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Following a four-year apprenticeship (学徒期) with a Lancaster candy maker, he established his first candy-making business in Philadelphia. That initial effort failed, so did his next two attempts in Chicago and New York. Returning to Lancaster in 1883, Hershey persevered in his dream and finally established the Lancaster Caramel Company, which quickly became an outstanding success.

Hershey became fascinated with the German chocolate-making machinery exhibited at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. He bought the equipment for his Lancaster plant and soon began producing various chocolate creations. Hershey sold the Lancaster Company in 1900 in order to focus entirely on his chocolate business.

Three years later, he returned to Derry Church to build a new factory. Through trial and error, he created his own formula (配方) for milk chocolate. In 1903 he began construction on what was to become the world's largest chocolate plant. After its completion, Hershey's milk chocolate quickly became the first nationally marketed product of its kind.

With Milton Hershey's success came a great sense of social responsibility. Hershey created a complete new community around his factory. He built a model town for his employees that included comfortable homes, an inexpensive public transportation system, a quality public school system and broad cultural opportunities. The town of Hershey continues to be a special place for its residents and a popular attraction for millions of visitors each year. Indeed, Milton Hershey's achievements do speak for themselves.

Now, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a convenient desalination machine. Unlike traditional desalination units, the MIT machine uses electricity to remove the salt and other small things from the ocean water. More importantly, the suitcase-sized device needs less power to run. It can also be powered by a small solar panel that costs less than $50. The lack of filters and the low electricity requirements make the machine extremely cheap to set up. "Ease of use was one of the main motivations for creating the device." said one researcher.

After running lab experiments using water with different salinity (盐度) levels, they field-tested the device at Boston's Carson Beach. The researchers set the box near the shore and put the tube into the water. In about half an hour, the device had filled a plastic cup with clear, drinkable water.

The researchers believe their invention can deliver drinking water meeting WHO quality standards with a push of a button. Meanwhile, a smartphone app allows the user to control the unit wirelessly and receive real-time data on power consumption and water salinity. It also sends out information when the water is drinkable.

The MIT team is now exploring ways to bring their machine to market. They believe it will benefit residents of small islands or those running away from natural disasters in the future.

In the initial experiment, nearly 40 percent of participants ate a cookie offered freely, compared with about 20 percent of those offered $2 as well. "People typically imagine things like that someone did something disgusting to the cookie," says study lead author Andrew J. Vonasch, a psychological scientist at University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Nine further experiments, involving more than 4,000 participants, used online questionnaires to present other cases. These included being offered money to accept a ride home, incredibly high construction-job wages and surprisingly cheap flights. In each case, past a certain threshold (门槛), higher financial profit reduced participants' potential of accepting the offer.

If someone seems to go against accepted norms such as self-interest without explanation, we assume they have hidden motives and infer there will be "phantom costs": imagined consequences that reduce what Vonasch calls an offer's "psychological value".

Factors beyond the present moment may come into play. "Understanding that others' perceived over generosity may put us in their debt could also help explain people's reluctance," says Rachel McCloy, a psychologist studying decision-making at England's University of Reading. "The old saying ‘there's no such thing as a free lunch' is clearly alive and well."

Another experiment found that high scorers on measures of distrust inferred more phantom costs. The researchers also showed how to alleviate the effect: simply provide a reason for the deal. The "cheap flights" experiment included a condition where the seats were revealed to be very uncomfortable. "Uncomfortable seats aren't typically a selling point," Vonasch says. "But telling people the seats were uncomfortable made them more willing to take them because it was sufficient explanation."

It depends on where you live, your age, and other factors, but the answer is, yes. Our intentions for "home" are evolving.

Fast-paced lifestyles and work schedules make it hard to find time to shop for groceries and prepare meals. Online food delivery services have taken off, too. In 2016, one in 10 Chinese were ordering food online. Throughout Europe, online ordering is capturing 56 percent of the market in Sweden and 43 percent in Austria. In India, online food ordering is expected to reach close to $12m(US)by 2023.

While there is a trend towards bring-in and order-in food, as well as dining out, the kitchen is still a core in home life. Food & Wine cited a survey in 22 countries asking about cooking habits. At the lower end were South Koreans, who spent just 3.7 hours per week cooking. People in India were at the top with 13.2 hours per week spent in the kitchen.

Simply being in the kitchen, cooking and eating with other people, can have healthy benefits. Regardless of its size, the kitchen is a warm and inviting place. The difference is, now you can follow a recipe on your iPad while cooking.

It's true that impersonal appliances are connecting to each other and to us. Refrigerators order vegetables. Cooktop hoods with sensors turn on by themselves. While technology and our expectations for the kitchen are shape-shifting in real time, the fundamentals remain the same.

A. So is cooking a way to express yourself?

B. The global average was almost 6.5 hours.

C. But is our relationship to the kitchen changing?

D. It's like gathering around a campfire in the past.

E. People seem to be spending less time cooking worldwide.

F. Now more of them are eating outside the home more frequently.

G. The kitchen is where we connect with food and company in the soul of the home.

But then he2 a question that took me off guard. "So Robin, what are you going to do after high school?" He wrote something at his notes, with not even a glance in my3 . "I don't know," I whispered. I was seventeen. I had no4 what I was going to do after high school. My high school teacher told me that I wasn't "college material" and I believed her. Education wasn't exactly5 in my family.

"You don't know? Why don't you go to college to become a6 like me?" He smiled as he glanced at his watch. I thought he was7 for even suggesting it. No one in my family had even graduated from college, let alone become a doctor. "I'm not smart enough to be a doctor."

He stared directly into my eyes when he8 said, "Let me tell you something. You don't have to be smart to be a doctor. You just have to be persevering." Then the doctor hurriedly gathered his things and rushed off to his next9 .

I10 to think about it when I was at school. What would I do after high-school? Even though I wasn't college material, that doctor made a(n)11 on me. I applied to a college and soon found myself walking in the12 as a new student. I often questioned what I was doing there. Maybe I wasn't smart enough for college, but I could be persevering.

I was13 to find that with each individual achievement came newfound14 in myself. I graduated with a master's degree in September 2014, two decades after that15 with my doctor.

The tech company is reported a new smartphone model next month.

This new teaching method by the teachers since the beginning of this term.

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Tech Festival Highlights Innovation and Creativity

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One pleasant New-year morning, Edward rose, washed and dressed himself in a hurry. He wanted to be the first to wish a happy New Year to his family. He turned up at every door of the house, and shouted the words of "Happy New Year" in an excited voice. After a quick breakfast he hopped along the street like a happy bird, greeted and repeated the words to those he met.

When he came back, his father gave him 50 dollars, saying he could buy whatever he had been wishing for. His face lighted up as he took them. He had wished for a long time to buy some interesting books that he had seen at the bookstore located near the river through the city. He thanked his father and danced out of the house again with a light heart, intending to buy those books.

As he ran down the street, he noticed a poor family, the father, the mother, and three children shivering with cold in the winter wind. "I wish you a happy New Year," cried Edward as he was happily passing on. The man took a look at the happy boy and shook his head sadly.

Edward stopped and said, "It seems that you do not belong to this country." The man again shook his head, a confused expression flashed over his face, for he could not understand or speak English.

But the poor man pointed to his dry mouth, and to the children with hungry looks, as if to say, "These little ones have had nothing to eat for a long time."

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Edward realized that these poor people were in trouble.

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"My dear boy," said his father, "Here are a dozen of books for you."

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