智慧人生篇章 第10期:社保困局

But social security carries a risk: the risk that some will abuse the system, taking without giving. It's a risk we seem increasingly unwilling to accept. Attitudes are changing. Yet coming down hard on the unemployed also carries a risk. The risk th

Placebo Effect Update

By Nancy Steinbach Broadcast: November 19, 2003 This is Phoebe Zimmermann with the VOA Special English Health Report. When scientists want to test the effectiveness of a new drug, they usually divide

蒋健棠英语实用句子22:His health condition is bound to effect

His health condition is bound to effect his work. 他的病况一定会影响他的工作。 be bound to指一定，必定，免不了。又如： His laziness is bound to result in his failure. 他的懒惰注定导致他的失败。

金融世界 第十一讲(有声)

The government as manager 在这一讲中我们要谈的话题是：The government as manager, 政府对经济的管理，以及经济学家对凯恩斯经济学理论的不同看法。 英国著名经济

Belief in Cause and Effect

Benjamin Frankin wondered about(at) lightning. He combined his curiosity with imagination and carried out his well-known experiment to show that lightning and an electric spark are the same thing. Cur

Birthplace effect “出生地效应”

今年7月，14岁的美国华裔少年刘继打破老虎伍兹的纪录，成为美国青少年高尔夫锦标赛史上最年轻的冠军，同时刷新老虎伍兹保持了19年的纪录。刘继出生在纽约州一个只有11万人口的小城市史

英语小达人 188 The Effect of Advertisement

The Effect of Advertisement 广告的效果 Some businessmen were talking about advertising on TV excitedly. As none of them had ever done it before, every one had his point of view. At this moment, Mr. Grey came by. He was a car dealer and he had on

Placebo Effect Study

60 测试新药安慰剂的疗效 DATE=6-21-01 TITLE=SCIENCE REPORT - Placebo Effect Study BYLINE=Nancy Steinbach (Start at 59

每日一词【619】ripple effect：连锁反应

今天我们要学的词是ripple effect。 Ripple effect, 连锁反应。 The shutdown of the local mine had ripple effects on the entire community, 当地这家煤矿的关门，在整个社区引起了连锁反应。 美国汽车业界人士警告说

每日一词【753】side effect：副作用

今天我们要学的词是side effect。 Side effect, 副作用。一项最近民调显示，Most Americans want health reform but fear its potential side effects, 大多数美国人都希望看到医疗改革，但是又担心改革可能带来的副

不好好工作还能做点什么?

Three hours a day is quite enough, wrote John Maynard Keynes in his 1930 essay Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren. The essay continues to tantalise its readers today, thanks in part to a forecast that is looking magnificently right that in

温室效应 The Greenhouse Effect

As the development of the society, people want to conquer the environment, they use the high technology to change the environment, when people are satisfied with what they did to the nature, the nature is starting to teach human being a lesson. In th

零基础学英语：affect & effect词汇辨析

Affect and effect are different in meaning, though frequently confused. Affect is chiefly used as a verb and its main meaning is to influence or make a difference to, as in the following example sentences: Affect一般用作动词，其含义为：影响

学个词Learn a Word 第753期 side effect

今天我们要学的词是side effect。 Side effect, 副作用。一项最近民调显示，Most Americans want health reform but fear its potential side effects, 大多数美国人都希望看到医疗改革，但是又担心改革可能带来的副

中考英语热点作文：温室效应 The Greenhouse Effect

As the development of the society, people want to conquer the environment, they use the high technology to change the environment, when people are satisfied with what they did to the nature, the nature is starting to teach human being a lesson. In th

经济学人:战后经济秩序的核心:凯恩斯主义经济学

Keynes advised the government during the first world war and participated in the Versailles peace conference, which ended up extracting punitive reparations from Germany. 第一次世界大战期间，凯恩斯曾在出任政府顾问，参与过最终

经济学人:明斯基的繁荣孕育泡沫破裂之种子(上)

Economics brief: Financial stability: Minsky's moment 经济概要：金融稳定：明斯基的时刻 The second article in our series on seminal economic ideas looks at Hyman Minsky's hypothesis that booms sow the seeds of busts. 六大经济思想之

经济学人:六大经济学原理:失业的自然比率(2)

If people cannot find jobs because they have outdated skillsthink hand weavers after the invention of the loomthey might become structurally unemployed. 如果人们是因为具有过时的技能而不能找到工作想想织布机发明之后的手工

Pope leaves Vatican, resignation takes effect

VATICAN CITY, Feb.28 (Xinhua) -- The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI came into effect at 8 pm local time (1900 GMT) on Thursday, who had left the Vatican by helicopter for the papal vacation retreat in south Rome earlier in the afternoon. The pope h

Efforts to ease medical costs take effect

BEIJING, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Medicine prices at public clinics have been notably reduced thanks to a policy that promotes basic medicine, an office of the State Council said Thursday. Current price levels of basic medicine used by government-funded t