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Journey Back in Time with Scholars
Classical Provence (13 days)
Journey through the beautiful countryside农村 of Provence, France, with Prof. Ori Z. Soltes. We will visit some of the best-preserved Roman monuments纪念碑 in the world. Our tour also includes a chance to walk in the footsteps of Van Gogh and Gauguin. Fields of flowers, tile-roofed (瓦屋顶) villages, and tasty meals enrich this wonderful experience.
Southern Spain (15 days)
Spain has lovely white towns and the scent (芳香) of oranges, but it is also a treasury of ancient remains including the cities left by the Greeks, Romans, and Arabs. As we travel south from Madrid with Prof. Ronald Messier to historic Toledo, Roman Merida, and into Andalucia, we explore historical monuments and architecture.
China's Sacred Landscapes (21 days)
Discover China of "past ages", its walled有城墙的 cities, temples, and mountain scenery with Prof. Robert Thorp. Highlights (精彩之处) include China's most sacred受崇敬的 peaks at Mount Tai and Hangzhou's rolling山丘起伏的 hills, waterways, and peaceful temples. We will wander in traditional small towns and end our tour with an exceptional卓越的 museum in Shanghai.
Tunisia (17 days)
Join Prof. Pedar Foss on our in-depth深入详尽的,彻底的 Tunisian tour. Tour highlights include the Roman city of Dougga, the underground Numidian capital at Bulla Regia, Roman Sbeitla, and the remote areas 偏远地区 around Tataouine and Matmata, unique for underground cities. Our journey takes us to picturesque风景如画的 Berber villages and lovely beaches.
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When "Rise of the Planet of the Apes类人猿" was first shown to the public last month, a group of excited animal (rights) activists gathered on Hollywood Boulevard. But they weren't there to throw red paint 红漆 on fur-coat-wearing film stars. Instead, one activist, dressed in a full-body monkey suit, had arrived with a sign praising the filmmakers: "Thanks for not using real apes (猿)!"
The creative team behind "Apes" used motion-capture (动作捕捉) technology to create digitalized数字化的 animals, spending tens of millions of dollars on technology that（定语从句，修饰technology） records an actor's performance and later processes it with computer graphics to create a final image (图像). In this case 在这种情况下, one of a realistic-looking ape.
Yet "Apes" is more (the) exception than the rule 少之又少. In fact, Hollywood has been hot on（be hot on sth 对...所知甚多的, 在...上技艺精湛的） live animals lately. One non-profit organization, which monitors the treatment of animals in filmed entertainment, is keeping tabs on（keep tab on sb/sth 密切关注...的动态） more than 2,000 productions this year. Already, a number of films, including "Water for Elephants" "The Hangover 宿醉Part II" and "Zookeeper 动物园饲养员" have drawn（draw v. 引起） the anger of activists who（定语从句，修饰 activists） say the creatures acting in them haven't been treated properly.
In some cases, it's not so much the treatment of the animals on set在现场 in the studio that has activists worried; it's the off-set training and living conditions that are raising concerns. （it's...that....强调句式） And there are questions about the films made outside the States, which（定语从句，修饰前面提到的‘在美国境外制作的电影’） sometimes are not monitored as closely as productions filmed in the States.
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With the young unable to afford to leave home and the old at risk of isolation (孤独), more families are choosing to live together. （the+adj. 表示具有某一类特征的一群人）
The doorway to peace and quiet, for Nick Bright at least 至少, leads straight to his mother-in-law 岳母，婆婆: she lives on the ground floor 一楼, while he lives upstairs with his wife and their two daughters.
Four years ago they all moved into a three-storey三层的 Victorian维多利亚时代的 house in Bristol — one of a growing number of multigenerational families in the UK living together under the same roof. They share a front door and a washing machine 洗衣机 but Rita Whitehead has her own kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, and living room on the ground floor.
"We floated（float v. 提出） the idea to my mum of sharing a house," says Kathryn Whitehead. Rita cuts in 插嘴说（cut in on sb 打断谈话）: "We spoke more with Nick because I think it's a big thing for Nick to live with his mother-in-law."
And what does Nick think? "From my standpoint我认为, it all seems to work very well. Would I recommend it? Yes, I think I would."
It's hard to tell很难说 exactly how many people agree with同意 him, but research indicates that the numbers have been rising for some time. Official reports suggest that 官方报告显示 the number of households with three generations living together had risen from 325,000 in 2001 to 419,000 in 2013.
Other varieties of the multigenerational family are more common. Some people live with their elderly parents年迈的父母; many more adult children成年的孩子 are returning to the family home if they ever left. It is said that 据说 about 20% of 25-34-year-olds live with their parents, compared with 16% in 1991. The total number of all multigenerational households in Britain is thought to be about 1.8 million.
Stories like that are more common in parts of the world where multigenerational living is more firmly rooted 根深蒂固的. In India, particularly outside cities, young women are expected to被期待 move in with their husband's family when they get married结婚.
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We are the products of evolution 进化的产物 and not just 不仅仅 evolution that occurred billions of years ago. As scientists look deeper into our genes (基因), they are finding examples of human evolution人类进化 in just the past few thousand years. People in Ethiopian埃塞俄比亚 highlands高地 have adapted to living at high altitudes高海拔. Cattle-raising people in East Africa and northern Europe have gained a mutation (突变) that helps them digest milk as adults.
On Thursday in an article published in Cell, a team of researchers reported a new kind of adaptation — not to air or to food, but to the ocean. A group of sea-dwelling people in Southeast Asia have evolved into进化成 better divers. The Bajau, as these people are known, number in the hundreds of thousands in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. They have traditionally lived on houseboats船屋; in recent times, they've also built houses on stilts (支柱) in coastal waters. "They are simply a stranger to the land," said Rodney C. Jubilado, a University of Hawaii researcher who studies the Bajau.
Dr. Jubilado first met the Bajau while growing up长大 on Samal Island in the Philippines. They made a living谋生 as divers, spearfishing鱼叉捕鱼 or harvesting shellfish贝类. "We were so amazed that they could stay underwater much longer than us local islanders," Dr. Jubilado said, "I could see them actually walking under the sea."
In 2015, Melissa Ilardo, then a graduate student毕业生 in genetics at the University of Copenhagen, heard about听说 the Bajau. She wondered if centuries of diving could have led to导致 the evolution of physical characteristics 身体特征 that made the task easier for them. "It seemed like the perfect chance for natural selection自然选择 to act on作用于 a population," said Dr. Ilardo. She also said there were likely a number of other genes that help the Bajau dive.
