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Man of Few Words Everyone chases success, but not all of us want to be famous. South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee is 1 for keeping himself to himself. When the 63-year-old was named the 2003 Nobel Prize winner for literature earlier this month, reporters were warned that they would find him "particularly difficult to 2 ". Coetzee lives in Australia but spends part of the year teaching at the University of Chicago. He seemed 3 by the news he won the $1.3 million prize. "It came as a complete surprise. I wasn’t even aware they were due to make the announcement," he said. His 4 of privacy led to doubts as to whether Coetzee will attend the prize-giving in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10. But despite being described as 5 to track down, we critics agree that his writing is easy to get to know. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, to all English-speaking family, Coetzee 6 his breakthrough in 1980 with the novel Waiting for the Barbarians. He 7 his place among the world’s leading writers with two Booker prize victories, Britain’s highest honour for novels. He first 8 in 1983 for the Life and Times of Michael K and his second title came in 1999 for Disgrace. A major theme in his work is South Africa’s former apartheid system, which divided whites from blacks. 9 with the problems of violence, crime and racial division that still exist in the country, his books have enabled ordinary people to understand apartheid 10 within. "I have always been more interested in the past than the future," he said in a rare interview. "The past 11 its shadow over the present. I hope I have made one or two people think 12 about whether they want to forget the past completely." In fact this purity in his writing seems to be 13 in his personal life. Coetzee is a vegetarian, a cyclist rather than a motorist and doesn’t drink alcohol. But what he has 14 to literature, culture and the people of South Africa is far greater than the things he has given up. "In looking at weakness and failure in life," the Nobel prize judging panel said, "Coetzee’s work 15 the divine spark in man."
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Plants and Mankind Botany, the study of plants, occupies a peculiar position in the history of human knowledge. We don’t know what our Stone Age ancestors knew about plants, but from what we can observe of preindustrial societies that still exist, a detailed learning of plants and their properties must be extremely ancient. This is logical. Plants are the basis of the food pyramid for all living things, even for other plants. They have always been enormously important to the welfare of people, not only for food, but also for clothing, weapons, tools, dyes, medicines, shehers, and many other purposes. Tribes living today in the jungle of the Amazon recognize hundreds of plants and know many properties of each. To them botany has no name and is probably not even recognized as a special branch of "knowledge" at all. Unfortunately, the more industrialized we become the farther away we move from direct contact with plants, and the less distinct our knowledge of botany grows. Yet everyone comes unconsciously on an amazing amount of botanical knowledge, and few people will fall to recognize a rose, an apple, or an orchid. When our Neolithic ancestors, living in the Middle East about 10,000 years ago, discovered that certain grasses could be harvested and their seeds planted for richer yields the next season, the first great step in a new association of plants and humans was taken. Grains were discovered and from them flowed the marvel of agriculture: cultivated crops. From then on, humans would increasingly take their living from the controlled production of a few plants, rather than getting a little here and a little there from many varieties that grew wild and the accumulated knowledge of tens of thousands of years of experience and intimacy with plants in the wild would begin to fade away. Once mankind began farming, they no longer had to get food from many varieties that grew wild.
Man of Few Words Everyone chases success, but not all of us want to be famous. South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee is 1 for keeping himself to himself. When the 63-year-old was named the 2003 Nobel Prize winner for literature earlier this month, reporters were warned that they would find him "particularly difficult to 2 ". Coetzee lives in Australia but spends part of the year teaching at the University of Chicago. He seemed 3 by the news he won the $1.3 million prize. "It came as a complete surprise. I wasn’t even aware they were due to make the announcement," he said. His 4 of privacy led to doubts as to whether Coetzee will attend the prize-giving in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10. But despite being described as 5 to track down, we critics agree that his writing is easy to get to know. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, to all English-speaking family, Coetzee 6 his breakthrough in 1980 with the novel Waiting for the Barbarians. He 7 his place among the world’s leading writers with two Booker prize victories, Britain’s highest honour for novels. He first 8 in 1983 for the Life and Times of Michael K and his second title came in 1999 for Disgrace. A major theme in his work is South Africa’s former apartheid system, which divided whites from blacks. 9 with the problems of violence, crime and racial division that still exist in the country, his books have enabled ordinary people to understand apartheid 10 within. "I have always been more interested in the past than the future," he said in a rare interview. "The past 11 its shadow over the present. I hope I have made one or two people think 12 about whether they want to forget the past completely." In fact this purity in his writing seems to be 13 in his personal life. Coetzee is a vegetarian, a cyclist rather than a motorist and doesn’t drink alcohol. But what he has 14 to literature, culture and the people of South Africa is far greater than the things he has given up. "In looking at weakness and failure in life," the Nobel prize judging panel said, "Coetzee’s work 15 the divine spark in man."
Stress Level Tied to Education Level People with less education suffer fewer stressful days, according to a report in the current issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. However, the study also found that when less-educated people did suffer stress it was more severe and had a larger impact on their health. From this, researchers have concluded that the day-to-day factors that cause stress are not random. Where you are in society determines the kinds of problems that you have each day, and how well you will cope with them. The research team interviewed a national sample of 1,031 adults daily for eight days about their stress level and health. People without a high school diploma reported stress on 30 percent of the study days, people with a high school degree reported stress 38 percent of the time, and people with college degrees reported stress 44 percent of the time. "Less advantaged people are less healthy on a daily basis and are more likely to have downward turns in their health," lead researcher Dr. Joseph Grzywacz, of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, said in a prepared statement. "The downward turns in health were connected with daily stressors and the effect of daily stressors on their health is much more devastating for the less advantaged." Grzywacz suggested follow-up research to determine why less-educated people report fewer days of stress when it is known their stress is more acute and chronic. "If something happens every day, maybe it’s not seen as a stressor," Grzywacz says. "Maybe it is just life." Less-educated people report fewer days of stress possibly because ______.
Man of Few Words Everyone chases success, but not all of us want to be famous. South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee is 1 for keeping himself to himself. When the 63-year-old was named the 2003 Nobel Prize winner for literature earlier this month, reporters were warned that they would find him "particularly difficult to 2 ". Coetzee lives in Australia but spends part of the year teaching at the University of Chicago. He seemed 3 by the news he won the $1.3 million prize. "It came as a complete surprise. I wasn’t even aware they were due to make the announcement," he said. His 4 of privacy led to doubts as to whether Coetzee will attend the prize-giving in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 10. But despite being described as 5 to track down, we critics agree that his writing is easy to get to know. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, to all English-speaking family, Coetzee 6 his breakthrough in 1980 with the novel Waiting for the Barbarians. He 7 his place among the world’s leading writers with two Booker prize victories, Britain’s highest honour for novels. He first 8 in 1983 for the Life and Times of Michael K and his second title came in 1999 for Disgrace. A major theme in his work is South Africa’s former apartheid system, which divided whites from blacks. 9 with the problems of violence, crime and racial division that still exist in the country, his books have enabled ordinary people to understand apartheid 10 within. "I have always been more interested in the past than the future," he said in a rare interview. "The past 11 its shadow over the present. I hope I have made one or two people think 12 about whether they want to forget the past completely." In fact this purity in his writing seems to be 13 in his personal life. Coetzee is a vegetarian, a cyclist rather than a motorist and doesn’t drink alcohol. But what he has 14 to literature, culture and the people of South Africa is far greater than the things he has given up. "In looking at weakness and failure in life," the Nobel prize judging panel said, "Coetzee’s work 15 the divine spark in man."
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