Unit 17 Life in the future

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Spying: The American Way of Life?
WASHINGTON -- Last month's revelation that President Bush wants hundreds of millions of dollars to invent innovative ways to spy on Americans was greeted not with suspicion, but shoulder-shrugging indifference.
Save for a few battle-weary civil libertarians, not many people have been fretting about how cameras now monitor all downtown areas in Washington, or the unchecked spread of face-recognition cameras that spy on travelers in airports and sports fans in arenas.
Oxfam declaration on the war with Iraq
The people of Iraq are still suffering the effects of bombing during the 1991 Gulf War. Twelve years of economic sanctions, and their own government's policies, have made things worse.
Nearly two-thirds of Iraqis - more than 15 million people - depend entirely on food rations distributed by their government. Any attack, particularly if it destroys roads and bridges, could stop the food reaching those people. They would go hungry.
When Oxfam aid workers first entered Iraq at the end of the 1991 Gulf War, they found a public health disaster. There was sewage in the streets because air strikes had destroyed the electricity supplies which powered sanitation and water systems. Twelve years later, much of that damage has still not been repaired. Similar attacks now could make things even worse.
Those who propose war have not yet shown that any threat from Iraq is so imminent that it justifies the risk of so much human suffering.

英语口头禅：
I couldn't care less. 这句话的意思是 「我不在乎」，「缺乏兴趣」（lack of interest），也就是：I don't care at all. 或 I don't give a hoot. 例如：
A： What do you think of the budget-cut?（你对预算削减有何看法？）
B： I couldn't care less.（我毫不在乎）
A:How do you like Mr. Lee's political point of view?（你喜欢李先生的政见吗？）
B:I couldn't care less.（我才不在乎呢！
2.I couldn't care more. 就是「我很在乎」（I care a lot.）或 I care deeply.
3.I couldn't agree more.=I totally agree.（我完全同意）
4.I couldn't please you more.=I did my best to please you.（我尽量使你高兴）
5.I couldn't be more right.=I am totally right.

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