http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/12/world/la-fg-china-characters-20100712
12.03
For Ma Silang, the long descent into forgetfulness began after he graduated from high school, went off to London ...
(X)"People don't write anything by hand anymore except for name and address," admitted Ma.
...
Almost any Chinese person you meet will confess to a lapse of memory, almost like a senior moment. The hand clutching the pen or pencil is poised above a sheet of paper about to write a character learned in childhood and memorized in countless repetitions when — suddenly — an embarrassing pause.
12.04
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/12/world/la-fg-china-characters-20100712/2
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In China, the situation rises to the level of a cultural crisis since the characters, more than any other facet of life, epitomize thousands of years of tradition.
Writing, moreover, is not merely about communication — in Chinese culture, it is an art form and spiritual ...
"These characters are in the soul of every Chinese person," said Wang Jianxue, a 38-year-old calligraphy teacher from Harbin who was lovingly leafing through the stacks at a bookstore in Liulichang, a street of quiet shops that sell brushes, ink stones, rubbings, scrolls and curios. "The nation has to maintain its personality through its characters. They are our cultural heritage. The computer is just a tool."
Many young Chinese are sufficiently concerned that they have taken it upon themselves to study calligraphy.
"It will take a lot of effort to preserve our Chinese characters. It is the same way they try to preserve these old hutongs," said Zhu Linfei, 24, a Beijing graduate student, referring to the traditional Beijing alleys, now rapidly succumbing to the wrecking ball.
Zhu, who was touring the old bookstores of Liulichang with her classmates to buy calligraphy books, estimated that she had already forgotten about 20% of the characters she knew in high school.
"But it's not such a big problem," she said. "If I don't know a character, I take out my cellphone to check."
2010年12月26日 星期日
12.01- 12.02
http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2010-06-21-justinbieber17_CV_N.htm
12.01
It's not much past 6 a.m., and Justin Bieber looks like any 16-year-old should at such an hour ...
(X)
If you had landed here from another planet, it would be easy to think that Bieber is some sort of local deity. But often it's Bieber who feels like the alien, teleported from the galaxy Obscurity — aka Stratford, Ontario— directly into the maw of the American music machine.
(X)
"It's crazy," Bieber says during a rare respite as he prepares for his aptly named My World tour, a six-month headlining run whose sold-out first leg kicks off Wednesday at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. "Sometimes, I can't believe I'm doing this. I wake up and I think, where am I?"
(X)
Relaxing in a Midtown hotel, playing video games on his iPad the day before his Today appearance, Bieber looks every bit the average teen — admittedly, one who has been blessed with no acne, a pixie-like grin and a mop of sandy hair that covers all but his face.
(X)
But it's what happens when Bieber opens the mouth that has stripped him of a normal childhood. The cute kid can sing.
"He's a one-man Beatles," says Matthew Rettenmund, editor of Popstar! magazine, who bowed to reader requests and put Bieber on the cover in January. Now he plans to include him in every cover's collage of faces this year. "Justin is the heir to that throne occupied by Shaun Cassidy and countless others, but he's also the first real example of someone discovered by the Web."
...
"It wasn't overnight, I put in a lot of time on the road going to radio stations at 6 a.m. and singing, all in the middle of my growth spurt." The 5-foot-6 singer laughs. "Thanks to the music industry, I'm going to be really short."
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Of his hair, he shrugs and says: "I just kind of liked it, and now people are copying it. I used to have a buzz cut as a kid."
12.02
In 2007, when he was 12, Bieber entered a local singing competition and placed second doing Ne-Yo's So Sick. Mallette thought it would be fun to post a video of that performance on YouTube. Millions tuned in. More videos followed.
Usher is convinced Bieber can make the leap into adulthood without losing popularity, much as he and Timberlake have done.
"Justin (Bieber) is a talented child and one I felt I could nurture," Usher says. "He has a passion more than anything. I remember having that as a kid, and I see it in his eyes. ..
"I like that he stands up for himself, but also is very open to direction."
Bieber also is human. And the grind required to forge a career often gets to him. When he recently complained that he missed just being a normal kid, "I told him you have to be dedicated," Usher says. "It's about sacrifice, so be sure it's what you want." (In the end, Usher relented and flew in a gaggle of Bieber's buddies for a weekend of goofing off.)
Team Bieber consists of roughly a dozen people, including Usher, Smith and Mallette (Bieber's father, Jeremy, is remarried and has two young children). But none are around when Bieber sits down to chat while he digs into a plate of Boston Market chicken. Leaving a teen star alone with a reporter is far from typical public-relations protocol, and it speaks to the team's confidence in the star's grounded nature.
Grew up in the church
This decidedly un-MTV Cribsattitude likely has roots in his pious upbringing. Bieber says he and his mother have always attended church and "are really involved with God. He's always been like, I don't know, he's held our family together. We grew up with not a lot of money, my mom and I. She was young when she had me. We struggled, but we never blamed him."
A bit later, Bieber's mother hustles over to the Today stage in anticipation of her son's performance. A petite woman with an easy smile and a copy of the Billy Graham book Angels in her hand, Mallette shrugs to deflect a question about how she is coping with her son's sudden and outsized popularity.
"Sometimes it's crazy, sure," she says. "But we just try to take things one day at a time."
12.01
It's not much past 6 a.m., and Justin Bieber looks like any 16-year-old should at such an hour ...
(X)
If you had landed here from another planet, it would be easy to think that Bieber is some sort of local deity. But often it's Bieber who feels like the alien, teleported from the galaxy Obscurity — aka Stratford, Ontario— directly into the maw of the American music machine.
(X)
"It's crazy," Bieber says during a rare respite as he prepares for his aptly named My World tour, a six-month headlining run whose sold-out first leg kicks off Wednesday at the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. "Sometimes, I can't believe I'm doing this. I wake up and I think, where am I?"
(X)
Relaxing in a Midtown hotel, playing video games on his iPad the day before his Today appearance, Bieber looks every bit the average teen — admittedly, one who has been blessed with no acne, a pixie-like grin and a mop of sandy hair that covers all but his face.
(X)
But it's what happens when Bieber opens the mouth that has stripped him of a normal childhood. The cute kid can sing.
"He's a one-man Beatles," says Matthew Rettenmund, editor of Popstar! magazine, who bowed to reader requests and put Bieber on the cover in January. Now he plans to include him in every cover's collage of faces this year. "Justin is the heir to that throne occupied by Shaun Cassidy and countless others, but he's also the first real example of someone discovered by the Web."
...
"It wasn't overnight, I put in a lot of time on the road going to radio stations at 6 a.m. and singing, all in the middle of my growth spurt." The 5-foot-6 singer laughs. "Thanks to the music industry, I'm going to be really short."
最後接
Of his hair, he shrugs and says: "I just kind of liked it, and now people are copying it. I used to have a buzz cut as a kid."
12.02
In 2007, when he was 12, Bieber entered a local singing competition and placed second doing Ne-Yo's So Sick. Mallette thought it would be fun to post a video of that performance on YouTube. Millions tuned in. More videos followed.
Usher is convinced Bieber can make the leap into adulthood without losing popularity, much as he and Timberlake have done.
"Justin (Bieber) is a talented child and one I felt I could nurture," Usher says. "He has a passion more than anything. I remember having that as a kid, and I see it in his eyes. ..
"I like that he stands up for himself, but also is very open to direction."
Bieber also is human. And the grind required to forge a career often gets to him. When he recently complained that he missed just being a normal kid, "I told him you have to be dedicated," Usher says. "It's about sacrifice, so be sure it's what you want." (In the end, Usher relented and flew in a gaggle of Bieber's buddies for a weekend of goofing off.)
Team Bieber consists of roughly a dozen people, including Usher, Smith and Mallette (Bieber's father, Jeremy, is remarried and has two young children). But none are around when Bieber sits down to chat while he digs into a plate of Boston Market chicken. Leaving a teen star alone with a reporter is far from typical public-relations protocol, and it speaks to the team's confidence in the star's grounded nature.
Grew up in the church
This decidedly un-MTV Cribsattitude likely has roots in his pious upbringing. Bieber says he and his mother have always attended church and "are really involved with God. He's always been like, I don't know, he's held our family together. We grew up with not a lot of money, my mom and I. She was young when she had me. We struggled, but we never blamed him."
A bit later, Bieber's mother hustles over to the Today stage in anticipation of her son's performance. A petite woman with an easy smile and a copy of the Billy Graham book Angels in her hand, Mallette shrugs to deflect a question about how she is coping with her son's sudden and outsized popularity.
"Sometimes it's crazy, sure," she says. "But we just try to take things one day at a time."
2010年11月20日 星期六
2010年11月2日 星期二
11.19-11.20
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/10/science/la-sci-oldest-shoe-20100610
11.19
Archaeologists from UCLA and Ireland have discovered the world's oldest leather shoe, an exquisitely preserved 5,600-
...
(X) It was stuffed with grass, which may have been used to keep the wearer's foot warm or to preserve the shoe's shape for storage, the researchers reported Wednesday in the online journal PLoS One.
(X) Such materials usually degrade over time;
the team attributed the unusual preservation to the cave's perennially cool temperature and low humidity and a concrete-like layer of sheep dung that sealed in everything and prevented fungi from destroying the remains.
(X) "The potential to rewrite the early history of northern Mesopotamia is quite vast," he said.
"The shoe itself is really interesting and cool," added archaeologist Mitchell S. Rothman of Widener University in Chester, Pa., who also was not involved in the research. "But it is just a marker of how incredibly good the preservation is at the site, which is incredibly important."
11.20
the cave ... are rather rare," allowing preservation of artifacts from a time period for which such materials are scarce, said UCLA archaeologist Charles Stanish, who was not involved in the research. The cave, he added, is one of at least 39 that researchers are just beginning to explore.
"The fourth millennium is when the modern world appears -- the first cities, the first kings, the first axes, the first bureaucrats, and the first international trading system," Rothman said.
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(X) The research paper focuses primarily on the shoe, however
Prior to the discovery, the oldest known footwear from Eurasia was found on Otzi, the "iceman" discovered on a glacier in the Otztal Alps on the border between Austria and Italy. Those shoes are about 5,300 years old, but were in relatively poor shape. They were moccasin-type footwear in which the sole is attached to an upper "sock" with leather thongs.
...
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Radiocarbon dating indicated that the newly found shoe was from about 3,600 BC. Its relatively sophisticated design, however, suggests that the style had already been in use for a long time, said UCLA archaeologist Gregory Areshian, co-leader of the research team.
(X) Previously, he added, researchers had tried to reconstruct what shoes had looked like from impressions on pottery and other fragmentary artifacts. "Here we have it in an absolutely tangible way."
The shoe is shaped to fit the wearer's right foot. It is 9.65 inches long, which corresponds to a U.S. women's size 7.
(X) Though small, it could easily have fitted a man from that era, said archaeologist Ron Pinhasi of University College Cork in Ireland, Areshian's co-leader.
Researchers have so far excavated only about 2% of the cave
...
The team believes the cave was abandoned after an earthquake, which caused the ceiling to collapse.
11.19
Archaeologists from UCLA and Ireland have discovered the world's oldest leather shoe, an exquisitely preserved 5,600-
...
(X) It was stuffed with grass, which may have been used to keep the wearer's foot warm or to preserve the shoe's shape for storage, the researchers reported Wednesday in the online journal PLoS One.
(X) Such materials usually degrade over time;
the team attributed the unusual preservation to the cave's perennially cool temperature and low humidity and a concrete-like layer of sheep dung that sealed in everything and prevented fungi from destroying the remains.
(X) "The potential to rewrite the early history of northern Mesopotamia is quite vast," he said.
"The shoe itself is really interesting and cool," added archaeologist Mitchell S. Rothman of Widener University in Chester, Pa., who also was not involved in the research. "But it is just a marker of how incredibly good the preservation is at the site, which is incredibly important."
11.20
the cave ... are rather rare," allowing preservation of artifacts from a time period for which such materials are scarce, said UCLA archaeologist Charles Stanish, who was not involved in the research. The cave, he added, is one of at least 39 that researchers are just beginning to explore.
"The fourth millennium is when the modern world appears -- the first cities, the first kings, the first axes, the first bureaucrats, and the first international trading system," Rothman said.
下ㄧ頁
(X) The research paper focuses primarily on the shoe, however
Prior to the discovery, the oldest known footwear from Eurasia was found on Otzi, the "iceman" discovered on a glacier in the Otztal Alps on the border between Austria and Italy. Those shoes are about 5,300 years old, but were in relatively poor shape. They were moccasin-type footwear in which the sole is attached to an upper "sock" with leather thongs.
...
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Radiocarbon dating indicated that the newly found shoe was from about 3,600 BC. Its relatively sophisticated design, however, suggests that the style had already been in use for a long time, said UCLA archaeologist Gregory Areshian, co-leader of the research team.
(X) Previously, he added, researchers had tried to reconstruct what shoes had looked like from impressions on pottery and other fragmentary artifacts. "Here we have it in an absolutely tangible way."
The shoe is shaped to fit the wearer's right foot. It is 9.65 inches long, which corresponds to a U.S. women's size 7.
(X) Though small, it could easily have fitted a man from that era, said archaeologist Ron Pinhasi of University College Cork in Ireland, Areshian's co-leader.
Researchers have so far excavated only about 2% of the cave
...
The team believes the cave was abandoned after an earthquake, which caused the ceiling to collapse.
11.17 -11.18
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2010/jul/11/beaufort-teems-with-history-wildlife-food/?partner=RSS
11.17
Some weekenders love nothing more than a relaxing stroll down a historic street or two, with a little fancy shopping topped by a visit to a fine restaurant. ...
...
You can have either here. Or both. The different agendas are separated only by a 1 1/4-mile sound stocked with frolicking dolphins and high-end pleasure craft.
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Beaufort is the third-oldest settlement in North Carolina. For 150 years, Beaufort's Queen Anne clapboard homes were lost in the shuffle as progress headed west.
"BOW-fert" was given a second
...
They wander a community of 4,200 that in the 1970s made a Savannah-like choice to restrict development and point up its past. From the sound now, you can see Beaufort's elegant three-story Victorians, many topped with widow's walks
(X) Get a free Walk Through History map at the welcome center (130 Turner St.).
Restored residences - more than 100 in all - hold yard markers bearing a couple of lines about the homes' origins. Older doesn't necessarily mean grander. Those dating to colonial times are often small and simple survivors. The oldest, Hammock House (1709),allegely was where Blackbeard hung his hat. Many have stories, of course, and Beaufort Histronic Site Tours offers several bus and walking tours that go inside select houses.
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You'll notice the souvenir places have lots of pirate items. Whether or not Blackbeard actually lived here, his Queen Anne's Revenge was sunk near Beaufort Inlet in 1718.
What researchers believe to be the wreck of the QAR was discovered in 1996. You'll find some salvaged items, including cannonballs, at the N.C. Maritime Museum.
Front Street today is plunder-ready, lined with boutiques, galleries and the like. Don't miss the art and jewelry at Handscapes Gallery (415 Front St.), where more than 200 artists are represented.
11.18
Down at the waterfront, you can't help but notice a strange little booth in what appears to be a yard littered with old planking and other abandoned boat parts. This is where your work-off-the-pounds opportunity begins.
...
No one's lived here for a century.
The island's notable residents today are several bands of wild horses - Banker horses, 110 to 130 - descended (depending on whom you ask) from shipwrecked Spanish steeds or 19th-century Carolinians.
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Seveeral points are hammered home by the time the ferry beaches on Shackleford's north-west corner.
You want shells? Head east on the oceanside. Want to see horses? They're up on the hills. Be careful and don't get too close: They're wild.
Then you're on your own on what looks like a desert island, ocean gusts whistling through your teeth.
We made for
....
and you'll eventually see a brown pony or two. They're small but full-grown.
最後接
Get to shackleford early and plan to spending the day.
11.17
Some weekenders love nothing more than a relaxing stroll down a historic street or two, with a little fancy shopping topped by a visit to a fine restaurant. ...
...
You can have either here. Or both. The different agendas are separated only by a 1 1/4-mile sound stocked with frolicking dolphins and high-end pleasure craft.
這段有點修改 改成以下
Beaufort is the third-oldest settlement in North Carolina. For 150 years, Beaufort's Queen Anne clapboard homes were lost in the shuffle as progress headed west.
"BOW-fert" was given a second
...
They wander a community of 4,200 that in the 1970s made a Savannah-like choice to restrict development and point up its past. From the sound now, you can see Beaufort's elegant three-story Victorians, many topped with widow's walks
(X) Get a free Walk Through History map at the welcome center (130 Turner St.).
Restored residences - more than 100 in all - hold yard markers bearing a couple of lines about the homes' origins. Older doesn't necessarily mean grander. Those dating to colonial times are often small and simple survivors. The oldest, Hammock House (1709),allegely was where Blackbeard hung his hat. Many have stories, of course, and Beaufort Histronic Site Tours offers several bus and walking tours that go inside select houses.
加入這些
You'll notice the souvenir places have lots of pirate items. Whether or not Blackbeard actually lived here, his Queen Anne's Revenge was sunk near Beaufort Inlet in 1718.
What researchers believe to be the wreck of the QAR was discovered in 1996. You'll find some salvaged items, including cannonballs, at the N.C. Maritime Museum.
Front Street today is plunder-ready, lined with boutiques, galleries and the like. Don't miss the art and jewelry at Handscapes Gallery (415 Front St.), where more than 200 artists are represented.
11.18
Down at the waterfront, you can't help but notice a strange little booth in what appears to be a yard littered with old planking and other abandoned boat parts. This is where your work-off-the-pounds opportunity begins.
...
No one's lived here for a century.
The island's notable residents today are several bands of wild horses - Banker horses, 110 to 130 - descended (depending on whom you ask) from shipwrecked Spanish steeds or 19th-century Carolinians.
接這段 ( 課文沒有的部份)
Seveeral points are hammered home by the time the ferry beaches on Shackleford's north-west corner.
You want shells? Head east on the oceanside. Want to see horses? They're up on the hills. Be careful and don't get too close: They're wild.
Then you're on your own on what looks like a desert island, ocean gusts whistling through your teeth.
We made for
....
and you'll eventually see a brown pony or two. They're small but full-grown.
最後接
Get to shackleford early and plan to spending the day.
11.15-11.16
http://www.jsonline.com/features/health/96503509.html
Chopping down the rain forest can harm animals such as toucans, golden lion tamarind monkeys and poison dart frogs. Now, add another species to the list - humans
...
The region's 10,000 to 15,000 inhabitants logged a staggering 15,437 cases of malaria that year.
11.16
Health districts with extensive deforestation had higher rates of malaria than those with intact forests, even when controlling for population density or how quickly people got treatment.
... (最後段)
"If we keep treating diseases like malaria and other infectious diseases without understanding the underlying determinants of disease transmission, it's equivalent to mopping up the floor without turning off the faucet,
Chopping down the rain forest can harm animals such as toucans, golden lion tamarind monkeys and poison dart frogs. Now, add another species to the list - humans
...
The region's 10,000 to 15,000 inhabitants logged a staggering 15,437 cases of malaria that year.
11.16
Health districts with extensive deforestation had higher rates of malaria than those with intact forests, even when controlling for population density or how quickly people got treatment.
... (最後段)
"If we keep treating diseases like malaria and other infectious diseases without understanding the underlying determinants of disease transmission, it's equivalent to mopping up the floor without turning off the faucet,
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