中东的第二条运河--死海通向大海工程

由于死海地区严重缺水、死海水位的持续下降及所潜在的水能等因素,约、以分别提出了地中-死海、红海-死海的运河方案.两方案各有利弊,但就目前而论,利大于弊,但从长远看,尚难确定.目前,两方案虽已提出,但因国际和中东局势、资金等原因,运河何时能开工,还是未知数.     

死海游

瀛环之大,无奇不有。所谓奇,就是不为人知,或少为人知的事物。人们比较熟悉珠峰,惊叹它高冠天下,无与伦比。但是,对低处世界之洼的死海,却知者不多,识者更少。其实,作为地理奇观,死海与珠峰是各具特色,相映成趣的。我过去对死海虽然略有所闻,并且为之神往,但下决心一游死海却是出于一个迷人的传说。记得初到安曼,我的约旦朋友叶海亚先生——一个博学而又热情的年轻人,就满怀着对真主的敬畏,给我讲述了关于死海的故事: 很久很久以前,现在的死海还是一片陆地,村落稠密,鸡犬相闻。这些村落的男子染有鸡奸的陋习。真主对此十分     

靓丽容颜 非“泥”莫属

死海泥、矿物泥、黑沙泥、冰河泥、火山泥是最常见的种类，在夏季应对油脂分泌、毛孔粗大等问题，非“泥”不可已经被公认。     

泥之魅力

用黑黑的泥来美丽自己的肌肤不是现代人的发明，矿物泥护肤的历史，要追溯到古希腊和罗马时期。在那时的蚀刻画中，就有描绘人们在泥浆中浸浴、以黑泥涂脸的画面。传说埃及艳后Cleopatra就是因为太钟情于使用死海泥浆作面膜，因而鼓动侵占死海一带。     

审判过错责任追究制度的探索与完善

近年来，“河北聂树斌案”、“湖北余祥林案”、“河南赵作海案”、“杭州张辉、张高平案”等一些重大冤假错案陆续揭露。虽然这些案件都得到了纠正，涉案司法人员也受到了相应的处理，但同时引发的对审判责任追究制度在规范制约司法行为，减少或避免冤假错案发生等方面作用的争论与质疑并未停歇…     

对传播淫秽物品牟利罪的新展开——以快播案为例的分析

"快播案"被持续热议有两方面原因,即能否被认定为传播淫秽物品牟利罪以及对缓存服务器的行为的定性。本文结合"快播案",着重对"传播""牟利"进行具体的语境分析。结合"快播案"提出通过网络进行的违法活动具有隐蔽性;网络时代的法律应当被完善,司法活动应保持独立性,不能被舆论左右。     

悬测读书 力求高效——阅读提速一法

新课标对中、小学生课外阅读总量提出具体要求，要达到这一基本要求，必须从两方面入手，一是引导学生进行“快、准”的阅读基本功练习，二是对学生传授读书方法。基于这一理念，目前的教学中，我认为“悬测读书法”不失为一种好的阅读法。     

运河古镇的保护与开发——以杭州塘栖镇、德州四女寺镇为例的考察

正京杭大运河贯穿南北,长达1700多公里,其不同河段具有差异性与多样性,但运河古镇却都因运河闻名。随着运河申遗进入关键时期和对运河传统文化的不断认识,运河沿岸古镇的保护和开发得到重视,各地应结合运河流经的区位特点,挖掘区别于其他古镇的文化源头,留住各地古镇独具的风貌和神韵,共同演绎运河文化的内涵。笔者通过对浙江杭州塘栖古镇和山东德州四女寺古镇的     

死海比海平面究竟低多少

死海是约旦的旅游区之一,是地球表面上最低的地方,并以此而闻名于世。近年来,国内报刊对它作过多次介绍。在阅读这些关于死海的文章时,细心的读者会发现一个问题,即死海的水位究竟比海拔低多少米?有的文章说399米,有的写作392米。那么,到底哪个说法对呢?     

死海的活力

从约旦首都安曼往西南行五十余公里到苏怀马市,向前望去,一个平静如镜的湖面映入眼帘,这便是闻名遐迩的死海。死海,是一个没有出口的盐湖,面积约一千平方公里,南北长75公里,东西宽5—16公里;水面比地中海海面低392     

Politique et expertise scientifique. La régulation européenne des médicaments

A study of the EU system for regulating medicinal products is used to show the usefulness of distinguishing between policy-making and scientific expertise when analyzing political decision-making. This approach presupposes identifying the characteristics of scientific expertise. The experts responsible for assessing drugs have to combine knowledge and action. Questions are raised about how work is shared between decision-makers and experts. In the case of medicinal products, the work of experts has absorbed decision-making. Lest we waver between explanations in terms either of science or else of politics, it is necessary to substantively identify expertise’s political dimensions. Two conceptions — the “healthy man’s” and the “sick man’s” — of the purpose of assessing medicinal products stand out in debates; but political authorities pay no heed to them.     

The electronic face of government in the internet age: borrowing from Murray Edelman

The issue of legitimation by political elites has been a central concern of political scientists for many years. This article draws upon the work of Murray Edelman who was instrumental in analysing this relationship between rulers and ruled, the relatively powerful and relatively powerless, through an understanding of language, symbolism and the manipulation of information. It concludes with the contention that the Internet offers the prospect for governments to create new 'electronic faces', which act to support a symbolic architecture of power.     

Wedding the dragon: The powerful feminine as seen in Jewish women’s dreams

Abstract

This article addresses the theological and liturgical problem of incorporating mythic traditions of the divine feminine into contemporary practice, given the typically essentialist nature of these traditions. The article considers the dream practice of a Jewish women’s learning community, the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, and applies this practice to several “dragon dreams” in which dragons appear as powerful, erotic, sacred figures that “queer” the divine feminine by offering a norm-upending vision of what the feminine is and does. These dragon dreams provide a powerful alternative to traditional Jewish images of the female dragon in which the dragon represents the demonic feminine. I suggest that dreams can offer a “queering” of mythic images of the sacred feminine because they contain images that have mythic depth but also upend norms and expectations. The article then explores how these dragon images have made their way into the liturgy and theology of the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute.     

Un atelier d’écriture internationale : l’OCDE au travail. Éléments de sociologie de la forme « rapport »

The writing of a “transversal” report on employment at the OECD is examined by focusing not on the finished product but, instead, on the drafting of the report. This approach allows for exploring the dynamics of power at work inside the OECD. It opens toward broader considerations about how this type of international organization produces knowledge in economics and weaves relations, throughout the long process of drafting the report, with those who requested it. This article analyzes how economic issues are assembled through a succession of intermediate studies and reshaped through an asymmetrical competition between services. By making visible the process of constructing the position of “institutional author”, this analysis repositions on new grounds the problem of “influence”, which usually arises in organizations of this sort.     

WHAT IS THE MULTITUDE?

Nicholas Brown and Imre Szeman continue their conversation with Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri. (See ‘The Global Coliseum: On Empire’ in Cultural Studies, 16.2, (March 2002), p. 177–192). In this new interview they press the authors of Empire and Multitude on questions that have arisen both out of their own involvement with the theoretical issues generated by Empire and from new areas opened up by Multitude. Why is the multitude not a class? How can the unity of a political project be maintained in the multiplicity of the multitude? Is democracy still a project for the future? Can a political subject constitute itself outside the structure of sovereignty? In other words, what is the multitude?     

DEFINING MOMENTS: THE TENSION BETWEEN RICHNESS AND REACH

The defining moments of traditional spatially based higher education are made up of fixed and fluid experiences. These 'moments' are now creaking as funding per student falls and the romanticized ideal of an education detached from 'real' life falters under the weight of highly variable student experiences. Distance learning in all its guises has always been regarded as inferior by those embedded in the traditional system. However more and more students demand something different from costly campus-based education. It is time for a more open discussion about the tensions between richness and reach and the role that new facilities like the Internet could play in reaching more students without wallowing in the nostalgia that often accompanies such debates.     

A Stylistic Analysis of Hemingway’s A Clean,Well-Lighted Place

One important theme of Hemingway＇s A Clean, Well-Lighted Place is the nothingness of life itself, At the beginning of this short story, Hemingway presents a setting--the cafe, which is familiar to us, and then moves our attention to focus on the characters within that setting, The story is told through the dialogues between the two waiters and is in third-person narration, In the following paragraphs we will focus on stylistic characteristics of this short story,     

INFORMATION-CENTRED DESIGN: A methodology for designing virtual meeting DESIGN environments

Development of single-user computer applications has often been based on user-centred or task-centred design methodologies, with some success. These methodologies are also useful for guiding the development of multi-user CSCW applications whenever the basic characteristics of the users, or the type of tasks for which the system is being designed are identifiable. The effectiveness of these methodologies as a basis for the design of virtual meeting environments for supporting community-based activities, on the other hand, is rather limited. This is mainly due to the fact that for such systems it is not generally possible to identify the user or task requirements, as these vary considerably from one community to another, or even within the same community over a period of time. New methodologies need to be devised, or existing methodologies have to be modified, to direct the development of virtual environments for which the characteristics of the users or their activities are not known in advance. This paper introduces the concept of information-centred design. Information-centred design, though not fully devised yet, focuses on the identification of the type of information, as well as the way it is collected and utilized by the users of a virtual meeting environment. This pool of information, which plays an important role in facilitating interaction and communication between the members of a community, could be defined as their communal memory.     

La contingence et le travail de conception. Définir,organiser, délibérer

The activity of a design office consists in producing plans for things that do not yet exist. If, through poor management, the designers fail to anticipate accurately what the product will be, work will be inappropriately allocated and divided. Given the uncertain nature of the activity and the outcome, designers are simultaneously involved in the process of producing technical solutions, a process of organisation — through constant reallocation of tasks — and a political process of ironing out disagreements — through the exploration of multiple heterogeneous possibilities.     

Recruitment of foreign male and female fighters to Jihad: Morocco’s multifaceted counter-terror strategy

Field research on ‘young Moroccan Jihadists in Syria and Iraq from northern Morocco’ unexpectedly revealed the mundane factors behind their recruitment represented in the self-realization and the search for heroism, adventure and money, were the main reasons for the recruitment of young people in northern Morocco terrorist organizations, especially the Daesh. The religious factor is secondary. To combat terrorism and extremism which is spreading in the MENA region requires political will. Appropriate laws should be enacted as soon as possible and policies must be implemented to ensure border control, the closure of financing ports, propaganda platforms, anti-addiction, etc.