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　　In the last few years our communications network has been growing at a very fast pace．The old fixed－line telephone has been replaced by mobile phones．Short Message Service(SMS)．e－mail and instant messaging(IM)．And there are other new ways of communicating related to the Internet, such as blogs．

　　A recent study in Switzerland shows the different roles that communication methods can play．Stefana Broadbent is a scientist at Swisscom, Switzerland’s largest telecoms company．She studied several hundred consumers and their reactions to telecommunications．She found people are very good at choosing the besttechnology for each situation．

　　“IM is used to tell you I miss you; e-mail is to organize our dinner; voice mail is to say, I'm late; and SMS to continue our talk on the way,”says Broadbent, joking a little．

　　Landline phones are an open channel．That means people use them to talk about non-private things．That's because other family members or colleagues have access to the phone．Mobile phones are more for adding last-minute information．SMS is used for close friends to keep in touch．It is very efficient and pri-vate．The messages are often related to personal secrets．People often use e-mail for online communication with bigger social groups．That includes ordinary friends．Or it is used for exchanging pictures, music, and other content among a social network．IM, such as MSN and QQ, is a continuous channel．Users open an instant messaging channel for the day．Then they just keep it open while they do other activities．Managing a blog is like creating your own independent club on the Internet for friends to visit．It is often the centre of a small group of friends who share the same hobbies．

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　　WHAT is the top hit single of 20067 It’s“Don’t Wanna Grow Up”!

　　Taiwan girl band S．H．E took home the gold hit award at the 2006 Hong Kong TVB8 Top Chart Awards(金曲榜)last week, with“Don’t Wanna Grow Up”from their eighth album“Once Upon A Time”．

　　It’s the first time S．H．E has won the award．The three members, Selina．Hebe and Ella were all very excited about it．They not only performed the song at the award ceremony．but also offered exaggerated(夸张的)hugs when giving awards to other artists．

　　“Don’t Wanna Grow Up”is a song with light tunes(旋律)and easy lyrics．Its music writer Zuo Anan used the tunes from Mozart’s Symphony N040 as the refrain(副歌)．That gives the song a very classical feeling．The song has a similar theme to that of Peter Pan, the boy who doesn’t grow up．“l don’t wanna grow up．When I grow up there won’t be fairy tales in the world．I don’t wanna grow up．I’d rather beig-norant and foolish．”In the song, S．H．E expresses young people’s common fear of the adult world and thedesire to stay young foFever．

　　The song has been quite popular among high school students since it came out．Xiao Xue, a Senior l student from Shanghai, said that she often hums(哼歌)the refrain part herself．

　　“I like the lyrics t00,”she said．“I often wish that I could go back to my childhood, when I had enough time to play and didn’t have to worry about all the exams。”

　　S．H．E said that the song also expresses their true feelings．Their rocking Success in the past six years has led to the three young girls heavy workloads(工作量)and forced them to grow up very quickly．“When we first started singing．we were quite carefree and we had our own musical dreams,”said S．H．E．“‘Don’t Wanna Grow Up’reminds us of those happy times and of our original dreams．”

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　　A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is to respect the self-made man－the man who has risen to the top through his own efforts, usually beginning by working with his hands．While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher social position and commands greater respect in the community than the common laborer or even the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father started life in America as a farmer or laborer of some sort．

　　This attitude toward manual(体力的)labor is now still seen in many aspects of American life．One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only comfortably but even luxuriously(豪华地)furnished and in which there is every evidence of the fact that the family has been able to afford foreign travel, expensive hobbies, and college education for the children; yet the hostess probably will cook the dinner herself, will serve it herself and will wash dishes afterward, furthermore the dinner will not consist merely of something quickly and easily got from contents of various cans and a cake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery．On the contrary, the hostess usually takes pride in careful preparation of special dishes．A professional man may talk about washing the car, digging in his flowerbeds, painting the house．His wife may even help with these things, just as he often helps her with the dishwashing．The son who is away at college may wait on table and wash dishes for his living, or during the summer he may work with a construction gang on a highway in order to pay for his education．

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　　The Marches were a happy family．Poverty, hard work, and even the fact that Father March was away with the Union armies could not down the spirits of Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, and Matinee, as the March girls called their mother．

　　The March sisters tried to be good but had their share of faults．Pretty Meg was often displeased with the schoolchildren she taught; boyish Jo was easy to become angry; golden-haired schoolgirl Amy liked to show up; but Beth, who kept the house, was loving and gentle always．

　　The happy days passed and darkness came when a telegram arrived for Mrs．March．“Your husband is very ill,”it said,“come at once．”The girls tried to be brave when their mother left for the front．They waited and prayed．Little Beth got scarlet fever(猩红热)when she was taking care of a sick neighbor．She became very ill but began to recover by the time Marmee was back．Then Father came home from the front and at that joyful Christmas dinner they were once more all together．

　　Three years later the March girls had grown into young womanhood．Meg became Mrs．Brooke, and after a few family troubles got used to her new state happily．Jo had found pleasure in her literary efforts．Amy had grown into a young lady with a talent for design and an even greater one for society．But Beth had never fully regained her health, and her family watched her with love and anxiety．

　　Amy was asked to go and stay in Europe with a relative of the Marches’．Jo went to New York and became successful in her writing and had the satisfaction of seeing her work published there．But at home the bitterest blow was yet to fall．Beth had known for some time that she couldn't live much longer to be with her family, and in the springtime she died．

　　News came from Europe that Amy and Laurie, the grandson of a wealthy neighbor, had planned to be married soon．Now Jo became ever more successful in her writing and got married to Professor Bhaer, and soon afterwards founded a school for boys．

　　And so the little women had grown up and lived happily with their children, enjoying the harvest of love and goodness that they had devoted all their lives to．

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　　Motherhood may make women smarter and may help prevent dementia(痴呆)in old age by bathing the brain in protective hormones(荷尔蒙), U．S．reseachers reported on Thursday．

　　Tests on rats show that those who raise two or more litters of pups do considerably better in tests of memory and skills than rats who have no babies, and their brains show changes that suggest they may be protected against diseases such as Alzheimer’s(早老痴呆症)．University of Richmond psychology professor Craig Kinsley believes his findings will translate into humans．

　　“Our research shows that the hormones of pregnancy(怀孕)are protecting the brain, including estrogen(雌激素), which we know has many neuroprotective(保护神经的)effects,”Kinsley said．

　　“It’s rat data(资料)but humans are mammals(哺乳动物))just like these animals are mammals,”he added in a telephone interview．“They go through pregnancy and hormonal changes．”

　　Kinsley said he hoped public health officials and researchers will look to see if having had children protects a woman from Alzheimer’s and other forms of age-related brain decline．

　　“When people think about pregnancy, they think about what happens to babies and the mother from the neck down,”said Kinsley, who presented his findings to the yearly meeting of the Society of Neuroscience in Orlando, Florida．

　　“They do not realize that hormones are washing on the brain．If you look at female animals who have never gone through pregnancy, they act differently toward young．But if she goes through pregnancy, she will sacrifice her life for her infant－that is a great change in her behavior that showed in genetic alterations(改变)to the brain．”

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　　Jonathan James looks like just another kid about to graduate from high school．But this 19-year-old Swede is far from ordinary．From the computer in his parents’ home he helps the US Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI)find out the world’s most wanted cyber criminals(网络犯罪分子)．

　　Jonathan first made headlines when he and another Swede, Fredrik Bjoerck, found out the maker of the“Melissa”virus(病毒)in March 1999．He came to the aid of the FBI again on May 7, finding out the suspected(嫌疑的)sender of the dangerous“I LOVE YOU”virus．The suspect was caught in Manila on May 8．

　　Jonathan’s special skills are in hot demand as officials around the world express alarm at the“virtual”crimewave．In between studying for final exams, hanging out with friends and refereeing(担任裁判)his younger brother’s football matches, the quiet, gentle teenager also gives lessons on e-security(电子安全)to large companies．He reads a lot and exchanges information with other computer experts to know much about the latest tricks of the hacker(黑客)trade．

　　Many companies have already tried to employ him, but he is not interested at the moment．Instead, he plans to begin law school in the autumn at Sweden’s Uppsala University and start up his own e-security company．

　　Although he works with the FBI now, his family insists he’s just“a regular kid”．“Jonathan is a great kid, he has his friends and he does a lot more than just play with the computer,”his little sister Tessa said, adding that he helps the FBI because“he likes to help”, not because he’s looking for fame and recognition．

　　When the world was hit by the“Love Bug”virus, Jonathan was too busy preparing a speech on e-security to look into the problem．“Finally on May 7, I had some free time, so I began looking．”Within a few hours, he had found the suspect and e-mailed his method and results to the FBI．He said his work on the“Melissa”virus, which took three weeks to solve, was a big help in finding the suspect so quickly．

　　“This time I knew exactly where to start, I knew what to disregard and what to look at．”

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　　Sam is not yet 2．He watches almost no TV and is taken on daily walks through the zoo, so it was not surprising when he pointed to an elephant and said,“Ella．”What was unexpected was when he pointed to his diaper(尿布)and said, “Elmo．”

　　In Sam's world, Elmo doesn't live on Sesame Street．He is the cheerful face of Pampers, printed on the waistband, requested at every change．The little image has made Pampers Sam's diaper of choice and Pampers supplier Procter ＆ Gamble very happy．If Sam's interest holds, his parents will buy more than 2,000 worth of Pampers before their son is potty(便壶)trained．And, the chances are, others who love Sam will encourage that change with the Sesame Street Potty Elmo and over time so large an amount of Elmo equipment that Sam's family may feel they live on the street．

　　Sam is but one of the army of tiny consumers．In the United States, children recognize product patterns by 18 months, according to Boston College professor Juliet Schor, and, by 2, many ask for products by brand name．Some parents report that baby's first word was not “mama”or“dada”but“Coke”－which makes sense considering that 26 percent of kids 2 and under have a TV in their room and the average American child sees some 40,000 advertisements a year．That in turn helps explain why the United States, with 4．5 percent of the world's population, buys 45 percent of the global toy production．American kids get an average of 70 new toys a year, calculates Schor, who surveyed 300 children for her new book, Born to Buy．

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