英文杂志-Magazine：Food

Food Do we live to eat or eat to live? That is the question. I remember as a child growing up in Britain having fish and chips or baked beans on toast at least twice a week on my lap while watching my favourite cartoon. Of course I enjoyed my food bu

英文杂志-Magazine：Consumer society

Consumer societyby Julie BrayThere is enough on earth for everybodys need, but not for everyones greed. Gandhi If we only bought things we needed, there would be enough for everybody. What do we need? What you need depends on how old you are and your

英文杂志-Magazine：Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhartby Linda BaxterAmelia Earhart was born in 1897, in Kansas, USA. Even as a child she didn't behave in a conventionally 'feminine' way. She climbed trees and hunted rats with her rifle - but she wasn't particularly interested in flying. S

英文杂志-Magazine：Ice-cream and banking

Ice-cream and bankingBy John KutiRussian ice-cream is great. Any shop or street seller can offer a choice of different ones for less than ten roubles, thats about 20p in British money, which I think is a fair price. They have natural fruit flavours a

英文杂志-Magazine：Flea circuses

Flea circusesby Nik PeacheyA good circus has always built its reputation on its ability to amaze and entertain and what could be more amazing than a flea circus? But does such a thing really exist and can fleas really be taught to perform circus tric

英文杂志-Magazine：Archaeology

Archaeologyby Paul MillardArchaeology, like many academic words, comes from Greek and means, more or less, the study of old things. So, it is really a part of the study of history. However, most historians use paper evidence, such as letters, documen

英文杂志-Magazine：Rock and roll grandads

Rock'n'roll grandadsby Chris RoseIn 2005 The Rolling Stones released an album called A Bigger Bang. Many critics, as usual, chose it as their favourite of the year. This isnt very surprising, but if you think that A Bigger Bang was their 25th album n

英文杂志-Magazine：Waltzing Matilda

Waltzing Matildaby Paul MillardMost countries have a unique piece of music that means something special to its people. For many of those celebrating Australia Day this week, its a song called Waltzing Matilda, written in 1895 by a song-writer and poe

英文杂志-Magazine：Rainforests rule!

Rainforests rule!by Claire PowellA world like no other perhaps this is the best way to describe the world of the rainforest. No rainforest is exactly the same yet most rainforests are now distributed in the small land area 22.5 degrees north and 22.5

英文杂志-Magazine：Mary Seacole

Mary Seacoleby Linda BaxterThe most famous nurse of all time must be Florence Nightingale, the lady with the lamp, who became famous for her work during the Crimean War in the middle of the nineteenth century. But have you heard of Mary Seacole? I ho

英文杂志-Magazine：Physical education

Physical educationby Richard SidawaySchool days are supposed to be the best days of your life and part of that experience usually involves some strenuous physical activity. I asked some colleagues to give me their recollections of what happened to th

英文杂志-Magazine：Universities

Universitiesby Richard SidawayCairo, Bologna, and Paris have been offering them the longest. What am I talking about? A university education, of course. So who goes to university and what do they get out of their experience? More than a quarter of th

英文杂志-Magazine：Magic

Magicby John RussellDouble, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake; A. From the witches in Shakespeares Macbeth, to Gandalf the Wizard in Lord of the Rings books and films, it i

英文杂志-Magazine：Revolution

Revolutionby John KutiThe other day I was watching a debate on TV on the subject Should it be compulsory to learn English? The speaker chosen to oppose the idea was Vladimir Zhirinovskiy - a politician who many people in Europe think is a dangerous e

英文杂志-Magazine：Disability

Disabilityby Chris WilsonNowadays in the west the able bodied are constantly reminded that disabled people have rights just like everyone else and they mustnt discriminate against them in any way. Public buildings have to have ramps and toilets big e

英文杂志-Magazine：Vice, Investment

Vice, Investment, and the Seven Deadly Sinsby Craig DuncanMarch 2005: its official vice pays. And its not even illegal. This month the Financial Times examined the spectacular growth of The Vice Fund, a Texas-based investment company which encourages

英文杂志-Magazine：Surfing

Surfingby Nik PeacheyI've spent most of my entire life surfing, the rest I've wasted. (Anonymous) It seems that the oceans of the world have become many things to many different people. For some the ocean is a source of food and income, for others a

英文杂志-Magazine：Goodbye Great Auk

Goodbye Great Aukby John KutiIn those days, people still lived on the islands of Saint Kilda. Two men from the village went out on the rock. They found a big strange bird. It was sleeping. They decided to bring it home to the village. Far out into th

英文杂志-Magazine：Linus Pauling

Linus Paulingby Linda BaxterLinus Pauling was the only person who has ever won two (unshared) Nobel Prizes: for Chemistry in 1954, and a Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. He is also known as the vitamin C man. Who was Linus Pauling and what did he do?Linus

英文杂志-Magazine：Wormholes

Wormholesby Linda BaxterHave you ever read Carl Sagan's 1985 science fiction novel 'Contact'? Or have you seen the film of the same name starring Jodie Foster? If you have, then you will remember the scene near the end of the film, when the heroine t