Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the J J. men of Israel fled before the philistines,and many fell on Mount Gilboa. 2The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and the Philistines killed Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchishua , the sons of Saul. The battle pressed hard upon Saul ; the archers found him , and he was badly wounded by them. 4Then Saul said to his armor-bearer , "Draw your sword and thrust me through with it , so that these uncircumcised may not come and thrust me through, and make sport of me. "But his armor- bearer was unwilling ; for he was terrified. So Saul took his own sword and fell upon it. When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead , he also fell upon his sword and died with him. 6So Saul and his three sons and his armor-bearer and all his men died together on the same day. When the men of Israel who were on the other side of the valley and those be-yond the Jordan saw that the men of Israel had fled and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook their towns and fled; and the Philistines came and occupied them.
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These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham's son; Abraham was the father of Isaac, 20and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, sister of Laban the Aramean. 2llsaac prayed to the LORD for his wife, because she was barren; and the LORD granted his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived. 22The children struggled together within her; and she said, "If it is to be this way, why do I live?" So she went to inquire of the LORD. 2 3 And the LORD said to her , "Two nations are in your womb , and two peoples born of you shall be divided ; the one shall be stronger than the other, the elder shall serve the younger. " 24When her time to give birth was at hand, there were twins in her womb. 25The first came out red, all his body like a hairy mantle; so they named him Esau®. 2 6 Afterward his brother came out, with his hand gripping Esau's heel; so he was named Jacob® , Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.
In sports as in life, teamwork is crucial2 for any pair to succeed. In the Chinese national badminton team, Zhang Jun and Gao Ling are widely considered a perfect match.
Their outstanding individual skills which complement each other led to a brilliant performance and well-deserved gold medal at the Sydney Olympics.
But since then, things have not got quite as smoothly. Now, we'll take a look at the pair who wants to bring the gold back home again.
Every athlete wants to avoid making the same mistake, but China's leading mixed doubles pair Zhang Jun and Gao Ling have done just that.
They have been upset3 7 times in 3 years by arch-rivals, Kim Dong-Moon and Ra Kyung-Min of South Korea in their last 8 meetings.
Zhang Jun said , " Kim Dong-Moon has deeply influenced me by giving me a lot of pressure to improve my skills. When I meet European players, I feel sure to win if I play well. While meeting him, even if I try my best, I can still lose. "
Such a huge losing streak has even led to mistrust within the pair, which Gao says sometimes exacerbates the problem4 .
Gao Ling said, "We were not playing together during the Thomas and Uber Cups, so we are not cooperating as well as we should.
We've never thought that we would lose so many matches, but everything has gone against us. We feel extremely sad and are sorry about the poor job we've done. We could have played better. "
Back in 2000, it was quite a different story. In the mixed doubles quarter-final at the Sydney Olympics, Zhang Jun and Gao Ling overwhelmingly5 beat the South Korean pair in an exciting match that went down in badminton history.
In the final , however, the Chinese pair had to battle Trikus and Minarti Timur of Indonesia, then ranked number one in the world. China unexpectedly lost the 1 st set 15-1 , and the result seemed a foregone conclusion6.
But The Chinese pair shaped up and unleashed waves of fierce counter-attacks in the make-or-break 2nd set, which they won 15-137. Their momentum8 did
not subside9 and the two led the deciding set to the end to secure their first-ever Olympic gold.
But since then , things haven't gone so smoothly. As the Athens Olympics is fast approaching, time has become increasingly pressing for the defending champions to retain their best form , and many national coaches are trying to help.
This won't be any easy job. Gao Ling is playing in the women's doubles as well, and Zhang Jun needs to help his partner keep her energy in consecutive intense matches.
And above all, they have to conquer the South Korean duo who are at the peak of their careers. But they say confidently that after months of training, they are ready for the challenge.
Zhang Jun said, "Defeat can be a good thing. Though I lost to Kim several times, I do not feel under too much pressure because most of his past victories were not decisive at all. He will probably feel that to win is quite normal and to lose is not. .The pressure is on him now. "
And Cao Ling added, "It does not matter if it is the mixed doubles or the women's doubles , I must try my best. I will be responsible for my performance at the Olympic Games. Though I have to play in two events, I won't secure one at the cost of the other. "
Both of them hope that they can practice together more frequently to improve their coordination. They say although they are not a couple of the badminton court, they often miss each other because it is badminton that has brought them together. All they need to do now is regain10 the form that led them to the podium" in Sydney.
The mice should have many important uses in medical science, such as enabling researchers to test treatments against a number of diseases and to study the effects of infectious microorganisms — including the AIDS virus — on the human immune system.
Both research groups — at the Medical Biology Institute in La Jolla and at Stanford University — started with a special strain of mice that are without an immune system. The La Jolla scientists injected the mice with human B cells and T cells, white blood cells that are major components of the immune system. The cells reproduced in the mice's bodies and mi-grated throughout the animals' circulatory systems.
The Stanford researchers implanted human fetal lival tissues, thymus-gland tissues, and lymph nodes, into the mice. In the mice's bodies, the liver cells produced stem cells, which develop into the various kinds of blood cells. The implanted tissues converted the stem cells into B cells and T cells.
The mice with immune-system transplants by both research teams were fully protected against infectious disease. Ordinarily, mice of the strain used by the scientists die soon after birth unless they are kept in a sterile environment.
1. In theory, the Common Market should have helped Europe remain competitive in world markets. Unhappily, some common policies have been counterproductive—especially those dealing with such declining industries as steel, once a proud badge of Europe's industrial virility. Europe's steel production peaked at 156 million tons in 1974, and 1981 was about three quarters of that level. Some of the decline has been recession induced, but with increasing out¬ put from newly industrialized countries coming onto the market, Europe is unlikely to pour 156 million tons a year again. Not only the century- old "dark satanic mills" of Britain's Midlands and France' s Lorraine appear ripe for closure; some of the costly coastal steel mills built in the
Sixties now look like cathedrals on foundations of .sand.
2. Employment in steel has dropped by nearly 200,000 since 1974 to a recent level of
600,000—too low to keep the industry fit. The grandiose "steel plans" adopted by the EC have maintained uneconomic production at taxpayer expense. Between 1974 and 1983, more than
S 30 billion in state subsidies will have been spent to keep the British, French, Italian, and
Belgian steel industries oversized. Plants thus kept alive continue to produce, and the result has
been a glut of subsidized steel unloaded at controversial prices on a recurrently depressed global market.
3. This nonsense has been the despair of German steelmakers, who have pared their work force from 326,000 to 196,000 since the Sixties. "When I took over here nine years ago, we had a capacity of 20 million tons a year," says Dieter Spethmann, chief executive of Thryssen, Germany's biggest steelmaker. "Now we live on a production of 11 million." Krupp and Mannesmann have made similar cuts in employment and shifted investment away from steel. Even counting specialty alloys, steel now accounts for only 40% of Krupp's revenues. But -the Germans earn little or no profit from steel, a misfortune that they blame on the flood of subsidized output elsewhere in Europe.
4.Britain and France, there are signs that the larger lunacies of state support for un¬ profitable production are coming to an end. But steel mills that have become political symbols, such as Italsider' s plant at Toranto or Cockerill' s in Ougree, Wallonia, seem likely to be maintained indefinitely as national employment monuments. In Italy, 100,000 are employed in the steel industry, 4,300 more than in 1974. Resources wasted on uneconomic operations are not available for the crucial shift of European industry to more sophisticated products with a higher value added during manufacturing. This shift is in full swing in many well - run European companies , among them Germany' s Daimler - Benz and Siemens, Britain' s GEC, and Italy' s Olivetti . Yet the Old World remains a weakling in some of the newest industries; it provides only 8% of the world's microchip production, for example.
The first, "the age of deference" when it was an honour to have you, the interviewee, on the pro-nme, lasted until the middle 50s. The second, "the age of ascendancy" , when politicians articular looked upon the interviewers as agenda-setting rivals who made them feel uncom-ible by their knowledge and rigour of questioning, came to an end at the beginning of this decade. Now we are in "the age of evasion" , when most prominent interviewers have t quired the art of seeming to answer a question while bypassing its essential thrust.
Why should this be? From the complexity of causes responsible for the present mediocr of the interview form a few are worth singling out, such as the revolt against rationality and t enthronement of feeling in its place. To the young of the 60s, the painstaking search for u derstanding of a given political problem may have appeared less fruitful and satisfying than t unrestrained of emotion which the same problem generated. Sooner or later, broadcasting « bound to reflect this.
This bias against understanding has continued. To this we must add the professional ca ses that have played their part. The convention of the broadcast interview has undergone lit change or radical development since its rise in the 50s. When a broadcasting form ceases develop, its practitioners tend to take it for granted and are likely to say "how" rather th ask "why".
Furthermore, these partly psychological, partly professional tendencies were greatly a celerated by the huge expansion of news and current affairs output over the last 15 year When you had many additional hours of current affairs broadcasting, interviewing turned out be a far cheaper convention than straight reporting, which is costly in terms of permanent i porters and time preparation. The temptation to combine an expanded news and current affa service with a relatively small additional outlay by making the interview present everywhe proved overwhelming.
To be fair, there are compensating virtues in interviewing, such as immediacy and a thority, yet in all honesty I must say that the spread of the interviewing format has led to corresponding diminution of quality broadcasting.
The Olympic track and field programme kicks off3 at the main stadium tonight and watch for one woman to dominate the first two days.
Swedish4 all-rounder5 Carolina Kluft is the hottest of favourites for the heptathlon, the women's equivalent6 of the men's 10-event decathlon.
The heptathlon, seven events spread over two days, has drawn 40 entries7, but pencil it in as Kluft versus The Rest. She is that good.
During her events she makes faces at the camera, does funny walks and gen-erally behaves like someone several years younger. 8
She's not arrogant9. Far from it.'° Rather she insists she just wants to enjoy herself.
She takes a small stuffed toy, Eeyore, with her to events "not because I think he gives me good luck but because he reminds me this is for fun".
"When I am competing I don't think about the world record or even winning a medal," she said.
"That's not why I do this. I do it because I enjoy it. "
"If I don't beat the world record I will not keep going until I beat it. "
" I don't feel like the world is going to end if Carolina Kluft does not succeed in the Olympics. I think the world has bigger problems to worry about. If I don't succeed I will be deeply disappointed. But life goes on. "
Consider this is a woman who spurned11 the chance for a potential US $100,000 ( $150,000) payday at an athletics meeting in Monte Carlo12 last September to be with a child13 she has sponsored14 in Kenya15.
Her parents, Ingalill and Johnny, were respectively a leading long jumper in the 1960s and a professional soccer player. She lives with Swedish pole vaul-ter Patrik Kristiansson and one of her three siblings16, 19-year-old Sofia, is a
Swedish junior international at the heptathlon, long jump and hurdles.
Kluft will also contest17 the long jump in Athens. Five competitors, led by controversial American Marion Jones, have superior best marks this year to her 6.97m. But she's right in the hunt for a second medal.
Don't be surprised to see Kluft cheering for her rivals over the next two days. She can't understand why that would seem odd.
" It feels natural for me to cheer for my competitors , because we compete with each other-not against each other.
"If they succeed then they will inspire me to succeed. "
She will be a popular champion here. The mix of considerable skill plus en-gaging, if slightly loopy persona is a winning one. 18
As she puts it, the Olympics "is a big adventure for me".
1. Don't try to predict the weather. Bring a warm jacket and sweater so that you're prepared for changes in the temperature; even in the summer months of July and August, it gets cold.
2. Buy a prepaid phone card. Many of the phone booths at San Francisco airport and in the center of the city only accept prepaid calling cards.
3. Pre-arrange your hotel stay—especially in the summer months. Don't assume that it will be easy to find a room when you arrive. Hotels fill up quickly in San Francisco all year, particularly in the summer.
4. San Francisco is a great walking city—but there are hills! Bring a comfortable pair of walking shoes if you're planning to go around on foot. Also, you can prevent stiff muscles by stretching, or avoiding the hills on the first day.
5. There are many wonderful cultural events happening in San Francisco year round. Use the Internet to get a preview of up-to-date events happening at the time of your visit.
According to a survey, which was based on the responses of over 188 , 000 students, today's traditional-age college freshmen are "more materialistic and less altruistic " than at any time in the 17 years of the poll.
Not surprising in these hard times, the student's major objective "is to be financially well off. Less important than ever is developing a meaningful philosophy of life. " It follows then that today the most popular course is not literature or history but accounting.
Interest in teaching, social service and the "altruistic" fields is at a low. On the other hand, enrollment in business programs, engineering and computer science is way up.
That's no surprise either. A friend of mine ( a sales representative for a chemical company ) was making twice the salary of her college instructors her first year on the job — even before she completed her two-year associate degree.
While it's true that we all need a career, it is equally true that our civilization has accumulated an incredible amount of knowledge in fields far removed from our own and that we are better for our understanding of these other contributions m be they scientific or artistic. It is equally true that, in studying the diverse wisdom of others, we learn how to think. More important , perhaps , education teaches us to see the connections between things , as well as to see beyond our immediate needs.
Weekly we read of unions who went on strike for higher wages , only to drive their employer out of business. No company ; no job. How shortsighted in the long run !
But the most important argument for a broad education is that in studying the accumulated wisdom of the ages , we improve our moral sense. I saw a cartoon recently which shows a group of businessmen looking puzzled as they sit around a conference table ; one of them is talking on the intercom ( X-j" 1$ It ) : " Miss Baxter , " he says , " could you please send in someone who can distinguish right from wrong?"
From the long-term point of view , that's what education really ought to be about.
In most cases, offensive breath emanates from bacteria in the mouth, although there are other, more surprising causes.
Until a few years ago, the most doctors could do was to counsel patients with bad breath about oral cleanliness. Now they are finding new ways to treat the usually curable condition.
Bad breath can happen whenever the normal flow of saliva slows. Our mouths are full of bacteria feeding on protein in bits of food and shed tissue. The bacteria emit evil-smelling gasses, the worst of which is hydrogen sulfide.
Mouth bacteria thrive in airless conditions. Oxygen-rich saliva keeps their numbers down. When we sleep, for example, the saliva stream slows, and sulfide-producing bacteria gain the upper hand, producing classic "morning breath".
Alcohol, hunger, too much talking, breathing through the mouth during exercise— anything that dries the mouth produces bad breath. So can stress, though it's not under-stood why. Some people's breath turns sour every time they go on a job interview.
Saliva flow gradually slows with age, which explains why the elderly have more bad-breath trouble than younger people do. Babies, however, who make plenty of saliva and whose mouths contain relatively few bacteria have characteristically sweet breath.
For most of us, the simple, dry-mouth variety of bad breath is easily cured. Eating or drinking starts saliva and sweeps away many of the bacteria. Breakfast often stops morning breath.
Those with chronic dry mouth find that it helps to keep gum, hard candy, or a bottle of water of juice around. Brushing the teeth wipes out dry-mouth bad breath because it clears away many of the offending bacteria.
Surprisingly, one thing that rarely works is mouthwash. The liquid can mask bad-breath odor with its own smell, but the effect lasts no more than an hour. Some mouth-washes claim to kill the bacteria responsible for bad breath. The trouble is, they don't necessarily reach all offending germs. Most bacteria are well protected from mouthwash under thick layers of mucus. If the mouthwash contains alcohol—as most do—it can intensify the problem by drying out the mouth.
