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WELCOME TO YOUR FREE ISH MEMBERSHIP

Your Membership

　　International Students House is a unique, cultural and recreational(娱乐的)center providing a wide programme of events for students 310 days a year．

　　Located in a fashionable and safe neighbourhood, close to Regent’s Park, ISH is a central place to meet students from Britain and around the world．

　　ISH provides all its members with the opportunity to enjoy a wide variety of sports and hobbies in a friendly and fun environment．Many of the activities are free of charge as part of membership, while some charge a small fee．

　　Membership is open to all full-time students, professional trainess and student nurses．

LEARN

　　Lecture Series

　　ISH organizes a number of lively, topical lectures of political and contemporary(当代的)interest by famous speakers．

　　Language Classes

　　A variety of weekly language classes which in the past have included English, Spanish Japanese and Italian．

　　ISH tries to offer as many development and educational programmes as possible for its members．Look out for additional workshops and leadership programmes．E-mail：learn@ish．org．uk．

CREATE

　　Sunday Cinema

　　Films are shown every Sunday evening at 19∶30 including recent blockbusters(大片), theme nights and classics．

　　Classes

　　Show your talents or learn from the beginning with our various classes and workshops which include Life Drawing, Photography, and Drama．

　　Throughout the year ISH holds numerous exhibitions, recitals(公演)and performances put on by the students．To get more information, e-mail：create@ish.org.uk．

TRAVEL

　　Travel Club

　　The Travel Club runs a comprehensive schedule of day and weekend trips to British and European destinations．Students get the chance to explore new parts of the UK and meet people from all over the world．Sightseeing, canoeing, hiking, eating out, socializing and meeting local people are what you can expect to experience during the trips．E-mail：travel@ish.org.uk．

ACTIVE

　　Classes

　　Try out our Martial Arts and Fitness Classes every week night including Kick Boxing, TaiChi, Kung Fu and Shaolin as well as Yoga, and Aerobics classes．All our classes are run by qualified and professional instructors．

　　Sports

　　Join in our recreational and team sports such as football, volleyball, running, table tennis, and chess．

　　ISH Dangerous Sports Club：

　　We also organize such activities as go-karting, painballing and adventure weekends．E-mail：active@ish.org.uk．

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　　How to protect children Web fans from unsuitable material on-line while encouraging them to use the Internet has long been discussed in the U．S．

　　For some parents, the Internet can seem like a jungle, filled with danger for their children．But jungles contain wonders as well as dangers and with good guides, some education, and a few precautions(预防措施), the wilds of the Internet can be safely navigated(航行)．“Kids have to be on-line．If we tell our kids they can’t have access(机会)to the Internet, we’re cutting them off from their future,”said an expert．

　　Most kids have started to use search engines．Many of them are great for finding tons of interesting Internet sites, and they can also locate places where you might not want your kids to go．There are search engines designed just for kids．A certain software contains only sites that have been selected as safe．The most popular way to limit access would be to use what is known as a“content screener(过滤器)”．But this can’t be wholly reliable(可靠), and the best thing parents can do is to talk to their kids and let them know what is OK or not OK to see or do on the Internet．Another way is that mum or dad is nearby when the child is surfing(浏览)the Internet．

　　●Don’t put the PC in a child’s room but keep it in an area where mum or dad can keep an eye on things．That also makes the Internet more of a family activity．

　　●Ask your child what he or she has been doing and about any friends they make on-line．

　　●Tell your child not to give on-line strangers personal information, especially like address and phone number．

　　●And tell your children never to talk to anyone they meet on-line over the phone, send them anything, accept anything from them or agree to meet with them unless you go along．

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　　Want a glance of the future of health care?Take a look at the way the various networks of people about patient care are being connected to one another, and how this new connectivity is being exploited to deliver medicine to the patient－no matter where he or she may be．

　　Online doctors offering advice based on normal symptoms(症状)are the most obvious example．Increasingly, however, remote diagnosis(远程诊断)will be based on real physiological data(生理数据)from the actual patient．A group from the University of Kentucky has shown that by using personal data assistance plus a mobile phone, it is perfectly practical to send a patient’s important signs over the telephone．With this kind of equipment, the cry asking whether there was a doctor in the house could well be a thing of the past．

　　Other medical technology groups are working on applying telemedicine to rural(countryside)care．And at least one team wants to use telemedicine as a tool for disaster need－especially after earthquakes．On the whole, the trend is towards providing global access to medical data and experts’ opinions．

　　But there is one problem．Bandwidth(宽带)is the limiting factor for sending complex(复杂的)medical pictures around the world－CT photos being one of the biggest bandwidth users．Communication satellites may be able to deal with the short-term needs during disasters such as earthquakes or wars．But medicine is looking towards both the second-generation Internet and third-generation mobile phones for the future of remote medical service．

　　Doctors have met to discuss computer-based tools for medical diagnosis, training and telemedicine．With the falling price of broadband communications, the new technologies should start a new time when telemedicine and the sharing of medical information, experts’ opinions and diagnosis are common．

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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 assembled 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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　　A good teacher is many things to many people．In my own experience, the people I respect the most and think about the most are the teachers who demanded the most discipline(纪律)from their students．

　　I miss one teacher in particular that I had in high school．I think she was a good teacher because she was a very strict person．I remember very clearly a sign on her classroom door．It was a simple sign that said,“Laboratory：in this room the first five letters of the word was stressed not the last seven．”In other words, labor for her was more important than oratory, which means making speeches．

　　She prepared her work very carefully and told us to do the same．We got lots of homework from her．Once she had broken her arm, and everybody in the class thought that maybe the homework load would be reduced, but it continued just the same．She checked our work by stamping her name at the bottom of the papers to show that she had read them．

　　I think sometimes teachers who demand the most are liked the least．But as time goes by, this discipline really seems to benefit the students．

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　　Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions usually cause the largest, most disastrous debris(碎石)flows．A great many victims of the earthquake that struck Wenchuan of Sichuan province last May were killed not by the quake itself but by the sudden large amounts of debris that followed．

　　Most debris flows occur where the soil is composed mainly of sand or colluviums(崩积层)．Loose soils made up of bits of sand or colluviums fall apart easily and are main material for fast-moving debris flows．

　　Scientists have conducted endless experiments to find out how debris flows work．They have learned that the amount and the timing of water entering the soil are crucial(决定性的)．Typically, that means debris flows often occur when a long rainy period of many weeks is followed by an intense, brief heavy rain．

　　More often than not, however, debris flows are started by water, in the form of rain, snow, or river flow．In 1998, heavy rains from Hurricane Mitch unleashed about one million tons of mudslides, burying thousands of people, in Central America．

　　Water flows through the soil until it hits a hard layer of bedrock or clay．There the water builds up, filling the tiny spaces between the soil and rock．That buildup reduces the natural friction(摩擦力)that keeps the rock and soil debris lying on the slope．If conditions are approaching dangerous levels, the slope will then fall down．

　　Despite what scientist know about the fact, debris flows are still impossible to predict at present because there are many other uncertains affect the stability of each slope．However, one thing is known：On hillsides where one debris flow has occurred, another will eventually follow．The next debris flow could take days, weeks, or years to happen．

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　　Crime in the city of Clio hit a 30-year low last year．“This is absolutely wonderful for our citizens, our businesses, and our visitors," said Police Chief Louis Gates．Clio has a population of 28,000, but it has at least 30 gangs(帮派)．The gangs make most of their money from dealing drugs and offering "protection．” They also commit violent crimes, such as stealing, robbery or even murder．

　　There were 1,486 thefts last year．Most of the thefts involved cars．Thieves also robbed the people at gunpoint or pickpocketed them．They broke into houses and businesses at the alarming rate of two a day two years ago, but that rate was down to only one a day last year．"That's a 50-percent decrease in one year," said Gates．"I think the police officers deserve a big pat on the back．Even better, maybe they’ll get that 10-percent raise that they are all hoping for．"

　　With an example of how the police force has helped reduce crime, Gates talked about bicycle thefts．"For years and years, kids were locking up their bikes at bike stands in front of schools, libraries, and shopping mails．About 10 percent of the time, the kids would come out of the school or wherever and discover that their bike was no longer there．We wracked our brains(绞尽脑汁)trying to find a solution to this problem．Finally, at the beginning of last year, when we simply removed most of the bike stands, then the bicycle theft rate came down quickly．

　　Most cities in the state have similar problems．They all involve too many people, too much crime, too few police, and too little money．These problems go along with civilization everywhere．They might reduce, but they will probably never disappear．All people can do is hope for the best and prepare for the worst．

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　　When people get bad toothaches, they often have to eat soft, easily chewed food．When lions get bad toothaches, they eat people? That' s the conclusion of a zoologist at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago and a dentist who works on carnivores(食肉动物),Lions don’t normally prey on people．Every once in a while, however, a lion will go on a human-eating diet．The most famous such tragedy happened in 1898, when two lions killed and ate 135 railway workers in Kenya．

　　Examining the preserved skulls(骷髅)of the two big cats, zoologist Bruce Patterson and dentist Ellis Neiburger found that both animals had been suffering from several dental and |aw problems．One lion had three missing teeth and a loose, unsteady lower canine that was probably useless．Canines are pointed teeth that hunting animals use for gripping and piercing prey(刺穿猎物))．

　　The two lions might have been so badly disabled that they couldn’t bite down forcefully, say the researchers．Consequently, the lions might have abandoned their normal, more difficult prey and turned to humans．"Humans are easy preys, " said Patterson．"We're very slow, we don’t hear very well, and we don* t see very well in the darkness．"

　　The research calls their idea the Infirmity Theory．It was inspired partly by the work of Jim Corbett, a tiger hunter in India in the 1930s．Corbett was regularly called in to hunt tigers that had been dining on Indian villagers．Time after time, Patterson discovered that the killer tigers were suffering from some ill-healthy conditions．

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　　Have you ever had the strange feeling that you were being watched? You turned around and, sure enough, someone was looking right at you!

　　Some parapsychologists(心理学家)say that humans have a natural ability to sense when someone is looking at them．To study whether such a "sixth sense" really exists, Robert Baker, a psychologist at the University of Kentucky, performed several experiments．

　　In the first one．Baker sat behind unsuspecting people in public places and stared at the backs of their heads for 5 to 15 minutes．The subjects were eating, drinking, reading, studying, watching TV, or working at a computer．Baker made sure that the people could not tell that he was sitting behind them during those periods．Later, when he questioned the suspects, almost all of them said they had no' idea that someone was staring at them．

　　For the second experiment．Baker told subjects that they would be stared at from time to time from behind a two-way minor in a lab setting．The people had to write down when they felt they were being stared at and when they weren’t．Baker found that the subjects were no better at telling when they were stared at than if they had just guessed．

　　Baker’s experiment concludes again that people do not have the ability to sense when they are being stared at．If you doubt the outcome of his two experiments, I suggest you repeat the experiments and see for yourselves．

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