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In 2009 two important commemorative events coincide—the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth, coincidentally on the same day as Abraham Lincoln’s, and the sesquicentennial of publication of Darwin’s pioneering work On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Universities and natural history museums around the world are celebrating Darwin’s achievement throughout the year. Here we take a fresh look at the voyage that turned Darwin into one of science’s greatest thinkers.

史景迁：十七世纪的中国与西方
2010年NEH杰弗逊演讲

为什么在英国创世论和进化论之间的争论不像在美国那么引人注目？美国仍是宗教气氛很浓的国家，而且只要还有三分之一的美国人周日去教堂时会被告知进化论是一个意图剥夺他们永恒灵魂的阴谋，这个问题仍将继续争论。

普林斯顿大学Lynn T. White III

今年12月1-4日的巴塞尔迈阿密海滩艺博会又卖出了一批货。作者Blake Gopnik,虽然欧美各国经济都有问题，但根据artiprice.com统计，今年上半年全世界艺术品销售额达到58亿美元，比去年增长34%

两本叶芝分析的书评

神圣罗马帝国的约瑟夫二世是个慷慨的音乐爱好者，但不幸的是，当他听完莫扎特的《后宫诱逃》(Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail)，他说了一句：“太多音符了，亲爱的莫扎特”，从此便成为乐盲的永恒象征。

当西方支持的暴君被赶走，政局长远地变化了。但革命到底能传播多远？With western-backed despots being turfed out politics has changed for ever. So just how far can the revolution spread?

本文为《从马克思主义到后马克思主义？》序。作者书中总结“叛逆”与“顺从”、“集体主义”与“个人主义”这两组对立主题：若称社会主义是叛逆的集体主义，新自由主义则可被成为顺从的个人主义。

Eagleton can, of course, fight back against this kind of rebuttal if he can only show that there is something in theology which undermines the arguments against religion made by the new atheists. And this indeed is what he is up to in Reason, Faith and Revolution when he seeks to show, with the use of the theologian Thomas Aquinas, that the God so readily dismissed by Dawkins and Hitchens is not a god that many theologians, or indeed believers, would recognise.

Barack Obama’s demand, in his June 15 speech, that the former British Petroleum Company create an escrow account, to guarantee the funds that will be needed to deal with the consequences of the continuing catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, should have been made weeks ago, and should surely have been framed more strongly than it was.The President, in this matter, continues to demonstrate the quality, laudable in itself, but in politics extraordinarily dangerous, of assuming that those he is dealing with are as reasonable and well-intentioned as he is himself. In fact they are often driven by ruthlessly self-interested motives that leave him in a position of seeming weakness and unwillingness to defend not only national but his own political interests.At the end of May one saw the President on international television walking on a Louisiana beach, accompanied—off-scene—by hundreds if not thousands of newsmen, broadcasters, and cameramen. He seemed abject. He bent over and picked up a handful of sand and let it run through his fingers. He shook his head in concern. A cutaway showed his speeches earlier in this affair declaring that his administration is in charge of the great effort to save America’s coast and waters from the terrible pollution that is spreading as a result of a volcano of oil erupting from the sea’s floor and meeting the sickly-colored, toxic chemicals being mixed into the water that are meant to disperse it.In his June 15 speech, Mr. Obama finally insisted that BP would pay for all the damage and cleanup and would be held responsible for any illegalities; and the next day at the White House BP agreed to an independently administered $20 billion escrow fund, while the full costs to the Gulf region are far from clear.In the press conferences given by the President and the BP chairman that followed the meeting it was clear that the American government still does not control this situation. BP alone will determine what is done with respect to the oil geyser and its promised closure. While it will make available the $20 billion compensation fund, the timing, terms, and ultimate worth of BP’s assurances of compensation and reparation remain open to interpretation and change.Advertisement How can the President possibly say that his administration has “been in charge”? BP has been in charge from the start—it and its contract companies, all of them desperately trying to plug the hole in the bottom of the sea, and all defending corporate and fiscal interests of their own. The President’s associates and advisers have apparently decided that the agencies of the United States government are technically incompetent to give instructions to BP, which seems improbable. But they certainly can and must tell BP what priorities must be set, and they must establish goals to be met, and on what timescale.BP’s lawyers and lobbyists have just as desperately been striving to allow BP to unload responsibility upon anyone or everyone else, including incompetent or irresponsible or compromised federal regulators. Allow me, in the style of the metropolitan columnists who influence Washington, to draft what the President might have said in his June 15 speech:“My friends:“The American nation has suffered a grievous blow from the catastrophe produced in the Gulf by what formerly was known as the British Petroleum Company. This is the latest in a series of major accidents produced in this company’s American operations, causing loss of lives among its workers, unforgivable human suffering by private citizens, and great damage to private and public interests, continuing today in the Gulf.“I have therefore today given orders that the American functions of this company be provisionally seized, or placed in temporary receivership, by the American government, as in recent months we have been forced to seize banks and corporations devastated by economic crisis, such as General Motors, AIG, and certain financial institutions.“BP’s American management will be placed under public authority and will be instructed to terminate the oil emergency as rapidly as possible and in disregard of whatever costs must be incurred by the company. This effort will be conducted by BP through its own best efforts, closely supervised by officers of the United States Coast Guard and Navy, the Energy and Treasury Departments of our government, and will be accompanied by an investigation by the Justice Department and its executive agencies, including the FBI, for any possible evidence of fraud, malfeasance or profiteering, contributing to this disaster. None of these agencies of government will incur any responsibility whatever for the decisions and actions of BP while conducting its operations to terminate the oil blowout.“In no circumstances will company, proprietary, or stockholder interest be given priority over measures to terminate this emergency and to safeguard the assets or interests of the United States public or government. No funds of this company shall be expended on political lobbying intended to influence Congress or the executive agencies of federal government until this emergency has formally been determined to have been ended.“Clearly, losses to British pension funds and other British shareholders of BP should be of concern to the British government. However those individuals and institutions investing in companies with notoriously controversial histories assume the accompanying risks.“The Oil Pollution Act signed into law in 1990 greatly expanded the US government’s ability and resources necessary to respond to oil spills; and it does not preempt state action to impose additional liability, which may be unlimited, with penalties and damages in addition to federal liabilities that may extend to prison sentences.“I am instructing that all BP assets within the United States, or in its surrounding waters, including funds immediately at its disposal, and all other BP funds accessible to the United States government, be temporarily seized and sequestered so as to prevent the transfer of any funds or assets of this company outside United States jurisdiction and access. The disposition of those assets will eventually be determined by the courts or by a new independent federal agency, with priority given to the reimbursement of persons and property-holders victimized by this catastrophe, and the redressment of damage or destruction to public assets and municipal, state, and national interests for which the former British Petroleum corporation is deemed by the courts, or by the independent agency, to have been responsible.” This is what the American people wanted to hear. President Obama wishes to be seen as decisive and a leader? Here was his opportunity. He wants a Democratic Congress elected in the fall? And a second presidential term for himself? This could have made a decisive contribution to those ambitions, as well as assuring necessary help to millions of people and repairing grave damage to the environment.He then could have concluded his speech by saying to his political opponents that any Republican or Democrat who wishes to run for office in November as an opponent of these Obama administration crisis measures—and as a defender of BP corporate and stockholder interests, or its customary executive remuneration and financial practices—as against the national interest of the United States and redress of the damage that continues at this moment to be done to the United States and its citizens, would be more than welcome to do so.—June 16, 2010

该实验完全没有将实验目的、方法和可能的不良结果告诉受试者,没有把他们作为人来看待,而是看作豚鼠一样,完全不符合伦理学。该项目的好处可能是能够获得梅毒螺旋体感染人体的自然过程,为人类认识该病提供资料。患者进行治疗,但在研究中没有考虑给受试者提供治疗。

中国网民人数达到4.04亿，使用宽带上网的网民达到3.46亿人，使用手机上网的网民达到2.33亿人。未成年人约占中国网民的1/3，已成为中国网民的最大群体，中国政府高度重视依法保护未成年人上网安全，始终把保护未成年人放在维护互联网信息安全的优先地位。

环保不应该沦为名牌的昂贵表皮。

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1999年6月23日，国际建协第20届世界建筑师大会在北京召开，大会一致通过了由吴良镛教授起草的《北京宪章》。《北京宪章》总结了百年来建筑发展的历程，并在剖析和整合20世纪的历史与现实、理论与实践、成就与问题以及各种新思路和新观点的基础上，展望了21世纪建筑学的前进方向。
　　这一宪章被公认为是指导二十一世纪建筑发展的重要纲领性文献，标志着吴良镛的广义建筑学与人居环境学说，已被全球建筑师普遍接受和推崇，从而扭转了长期以来西方建筑理论占主导地位的局面。

批评者认为，这种方式让美国军方得以在网络上制造出一种错误的舆论导向，屏蔽了那些不被美国军方接受的观点，将不符合他们军事目标的评论或者报道拒之门外。而这种做法也会招来其他国家私人公司以及无政府组织纷纷效仿。此外，这种利用虚假身份在网上发言的行为还会带来法律后果，因为在美国伪造或盗用他人身份同样是违法行为。