M: I’ve just got back from the holiday you arranged for me, but I must tell you the hotel was really awful! It was miles from the sea. The food was awful too. The bedroom was dirty.
W: Sorry about that. But it’s not really our fault. The contract does say that the hotel accommodation is not our responsibility.
When word got out that Doug Beardsley was introducing a new course this spring—" Hockey (冰球) Literature and the Canadian Psyche(精神) "—the 40 seats in the class were quickly taken. ESPN offered to fly him to New York for a TV chat show, and e-mail arrived from hockey fans and researchers from as far away as Texas and China.
"They think they can learn something about us as a nation by learning about the game, about Canadian people. They’re right. " says Beardsley.
Students in Beardsley’s class completed three research papers related to hockey. The reading list included famous works like The Divine Ryans by Wayne Johnston, The Good Body by Bill Gas ton and Les Canadiells by Rick Salutin. They are the kind of books that get at the true meaning of being Canadian.
In Beardsley’s words, hockey shows the very nature of the polite Canadian. "I think that a long with this peace-
A. To teach how to play hockey.
B. To introduce an English teacher.
C. To introduce a book by Beardsley.
D. To talk about hockey and the Canadians.
Innovation. It’s what got us through the Dark Ages. But over the years, instead of moving forward, some scientists and inventors have taken a few steps back. This article is dedicated to all the men and women who knew they’d never find a cure for the common cold, so they aimed much, much lower. Here are some of the winners.
PEACE PRIZE—researchers from the University of Bern, Switzerland, for determining which hurts mor—being smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle.
An inherent problem in an experiment of this nature is finding volunteers who will agree to be brained with a beer bottle in the name of science. The scientists overcame this obstacle by dropping steel balls onto full and empty beer bottles. They found that the empties were stronger than their full brethren because the gas pressure from the liquid produces additional strain on the glass.
Needless to say, full or not, beer bottles can caus
A. Mad Science
B. Science Makes a Difference
C. Life and Science
D. What Can Science Do
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