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This latest injury must surely mean that her tennis career is now at an end.
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Jensen is a dangerous man, and can be very brutal.
He needs the money really badly.
Time to Stop Traveling by AirTwenty-five years ago a young British man called Mark Ellingham decided that he wanted a change of scenery. So he went to Australia, stopping off in many countries in between. He also decided to write about the experience and produced a guide for other travelers making similar journeys.In 1970, British airports were used by 32 million people. In 2004, the figure was 216 million. In 2030, according to government forecasts, it will be around 500 million. It"s a growth driven by the emergence of low cost airlines, offering access to all parts of the world for less than ￡100.This has made a huge contribution to global warming. One return flight from Britain to the US produces the same carbon dioxide (二氧化碳) as a year"s motoring (驾车). A return flight to Australia equals the emissions (排放) of three average cars for a year. And the pollution is released at a height where its effect on climate change is more than double that on the ground.Mark Ellingham built his business on helping people travel. Now he wants to help people stop—at least by air.He is calling for a ￡100 green tax on all flights to Europe and Africa, and ￡250 on flights to the rest of the world. He also wants investment to create a low-carbon economy, as well as a halt to airport expansion.Mark Ellingham"s commitment is important because his readers aren"t just the sort of young and adventurous people who would happily jump on a plane to spend a weekend exploring a foreign culture. They are also the sort of people who say they care about the environment. It"s a debate that splits people down the middle.The tourist industry has responded by offering offsetting (补偿) schemes. A small increase in the price of a ticket is used to plant trees.But critics say that it is not enough to just be carbon neutral. We should be actively cutting back on putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. And for the average person, making a plane journey will be his or her largest contribution to global warming. It may be good to repair the damage we do. But surely it is better not to do the damage in the first place. Mark Ellingham will collaborate with the critics in his efforts to fight global warming.
Ethnic Tensions in BelgiumBelgium has given the world Audrey Hepburn, René Magritte (surrealist artist), the saxophone (萨克斯) and deep-fried potato chips that are somehow called French.But the story behind this flat, twice-Beijing-size country is of a bad marriage between two nationalities living together that cannotstandeach other. With no new government, more than a hundred days after a general election, tumors run wild that the country is about to disappear."We are two different nations, an artificial state. With nothing in common except a king, chocolate and beer," said Filip Dewinter, the leader of the Flemish Bloc, the extreme-right Flemish party.Radical Flemish separatists like Mr Dewinter want to divide the country horizontally along ethnic end economic lines: to the north, Flanders—where Dutch (known locally as Flemish) is spoken and money is increasingly made; to the south, French-speaking Wallonia, where today old factories dominate the landscape.The area of present-day Belgium passed to the French in the 18thcentury. Following the defeat of Napoleon in 1815, Belgium was given to the kingdom of the Netherlands, from which it gained independence as a separate kingdom in 1830.Since then, it has struggled for cohesion (结合). Anyone who has spoken French in a Flemish city quickly gets a sense of the mutual hostility that is part of daily life there.But there are reasons Belgium is likely to stay together, at least in the short term.The economies of the two regions are tightly linked, and separation would be a financial nightmare.But there is also deep resentment in Flanders that its much healthier economy must subsidize (补贴) the south, where unemployment is double that of the north. French speakers in the south, meanwhile, favor the status quo (现状).Belgium has made it through previous threats of division. Although some political analysts believe this one is different, there is no panic just now."We must not worry too much," said Baudouin Bruggeman, a 55-year-old school teacher. "Belgium has survived on compromise since 1930. You have to remember that this is Magritte"s country, the country of surrealism. Anything can happen." When did Belgium become an independent kingdom
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