主题：'' About face ''~ ~ ~

SCIENCE proceeds by trial and error. The successes are trumpeted. The errors are often regarded with embarrassment by subsequent generations, and locked away in attic rooms of the subject’s mansion like mad relatives in a Victorian novel. Usually, they stay there. Craniology, phrenology and eugenics, once-respectable fields of endeavour that are now regarded with a shudder, may shriek from time to time, but few sane people pay attention to them. One, however, has escaped recently, and is trying to rehabilitate itself. For years physiognomy—the idea that a person’s face is a reflection of his character—was sneered at. Now, it is making a come back. 原文链接

点评：这篇文章很有意思的，人不可貌相又要被科学家们推翻了

David Beckham sets out World Cup dream after deciding to buy time in Milan

花钱去米兰 贝克汉姆向世界杯梦迈近

David Beckham is to pay $3 million (about ￡2.1 million) to give himself the best possible chance of playing for England in the World Cup finals in South Africa next summer. The amount represents the difference between the valuations of his services by AC Milan and the Los Angeles Galaxy, and Beckham sees the investment in prolonging his loan transfer from the Major League Soccer (MLS) club to the Italian side, and therefore his England career, as good value.
Fabio Capello, the England manager, has indicated that Beckham must continue at the highest level if he is to retain his place in the national team — which means playing for Milan in Serie A and European competition rather than returning full-time to the less competitive environs of MLS. 原文链接

贝克汉姆将支付3百万美元为自己争取到在南非举行的下个夏季世界杯决赛中出赛的机会。这笔钱显示出AC米兰和洛杉矶银河队对他的不同评价，贝克汉姆认为这笔投资是能把他从美国足球大联盟俱乐部转会到米兰，进而到英格兰国家队，是很值的。

英格兰的经纪人卡佩罗暗示，只有贝克汉姆继续保持着他最高水平，他才可能回到英格兰国家队——意味着小贝将在意甲和欧洲联赛上效力于米兰，而不能把全部时间投入到竞争力较弱的美国足球联盟。

点评：可怜的小贝啊~~祝他世界杯梦圆满

Sex attacks blight lives of Haitian girls

*案频发 海地女孩遭摧残

The government of Haiti is being urged to take action to stop the wave of sexual violence that is blighting the lives of young women in one of the world's poorest nations.

An online petition has been launched by Amnesty International to protest at Haiti's high incidence of rape, often of young girls by gangs of armed men, that was first highlighted in 2006 when UN workers discovered that up to half of the women living in the capital Port-au-Prince's vast slums had been the victims of rape. 原文链接

海地妇女频遭性侵犯，让这个世界上最穷的国家之一的妇女生活更增阴霾，政府采取有效行动遏制这股不正之风克不容缓。

大郝国际组织在网上发动了一场请愿，抗议海地的高*案发率。作案人为团体作案或者是持武器者，受害者通常都是年轻的女子。自从2006年联合国工作人员发现该国首都太子港的贫民窟里至少有一半的妇女被*过，这个问题就被关注着。

点评：我想哭了。。。帮帮她们吧~~

Premier Quits to Help Unify Palestinians

首相用辞职来促进巴勒斯坦人团结

JERUSALEM — Salam Fayyad, the prime minister of the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, on Saturday submitted his government’s resignation, saying he hoped that it would help efforts to form a Palestinian unity government with the Islamic group Hamas.

A statement from his office said the resignation would take effect no later than the end of March 原文链接

由西方扶持的巴勒斯坦权利机构首相萨拉姆法耶兹于星期六提交了辞职信，他希望此举能够促进同伊斯兰组织哈马斯共同建立一个统一的巴勒斯坦政府。

法耶兹政府的一份声明说，他的辞职最晚将于3月底正式生效。

版主点评：敬佩中。。。在国家统一面前，他选择了牺牲自己

What books have you lied about reading? Here's a top ten.

哪些书是你谎称自己看过的？下面是排名前十的谎称书