日期：2007-12-15 ９３、The following appeared in a memorandum from the planning department of an electric power company. Several recent surveys indicate that homeowners are increasingly eager to conserve energy and manufacturers are now marketing many home appliances... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-15 ９２、It is known that in recent years, industrial pollution has caused the Earths ozone layer to thin, allowing an increase in the amount of ultraviolet radiation that reaches the Earths surface. At the same time, scientists have discovered, the pop... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-15 ９１、The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Parkville Daily Newspaper. Throughout the country last year, as more and more children below the age of nine participated in youth-league softball and soccer, over 80,000 of these young pl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-15 ９０、The following appeared in a recommendation from the president of Amburgs Chamber of Commerce. Last October the city of Belleville installed high intensity lighting in its central business district, and vandalism there declined almost immediate... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-15 ８９、The following appeared as a letter to the editor of a farming publication. With continuing publicity about the need for healthful diets, and with new research about the harmful effects of eating too much sugar, nationwide demand for sugar will... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-15 ８８、The following appeared in a newspaper feature story. At the small, nonprofit hospital in the town of Saluda, the average length of a patients stay is two days; at the large, for-profit hospital in the nearby city of Megaville, the average patie... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-15 ８７、Humans arrived in the Kaliko Islands about 7,000 years ago, and within 3,000 years most of the large mammal species that had lived in the forests of the Kaliko Islands had become extinct. Yet humans cannot have been a factor in the species exti... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-15 ８６、The citizens of Forsythe have adopted healthier lifestyles. Their responses to a recent survey show that in their eating habits they conform more closely to government nutritional recommendations than they did ten years ago. Furthermore, there... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-15 ８５、Statistics collected from dentists indicate that three times more men than women faint while visiting the dentist. This evidence suggests that men are more likely to be distressed about having dental work done than women are. Thus, dentists who... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-15 ８４、The country Myria, which charges fees for the use of national parks, reports little evidence of environmental damage. This strongly suggests that for the country Illium, the best way to preserve public lands is to charge people more money when... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-15 ８３、The following is a letter from an editor at Liber Publishing Company to the companys president. In recent years, Liber has unfortunately moved away from its original mission: to publish the works of regional small-town authors instead of those... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-15 ８２、A recent study suggests that people who are left-handed are more likely to succeed in business than are right-handed people. Researchers studied photographs of 1,000 prominent business executives and found that 21 percent of these executives wr... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-15 ８１、The Department of Education in the state of Attra recommends that high school students be assigned homework every day. Yet a recent statewide survey of high school math and science teachers calls the usefulness of daily homework into question.... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-15 ８０、The following is a letter to the editor of the Roseville Gazette. Despite opposition from some residents of West Roseville, the arguments in favor of merging the townships of Roseville and West Roseville are overwhelming. First, residents in bo... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-15 ７９、The following is a letter from a professor at Xanadu College to the colleges president. The development of an extensive computer-based long-distance learning program will enhance the reputation of Xanadu College. This program would allow more s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-15 ７８、The following is a letter to the editor of the Glenville Gazette, a local newspaper. Over the past few years, the number of people who have purchased advance tickets for the Glenville Summer Concert series has declined, indicating lack of commu... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-15 ７７、The following is a recommendation from the dean at Foley College, a small liberal arts college, to the president of the college. Since college-bound students are increasingly concerned about job prospects after graduation, Foley College should... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-15 ７６、A new report suggests that men and women experience pain very differently from one another, and that doctors should consider these differences when prescribing pain medications. When researchers administered the same dosage of kappa options---... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-15 ７５、The following appeared as part of an article in a health magazine. A new discovery warrants a drastic change in the diets of people living in the United States. Two scientists have recently suggested that omega -3 fatty acids (found in some fis... 阅读全文>>

日期：2007-12-15 ７４、The following is a recommendation from the director of personnel to the president of Professional Printing Company. In a recent telephone survey of automobile factory workers, older employees were less likely to report that having a supervisor... 阅读全文>>