Power of auditing

Power of auditing Restricting（限制） the power of government leaders at various levels within reasonable limits is something the central government has been doing for the past couple of years. How effective this effort is will make a great diffe

NPR 2010-12-20

The Senate is in session today to discuss whether to ratify START, a new arms control treaty signed by President Obama and Russian President Medvedev earlier this year. Treaties require the approval of a two-thirds majority. Vice President Joe Biden

SSS 2008-11-24

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute. Its called the broken windows theory and it says that in a neighborhood where buildings have broken windows, people are more likely to engage in bad beha

印度尼西亚加大打击毒品的力度

Indonesia Increases Its Own War on Drugs Indonesias President Joko Jokowi Widodo is again urging an increase in efforts to fight illegal drugs in the country. Jokowi said police should shoot foreign drug dealers who resist arrest. He added that the c

On Motes and Beams 微尘与栋梁

On Motes and BeamsIt is curious that our own offenses should seem so much less heinous than the offenses of others. I suppose the reason is that we know all the circumstances that have occasioned them and so manage to excuse in ourselves what we cann

SSS 2010-10-01

A lot of smartphone apps can help you out if you let them access your phone's GPS. But even if you give permission, do you know everything they're doing with that information? Some computer scientists wanted to find out. So they modified the Android

林肯第二次就职演说

Second Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln March 4, 1865 Fellow-Countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in

Ezekiel 以西结书18

18The word of the LORD came to me: 2What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: 'The fathers eat sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge'? 3As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD , you will no lon

Ezekiel 以西结书33

33The word of the LORD came to me: 2Son of man, speak to your countrymen and say to them: 'When I bring the sword against a land, and the people of the land choose one of their men and make him their watchman, 3and he sees the sword coming against th

Numbers 民数记18

18The Lord said to Aaron, You, your sons and your father's family are to bear the responsibility for offenses against the sanctuary, and you and your sons alone are to bear the responsibility for offenses against the priesthood. 2Bring your fellow Le

Job 约伯记07

7Does not man have hard service on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired man? 2Like a slave longing for the evening shadows, or a hired man waiting eagerly for his wages, 3so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have

Job 约伯记14

14Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. 2He springs up like a flower and withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. 3Do you fix your eye on such a one? Will you bring him before you for judgment? 4Who can bring what is

“基地”组织仍然是加拿大的头号威胁

OTTAWA, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Al-Qaida and its affiliates remain the leading terrorist threat to Canadians, showed the country's first annual public report on terrorism released Thursday. Home-grown violent extremists have been involved in attempts to

既然能对自己宽容 何不给他人多一点耐心

It is curious that our own offenses should seem so much less heinous than the offenses of others. I suppose the reason is that we know all the circumstances that have occasioned them and so manage to excuse in ourselves what we cannot excuse in other

行政拘留年龄拟降至14岁 有关专家对此反应不一

A draft law amendment that would lower the minimum age of those who can be detained for noncriminal offenses to 14 has drawn a mixed response from experts. 最近出台的一份拟将行政拘留最低年龄降到14岁的法律修订草案，使得许多

双语职场：离职时切记不要这么做

Leaving a job is often upsetting, whether you were fired or finally decided to quit. You may have trouble remembering to do the right thing. Here are five things you should avoid doing. 不管你是被炒掉的，还是自己决定辞职，离职的时

AP 2010-12-08

1. A deal extending the Bush-era tax cuts is possible by the end of the week. It's believed congressional negotiators are working with the White House on a plan that would extend the breaks and extend unemployment benefits for millions of Americans w

西班牙法定婚龄升至16岁

On July 23, Spain has raised the minimum age for marriage from 14 to 16. 当地时间7月23日，西班牙将最低婚龄从14岁提升至16岁。 The legislation follows continued pressure from child protection groups and United Nations experts, who

这12种表达，让你显得一点都不专业

We all do it sometimes. We undermine ourselves by using less-effective language, verbal tics, and other oral miscues. That means there's always room for improvement to help your messages get through effectively. 我们有时候会这样：说一些没多

林肯第二任总统就职演说

林肯第二任总统就职演说 SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1865 Fellow-Countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in