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1、新 视 野 大 学 英 语 3U1Love w ithout lim itationsMy brother,Jimmy,did not get enough oxygen during a difficult delivery,leaving him with brain damage,and two years later I was born.Since then,mylife revolved around my brothers.Accompanying my growing up was always“go out and play and take your brother wit
2、h you”.I couldn*t go anywherewithout him,so I urged the neighborhood kids to come to my house for someout-of-control kid-centered fun.My mother taught Jimmy practical things like how to brush his teeth or put onbelt.My father,a saint,simply held the house together with his patience andunderstanding.
3、I was in charge outside where I administered justice by trackingdown the parents of the kids who picked on my brother,and telling on them.My father and Jimmy were inseparable.They ate breakfast together and onweekdays drove off to the navy shipping center every morning where they bothworked-Jimmy un
4、loaded color-coded boxes.At night after dinner,they wouldtalk and play games late into the evening.They even whistled the same tunes.So when my father died of a heart attack in 1991,Jimmy was a wreck,beneath his careful disguise.He was simply in disbelief.Usually very agreeable,he now quit speaking
5、altogether and no amount of words could penetrate thevacant expression he wore on his face.I hired someone to live with him anddrive him to work,but no matter how much I tried to make things stay the same,even Jimmy grasped that the world he5d known was gone.One day Iasked,5You miss Dad,dont you?n H
6、is lips quivered and then he asked,Whatdo you think,Margaret?He was my best friend.M Our tears began flow.My mother died of lung cancer six months later and I alone was left to lookafter Jimmy.He didn,t adjust to going to work without my father right away,so he cameand lived with me in New York City
7、 for a while.He went wherever I went andseemed to adjust pretty well.Still,Jimmy longed to live in my parents,houseand work at his old job and I pledged to help him return.Eventually,I was ableto work it out.He has lived there for 11 years now with many differentcaretakers and blossomed on his own.H
8、e has become essential to theneighborhood.When you have any mail to be picked up or your dog needswalking,he is your man.My mother was right,of course:It was possible to have a home with room forboth his limitations and my ambitions.In fact,caring for someone who loves asdeeply and appreciates my ef
9、forts as much as Jimmy does has enriched my lifemore than anything else ever could have.This hit home a few days after the September 11th disaster on Jimmys 57thbirthday.I had a party for him in my home in New York,but none of our familycould join us because travel was difficult and they were still
10、reckoning with thesheer terror the disaster had brought.I called on my faithful friends to helpmake it a merry and festive occasion,ignoring the fact that most of them wereemotionally drained and exhausted.Instead of the customary“No gifts,please5,I shouted,uGifts!Please!MMy friends-people Jimmy had
11、 come to know over the years-brought the idealpresents:country music CDs,a sweatshirt,one leather belt with onit,a knitted wool hat and a cowboy costume.The evening led up to the gifts andthen the chocolate cake from his favorite bakery,and of course the ceremonywasn*t complete without the singing.A
12、 thousand times Jimmy asked,nls it time for the cake yet?”After dinner andthe gifts Jimmy could no longer be restrained.He anxiously waited for thecandles to be lit and then blew them out with one long breath as well all sang“Happy birthday”.Jimmy wasnt satisfied with our effort,though.He jumped upo
13、n the chair and stood erect pointing both index fingers into the air to conductus and yelled,One.more.dime!”We sang with all of the energy left in oursouls and when we were finished he put both his thumbs up and shouted.“That was super!nWe had wanted to let him know that no matter how difficult thin
14、gs got in theworld,there would always be people who cared about him.We ended upreminding ourselves instead.For Jimmy,the love with which we sang was awelcome bonus,but mostly he had just wanted to see everyone else happyagain.Just as my fathers death had changed Jimmys world overnight,September11 th
15、 changed our lives;the world wed known was gone.But,as we sang forJimmy and held each tight afterward praying for peace around the world,wewere reminded that the constant love and support of our friends and familywould get us through whatever life might present.The simplicity with whichJimmy had rec
16、onciled everything for us should not have been surprising.Therehad never been limitations to what Jimmys love could accomplish.U2I ron and the Effects of ExerciseSports medicine experts have observed for years that endurance athletes,particularly females,frequently have iron deficiencies.Now a new s
17、tudy by ateam of Purdue University researchers suggests that even moderate exercisemay lead to reduced iron in the blood of women.We found that women whowere normally inactive and then started a program of moderate exerciseshowed evidence of iron loss,*says Roseanne M.Lyle,associate professor atPurd
18、ue.Her study of 62 formerly inactive women who began exercising threetimes a week for six months was published in the journal Medicine&Science inSports&Exercise.Women who consumed additional meat or took ironsupplements were able to bounce back,she notes.But the new exercisers whofollowed their norm
19、al diet showed a decrease in iron levels.*Iron deficiency is very common among women in general,affecting one in fourfemale teenagers and one in five women aged 18 to 45,respectively.But theratio is even greater among active women,affecting up to 80 percent of femaleendurance athletes.This means,Lyl
20、e says,that*too many women ignore theamount of iron they take in”；.Women of child-bearing age are at greatest risk,since their monthly bleeding is a major source of iron loss.Plus,manyhealth-conscious women increase their risk by rejecting red meat,whichcontains the most easily absorbed form of iron
21、.And because women oftenrestrict their diet in an effort to control weight,they may not consume enoughiron-rich food,and are liable to experience a deficiency.nThe average womantakes in only two thirds of the recommended daily allowance for iron,notesanother expert.For a woman who already has a poor
22、 iron status,any additionaliron loss from exercise may be enough to tip her over the edge into a moreserious deficiency,*notes the expert.Exercise can result in iron loss through a variety of mechanisms.Some iron islost in sweat,and,for unknown reasons,intense endurance exercise issometimes associat
23、ed with bleeding of the digestive system.Athletes inhigh-impact sports such as running may also lose iron through a phenomenonwhere small blood vessels in the feet leak blood.There are three stages of irondeficiency.The first and most common is having low iron reserves,a conditionthat typically has
24、no symptoms.Fatigue and poor performance may begin toappear in the second stage of deficiency,when not enough iron is present toform the molecules of blood protein that transport oxygen to the workingmuscles.In the third and final stage,people often feel weak,tired,and out ofbreath-and exercise perf
25、ormance is severely compromised.People think thatif theyre not at the third stage,nothing is wrong,but thats not true/says JohnL.Beard,who helped design the Purdue study.Youre not stage 3 until youriron reserves go to zero,and if you wait until that point,youre in trouble.*However,most people with l
26、ow iron reserves dont know they have a deficiency,because traditional methods of calculating the amount of iron in blood(bychecking levels of the blood protein that transports oxygen)are not sufficient,Beard states.Instead,its important to check levels of a different compound,which indicates the amo
27、unt of storage of iron in the blood.While active,child-bearing age women are most likely to have low iron stores,he notes,HMenare not safe,especially if they dont eat meat and have a high level of physicalactivity/(An estimated 15 percent of male long distance runners have low ironstores.)Beard and
28、other experts say its advisable for people in these groups tohave a yearly blood test to check blood iron reserves.If iron levels are low,talk with a physician to see if the deficiency should becorrected by modifying your diet or by taking supplements.In general,it*sbetter to undo the problem by add
29、ing more iron-rich foods to the diet,becauseiron supplements can have serious shortcomings.Supplements may produce afeeling of wanting to throw up,and may be poisonous in some cases.The bestsources of iron,and the only sources of the form of iron most readily absorbedby the body,are meat,chicken,and
30、 fish.Good sources of other forms of ironinclude dates,beans,and some leafy green vegetables.Select breads andcereals with the words iron-added on the label,*writes sports diet expertNancy Clark.This added iron supplements the small amount that naturallyoccurs in grains.Eat these foods with plentifu
31、l Vitamin C(for example,drinkorange juice with cereal or put a tomato on a sandwich)to enhance the amountof iron absorbed.Clark also recommends cooking in iron pans,as food canderive iron from the pan during the cooking process.uThe iron content oftomato sauce cooked in an iron pot for three hours s
32、howed a striking increase,the level going up nearly 30 times,n she writes.And people who are likely tohave low iron should avoid drinking coffee or tea with meals,she says,sincesubstances in these drinks can interfere with iron being absorbed into the body.Active women need to be a lot more careful
33、about their food choices,*sums upPurdues Lyle.*lf you pay attention to warning signs before iron reserves aregone,you can remedy the deficiency before it really becomes a problem.HU3W here Principles Come FirstThe Hyde School operates on the principle that if you teach students the meritof such valu
34、es as truth,courage,integrity,leadership,curiosity and concern,then academic achievement naturally follows.Hyde School founder JosephGauld claims success with the program at the$18,000-a-year high school inBath,Maine,which has received considerable publicity for its work with troubledyoungsters.*We
35、dont see ourselves as a school for a type of kid,“says MalcolmGauld,Josephs son,who graduated from Hyde and is now headmaster.*We seeourselves as preparing kids for a way of life by cultivating a comprehensiveset of principles that can affect all kids.Now,Joe Gauld is trying to spread his controvers
36、ial Character First idea to public,inner-city schools willing to use the tax dollars spent on the traditional programfor the new approach.The first Hyde public school program opened inSeptember 1992.Within months the program was suspended.Teachersprotested the programs demands and the strain associa
37、ted with more intensework.This fall,the Hyde Foundation is scheduled to begin a preliminary publicschool program in Baltimore.Teachers will be trained to later work throughoutthe entire Baltimore system.Other US school managers are eyeing the program,too.Last fall,the Hyde Foundation opened a magnet
38、 program within a publichigh school in the suburbs of New Haven,Connecticut,over parents protests.The community feared the school would attract inner-city minority and troubledstudents.As in Maine the quest for truth is also widespread at the school in Connecticut.In one English class,the 11 student
39、s spend the last five minutes in an energeticexchange evaluating their class performance for the day on a 1-10 scale.Ml geta 10.I challenge that.You didn*t do either your grammar or your spellinghomework.*OK,a seven.You ought to get a six.*Wait,I put my best effort forth here.*Yeah,but youdidn*t ask
40、 questions today.*Explaining his approach to education,Joe Gauldsays the conventional education system cannot be reformed.He notes noamount of change with the horse and carriage will produce an automobile,.The Hyde School assumes*every human being has a unique potential that isbased on character,not
41、 intelligence or wealth.Conscience and hard work arevalued.Success is measured by growth,not academic achievement.Studentsare required to take responsibility for each other.To avoid the controversy ofother character programs used in US schools,Gauld says the concept of doingyour best has nothing to
42、do with forcing the students to accept a particular setof morals or religious values.The Hyde curriculum is similar to conventionalschools that provide preparation for college,complete with English,history,math and science.But all students are required to take performing arts andsports,and provide a
43、 community service.For each course,students get a gradefor academic achievement and for best effort,.At Bath,97%of the graduates attend four-year colleges.Commitment amongparents is a key ingredient in the Hyde mixture.For the student to gainadmission,parents also must agree to accept and demonstrat
44、e the schoolsphilosophies and outlook.The parents agree in writing to meet monthly in one of 20 regional groups,go toa yearly three-day regional retreat,and spend at least three times a year inworkshops,discussion groups and seminars at Bath.Parents of Maine studentshave an attendance rate of 95%in
45、the many sessions.Joe and Malcolm Gauldboth say children tend to do their utmost when they see their parents makingsimilar efforts.The biggest obstacle for many parents,they say,is to realizetheir own weaknesses.The process for public school parents is still beingworked out,with a lot more difficult
46、y because it is difficult to convince parentsthat it is worthwhile for them to participate.Of the 100 students enrolled in NewHaven,about 30%of the parents attend special meetings.The low attendanceis in spite of commitments they made at the outset of the program when Hydeofficials interviewed 300 f
47、amilies.Once the problems are worked out,Hyde should work well in public schools,says a teacher at Bath who taught for 14 years in public schools.He is optimisticthat once parents make a commitment to the program,they will be daily rolemodels for their children,unlike parents whose children are in b
48、oarding schools.One former inner-city high school teacher who now works in the New Havenprogram,says teachers also benefit.Here we really begin to focus on having afruitful relationship with each student.Our focus is really about teacher tostudent and then we together deal with the.academics.In the
49、traditional highschool setting,its teacher to the material and then to the student.Theteacher-student relationship is taken even further at Hyde.Faculty evaluationsare conducted by the students.Jimmy DiBattista,19,is amazed he will graduate this May from the Bath campusand plans to attend a universi
50、ty.Years ago,he had seen his future as jail,notcollege,.DiBattista remembers his first days at Hyde.nWhen I came here,I insulted andcursed everybody.Every other school was,Get out,we dont want to deal withyou.I came here and they said,We kind of like that spirit.We dont like it withthe negative atti