【正文】 able 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 attending a shareholders39。s excellent elementary schools: a labor force that weled the new technology； the practice of giving premiums to inventors。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. Smallminded 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。s 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。true enemies of science, argues Paul Ehrllch of Stanford University, a pioneer of environmental studies, are those who question the evidence supporting global warming, the depletion of the ozone layer and other consequences of industrial growth.48. This developmentand its strong implication for US politics and economy in years aheadhas enthroned the South as America39。s head counting.49. Often they chooseand still are choosingsomewhat colder climates such as Oregon, Idaho and Alaska in order to escape smog crime and other plagues of urbanization in the Golden State.50. As a result, California39。s, to percentlittle more than two thirds the 196039。s volcanoes, they are not always found at the boundaries of the great drifting plates that make up the earth39。 on the contrary, many of them lie deep in the interior of a plate.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。 it reduces your chance of death or serious injury by more than half.54. While warnings are often appropriate and necessarythe dangers of drug interactions, for exampleand many are required by state or federal regulations, it isn39。 career prospects and those arguing for puters in the classroom for broader reasons of radical education reform.59. Rather, we have a certain conception of the American citizen, a character who is inplete if he cannot petently access how his livelihood and happiness are affected by things outside of himself.60. Besides, this is unlikely to produce the needed number of every kind of professional in a country as large as ours and where the economy is spread over so many states and involves so many international corporations.,for a small group of students, professional training might be the way to go since welldeveloped skills, all other factors being equal, can be the difference between having a job and not.62. Declaring that he was opposed to using this unusual animal husbandry technique to clone humans, he ordered that federal funds not be used for such an experimentalthough no one had proposed to do soand asked an independent panel of experts chaired by Princeton President Harold Shapiro to report back to the White House in 90 days with remendations for a national policy on human cloning.63. In a draft preface to the remendations, discussed at the 17 May meeting, Shapiro suggested that the panel had found a broad consensus that it would be morally unacceptable to attempt to create a human child by adult nuclear cloning.64. Because current federal law already forbids the use of federal funds to create embryos (the earliest stage of human offspring before birth) for research or to knowingly endanger an embryo39。s rigid social ladder to good schools and jobs.73. Last year Mitsuo Setoyama, who was then education minister, raised eyebrows when he argued that liberal reforms introduced by the American occupation authorities after World War II had weakened the Japanese morality of respect for parents.74. With economic growth has e centralization: fully 76 percent of Japan39。 and it especially must be highly regarded by people who are themselves admired, the educated not least among them.76. Certainly people do not seem less interested in success and its signs now than formerly. Summer homes, European travel, BMWsthe locations, place names and name brands may change, but such items do not seem less in demand to