Like many of my generation, I have a weakness for hero worship. At some point, however, we all begin to question our heroes and our need for them. This leads us to ask: What is a hero?Despite immense
According to a survey, which was based on the responses of over 188,000 students, today’s traditional-age college freshmen are more materialistic and less altruistic (利他主义的)" than
New technology links the world as never before. Our planet has shrunk. It’s now a global village” where countries are only seconds away by fax or phone or satellite link. And, of course, o
In recent years, Israeli consumers have grown more demanding as they’ve become wealthier and more worldly-wise. Foreign travel is a national passion; this summer alone, one in 10 citizens will g
On average, American kids ages 3 to 12 spent 29 hours a week in school, eight hours more that they did in 1981. They also did more household work and participated in more of such organized activities
Henry Ford, the famous U.S. inventor and car manufacturer, once said, The business of America is business.” By this he meant that the U.S. way of life is based on the values of the business worl
Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for a fortnight. When he came to analyse their embarrassing lapses (差错) in a scie
It’s no secret that many children would be healthier and happier with adoptive parents than with the parents that nature dealt them. That’s especially true of children who remain in abusiv
No one knows exactly how many disabled people there are in the world, but 11 suggest the figure is over 450 million. The number of disabled people inIndia 12 is probably more than double the total pop
The greatest recent social changes have been in the lives of women. During the twentieth century there has been a remarkable shortening of the proportion of a woman's life spent in caring for the chil