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[单项选择]Tuning in round the clock, via satellite or internet blog, to any bout of mayhem anywhere, you might not think the world was becoming a more peaceable place. But in some ways it is, and measurably so. A recent Human Security Report released by the Liu Institute at the University of British Columbia registers a 40% drop in the number of armed conflicts between 1992 and 2003, with the worst wars, those claiming more than a thousand lives in battle, down by 80%. While 28 armed struggles for self-determination ignited or reignited between 1991 and 2004, an encouraging 43 others were contained or doused.
Yet measured in a different way, from the point of view of the half of the world’s population that is female, argues the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces, the world is an awfully violent place, and not just in its war zones. Men still fill most of the bodybags in wartime, including in civil wars, even on DCAF’s figures, but their sisters, mothers, wives and
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[填空题]The round-the-clock availability that cell phones and pagers have (47) to people’s lives may be taking a toll on family life, a new study suggests. The study, which (48) more than 1,300 adults over 2 years, found that those who consistently used a mobile phone or pager throughout the study period were more likely to report negative "spillover" between work and home life -- and, in (49) , less satisfaction with their family life. Spillover essentially means that the line between work and home begins to blur. Work life may (50) home life-when a parent is taking job-related calls at home, for instance- or household issues may start to take up (51) time.
The problem with cell phones and pagers seems to be that they are allowing for ever more spillover between work and home, according to Chesley’s findings. This may be (52) true for working women, the study found. Among men, consistent use of mobile phones and pagers se