桃花运还是桃花劫？

时代在变。开放的社会.快节奏的工作.数字化的生存.工作与生存环境的改变.使人们更多了彼此接近的机会。寻求理解与渴望渲泄,盼望着能交上桃花好运便也成了一些人藏匿在心底的美梦。当情感在婚姻与道德的夹缝中游离的时候.有的人在频繁的交友,联谊、网络和娱乐等等各种机会和场合还真的就和那“桃花女神”不期而遇美梦成真了。可人们期待的桃花运到底是什么?不乏有交了桃花好运的——一位出租车司机朋友曾非常得意地告诉过我.他说一天晚上他将一位女士拉到了目的地.可是那女士就是不下车.说是要请他吃饭。司机有点手足无措,可那女士坚持要请并说只要他肯答应.她会给司机一定的报酬.以赔偿司机的时间损失。司机何乐而不为?吃饭过程中2人海阔天空聊得很融洽.原来那女士的丈夫去国外工作已半年多了.女士寂寞难耐.看着司机英     

天价学区房是资源不均的现实标本

据中国之声《新闻纵横》报道，在北京市西城区的文昌胡同深处，一间小小的、不起眼的、甚至杂草丛生，可以说有点破败的房子，刚刚卖出了相当于20公斤黄金的价格。这处仅仅11.4平米的房产，卖出了530万元人民币的天价，每平米房价达到46万元人民币。卖出如此高价的原因，就因为它是北京最著名的小学之一实验二小的学区房。46万的单价，也创造了北京最贵学区房的记录。     

“维权女侠”李亚兰:从打工妹到大律师,帮弱势姐妹擎起法律之剑

不堪家暴省城闯天下,打工妹靠自学摇身变律师 1989年12月的一天,北国重镇哈尔滨街头,冷风如刀,呵气成冰.一个面容憔悴的女子走出车站,看着来去匆匆的人流,一时有些茫然. 这位女子便是李亚兰,时年26岁,来自黑龙江东部的一个小山村.因为兄妹多,家里穷,她读到初二便辍了学,跟着父母在田里劳作.李亚兰骨子里有股不屈从命运的犟劲儿,虽然不得不在家务农,却总不忘看书学习.有一次,李亚兰又在劳动间隙看起了书,一个邻居讥笑她:庄稼人就得有庄稼人的样子,干着活儿还看闲书,难道丑小鸭将来还能变成白天鹅?李亚兰看了邻居一眼,未作辩解,心里却暗暗发誓:“谁说庄稼人一辈子就只能是庄稼人,我就是要跟命运斗一斗!”     

传承柳编技艺弘扬工匠精神--湖北省襄阳市襄州区举办2016首届湖北（程河）柳编工匠技能大赛

残疾工匠赵书贤正在编织柳编花篮，十多年来，依靠编织的柳编的手艺，她不仅解决了家里两个大学生的读书费用问题，还盖起了的新楼房。近日，“2016首届湖北（程河）柳编工匠技能大赛决赛”在湖北柳编之乡襄阳市襄州区程河镇举办，现场96名柳编工匠同台展示柳编技能，比拼编织实力和创意工艺。     

朝外核心地段全精装小户型涉外私人国际公寓工体3号,不可思议?

近日在德胜门附近出现一个巨大的平面路牌,路牌上把整个室内的平面都立体化,家具,沙发,电视机成为垂直的装置,成为京城一道亮丽的风景,这咱实物路牌广告也是亚洲首创,成为人们意义的焦点.细看,原来是位于工体西路的工体3号项目,其诉求卖点是首付16万即可拥有朝外五在商圈财富生活首席居所.     

埃及外交政策新论

埃及是中东最重要的国家之一,优越的地缘位置使埃及在国际舞台异常活跃.本文分别对纳赛尔、萨达特和穆巴拉克时期埃及的外交政策作一回顾,对埃及外交的目标和主要大国关系进行了梳理,最后分析了制约埃及未来外交发展的三个重要因素.     

新时期情怀营销应该怎么做

我们大概进入了一个充满情怀的时代。《美人鱼》借助“我们都欠周星驰一张电影票”的宣传促使观众走进电影院去怀念那个不一样的“至尊宝”，最终该影片刷新了华语影坛的多项票房纪录；NBA则是借助“科比将退役，每一场球赛都是谢幕演出”的话题促使观众走进球场去观看那个曾经无所不能的“黑曼巴”，其最终门票售价更是屡创新高。     

太古宙

地质,即地壳的成分和结构.根据生物的发展和地层形成的顺序,按地壳的发展历史划分为若干自然阶段,叫做地质年代."宙"、"代"、"纪"、"世"分指地质年代分期的第一级、第二级、第三级、第四级.地质年代分期的第一级是宙,分为隐生宙(现已改称太古宙和元古宙)和显生宙.本刊将按照太古宙--元古宙--显生宙(古生代、中生代、新生代)的顺序进行连载解释.     

水，生命的呼唤

“中央提出到2020年确保我国现行标准下农村贫困人口实现脱贫，贫困县全部摘帽，解决区域性贫困问题。打赢脱贫攻坚战，必须加强水利扶贫工作，充分发挥水利的基础性、先导性、保障性作用，加快补齐补强贫困地区水利短板。”3月7日，省部级领导干部打赢脱贫攻坚战专题研讨班上，在介绍水利扶贫工作时，水利部副部长、党组副书记矫勇的发言令人振奋。     

倾情倾力打造主流住宅——从星河城的出色品质看玺萌品牌的社会责任

前言 顾虑-- "商品房"一词,是近十年国家逐步取消单位分房制度的过程中悄然兴起的.而"开发商"也曾一度被认为"不是暴发户,就是和上面的人有点关系".因为只有这样,才能拿到地. 作为一项大手笔的、甚至是倾注购房者未来一辈子辛勤劳动的投资,商品房的品质、价格以及同样作为商品的房子的售后服务是否如广告宣传般理想等一系列问题,长久以来一直备受关注.     

Price and Enforcement Effects on Cocaine and Marijuana Demand

This article estimates equations for past year cocaine and marijuana use among adult and juvenile respondents of the 1990–97 National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse. Unlike most previous studies, we control for the monetary price of marijuana, probabilities of arrest for marijuana and cocaine possession, and state fixed effects. Results indicate that cocaine prices are inversely related to adult cocaine and marijuana demand but are unrelated to juvenile drug demand, marijuana price effects are always statistically insignificant, estimated price effects are inflated when state effects are omitted, and increases in each arrest probability diminish both types of drug use.     

Fertility and fertility-related behavior among Mexican-American and non-Hispanic white female adolescents

Ethnic differences in fertility-related behavior are examined in a community-based probability sample of 706 Mexican-American and 317 non-Hispanic white females aged 13 through 19 years. Mexican-Americans are more likely than whites to have had a live birth, but are no more likely to have been pregnant and are less likely to have had sexual intercourse. Sexually experienced Mexican-Americans, however, are twice as likely as whites to have been pregnant. Among those ever pregnant, Mexican-Americans are more likely to have had a live birth, while whites are more likely to have had an abortion. Ethnic differences remain strong when socioeconomic status and indicators of social instability are controlled statistically, lending more support to the "minority status" hypothesis than to the "characteristics" hypothesis concerning the fertility-related behavior of minority group members.     

Pornography Use and Attitudes: An Examination of Relational and Sexual Openness Variables Between and Within Gender

The purpose of this investigation was to examine male and female pornography users' and nonusers' attitudes regarding sexual openness and inhibition as well as relational variables both between and within gender. Participants included 846 individuals, 355 men and 491 women, with 239 of the men and 117 of the women being pornography consumers. Results indicate that men are more sexual seeking and less relationally oriented than women. However, men are more sexually conservative than women. When comparing groups by pornography usage, both male and female pornography users are more sexually open and uninhibited and less relationally oriented than nonusers. Interestingly, when comparing female pornography users to male nonusers, pornography-using women are more sexually open and uninhibited than nonusing men and are less sexually conservative than nonusing men. Implications and future directions are discussed.     

Social Evolution and Environmental Context: Explanative Pluralism and Potentiality

We identify four common, but we argue fallacious, reasons social scientists object to theories that rely on environmental conditions to explain variation in the evolution of societies. First, some sociologists exclude environmental forces as beyond the domain of sociology. Second, environmental theories are often pejoratively labeled “determinist,” and rejected on those grounds. Third, environmental theories are regularly dismissed as being functionalist. Fourth, environmental theories are frequently charged with being Eurocentric and serving to justify colonialism and social inequalities. We argue that although there are examples of theories that fail in these regards, there is no inherent reason that environmental theories are more prone to these limitations and problems than are more sociologically “pure” theories. We argue that sociology should strive to be more transdisciplinary and can benefit from consideration of environmental conditions.     

Categories and sexuality

The categories we create and how we think about these categories are fundamentally important—and are often open to misinterpretation. The following points are illustrated using examples related to gender, sexual orientation, and other aspects of sexuality: (a) Categories are created by people; thus, there are no objective or universal definitions. Definitions change over time and place, and they have political implications, advantaging some people and disadvantaging others. (b) Beware of exaggerating differences between categories. A significant difference between groups does not mean that they do not overlap; they usually overlap considerably. There is almost always more variability within groups than between groups. (c) Categories are often proxies for other variables. When interpreting differences between categories, remember that other variables confounded with these categories could be driving the effect. (d) Neither a similarities perspective, in which the differences between two categories are minimized or ignored, nor a differences perspective, in which the differences between the two categories are emphasized or exaggerated, has totally positive or negative consequences. It is often useful to consider both.     

Small-scale and extensive hydrogeomorphic modification and water redistribution in a desert city and implications for regional nitrogen removal

There are numerous examples of small-scale hydrogeomorphic manipulations within urban ecosystems. These modifications are motivated both by a need to handle storm drainage and by a human desire for aquatic ecosystems as places for recreation and aesthetics. In the Phoenix Arizona metropolitan area, two examples of these local modifications are artificial lakes and stormwater retention basins. Although lakes are not a natural feature of Sonoran Desert ecosystems, numerous artificial lakes are evident in the region. Retention basins are a common landscaping practice for preventing damage from rare but potentially large storm events. Here we attempt to quantify the heretofore unknown number and extent of these designed aquatic ecosystems and consider their potential impact on hydrologic landscape connectivity and regional nitrogen (N) removal. For lakes, we found that official GIS layers from local and state agencies had significant misclassifications and omissions. We used two published GIS datasets and state impoundment-permit information to determine the number, areal extent, and water source for artificial lakes. We discovered that there are 908–1,390 lakes in the Phoenix area, with the number varying according to level of aggregation. There are no existing GIS data on retention basins, so we employed drywell-permit data to estimate that there may be 10,000 retention basins in the region. Basic data on N stocks in these ecosystems are discussed within the context of the regional N budget. Accurate data on the extent and distribution of these designed ecosystems will be vital for water-resources planning and stormwater management.     

Mandated benefits and entry-level employees and employment

Entry-level employees, particularly those with little education and skill, are often not provided fringe benefits that are included in the compensation packages of their more skilled and experienced counterparts. Under the rubric of improving the well-being of entry-level employees, Congress is considering proposals requiring employers provide speccific benefits to employees. Unfortunately, by substituting political directives for market decision making, mandated benefits impose economic inefficiencies, and most of the resulting costs are borne by the entry-level employees purportedly most helped by mandated benefits. The author thanks Ronald Warren for helpful comments. The customary caveat applies.     

Health conditions and job hazards: Union and nonunion jobs

Blue-collar union members are more likely than nonunion blue-collar workers to report health conditions caused by job accidents and by bad working conditions caused by noise, smoke, heat, and dust. This is consistent with blue-collar union members’ evaluation of hazardous job conditions and with their indemnity claims filing behavior for industrial injury or occupational disease. Union members are also more likely to be found in industries with higher injury rates. Age and marital status are positively associated and being female and education are negatively associated with a self-reported job related health condition. We thank Steve Zrebiec for research assistance and Bill Greene for the maximum likelihood routines. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the National Council on Compensation Insurance or Brigham Young University.     

Computer software and qualitative analysis: Trends,issues and resources

Developments during the 1990s in the use of computer software for qualitative data analysis are surveyed. Salient trends are identified as are wider issues associated with software use. Also listed are some of the resources now available to potential and actual users of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS).     

The Differential Salience of Family and Community Demands and Resources for Family-to-Work Conflict and Facilitation

This paper examines the differential salience of family and community demands and resources in relation to family-to-work conflict and facilitation. The study used interviews with 1567 employed, married, parents from the 1995 National Survey of Midlife Development (MIDUS). Family demands show relatively strong positive relationships to family-to-work conflict, whereas family resources are relatively important for family-to-work facilitation. Two community demands are positively related to family-to-work conflict and one community resource is positively associated with facilitation. Community demands and resources generally do not moderate relationships between family demands and resources and family-to-work conflict and facilitation. The study suggests that processes associated with demands are relatively important for family-to-work conflict, whereas processes embedded in resources are relatively salient for family-to-work facilitation.