joint investment in equipment and machinery,new technology,and investment in education and training.　　 colleague,Michael Beer,says that far too many panies have applied reengineering in a mechanistic fashion,chopping out costs without giving sufficient thought to longterm profitability.　　 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.　　 survey of news stories in 1996 reveals that the antiscience tag has been attached to many other groups as well,from authorities who advocated the elimination of the last remaining stocks of smallpox virus to Republicans who advocated decreased funding for basic research.　　39。s most densely populated region for the first time in the history of the nation39。s growth rate dropped during the 19703