The Transformation of the Caspian Sea

The author reviews the problem of the level fluctuations of the Caspian Sea, particularly the steady drop since 1929. The drop in level is affecting many key sectors of the regional economy. Among several remedial schemes is a plan for diverting the rivers of northern European Russia to the Caspian, and a project for a localized regulation of the level of the Caspian Sea.     

燃烧吧 热气球之梦

所有人都把莱特兄弟第一次架飞机上天看成人类飞行的起点,殊不知,在1783年11月21日下午,法国的蒙戈菲尔兄弟就已经架着热气球在巴黎穆埃特堡进行了世界上第一次载人飞行,比莱特兄弟的飞机飞行整整早了120年。热气球因为没有动力,完全依靠风速滑行,没有明确的目的性和很强的机动性,在后起之秀飞机面前缺乏竞争力,之后很长一段时间内都处于"郁郁不得志"的处境。然而,当追求优雅闲适的慢生活成为风尚后,可以自由自在看风景,可以触得到天空,御风而行的热气球又慢慢成为潮流,成为品质生活的代名词。可能,你以为热气球只存在于皮克斯的电影《飞屋环游记》里,只存在凡尔纳的科幻小说《环游地球八十天》中,那你就大错特错了。中国式热气球达人说不定就隐藏在你身边。正是这些热气球达人的出现,让习惯了循规蹈矩的旅行方式的我们,有了更多的选择空间。不再上车睡觉、下车拍照,尽情地放飞身心。本期,我们就向你介绍这样一位用一生追求飞行梦的热气球运动达人——钱正隆。     

At Last! The Voegelin Reader

ABSTRACT

The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, one of the great political scientists of the twentieth century, run to 34 volumes. The selection republished in this Reader will provide senior undergraduates and graduate students (and perhaps their teachers) with a wide-ranging introduction to Voegelin's modern but Aristotelean political science. The selection includes excerpts from his Autobiographical Reflections and from his best-known work, The New Science of Politics. There are several examples of his late an alytical essays. Readers unfamiliar with his relationship to Christianity, always a contentious issue, will find his discussions of the relationship of philosophical or noetic symbols and experiences to revelatory of pneumatic ones especially helpful. The editors and the University of Missouri Press have performed a major service to contemporary political science by making this se lection available.     

The origins of the South China Sea issue

China discovered and was the first to name and explore the South China Sea islands and the adjacent waters, and China has exercised sovereignty and jurisdiction over them since the Tang and Song dynasties. In modern times, imperialists shattered the peace of the South China Sea using advanced weapons, but Chinese sovereignty over this area has never been challenged. In the more than 60 years since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the Chinese government has pursued the principle of “claiming sovereignty, shelving disputes, and seeking joint development” and has exercised sovereignty and jurisdiction over and explored the South China Sea islands and territorial waters peacefully and effectively. The lure of resources and profits and strategic competition among countries beyond the region, however, have complicated the prospects for resolving the South China Sea issue.     

The Resinous Cargo of the Java Sea Wreck

A number of blocks of resinous materials were found in the cargo of a 12th‐ to 13th‐century shipwreck, discovered in the late 1980s in the Java Sea near the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java and excavated in 1996. These well‐preserved blocks presumably were trade materials used for religious, medicinal, cosmetic, decorative or practical purposes. Such materials, derived from plants and termed exudates, generally include frankincense, myrrh, ‘gum benjamin’, liquidambar, dragon's blood, dammar, copal and amber. The source of the cargo resin could not be determined from the site. Investigation by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has revealed that the molecular structure corresponds to that of modern resin from the plant family Dipterocarpaceae, known in trade as dammar and closely resembling Group B copal and amber. Other molecular classes of exudates are excluded. Such materials are not present in the Middle East, which then cannot be their source. The NMR spectra differ from those of Group B samples from Australia, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, but resemble those from India or Japan. The spectra indicate that the saline environment had a similar effect on the molecular structure to heating and aging.     

中国最美滩涂 霞浦

正霞浦位于福建省宁德市的东部,是中国东南沿海的海峡西岸经济区东北翼港口风景城市。享有闽东最古老的"海上明珠"的美誉,是"中国的海带之乡""紫菜之乡"。霞浦有480多公里长的海岸线,为基岩海岸的滩涂,滩涂面积全国最大。在漫长的岁月长河中,经过无数次的潮起潮落,形成了自己独特的景观。每年吸引世界各地十多万摄影爱好者慕名前来霞浦摄影创作。凌晨3点多,为了等待日出的那抹     

中国最美滩涂 霞浦

<正>霞浦位于福建省宁德市的东部,是中国东南沿海的海峡西岸经济区东北翼港口风景城市。享有闽东最古老的"海上明珠"的美誉,是"中国的海带之乡""紫菜之乡"。霞浦有480多公里长的海岸线,为基岩海岸的滩涂,滩涂面积全国最大。在漫长的岁月长河中,经过无数次的潮起潮落,形成了自己独特的景观。每年吸引世界各地十多万摄影爱好者慕名前来霞浦摄影创作。凌晨3点多,为了等待日出的那抹