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Repost: 2007 French Baccalaureate (BAC) Essay Questions

Life & Notes2007.06.13
Repost: 2007 French Baccalaureate (BAC) Essay Questions
发信人: Eagle (Kuma), 区: Philo 标题: 2007 French Baccalaureate (BAC) Essay Questions 发信站: Peking University Unnamed BBS (2007年06月13日11:30:34 Wednesday) , site message June 11, 2007 Time: 4 hours Graduates in the literary, economics and social sciences, and science tracks may each choose one of the following three topics: Questions for literary-track candidates 1) Is any realization of insight also a liberation from the shackles of thought? （Toute prise de conscience est-elle libératrice? ） 2) Are works of art realities like any others? （Les oeuvres d'art sont-elles des réalités comme les autres? ） 3) Explain Aristotle’s discussion of “responsibility” in Ethique à Nicomaque （Expliquer un extrait de "Ethique à Nicomaque"…
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2007年6月13日
Repost: Are Artificial Species About to Appear?

Life & Notes2007.06.13
Repost: Are Artificial Species About to Appear?
Artificial species are about to make their debut http://news.sina.com.cn/w/2007-06-09/074011988076s.shtml http://www.sina.com.cn 2007年06月09日07:40 Sichuan Online – Huaxi Metropolis Daily According to a report on the 8th by American media, several American biologists are using the method of synthetic biology to synthesize the smallest and simplest genome from DNA fragments carrying specific genetic codes, and then implant that genome into bacteria from which the genetic code has already been removed, thereby forming a new microorganism. At present, this new artificial species is about to come into being. According to reports, the scientist leading this research is named Venter, and he has long been devoted to artificially creating new microorganisms at an institute in…
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2007年6月13日
This Episode’s Music: A Night in the Forest (Bandari Orchestra)

Life & Notes2007.06.12
This Episode’s Music: A Night in the Forest (Bandari Orchestra)
http://www1.hrbust.edu.cn/zuzhijigou/gonghui/music/03/01.mp3 A while ago I bought this CD set: http://www.joyo.com/detail/product.asp?prodid=bkmu610380 The key thing was seeing a user comment saying, “This set should be every bit as famous as Bandari,” and, combined with the over-the-top introduction, I ended up buying it. But this set of discs really disappointed me—it’s nothing more than taking some classical music or easy listening and adding bird calls or the sound of running water and such. And this is supposed to be the sound of heaven? This is supposed to be natural music? With so little creativity, it can’t even begin to catch up to Bandari and George Winston; now that is what you call natural…
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2007年6月12日
Yangroupao Residence Renamed Winter-Cold-Summer-Hot Residence…

Life & Notes2007.06.11
Yangroupao Residence Renamed Winter-Cold-Summer-Hot Residence…
Lately I’ve really been growing more and more dissatisfied with this “ju”… The construction noise mentioned earlier has still shown no sign of easing up (by rights, shouldn’t it at least be quiet for two days before the college entrance exam? They’re even more industrious than the examinees…), and a couple of days ago, for some unknown reason, they put up an extra wall at the entrance—now, although it’s directly opposite Peking University’s south gate, there’s a wall in between, and you have to take a huge detour to get in. Once the wall went up, of course the storefronts that do business there couldn’t stand it, and the mutton-soup…
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2007年6月11日
The Poor Supporting Characters… Do You Still Remember These Three People?

Life & Notes2007.06.09
The Poor Supporting Characters… Do You Still Remember These Three People?
Ha ha… remember? Hint: Steel###, one airplane, one sports car, one speedboat… for the author to forget these three such distinctive characters is really fz啊… @@ Latest Comments UNIC 2007-06-09 21:42:26 Anonymous 222.82.77.107 [Reply] I have never seen them before. the left one is the most handsome one… Gu Chu 2007-06-10 00:26:45 http://epr.ycool.com/ [Reply] Hehe~ You really are young; it’s understandable that you don’t have a deep impression of the early part of this cartoon. But you must have seen at least some of the later parts, right? If this cartoon weren’t known to every man, woman, and child, I wouldn’t need to make such a fuss over…
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2007年6月9日
The Starry Sky Belongs to Children

Life & Notes2007.06.07
The Starry Sky Belongs to Children
During the winter vacation, when I went to Nanbei Lake with my relatives (a dozen or so people), I casually mentioned whether you could see a few more stars here at Nanbei Lake than in Shanghai. At first, Mom, Dad, uncles, and aunts all seemed completely at sea, until I added that nowadays in Shanghai you can hardly see even a few stars at night; then the “adults” were all astonished— in their impression, the night sky still looked full of stars, so many that they were beyond counting. How could there be only the seven or eight stars you can count on your fingers left? That day happened to…
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2007年6月7日
This Issue’s Music: The Pure Land Dhāraṇī (in a Tibetan Folk Song Style)

Life & Notes2007.06.05
This Issue’s Music: The Pure Land Dhāraṇī (in a Tibetan Folk Song Style)
http://buddha.goodweb.cn/music/musicdownload/jingtu_tln.mp3 Pure Land Dhāraṇī (in the style of a Tibetan folk song) http://buddha.goodweb.cn/music/musictxt/wangsheng.asp The one posted above is incomplete; the one below is long enough, though it’s a bit large, and it stuttered in the middle: http://buddha.goodweb.cn/music/musicdownload/jingtu_tln2.mp3 This installment of music continues the journey eastward; after the guqin, let’s go farther west and find a piece of Tibetan music. Tibet has always been one of the places I most yearn for. I seem to have posted a Tibetan folk song before. This time I originally wanted to do “A Sister Drum,” but listening to the “Six-Character Great Bright Mantra” inside A Sister Drum, I thought it would be better to…
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2007年6月5日
[Repost] The Progressive View of History and the View of History as Redemption (Weiming BBS)

Life & Notes2007.06.03
[Repost] The Progressive View of History and the View of History as Redemption (Weiming BBS)
i—— When Professor Wu was lecturing, he said that the progressive view of history is the secularized version of the history of salvation, but I didn’t quite understand it. Could some expert help explain it?? I’d be extremely grateful 🙂 Gǔ Huà—— Ancient people’s views of history rarely involved linear progress; more often they took all kinds of cyclical forms—either saying that history was declining ever more deeply (for example, from a Golden Age to an Iron Age), or saying that history would be an endless cycle (as in Heraclitus’s “Great Year”). In the East, cyclical theories were even more common. In short, the progressive view of history is a…
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2007年6月3日
[Repost] The Top 20 Philosophy Departments in Chinese Universities in 2007

Life & Notes2007.06.03
[Repost] The Top 20 Philosophy Departments in Chinese Universities in 2007
http://edu.qq.com/a/20070330/000076.htm http://edu.qq.com/gaokao/ztq/slzl.shtml In the undergraduate major catalog, philosophy consists of only one disciplinary category, with 3 undergraduate majors. According to statistical data published by the State Council Academic Degrees Office, philosophy bachelor’s degrees granted by universities in our country account for 0.19% of the total number of bachelor’s degrees, philosophy master’s degrees account for 1.36% of the total number of master’s degrees, and philosophy doctorates account for 1.73% of the total number of doctorates. According to statistics on doctoral supervisors released by the Higher Education Students Affairs Department of the Ministry of Education, among the 37,078 doctoral supervisors in universities nationwide, 539 are philosophy doctoral supervisors, accounting for 1.45% of…
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2007年6月3日
[Repost] Beijing Haidian Book City Pedestrian Street Reopens

Life & Notes2007.06.03
[Repost] Beijing Haidian Book City Pedestrian Street Reopens
http://www.whxw.com.cn/Article/gg/200706/20070601090150_97206.shtml Source: “Jinghua Times” Updated: 2007-6-1 9:01:50 Traditional Chinese One of the city’s 10 distinctive commercial streets; studios for animation, film, and other fields are distributed among them This newspaper report: On the morning of May 30, the Haidian Book City Pedestrian Street, after more than 10 months of renovation and transformation, was officially opened. This pedestrian street is the earliest completed project among the 10 city-level distinctive commercial streets planned to be completed in this city before 2008, and it is also the largest single street of book culture in the country. The newly completed pedestrian street is 220 meters long, about 10 meters wide, with a floor area…
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2007年6月3日