Category: Practice

FIRST IMPRESSIONS COUNT A. Traditionally uniforms were — and for some industries still are — manufactured to protect the worker. When they were first designed, it...

Looking for a Market among Adolescents A. In 1992, the most recent year for which data are available, the US tobacco industry spent $5 billion...

The Pursuit of Happiness “New research uncovers some anti-intuitive insights into how many people are happy – and why.” Compared with misery, happiness is relatively...

Creating Artificial Reefs In the coastal waters of the US, a nation’s leftovers have been discarded. Derelict ships, concrete blocks, scrapped cars, army tanks, tyres...

The Discovery of Uranus Someone once put forward an attractive though unlikely theory. Throughout the Earth’s annual revolution around the sun there is one point...

The Danger of ECSTASY Use of the illegal drug named Ecstasy (MDMA) has increased alarmingly in Britain over the last few years, and in 1992...

Destinations for international english students Paragraph (i) At any given time, more than a million international students around the world are engaged in the study...

BENEATH THE CANOPY 1. The world’s tropical rainforests comprise some 6% of the Earth’s land area and contain more than half of all known life forms,...

THE BEAM-OPERATED TRAFFIC SYSTEM The Need for Change The number of people killed each year on the road is more than for all other types...