The Naughties Club Newsletter

This issue of The Naughties Club Newsletter begins with normal sections such as "Our Goal" and "Recent Stars". However, our other three sections contain interesting information about the world's diverse cultures, new scientific achievements and issues of cross-cultural communications.

"Do You Know?" section introduces a unique project that allows ordinary people to become extraordinary inventors and solve various problems in their daily lives. In the past three years, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been establishing "Fabrication Labs" all over the world to provide potential inventors with all kinds of expensive equipment, so that they finally can have a real chance to change the world.

"Global Village" section features the Children's Railway in Budapest, capital city of Hungary. These children print and sell tickets, inspect trains, brief passagers with all sorts of tourist information and make sure everything else runs smoothly. They are capable of operating the railway line in the same way that Hungary's other trains are run.

"Cross-Cultural Communications" section explains how the popular Harry Potter books have been translated into Chinese in Taiwan. To translate a literary work from one language to another is a complex process. How to choose proper Chinese phrases and words to represent the English concepts and actions depicted in the English text? How to organize the text of the Chinese translation so that every part of it is readable and well connected to the others? How to improve the whole text of the Chinese translation so that its language is gracefully fluent and true to the spirit of the original English text? This section attempts to provide some answers.

Finally, "Notice Board" section explains the new and better design of The Naughties Club's official web site. Old sections are aesthetically improved and several new sections are added to better serve our members and all Internet users.

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