Nietzsche ( German philosopher)

It" s a rough world out there. Step outside and you could break a leg slipping on your doormat. Light up the stove and you could burn down the house. Luckily, if the doormat or stove failed to warn of coming disaster, a successful lawsuit might compensate you for your troubles. Or so the thinking has gone since the early 1980s, when juries began holding more companies liable for their customers" misfortunes. Feeling threatened, companies responded by writing ever-longer warning labels, trying to anticipate every possible accident. Today, stepladders carry labels several inches long that warn, among other things, that you might— surprised! — fall off. The label on a child" s Batman cape cautions that the toy "does not enable user to fly. While warnings are often appropriate and necessary— the dangers of drug interactions, for example — and many are required by state or federal regulations, it isn" t clear that they actually protect the manufacturers and sellers from liability if a customer is injured. About 50 percent of the companies lose when injured customers take them to court. Now the tide appears to be turning. As personal injury claims continue as before, some courts" are beginning to side with defendants, especially in cases where a warning label probably wouldnt have changed anything. In May, Julie Nimmons, president of Schutt Sports in Illinois, successfully fought a lawsuit involving a football player who was paralyzed in a game while wearing a Schutt helmet. " We" re really sorry he has become paralyzed, but helmets arent designed to prevent those kinds of injuries," says Nimmons. The jury agreed that the nature of the game, not the helmet, was the reason for the athlete" s injury. At the same time, the American Law Institute—a group of judges, lawyers, and academics whose recommendations carry substantial weight— issued new guidelines for tort law stating that companies need not warn customers of obvious dangers or bombard them with a lengthy list of possible ones. " Important information can get buried in a sea of trivialities," says a law professor at Cornell Law School who helped draft the new guidelines. If the moderate end of the legal community has its way, the information on products might actually be provided for the benefit of customers and not as protection against legal liability.

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《环球时报》

老弱病残

The autumn air was as crisp as the fresh-out-of-the-dryer flannel sheets that my mother would always put on our beds when the weather got chilly. The familiar sounds of a referee"s whistle and cheering fans brought back memories of going to high school football games. My stomach started talking when I smelled the scent of the hot dogs cooking near by. "Can you believe we are doing this?" my mother asked as her face reddened while the sun decreased and the wind picked up. " No, I can"t," my father and I both said simultaneously. It seemed hardly impossible to fathom that we were sitting at my baby brother"s high school football game. Where had the past fourteen years gone?I was in the family room of my house with my older brother, Brian. We nicely were playing together with blocks. I was five at the time. "Brian, Julie, come into the living room, we want to talk to you!" my dad said with excitement in his voice. It was then that I found out I was going to have a new brother or sister. My entire body lifted above the clouds and soared. I just loved babies. In the next couple of months, my life changed dramatically. We had to move out of our house and into a new neighborhood. This event was very specific in my life. Although I was so excited for a new sibling, I was extremely distraught about leaving my familiar home. It was almost as if I was a taut rope in a tug-of-war being pulled in both directions. "But Mom, the baby can sleep with me. " I remember saying to my mother. Now that I look back on the situation, I realize that it was the "comfort and familiarity" of my house that made me upset about leaving.

Britain has announced plans to simplify its visa application process for Chinese visitors. The announcement comes as British Chancellor of the Exchequer , George Osborne, is in China for trade talks.

赈灾

2013年，习近平主席提出了建设“丝绸之路经济带”和“21世纪海上丝绸之路”，简称“一带一路”的战略构想。他指出，“一带一路”连接亚太、中亚和欧洲经济圈。无论是发展经济、改善民生，还是应对危机，许多沿线国家同我国都有着共同利益。如今，“一带一路”已成为中国努力推进地区互联互通、经贸合作的基石。

euthanasia

普惠制

People love to make their mark, and graffiti such as initials or drawings written or spray-painted onto subways, walls or footpaths is a universal phenomenon. It has existed since ancient times, and one of the oldest pieces of still-existing graffiti is an advertisement for a brothel in the ancient town of Ephesus, in Greece. There are many types of graffiti, and also a variety of views about it. Some see it as an art form, some use it as a form of protest against authority, others regard it as needless and destructive vandalism, and it is often seen as the precursor of gang-related crime in a neighbourhood. The heyday of graffiti was in New York City in the 1970s. At that time, there was little money for the policing of graffiti, and artists targeted the subways and subway cars in particular. Graffiti became so popular at this time that artists wanted to identify their own particular work. They began to create distinctive stylised signatures and thus the art of tagging was born. Sales of spray paint increased significantly at this time, as more and more street artists began to explore this new medium of expression, and graffiti became bigger and more elaborate. Artists were competing to cover the whole city of New York with their work, and finally the Metro Transit Authority began to battle with graffiti artists, locking gates and removing pictures from subway trains. At the same time, graffiti began making its way into art galleries, as the established art world began to recognize it as a legitimate modern art form. By the 80s, graffiti culture in New York was beginning to decline. It was becoming associated with the local drug scene, and legal penalties for vandalism became more severe at this time. In particular, the MTA hugely increased its anti-graffiti budget, and it became much harder for artists to create elaborate pieces on subway cars, so graffiti was restricted to the streets, where it has stayed until today. By mid-1986, the "war on graffiti" was being Won, and there were fewer graffiti artists in New York. In the 90s, under Mayor Rudolph Guiliani, the anti-tagging task force set out to eradicate graffiti vandals by banning sales of spray paint to under 18s and by hugely increasing fines for the offence. Of course, graffiti is not only a North American phenomenon, and there are thriving cultures throughout the world, especially in Brazil where graffiti is endemic. Some people say that the huge clap between rich and poor in the country has fuelled the growth of graffiti as a form of anonymous political protest against economic injustice. It is also becoming more common in various countries in the Middle East, probably also as a protest by people who feel marginalized or repressed by existing political regimes. In general, cities around the world have problems with graffiti artists, who are often seen by the establishment as mindless, drug-fuelled vandals. This is particularly the case with tagging, as one common use of tags is as turf markers for gangs, who use them to mark out territory in a neighbourhood. Tagging is seen as the first sign of gang activity in an area and, consequently, many cities seek to stamp it out to prevent the growth of crime and lawlessness. Common methods for fighting graffiti include banning sales of spray paint, the creation of online tagging databases, fines, and even imprisonment, but the taggers continue, seeing an arrest as a badge of honour rather than as a deterrent. At the same time, graffiti has become a recognized art form with commercial uses by companies such as Sony and even ultraconservative IBM, which was recently fined to pay for the cleanup of a graffiti-based advertising campaign. So is graffiti a form of mindless, criminal vandalism, or is it a vibrant and exciting modern art form? As with so many phenomena of modern life, this is all in the eye of the observer. Now briefly answer the following questions;

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Book of the Times: The Invisible Man.

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中国共产党第十八届三中全会

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