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1、Thevalueofworking----byLanceMorrowIntroductionofthewriter:LanceMorrowwasbornonSeptember21,1939.Hisfather,HughMorrow,wasachiefaide([eɪd]助手,副官)toNelsonRockefeller.Morrowgraduatedmagnacumlaude(以优异学业成绩)fromHarvardUniversityin1963withaBAinEnglishliterature.HelivesinChatham,NewYork,withhiswifeS
2、usanBrindMorrow,whoisalsoanauthor.Theyhavetwosons,Justin,awriterandfilmmaker,andJames,apoliticalconsultant【kən'sʌlt(ə)nt顾问】andjournalist.LanceMorrow’scousinisthesciencefictionwriterJamesK.Morrow.LanceMorrowhaswrittenmorethan150Timecoverstories.AUniversityProfessoratBostonUniversity,andthe
3、authorofsevenbooks,includingEvil:AnInvestigation,andTheBestYearofTheirLives:Kennedy,Johnson,andNixonin1948.LowerManhattanLowerManhattanisthesouthernmostpartoftheislandofManhattan,themainislandandcenterofbusinessandgovernmentoftheCityofNewYork.LowerManhattanor"downtown"isdefinedmostcommonl
4、yastheareadelineated([dɪ'lɪnɪeɪt]描绘,描写)onthenorthby14thStreet,onthewestbytheHudsonRiver,ontheeastbytheEastRiver,andonthesouthbyNewYorkHarbor(alsoknownasUpperNewYorkBay).WhenreferringspecificallytothelowerManhattanbusinessdistrictanditsimmediateenvirons,thenorthernborderiscommonlydesignate
5、dbythoroughfaresapproximatelyamile-and-a-halfsouthof14thStreetandamilenorthoftheisland'ssoutherntip:ChambersStreetfromneartheHudsoneasttotheBrooklynBridgeentrancesandoverpass.Twoothermajorarteriesarealsosometimesidentifiedasthenorthernborderof"lower"or"downtownManhattan":CanalStreet,rough
6、lyhalfamilenorthofChambersStreet,and23rdStreet,roughlyhalfamilenorthof14thStreet.AnchoredbyWallStreet,inLowerManhattan,NewYorkCityisthefinancialcapitaloftheworldandishometotheNewYorkStockExchange,theworld'slargeststockexchangebymarketcapitalizationofitslistedcompanies.TheBronxTheBronxisth
7、enorthernmostofthefiveboroughsofNewYorkCity.Itisalso,knownasBronxCounty,thelastofthe62countiesofNewYorkStatetobeincorporated.LocatednorthofManhattanandQueens,andsouthofWestchesterCounty,theBronxistheonlyboroughlocatedprimarilyonthemainland.In2010,theCensusBureauesti