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Unit 4. Why music? Biologists are addressing one of humanity's strangest attributes, its all-singing, all-dancing culture. "If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it." And if not? Well, what exactly is it for? The production and consumption of music is a big part of the economy. The first use to which commercial recording, in the form of Edison's phonographs, was to bring music..
Unit 5. The way the Brain Buys 뇌의 구매 방식 Retailers are making breakthroughs in understanding their customers' minds. Here is what they knkow about you. 소매업자들은 소비자의 마음을 이해하는 돌파구를 만들고 있다. 이것들은 그들이 당신에 대해 알고 있는 내용이다. It may have occurred to you, during the course of a dismal trawl round a supermarket indistinguishable from every other supermarket you have ever been into, to wonder why they are all t..
Unit 6. Short and Long-Run Fiscal Challenges 단기, 장기적 재정난 Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, I am very pleased that you are holding this hearing on the short- and long-run fiscal challenges. I strongly share the committee's perception that the future viability of the United States economy depends on policy-makers' ability to focus on two seemingly contradictory imperatives at the same tim..
Unit 7. Fuel Efficiency standard: A detour from the Cheapest climate protection Last week president Obama made good on a campaign promise to consider california's request for higher automotive fuel efficiency standards. If the Environmental protection Agency grants California's request to adopt standards more stringent than pending federal requirements, at least 13 other states will likely follo..
Unit 8. Buddhism and Science / probing the Boundaries of Faith and Reason Western interest in Eastern religions, expecially Buddhism, historically coincided with the rise of modern science and the corresponding perceived decline of religious orthodoxy in the West. Put simply: Modern science initiated a deep spiritual crisis that led to an unfortunate split between faith and reason-a split yet to..
위셀은 루마니아 시게트 태생으로 미국의 소설가 입니다. 제2차 세계대전 동안 유럽 유대인의 파멸을 진지하면서도 격앙된 증언 형식으로 다룬 작품들을 썼습니다. 그의 모든 작품에는 호로코스트, 즉 나치에 의한 유대인 대학살의 생존자로서의 경험과 함께 '왜 홀로코스트가 발생했는가', '그것이 인간 본성에 대해 폭로하는 바는 무엇인가'라는 윤리적 고뇌를 해결하려는 시도가 반영되어 있습니다. 이같은 개인적 관심사를 폭행,증오,억압에 대한 보편적 비난으로 발전시킨 능력이 인정되어 1986년 노벨 평화상을 받았습니다. Unit 12. "The Perils of Indifference" By Elie Wiesel Fifty-four years ago to the day, a young Jewish boy from a ..
