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For years, I had lived behind an invisible wall with my neighbor, Mr. Miller. The misunderstanding started on my tenth birthday. I had accidentally kicked my soccer ball into his rose bushes, crushing several of his most beautiful blooms. He had rushed out of his house, shouting at me with anger I had never seen before. I was so hurt and embarrassed that I shouted back, calling him an unreasonable old man. Since that day, we had exchanged no more than cold nods and uneasy silences.

Over the years, that small moment grew into a wall. We avoided eye contact. We crossed the street to avoid walking past each other. My parents tried to smooth things over, but I refused. "He started it," I would say. And so the distance between us became a habit — a cold, quiet routine of pretending the other didn't exist.

That belief was broken on a cold November evening six years later. My parents were away for the weekend, leaving me alone. Around 9 PM, while carrying a stack of books down the stairs, I missed a step and tumbled to the bottom. A sharp pain shot through my ankle, so intense that I screamed. I tried to stand, but my leg wouldn't hold me. I dragged myself to the living room, only to find my phone dead on the sofa. No charger nearby.

I shouted for help, but the wind outside swallowed my voice. Fifteen minutes passed. Twenty. Panic began to creep in. I thought about how foolish I had been to push everyone away. Then came a soft knock at the door.

"Hello? Are you okay? I heard someone shouting."

It was Mr. Miller. The man I had avoided for six years. The man whose rose bushes I had crushed. The man I had called unreasonable.

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I hesitated, then told him I had fallen and couldn't move.

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The next day, Mr. Miller came by, and my mother brought up the past.

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Dear Sir/Madam,

I am LiHua, president of the Student Union of our school.

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua

Hangzhou is often introduced through its scenery. But its history is as expansive as its landscape. The city is home southern terminus of the Grand Canal and the Archaeological Ruins of Liangzhu City, which dates back more than 5,300 years.

According to a recent survey, Hangzhou's accommodation facilities (expect) to have received 1.4 million visitors in 2026．For visitors, a satisfying trip is shaped not only by museum tours and corporate (visit), but also by practical, everyday considerations: Can I pay conveniently? Is the hotel easy (reach)?

Over the past few years, Hangzhou (try) to answer those questions as part of its development of tourism. On August 29, 2025, the city piloted China's first one-click tax refund service for international tourists, (cut) processing time from about 20 minutes to within two minutes. Hangzhou has also launched an English version of a tourism AI agent.

Apart from its culture and history, Hangzhou is a tech hub. It began building its digital economic ecosystem in the early 2000s, Internet companies such as Alibaba expanded rapidly. Today, the city is known for a group of fast-rising hi-tech startups often (refer) to as the Six Little Dragons, including AI developer DeepSeek and robotics companies Unitree.

Hangzhou offers a clear example of technology is used for. You see extraordinary technological progress and the (apply) of technology to useful things.

Nevertheless, people often view AI as a competition between humans and machines — a misleading perception that needs to be corrected. The reality is humans working with machines, often within budget limits and imperfect systems. While companies develop smarter AI models, its daily applications are most significant. For example, a doctor can pass tiring record-writing to AI, allowing her to focus more on patients. A call center can also respond in 35 languages at 3 a.m. without a large multilingual team.

Despite these benefits, the danger is that harm from AI may grow faster than its good effects. Deepfakes (深度伪造) can become powerful weapons: a false video can destroy a person's reputation long before it is proven fake. An incorrect AI-generated fact might be a minor issue in homework, but it can be extremely risky in medical records.

Even without harmful intentions, AI significantly changes how people make judgments. AI-generated results often appear confident and well-considered, yet they are not always reliable. An AI "copilot" can reassign work and responsibility, but what is offered as help frequently requires human oversight. While AI offers speed, it also forces users to repeatedly decide whether to trust its suggestions.

This change can be seen widely: hospitals trying to improve care without lowering quality, communities struggling with fast-spreading fake videos, and workers using AI to save time or avoid duties. When a technology's strengths are easy to praise and its weaknesses easy to ignore, who should pay for its mistakes?

Lyn Margerison, one of the participants, was first drawn to an online advertisement of the Books in Places project and has since travelled from Dorset to Florence, Budapest and beyond. It showed one of my very favourite books arranged on a table with a glass of wine, set against a square in Florence. The caption (说明文字) asked: ‘Do you enjoy reading books in the places in which they are set?'" she recalls.

Books in Places was founded by Paul Wright in 2023. Now he organizes short breaks in the UK and longer journeys to many countries, where people read in the very places stories are set.

"Location is at the heart of everything," says Wright. "Exploring the streets, landscapes and atmosphere of the setting (背景) provides a deep understanding of the story. A scene that was once just words on a page suddenly comes alive when you've walked the same alleys, tasted the same food or felt the same light as the characters."

This isn't justniche travel. A 2025 survey reveals that many UK travellers pick destinations for reading, among which Millennials (千禧一代) rise to 60%. Meanwhile, it's estimated that literary tourism may hit $3.3 bn by 2034. Readers no longer just read by the pool but want reading to open new views of the world: sailing the Nile with Death on the Nile, walking St. Malo while talking about All the Light We Cannot See, and following fossil-hunting paths in Lyme Regis from Remarkable Creatures.

As the author Jeanette Winterson once said, "Books are like doors; when one opens, a new world waits." Reading holidays are literal steps through those doors, into new worlds of friendship, curiosity and shared discovery.

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Energy-efficient smart LED bulbs, such as the Lustre E14 by Philips Hue, are a great way to reduce your energy consumption. Through the companion app, you can control and manage your home lights remotely, setting schedules and automatically switching lights off to prevent excess use and wasteful energy consumption. There's not only white or warm-toned light to choose from, but millions of different colour hues to change the aesthetic of each room in your home.

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Air fryers have quickly become a common household appliance. However, along with their speedy cooking times and crispy foods, these devices can also be more energy efficient than their oven counterparts. For example, Tower estimates that the Elite Flexi Drawer Air Fryer can save up to 70 per cent of a consumer's energy in the kitchen by switching to air fryer cooking. This particular air fryer boasts an 11-litre capacity to prepare entire meals, and the flexi drawer can be divided into two 5.5-litre sections for separate cooking.