CONTENTS 1
PartⅠ News Stories 1
1．News Sources 1
2．Basically speaking,a computer whizzkid By Our Education Correspondent 6
3．Moscow leads world shipping(Abridged)By Michael Baily,Transport Editor 8
4．Money Flow:A study of wealth and poverty 10
5．Italy’s Case of Small Injustice 13
6．Scholars Ask for Action Now To Save Global Environment(Special to The New York Times)By PHILIP SHABECOFF 16
7．Significant Progress on Water Pollution Reported 20
8．In U.S.,Chinese Get a Taste of New England(Special to the New York Times) 24
Part Ⅱ Features,Reports and Column Articles 31
9．Science report Getting to the root of food production 31
By John Young,Agrfculture Correspondent 31
10．Women in Hungary:Changing minds By Georgina Ferry 34
11．Science and religion Paradoxes of physics and theology By Russell Stannard(Professor of Phys-ics,Open University) 38
12．Letter from New York Down and out in the soup-kitchen queue 43
13．Letter from New York A city devoted to its stomach By Trevor Fishlock 48
14．Turning Green into Yellow One-third ofWest Germany’s precious forests are dying off(Abridged) 54
15．Genetic engineering:1 On the brink of a new world 59
16．How Rro Football Was Ruined？MY TURN/ROLAND MERULLO 66
17．Where We Stand No Simple Rx for Public School Japan and France Have Troubles,Too 72
By Albert Shanker 72
18．Out of College and Into the Red By Sharon Johnson 78
19．Sally Ride:Ready for Liftoff—America’s first space-bound woman has already left the rest of the world behind(Abridged) 87
20．Dragon Ships Betore Columbus？BY JAY STULLER 94
21．Policy Studies Institute survey Londoners fear for their safety at night but back pol ice,poll shows By Peter Evans,Home Affairs Correspondent 105
22．Behavior Sudden Death Mass murder at a McDonald’s 112
23．“They’ve Killed My Daughter Twicel” 120
24．Diary of a Homeless Man Condensed from New York(Abridged)By John R,Coleman 130
PartⅡ Editorials and Book Reviews 140
25．Reagan After China By James Reston 140
26．New York Is Failing a Reading Test By Sheila Rule 146
27．Neutral and Armed to the Teeth By Jonathan Steinberg 153
28．Sickly Uncle Sam By Jeffrey E．Garten 159
29．Book Review:Before It’s Too Late—A scientist’s case for nuclear energy By lan Fells 167
30．The Forgetful Father of Penicillin By Jeremy Bernstein 174
Vocabulary 184