The first part of the newspaper is devoted to the most important news of the day. Then there are sections for local, national, and international news. The editorial section is next, with news analysis, opinions, and political cartoons. Most newspapers contain a business section, a sports section, and a section for classified advertisements. Some newspapers have a features section, which is devoted to special articles about interesting events and ideas. Sometimes newspapers publish additional sections, or supplements, such as advertising supplements describing goods for sale at local stores.

First, they do the same work as men and get the same pay. In almost all the working fields, where there are men, there are women. And they are taking more responsibilities for the work they do than before. Second, women are playing a more and more important part in politics. There are many female stateswomen, female diplomats in the modern world. Third, women now take part in almost all social activities.

With the change in their social role, women's position in the family has been improved as well. They share equal rights in family decisions; they as well as their husbands do the housework, and look after the baby or educate their children. Though the alter may not do as much as their wives, the situation goes better.

In spite of these changes, the liberation of women has not bee completely realized. There are still some women who are content t

The Fortune Tellers

Their prices fell by an unprecedented1 25% last year, marking a highly unusual third consecutive" year of decline. Thai means that shares almost certainly have to go up this year: Right'/

1 in sorry, I haven t a chic1'. "And 1 m not the only one. Last year, a panel of leading City' experts polled by the Financial Tiling at the end of 2001 predicted that the FTSK-HX) share index would close al the end of 2002 somewhere between 5,350 and 6,200 points. With such a wide margin of error there was obviously a good chance that someone1 would get it right, if only1 by accident. That is not what happened. I hey all got it wrong, and not only wrong but wildly wrong. The index closed the year at 3,910. 4 points.

All the experts thought shares would rise by at least 2%, whereas in fact they fell by 25%. That is quite a serious miscalculation by people' who are paid hundreds of thousands of pounds a year to get it right. It might well have" caused thousands of savers to keep their pensions or other savings in equities' , rather than switch to gills" (or put the money under their pillows)--both of which would have had a far higher return than investing in equities.

In ordinary circumstances, people making errors like this might be in fear of their jobs but don't worry, most of the same people and companies are still in business" and are making more authoritative predictions for this year.

Now for the bad news. Last year s mistake was not a one-off1" miscalculation which investors can ignore. For the past six years.

The city experts have got it seriously wrong every lime.

Whenever anyone asks me about shares. I freely admit that 1 am absolutely useless about predicting what will happen in the coming month-—or years - and that on no account11 should they take my advice. And, unlike the City experts. 1 don't charge them a penny.

But that doesn't mean 1 have been wrong. I have been convinced for years that shares were seriously overvalued even before the last bull market'"' got underway1".

Inventions

Rihina has a tremendously long, rich history; it has contributed immeasurably to the progress of human knowledge and culture. Schoolchildren the world over have learned about what we call China's "four great inventions"; gunpowder, paper, the compass, the printing press. (Actually I was a bit older than a schoolchild when I first learned that China had long been publishing books and had vast libraries when the Gutenberg press was invented in Germany. China 's contributions to art, literature, philosophy and all forms of culture are well known. One Chinese invention of particular significance for me as a naval officer is the hinged rudder, which enables ships to move in the right direction. ' Another thing that has always struck me is the career of the Chinese admiral Zheng He, who sailed in the 1400s, before the land that was later to become the U. S. had been discovered by Europeans. ' He sailed with a fleet of 62 ships, the largest of which was about a hundred meters long, three times bigger than Columbus' largest ship on his first voyage of discover.

The U. S. does not have so long a history as China does. In recent years our country has been associated with scientific progress and technical innovation.3 We can talk about America's "four great inventions": the telephone, the semi-conductor, the personal computer and the Internet.

Almost every country is filing increasing numbers of patent applications each year. This reflects the growing importance of intellectual property, along with the accelerating pace of technological change. In 2000, inventors in China filed over 130,000 patent applications, an increase of 10% over 1999, China's new paten law, to go into effect on 1 July, will streamline patent applies tions.4

Many people are familiar with Abraham Lincoln's political career. Less known is the fact that he was a lawyer and also an inventor who registered patents at the U.S. Patent Office.3 In Lincoln's time the U. S. was largely an agrarian society. In 1859, before he became president, he gave a speech on inventions and discoveries in which he said that there were four steps in the advancement of laws to protect intellectual property. Lincoln, a great student of how people work and interact, pointed out that there were four steps in the advancement of laws to protect intellectual property. It gave him the opportunity to capitalize on his own invention. In Lincoln's words, it "adds the fuel of interest" to the fire of genius.

Characteristics of Successful Memos

Successful memos generally share the features listed below:

1. Subject headings. Memos contain such guideword headings as To, From, Date, and Subject. These headings help readers immediately know the date, the sender, and the purpose of the message.

2. Single topic. A successful memo discusses only one topic. Limiting the topic helps the reader concentrate on the subject and take action on the subject quickly. A single topic also makes it easy to file and retrieve the memo.

3. Conversational tone. The tone of memos tends to be conversational because both the writer and the reader are familiar with each other. Therefore, you may use ordinary words, first-person pronouns, and occasional contractions, like don't, I'm, you're, or we'll. Yet, this does not mean you should be casual with your writing. You shouldn't include any remark that you wouldn't make to the face of your colleagues.

4. Conciseness. As an efficient form of internal communication, memos contain only what you intend to convey. Often you do not have to provide background information when you are certain the reader knows about the subject discussed in the memo, nor do you need to make as much goodwill effort as you do in letters to your business partners outside of the organization.

You should avoid wordy expressions and sentences. For example, don't use "because of the fact that," or "I am writing this memo to inform you that..."

5. Visual signalling. Effective memo writers highlight important words, phrases, points, and sections with

• numbers or bullets listed vertically;

• boldface or italics;

• headings and subheadings.

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In 1961, scientists set up gigantic, sensitive apparatus to collect radio waves from the far reaches of space, hoping to discover in them some mathematical pattern indicating that the waves were sent out by other intelligent beings. The first attempt failed, but someday the experiment may succeed.

What reason is there to think that we may actually detect intelligent life in outer space? To begin with, modern theories of the development of stars suggest that almost every star has some sort of family of planets. So any star like our own sun (and there are billions of such stars in the universe) is likely to have a planet situated at such a distance that it would receive about the same amount of radiation as the earth.

Furthermore, such a planet would probably have the same general composition as our own; so, allowing a billion years or two—or three—there would be a very good chance for life to develop, if current theories of the origin of life are correct.

But intelligent life? Life that has reached the stage of being able to send radio waves out into space in a deliberate pattern1 ? Our own planet may have been in existence for five billion years and may have had life on it for two billion, but it is only in the last fifty years that intelligent life capable of sending radio waves into space has lived on earth. From this it might seem that even if there were no technical problems involved, the chance of receiving signals from any particular earth-type planet would be extremely small.

This does not mean that intelligent life at our level does not exist somewhere. There is such an unimaginable number of stars that, even at such miserable odds", it seems certain that there are millions of intelligent life forms scattered though space. The only trouble is, none may be within hailing distance of us. J Perhaps none ever will be; perhaps the appalling distances that separate us from our fellow denizens' of this universe will forever remain too great to be conquered. And yet it is conceivable that someday we may come across one of them or, frighteningly, one of them may come across us. What would they be like, these extraterrestrial creatures?

Next new store in Plainsville

With the suggested plan to build the " next new store in Plainsville," and with their ambition to earn big money there, the vice president and his Nature's Way are going to get disappointed, to be sure. Absurdity is the matter.

It's absurd to identify people who "are highly concerned with leading healthy lives" and, based on such identification, to conclude that you can profitably sell something to them. It's absurd because people in "every" area are so concerned, but it's foolish to believe that you can sell your products everywhere. This is the same as to say that the important thing is not to find out whether people are concerned with leading healthy lives, but to know what they will choose to do in order to lead healthy lives. Now it is clear that there are two ways that are likely to lead to good health; eating "healthy food" and using "health-related" products on the one hand, and participating in physical exercises on the other. For Nature's Way to make a decision about whether it should build a new store in Plainsville, it must first of all answer this question: What will Plainsville residents choose to do?

The commonsense answer; Plainsville residents will choose to do what they can afford to.

I have reasons to say that Plainsville is a rural, less developed area. This is evidenced first by Plainsville residents' prevailing love of running shoes, which indicates that most of them participate in the exercise running. In big cities, most people do not participate in running because, owing to the lack of open space, they can not afford to practice running, or, to run in narrow spaces and crowded streets, they run without pleasure. When people enjoying running, however, it must be because they enjoy plenty of open spaces, like luxuriously large play ground, or open fields, so much the better. This is also evidenced by the fact that Nature's Way, a chain of stores that has been operating in many areas, are still hesitating to operate in Plainsville. Such hesitation can be best explained by the fact that Plainsville is economically less developed and therefore less likely to allow Nature's Way to make big profit there.

As residents of a rural, less developed area, Plainsville residents may be merely "better-off," and therefore can afford the less expensive way of healthy lives, which requires only "running shoes and exercise clothing," provided locally and therefore cheaply. That is, much to the disappointment of Nature's Way and its vice president, Plainsville residents are not likely to buy its "health food and other health-related products," as evidenced by the vice president's memorandum; how the "local health club" saved itself from a near closedown five years igo by providing to Plainsville residents such physical exercises as " weight training and aerobics classes," and low Plainsville schoolchildren are required to participate in a "fitness for life" program that emphasizes the benefits’ of "regular exercise" at an early age.

So Plainsville residents started loving the simple, cheap exercise from their childhood! This love has got into heir very bone i. e. , "habit. " Considering that habit is power, we can not but admit that Plainsville residents /ill stick to their own way to healthy lives, and will not make a change. Let the vice president of Nature's Way e sufficiently impressed with that.

Code Law

Western continental Europe follows code law. Code law comes out of the French legal tradition. French code law dates back to 1806. It was written under the direction of the Emperor Napoleon in an attempt to clarify the legal situation. Although French code law is based on Roman codes, it also incorporates some of the ideals of the French Revolution, such as the right to private property and the freedom to make contracts. French code law also is known as the Code Napoleon. French code law is written in a clear and concise style; it is meant for the citizen.

German code law (Burgerliche Gesetzbuch, or BOB) was enacted in 1896. It is a highly structured, precise, and detailed system. In both the French and the German systems decisions are made by expert judges who interpret the law. Previous decisions in similar situations have only limited persuasive authority.

Code law is deductive. A student of code law learns to read the law paragraph by paragraph. He or she gets the interpretation of the law from a law professor or judge. Previous cases involving a similar legal issue are not binding and not overly important in the logical thought process.

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