Section (C)The Pressure to Succeed from an Earlier Age Like many Japanese, Naoto Eguchi feels tremendous pressure to get ahead. Rising at dawn, he worksa full day with his regular colleagues and another three hours each evening in special study sessi...
Section(B) Cultural Differences in Western and Japanese Decision-making To talk about problem-solving or decision-making within a national environment means examiningmany complex cultural forces. It means trying to measure the impact of these forces...
Section (A)Where Principles Come First The Hyde School operates on the principle that if you teach students the merit of such values astruth, courage, integrity, leadership, curiosity and concern, then academic achievement naturallyfollows. Hyde Scho...
Section(C)Exercise for the Old As a scientist, one of Steven Wolf's favorite questions to ask people at the end of a study is: Whatcan you do now that you couldn't do before?One of the best answers he's ever received came from an 86-year-old man who...
Section (B) Does Exercise Have Unexpected Benefits? Just as exercise strengthens the heart and lungs, bones and muscles, it may also power up the brain. A succession of scientific studies of animals implies that physical activity has a positive effec...
Section (A)Iron and the Effects of Exercise Sports medicine experts have observed for years that endurance athletes, particularly females,frequently have iron deficiencies. Now a new study by a team of Purdue University researcherssuggests that even...
Section (C)For the Want of a Telephone Call For more than half an hour 38 respectable Brooklyn, New York citizens watched a man attack and stab (刺杀) a womanthree separate times. Twice their talk and the sudden glow of their bedroom lights frighte...
Section B The Romantic Life of Secret Agent Albert Albert did not fit the description of any secret agent Charles had ever read about. Following him down the corridor of thegloomy French hotel where Albert had a room, Charles felt disappointed. It wa...
Section AThe Expensive Fantasy of Lord Williams Tomintoul, Scotland On Saturday night at The Grouse's Nest, they're still willing to raise a glass or two to Lord Williamsthough now his title prompts laughter. And now they just call him Tony. There ar...
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