     Thanksgiving dates back to the days of the early New England colonists 
who were having difficulty living in the New Land.  According to the le-
gend, without the help of the native American Indians, the settlers would 
have perished.  The Indians showed the colonists how to hunt wild turkeys 
and how to grow corn.  In the fall, the Indians and colonists gathered for 
a feast to honor their friendship.  In reality, the colonists and Indians 
never got along very well, and this first Thanksgiving dinner probably 
never took place.  Even so, Americans today follow the tradition by invit-
ing friends and relatives for a turkey dinner on the fourth Thursday of 
November.
     I live in a small country community which is very far away from the 
main street of the village.  The junior high school which I went to is 10 
kilometers away from my home.  There were only two scheduled trips of bus 
services-one in the early morning and one in the afternoon-only to carry 
commuter students to and from school along the route.  I was the only one 
in my community who went to school by bicycle.  My father wanted me to 
take more exercise.  One car passed by me.  It was the commuter bus.  Of 
course it wouldn't stop to pick me up.  Those on the bus seemed to be very 
comfortable.  How lucky they were, I thought.  Unexpectedly, about half an 
hour later, my mother came by motorcycle to help me.  It so happened that a 
girl classmate of mine who had been on the bus recognized me.  As soon as 
she got home, she telephoned my mother to tell her about my situation.
     The early history of the human race is most clearly and readily 
studied by observing the a stages of human technological progress.  That is 
why it was a long-standing convention to divide early history into broad 
periods according to the hard materials-stone, copper, bronze, and iron, in 
that order-from which cutting tools and weapons were made.  Then, as know-
ledge of the past increased, the broad periods were further subdivided.  
The Stone Age was divided into the Old period and the New period when it 
was noticed that the technique of sharpening flint and other stones changed 
from flaking to grinding.
     During early Roman history all physicians were either slaves or 
representatives of lower Roman society.  Medicine was a Greek science, and 
many Greek physicians, attracted by the prospect of great profit at the 
capital of the empire, migrated to Rome to establish their practice.  As a 
consequence, many doctors were foreigners, and as such were considered in a 
very low position by the people of high social rank.  Frequently, a wealthy 
Roman supplied one of his slaves with a medical education for the sake of 
covenience.  Having one's own physician was obviously an advantage not to 
be overlooked, and slaves who had a knowledge of the healing art commanded 
the highest prices in the Roman slave market.  Recognizing the importance 
of the medical profession, however, Julius Caesar conferred citizenship on 
all who practiced medicine at Rome to make them more desirous of living in 
the city, and to induce others to come to it.  Despite this encouragement, 
medicine never came to be considered the proper profession for the upper 
classes.
     Today, Taiwanese society has evolved to become one of Asia's booming 
centers of trade, business, and industrialization.  As such, it is cons-
tantly immersed in matters of a profit-oriented, commercial society.  And 
this phenomenon has drastically altered the character of missionary work.  
For whereas before it was enough for missionaries to be priests or relig-
ious engaging the work of God's kingdom through catechism, administering 
the sacraments, and other spiritual works, today's missionaries have to 
to learn to "incarnate" the Word of God even in the technical books of 
modern science and contemporary psychology, in systems analysis and 
computer programs, in mass media, in business contracts and legal systems, 
etc.  Even the local government has applied stricter regulations for allow-
ing missionaries into Taiwan, with preference given to those holding 
doctorate degrees.  In other words, even missionary work is becoming more 
and more specialized.  So we ask, and shat them of the good old missionary 
activity of talking directly to people about God, or of sharing one's 
experience of Christ in his or her life as St. Paul did?  The ecclesiasti-
cal scenario is tense; we walk on this tightrope of change.
     English is the most widely spoken language in the world today, (which 
is) a fact that everyone knows.  Whatever one does, he cannot do without 
knowing something about English.  A good command spoken English enables us 
to travel around the world without difficulties.  If we can read English, 
we may expose ourselves to the latest information about technology, cul-
ture, and so on, which can enrich our knowledge.  There are so many advan-
tages about learning English that we should not miss any opportunity to 
master it.  It goes without saying that what we do today has much to do 
with a bright future.  To put it differently, yesterday is gone, tomorrow 
is yet to come, and today is the only time within our control.
     The background of the episodes, a strike meeting, is not an excuse.  
Each of the committeemen shows in his episode the crucial moment of his 
life which brought him to this very platform.  The dramatic structure on 
which the play has been built is simple but highly effective.  The form 
used is the old black-face minstrel form of chorus, end men, specialty men 
and interlocutor.  The strike committee on the platform during the acting 
out of the play let should be used as chorus.  Emotional, polictical, mu-
sical, they have in them possibilities of various comments on the scenes.  
This has been indicated once in the script in the place where Joe's wife is 
about to leave him.  In the climaxes of each scene, slogans might very 
effectively be used a voice coming out of the dark.  Such a voice might 
announce at the appropriate moments in the "Young Interme's" scene that the 
USSR is the only country in the world where Anti-Semitism is a crime again-
st the State.  Don't hesitate to use music wherever possible.  It is very 
valuable in emotionally stirring an audience.
     The most amazing thing about crack cocaine is that it did not begin 
rotting America's urban landscape sooner.  It has been recognized as a 
scourge in cities-and none too few suburban and rural areas-for only five 
years.  But the supercharged cocaine, sometimes called "rock," wasn't real-
ly new.  References to the recipe that used heat and baking soda to turn 
cocaine hydrochloride, or powder, into the smokable form of freebase called 
crack appear throughout the 1970's in underground literature, media inter-
views and congressional testimony.  It did not catch on back then, resear-
chers believe, because it was not as pure as other, more processed forms 
of freebase.  Freebasers, who fancied themselves connoisseurs in those by-
gone days, called it "garbage rock."
     The working group's recommendations, which were presented to an OSTP 
advisory committee on 30 November, are described by one university official 
who has seen them as "an ingenious piece of bureaucratic writing that will 
almost certainly solve the problem."  In a brief open session of the OSTP 
committee meeting, Pettifor said that the regulations would exempt from the 
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