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    Intellect, according to Hofstadter, is different from native intelligence, a quality we reluctantly admire. Intellect is the critical, creative, and contemplative side of the mind. Intelligence seeks to grasp, manipulate, reorder, and adjust, while intellect examines, ponders, wonders, theorizes, criticizes and imagines.

    2003年

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    To paraphrase 18th-century statesman Edmund Burke, “all that is needed for the triumph of a misguided cause is that good people do nothing.”

    To those who are unaware that animal research was needed to produce these treatments, as well as new treatments and vaccines, animal research seems wasteful at best and cruel at worst.

    If good people do nothing, there is a real possibility that an uninformed citizenry will extinguish the precious embers of medical progress.

    Text 3

    Railroads justify rate discrimination against captive shippers on the grounds that in the long run it reduces everyone’s cost.

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    It is said that in England death is pressing, in Canada inevitable and in California optional.

    As a nation, we may be overfunding the quest for unlikely cures while underfunding research on humbler therapies that could improve people’s lives.

　　2002年

    Text 1

    You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system.Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner.

    Text 2

    Since the dawn of human ingenuity, people have devised ever more cunning tools to cope with work that is dangerous, boring, burdensome, or just plain nasty.

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    So where are the headlines warning of gloom and doom this time?

    Strengthening economic growth, at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere, could push the price higher still in the short term.

    One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that, unlike the rises in the 1970s, it has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand.

    Text 4

    On another level, many in the medical community acknowledge that the assisted-suicide debate has been fueled in part by the despair of patients for whom modern medicine has prolonged the physical agony of dying.