《英美报刊选读》

CONTENTS1

PartⅠ News Stories1

1．News Sources1

2．Basically speaking,a computer whizzkid By Our Education Correspondent6

3．Moscow leads world shipping(Abridged)By Michael Baily,Transport Editor8

4．Money Flow:A study of wealth and poverty10

5．Italy’s Case of Small Injustice13

6．Scholars Ask for Action Now To Save Global Environment(Special to The New York Times)By PHILIP SHABECOFF16

7．Significant Progress on Water Pollution Reported20

8．In U.S.,Chinese Get a Taste of New England(Special to the New York Times)24

Part Ⅱ Features,Reports and Column Articles31

9．Science report Getting to the root of food production31

By John Young,Agrfculture Correspondent31

10．Women in Hungary:Changing minds By Georgina Ferry34

11．Science and religion Paradoxes of physics and theology By Russell Stannard(Professor of Phys-ics,Open University)38

12．Letter from New York Down and out in the soup-kitchen queue43

13．Letter from New York A city devoted to its stomach By Trevor Fishlock48

14．Turning Green into Yellow One-third ofWest Germany’s precious forests are dying off(Abridged)54

15．Genetic engineering:1 On the brink of a new world59

16．How Rro Football Was Ruined？MY TURN/ROLAND MERULLO66

17．Where We Stand No Simple Rx for Public School Japan and France Have Troubles,Too72

By Albert Shanker72

18．Out of College and Into the Red By Sharon Johnson78

19．Sally Ride:Ready for Liftoff—America’s first space-bound woman has already left the rest of the world behind(Abridged)87

20．Dragon Ships Betore Columbus？BY JAY STULLER94

21．Policy Studies Institute survey Londoners fear for their safety at night but back pol ice,poll shows By Peter Evans,Home Affairs Correspondent105

22．Behavior Sudden Death Mass murder at a McDonald’s112

23．“They’ve Killed My Daughter Twicel”120

24．Diary of a Homeless Man Condensed from New York(Abridged)By John R,Coleman130

PartⅡ Editorials and Book Reviews140

25．Reagan After China By James Reston140

26．New York Is Failing a Reading Test By Sheila Rule146

27．Neutral and Armed to the Teeth By Jonathan Steinberg153

28．Sickly Uncle Sam By Jeffrey E．Garten159

29．Book Review:Before It’s Too Late—A scientist’s case for nuclear energy By lan Fells167

30．The Forgetful Father of Penicillin By Jeremy Bernstein174

Vocabulary184