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The smell of rain on dry ground

(...)
More specifically, it’s the pleasant smell that often
accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm,
dry weather in certain regions. Didn’t you always want
a word for it? It was named by two Australian
[5] researchers in an article in Nature in 1964, who
discovered that the smell is an oily essence that comes
from rocks or soil that are often (but not always) clay-

based. The oil is a complicated set of at least fifty
different compounds, rather like a perfume. It turns
[10] out that the oils are given off by vegetation during dry
spells and are adsorbed on to the surface of rocks
and soil particles, to be released into the air again by
the next rains. I can’t find any record of anybody having
tried to bottle and sell it, but can’t help thinking it would
[15] be a hot item (my agent’s fee will be the usual modest
10%). The word comes from Greek petros, a stone,
plus ichor, from the Greek word for the fluid that flows
like blood in the veins of the gods. So the word means
something like “essence of rock”. Alas, it is rarely
[20] encountered.

QUINION, Michael. www.worldwidewords.org (fragment)

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Over the past 5 years, social-networking sites have
evolved from a preoccupation of high-school and
college students to a mainstream form of social
interaction that spans divisions of age, profession, and
[5] socioeconomic status. At the hospital where I’m in
training, medical students, nurses, residents, fellows,
attending physicians, and service chiefs can all be
found linked to one another as active members of
social-networking sites. The technology facilitates
[10] communication, with personal Web pages that permit
users to post information about events in their lives,
advertise social activities, and share photographs.
Users are prompted by Facebook to carve out a digital
identity by disclosing their political affiliations, sexual
[15] orientation, and relationship status.

Physicians, medical centers, and medical schools are
trying to keep pace with the potential effects of (such)
networking on clinical practice. In an e-mail to students
and faculty of Harvard Medical School, Dean for
[20] Medical Education Jules Dienstag wrote: Caution is
recommended in using social networking sites such
as Facebook or MySpace. “Items that represent
unprofessional behavior that are posted by you on
such networking sites reflect poorly on you and the
[25] medical profession. Such items may become public
and could subject you to unintended exposure and
consequences.” At the Drexel University College of
Medicine, medical students are warned about the
possibility that information placed on social-networking
[30] sites might influence the fate of their applications for
postgraduate training. Although legal questions
surrounding the relationship between clinical medicine
and social networking are as yet undefined, there are
obvious concerns for individuals and institutions, since
[35] their Internet presence makes clinicians’ attitudes and
activities increasingly visible.

(Source: The New England Journal of Medicine, Number 7, August 13, 2009)

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Over the past 5 years, social-networking sites have
evolved from a preoccupation of high-school and
college students to a mainstream form of social
interaction that spans divisions of age, profession, and
[5] socioeconomic status. At the hospital where I’m in
training, medical students, nurses, residents, fellows,
attending physicians, and service chiefs can all be
found linked to one another as active members of
social-networking sites. The technology facilitates
[10] communication, with personal Web pages that permit
users to post information about events in their lives,
advertise social activities, and share photographs.
Users are prompted by Facebook to carve out a digital
identity by disclosing their political affiliations, sexual
[15] orientation, and relationship status.

Physicians, medical centers, and medical schools are
trying to keep pace with the potential effects of (such)
networking on clinical practice. In an e-mail to students
and faculty of Harvard Medical School, Dean for
[20] Medical Education Jules Dienstag wrote: Caution is
recommended in using social networking sites such
as Facebook or MySpace. “Items that represent
unprofessional behavior that are posted by you on
such networking sites reflect poorly on you and the
[25] medical profession. Such items may become public
and could subject you to unintended exposure and
consequences.” At the Drexel University College of
Medicine, medical students are warned about the
possibility that information placed on social-networking
[30] sites might influence the fate of their applications for
postgraduate training. Although legal questions
surrounding the relationship between clinical medicine
and social networking are as yet undefined, there are
obvious concerns for individuals and institutions, since
[35] their Internet presence makes clinicians’ attitudes and
activities increasingly visible.

(Source: The New England Journal of Medicine, Number 7, August 13, 2009)

INSTRUCTION: Answer question with information from text.

TEXT

Over the past 5 years, social-networking sites have
evolved from a preoccupation of high-school and
college students to a mainstream form of social
interaction that spans divisions of age, profession, and
[5] socioeconomic status. At the hospital where I’m in
training, medical students, nurses, residents, fellows,
attending physicians, and service chiefs can all be
found linked to one another as active members of
social-networking sites. The technology facilitates
[10] communication, with personal Web pages that permit
users to post information about events in their lives,
advertise social activities, and share photographs.
Users are prompted by Facebook to carve out a digital
identity by disclosing their political affiliations, sexual
[15] orientation, and relationship status.

Physicians, medical centers, and medical schools are
trying to keep pace with the potential effects of (such)
networking on clinical practice. In an e-mail to students
and faculty of Harvard Medical School, Dean for
[20] Medical Education Jules Dienstag wrote: Caution is
recommended in using social networking sites such
as Facebook or MySpace. “Items that represent
unprofessional behavior that are posted by you on
such networking sites reflect poorly on you and the
[25] medical profession. Such items may become public
and could subject you to unintended exposure and
consequences.” At the Drexel University College of
Medicine, medical students are warned about the
possibility that information placed on social-networking
[30] sites might influence the fate of their applications for
postgraduate training. Although legal questions
surrounding the relationship between clinical medicine
and social networking are as yet undefined, there are
obvious concerns for individuals and institutions, since
[35] their Internet presence makes clinicians’ attitudes and
activities increasingly visible.

(Source: The New England Journal of Medicine, Number 7, August 13, 2009)

INSTRUCTION: Answer question with information from text.

TEXT

Over the past 5 years, social-networking sites have
evolved from a preoccupation of high-school and
college students to a mainstream form of social
interaction that spans divisions of age, profession, and
[5] socioeconomic status. At the hospital where I’m in
training, medical students, nurses, residents, fellows,
attending physicians, and service chiefs can all be
found linked to one another as active members of
social-networking sites. The technology facilitates
[10] communication, with personal Web pages that permit
users to post information about events in their lives,
advertise social activities, and share photographs.
Users are prompted by Facebook to carve out a digital
identity by disclosing their political affiliations, sexual
[15] orientation, and relationship status.

Physicians, medical centers, and medical schools are
trying to keep pace with the potential effects of (such)
networking on clinical practice. In an e-mail to students
and faculty of Harvard Medical School, Dean for
[20] Medical Education Jules Dienstag wrote: Caution is
recommended in using social networking sites such
as Facebook or MySpace. “Items that represent
unprofessional behavior that are posted by you on
such networking sites reflect poorly on you and the
[25] medical profession. Such items may become public
and could subject you to unintended exposure and
consequences.” At the Drexel University College of
Medicine, medical students are warned about the
possibility that information placed on social-networking
[30] sites might influence the fate of their applications for
postgraduate training. Although legal questions
surrounding the relationship between clinical medicine
and social networking are as yet undefined, there are
obvious concerns for individuals and institutions, since
[35] their Internet presence makes clinicians’ attitudes and
activities increasingly visible.

(Source: The New England Journal of Medicine, Number 7, August 13, 2009)

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Your Brain on Shopping

It’s a hunt. It’s therapy. It’s a way of life. But has it gotten out of control?

AIMEE LEE BALL investigates why we spend the way we do.

Alas, our romance with shopping seems to be coming to an end – or at least it’s up for careful reevaluation. According to research from Stanford University, more than one in 20 adults are compulsive shoppers, purchasing things they don’t need, use, or even want. That’s because shopping, once devoted to procuring necessities, has come to fill multiple emotional needs – it’s entertainment, a bonding activity, a sport, a form of self-expression, and, quite often, a means of solace. “These days what you buy is a way to connect to others and showcase your personality and values”, says Kit Yarrow, PhD, professor of psychology and marketing at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. So what happens now when more than five million people have lost their jobs since December 2007, and many of us are trying to curb our enthusiasm? Ironically, “when people feel economically insecure, they tend to reassure themselves by shopping,” says George Loewenstein, PhD, professor of economics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The thinking is: If I were economically secure, I would go shopping, so if I’m shopping, I must be economically secure. And that’s just one thing to be aware of as you head for the mall. Here are a few others.

The Oprah Magazine, July 2009, page 96.