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2009/10/26 这两天 这两天美国这边有两件事儿,很纠结我。一是周六美国总统“终于”宣布美国进入因H1N1的紧急状态;另一个是霹雳贝贝事件。 前一个,我上周就已经说过,“怎么办”是一个问题。因为周围就没有人重视。今天上午遇到老板。他问我过得好不好,我跟他开玩笑说,我没有H1N1。他居然说,“还没有罢了”。不过,他也正言道,没事儿,和普通流感无差别。我只好祝他好运了。 后一个呢?霹雳贝贝(Baby Einstein)呀!能算是“召回”吗?我理解为只是允许某某时间段里(2004年6月5日到2009年9月4日之间)的买家在限定的时间里(现在到明年2010年3月4日)退货罢了(The Baby Einstein recall allows parents to receive a refund for items purchased between June 5, 2004 and September 4, 2009. The Baby Einstein recall offer ends on March 4, 2010. )。为什么要召回?因为有研究表明,发表在“极牛的”小儿期刊,研究发现如果小孩在8~16个月的时候就每天与“霹雳贝贝”为伴的话,每看1小时就会少认识6~8个词儿。(Led by Frederick Zimmerman and Dr. Dimitri Christakis, both at the University of Washington, the research team found that with every hour per day spent watching baby DVDs and videos, infants learned six to eight fewer new vocabulary words than babies who never watched the videos. These products had the strongest detrimental effect on babies 8 to 16 months old, the age at which language skills are starting to form. "The more videos they watched, the fewer words they knew," says Christakis. "These babies scored about 10% lower on language skills than infants who had not watched these videos." http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1650352,00.html)这同样是“怎么做”的问题。我突然觉得莎士比亚(William Shakespeare)很伟大了,因为他说过一个名句,"To be or not to be; that is the question."(生存还是毁灭,这是一个值得考虑的问题)。我倒没有看过任何莎士比亚的著作(如果说教科书中节选的“威尼斯商人”不算的话),这句话是从《武林外传》里学来的。所以,某种程度上,我乐意一遍又一遍的去看《武林外传》。 我要找点时间去想一下,H1N1和霹雳贝贝,我应该做点什么? 评论 (3)
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