Rosie:Oh,Annie,you still here
Annie:Yeah,I am.
Rosie:But I thought you were going out tonight
Annie:I’m supposed to be,yes.
Rosie:Well,hasn’t Blain appeared
Annie:No,he’s not turned up yet.
Rosie:Well,when did he say he’d come
Annie:Three quarters of an hour ago.
Rosie:Ooh,it’s quarter to six,yeah!
Annie:I know. It’s not like him. is it
Rosie:No,it’s not. He’s the one who likes being early, isn’t he
Annie:Mm,exactly. That’s why I’m a bit worried really.
Rosie:Well,how do you mean
Annie:Well,he might’ve had an accident or something. Don’t you think
Rosie:Is there anywhere you can ring up
Annie:I’ve tried. I’ve tried phoning the office…he’s not there…they said he’s left.
Rosie:So…
Annie:I’ve tried phoning the flat…
In their darker moments, climatologists talk about their own "nightmare scenario". This is one where global warming has caused such significant climatic changes that ocean currents change direction. One scene from tile nightmare has the Gulf Stream moving south or even going into reverse, making winter in London look and feel like a St Petersburg January.
The ocean is a great moderating influence on the planet, soaking up heat around the tropics and depositing it in the cooler polar regions. Yet scientists know surprisingly little about how the sea does this— they estimate that the North Atlantic alone moves energy equivalent to the output of several hundred million power stations.
Last year oceanographers began their biggest international research initiative to learn more about ocean circulation. The first results from the World Ocean Circulation Experiment demonstrate just how complex the movement of sea-water can be. They have also given scienti
A. in the surface currents.
B. in the atmosphere.
C. in the deep currents.
D. along the seabed.
Only moments after announcing a policy of zero tolerance on cellphone(手机) use in the classroom, Ali Nazemi heard a ring. Nazemi, a business professor at Roanoke College in Virginia, took out a hammer and walked towards a young man. He smashed the offending device. Students’ faces turned white all over the classroom.
This episode reflects a growing challenge for American college teachers in, as the New York Times puts it, a "New Class (room) War: Teacher vs. Technology". Fortunately, the smashed-phone incident had been planned ahead of time to demonstrate teachers’ anger at inattentive students distracted by high-tech devices.
At age 55, Nazemi stands on the far shore of a new sort of generational divide between teacher and student. The divide separates those who want to use technology to grow smarter from those who want to use it to get dumber. Perhaps there’s a nicer way to put it. "The baby boomers seem to see technology a
A. Different Opinions Between Teachers and Students
B. Classroom Chaos over Gadget Use
C. The Development of Classroom Wars
D. Keep Us on Our Toes
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