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A young woman holds up a book and smiles. "This is day one of me reading "The Song of Achilles' , " she says. The video jumps forward. "And this", she cries, her face stained with tears, "is me finishing it. "

A new form of literary criticism is boosting sales of books. This is BookTok, as the literary wing of the app TikTok is known. Imagine the emotional pitch of a Victorian melodrama, add music, and you have the general idea. BookTok is passionate. It is also profitable—at least for publishers. 

Bloomsbury, a publishing house based in Britain, recently reported record sales and a 220% rise in profits, which Nigel Newton, its boss, put down partly to the"absolute phenomenon"of BookTok. On Amazon, BookTok is so influential that it has leapt into the titles of books themselves. The novel "It Ends With Us", for instance, is now listed as "It Ends With Us: TikTok made me buy it!" Evidently, TikTok did a good job: the romance is riding high in the top 100 in both Britain and America. 

At the same time, BookTok pushes back against publishing amnesia（失忆症）. Books are imagined to award immortality （不朽） to authors—to be a "monument more lasting than bronze", as the Roman poet Horace wrote-but the lifespan of most is extremely short. Dig out a list of bestsellers from 20 years ago: not only are today's readers unlikely to buy them, most won't have heard of them. 

BookTok is reviving backlists. One reason published it, says Philip Gwyn Jones of Picador, a British publishing house, was that, under its influence, old titles were creeping back into the bestseller charts. It offers such books "a second life", and he applauds it. "Eventually, a great book finds its readers, " Mr. Gwyn Jones says. "You just have to hope that, unlike Kafka, authors don't have to die before that happens. "Start trending on BookTok, and they won't. 

As a reporter, I talk to strangers for a living and love the challenge of getting them to open up. Yet here's a confession: I've been married for eight happy years, but until six months ago, I could be the stereotypical inattentive husband. 

It's not that my wife and I never had pleasant conversations. But more often than I care to admit, I was just going through the motions, nodding when I was supposed to. I was the guy who'd defensively snap（厉声说）, "Of course I did!" when my wife would ask, "JB, did you even hear what I just said?"

In January, I began to lose my voice repeatedly. Doctors told me I needed surgery, or else my throat would be permanently damaged. Total silence would be required for the first few weeks of my recovery. 

Two hours after the surgery, my eyes filled with tears as my two-year-old son stood by me looking puzzled because I wouldn't answer his questions. I wanted to talk but couldn't. 

But before I got home, I had settled into a Zen-like peace about my silence. Soon I noticed another "side effect": As my wife talked to me to keep up my spirits, I wasn't just hearing her; I was listening to her. 

Over the next few weeks, I found myself unwilling to miss a word she said. I began to hear a sweetness in her voice that I hadn't recalled for long. I found myself understanding her better on topics I'd previously dismissed as "things I just don't get as a guy. "

I also realized my toddler（学步的儿童） wasn't just chattering nonstop but that he often had surprisingly thoughtful things to say for his age. 

Even while walking my dog in the woods near our home, I began hearing pleasant patterns in bird songs. The rustling leaves sounded crisper to me. Before my surgery, I'd have spent those walks on my phone. 

After several months, I was fully recovered. Now conversation in our house is better, but not because I'm talking more. I'm just listening better and becoming less and less surprised that I like what I hear. 

Welcome to Biscayne National Park

Biscayne is not very far from the lights and excitement of downtown Miami. But it has a very different atmosphere from the big city. Established as a national monument in 1968, Biscayne National Park includes the northern part of the world-famous Florida Keys which are low-lying islands or reefs. 

Biscayne National Park

If you enjoy water, Biscayne is the park for you. You will find the threatened huge, gentle West Indian manatee, the less gentle American crocodile, several kinds of sea turtles and over 500 species of fish. Four ecosystems come together here, which is what makes the park so diverse. The blending ecosystems create "edge communities. " 

Human history

Human history at Biscayne begins more than 10, 000 years ago. Scientists say evidence of the area's earliest people is mostly underwater now and learn about these people by examining the hills of shells they left behind. As the population grew, it divided into separate cultures. The groups began making pottery and created trade networks. These Native Americans are called the Tequesta. The Tequesta depended on the rich food source of the sea to survive. They were not centered on farming and had more time than other natives for art and religion. The reefs and rough waters made it difficult for early explorers resulting in more than 50 shipwrecks. Scuba divers today can explore six of them. 

Exploring the park

Many visitors to Biscayne National Park choose to explore underwater. Guides lead snorkeling and scuba diving trips. At Boca Chita Key, visitors can explore a lighthouse, a symbol of Biscayne National Park built in the 1930s. But visitors to Biscayne National Park probably are not there to see skyscrapers and city lights. The beauty in Biscayne is quiet waters, rustling mangroves. 

Planting Day

When I was little, I often helped my mother plant our family's garden. As soon as the chilly winds of Chicago winter gave way to spring, Mom would be outside with a spade(铁 锹), seed packets, gardening gloves, and a secret smile. I would kneel by her side for hours, carefully digging holes and pushing seeds into the earth. We would spend hour after hour repeating the process. 

Unfortunately, as I grew up, I found better ways to spend the first days of spring. After all, I was too old to kneel in the dirt all day planting some silly seeds. 

Surprisingly, my mother never said much about my decision until two years ago, the spring I turned 14. I was on my way to a friend's house when Mom stopped me. 

"Would you please help me with the planting today?" she asked.

"Oh, Mom, I was just getting ready to leave," I said. "I'll probably be gone most of the day."

She looked up for a moment as I walked past, and from the corner of my eye I saw a certain pain and sadness in her gaze(注视). At first my heart told me I should stay to help, but as I got farther from home and closer to an exciting day of hanging out with friends, I forgot it. I didn't think much about that day until nearly a year later. 

One of my father's good friends suddenly lost his wife to cancer. The doctors hadn't discovered Sara's illness until it was too late. She died shortly after the diagnosis(诊断), leaving behind her husband and two small, confused children.

Right away, Mom went south to visit the family and spent a few hours with little Rachel. When she came home, she told me this story. 

When Sara had received her terminal diagnosis, she asked her husband, "What should I leave our children? How do I give them something to remember me by, a symbol of my love for as long as they live?"

Mom learned the answer from Rachel. 

"Mommy made me my own garden," Rachel said, as she led Mom outdoors. The garden was a masterpiece, in which a piece of Sara's heart and soul was left in full bloom for her children.

As I listened to my mother tearfully tell Sara's story, I realized the true power of a garden.

……

A few weeks later, I came home to find several bags of seeds on the kitchen table.

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Dear fellow students, 

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Your monitor 

Cheating by using the work of others' is the same ruining your life with drugs. Not only is it (necessary) and foolish , but it can also start to (addict) in many ways. If a student constantly cheats, then it may become a habit in the future. Besides , no one needs to cheat. We all have brains. Anyway , it' s not likely that we'll succeed in life if we continuously cheat. So there is no need(ruin) both your education and your life by cheating.

Cheaters usually suffer many consequences. In the beginning when students are in grade school, cheating may only lead to (they) losing credits and going to the principal's office. In middle school, there will be Saturday punishments and even parent-teacher(conference). But in high school, college, and the rest of a person's life, it is (absolute) unlikely that cheating will be tolerated.

Of all things, (take) credit for others' work is not only useless but quite unreasonable. If we all just do our work, then there is no pointcheating. Most importantly, if we all work hard instead of cheating, then everyone (live) a successful life.

I had a brother, who was named Charles. He was born one month before his due date and had developmental 1 . He never lost his2 teeth, never grew taller than about 30 inches and never 3 more than 28 pounds. They did predict,4 , that he would not live to see his 12th birthday. 

As a boy I learned to feed and 5 Charles every day, though I was6 . As a teenager, I babysat for my "big brother" and learned the7 amount of medicine to prevent him from trembling.

Many people said he would never walk or talk, and should be 8 to some special hospital. He never did learn to walk, but he did learn to talk — not even in 9  sentences, but he had the basics down. If he was 10 or thirsty, we knew. 

He knew11 , too. I was Kagun, not Kevin. But that changed with a beard I grew during the summer before college. Family members said it was ugly. Charles heard it. "Look who's at home. Who's that?" they'd say to Charles. "Ugly, "he would respond with 12 .

All of that to me was 13 , for he was the only brother I have. I never thought of him as different. Although we never played catch or talked about our dreams, he taught me respect for those less 14 than myself. And he taught me an15 of the beauty in the simplest things. 

Physically and mentally, I was my brother's keeper. Spiritually, Mike was and is my keeper — a nearly silent guardian angel. 

Easy Ways to Sleep Better

You can finally rest easy — we asked sleep experts to tell us everything they know about the healthy habits that help you sleep better. 

Make your bed before you get in it. Sleep healthily is all about creating an ideal environment for sleep.That's why it's so important to make your bed each morning. If you don't get a chance to do it before you leave the house, make your bed in the evening before you turn in.

Use blackout curtains(不透光窗帘).One way to ensure blackness in your sleep environment is to invest in room-darkening curtains designed to against light—including street lights that come on at night. 

Use a sound machine. A machine designed to create white noise or soft sounds like running water is a great way to defeat the kinds of sounds that disrupt(扰乱) sleep like street noise.

Put away your electronics at bedtime. By now, you've probably heard that it's a really bad idea to bring your smartphone or laptop to bed.The blue light can stimulate your brain, and even affect your mood.

Commit yourself to one wake-up time. Many doctors only talk about going to bed at a fixed time. But when the morning light comes in through your window, it hits your optic nerve and affects your circadian rhythm(昼夜节律).

A. You are supposed to wake up at 7:00 every morning. 

B. Waking up at the same time each morning can affect your sleep quality. 

C. Experts even warn against keeping the TV on around bedtime. 

D. Placing a machine full of water beside you while sleeping helps a lot. 

E. One of the best habits for a good night's sleep is a comfortable bed.

F. These sounds can calm some people to sleep even better than silence. 

G. Keep your room as dark as possible — the darker, the better. 

Smoking is so alluring(诱惑的), pleasurable for some and perhaps the worst thing that you can possibly do to your body. So, producers made electronic cigarettes as a safer smoking choice - safer than tobacco(烟草制品). Although e-cigarettes contain the drug nicotine like cigarettes, they do not use tobacco and you do not light them. They are powered by battery(电池). 

However, if e-cigarettes are so safe, why has the United States Center for Disease Control（CDC）seen an increase in telephone calls about e-cigarette poisonings? 

The answer is children. Most of the calls are from people worried about children who have played with the devices(装置). In the period of one month this year, the Center said 215 people called the Center with e-cigarette concerns. More than half of these calls were for children aged five and younger. The devices had made them sick. 

Tim McAfee is director of the Center's Office on Smoking and Health. He says the problem is regulation —— the U.S. federal government does not control e-cigarettes even though they contain liquid nicotine. Mr. McAfee adds that liquid nicotine is a well-known danger. Mr. McAfee explains that nicotine poisoning happens when it gets into the skin, gets into the eyes or is swallowed. It can cause stomach pain or a sense of unbalance. And too much nicotine can kill.

Tim McAfee says e-cigarettes do not create the level of risk to people that tobacco products do. He notes that almost 500,000 Americans die each year from cigarettes. "So, cigarettes are the winner in that contest." E-cigarettes do not contain hundreds of harmful chemicals that are found in real cigarettes. So, the U.S. Surgeon General Boris D. Lushniak has suggested that e-cigarettes may be a useful tool for adults trying to end their tobacco use. 

But Tim McAfee worries that teenagers may think electronic cigarettes are harmless. They could become addicted to the nicotine and then start smoking real cigarettes. In other words, he fears that fake(假的) e-cigarettes could be a "gateway" to the real thing for young people. 

The world's first cloned(克隆)cat, Copy Cat, or CC for short, is breaking more boundaries as she turns 18 years old."There are no big plans to mark the day, but CC will be the focus of a Dutch cartoon set for release on her birthday, researcher and owner Duane Kraemer said.

CC became the first cloned cat when she was born on December 22,2001, after Kraemer and fellow Texas A&M researcher Mark Westhusin had attempted 188 nuclear transfers and produced 82 cloned embryos(胚胎). The motivation for attempting to create CC was not just to have a cloned cat, but to research genetic engineering. Kraemer noted the university is doing much more genetic engineering work than specifically clone research now. 

When the first cloned cat had been successfully created, Kraemer and Westhusin were on TV almost for two weeks. "It was really a big deal, and the university has indicated it was the biggest story ever out of the university," he said, noting CC is even included in a book about the history of College Station.

Every animal used in the research was adopted, Kraemer said, but his wife chose CC. CC is not only enjoying life as the Kraemers' pet, but she has her own condo called the"kitty house" behind the Kraemers' house where she lives with her three babies. Tim, Zip and Tess were born on September 1, 2006. There had not been much research done in the reproductive(繁殖的)success of clones — and none had been done with a cat.

Besides that, CC also proved not all clones die young. "Dolly, the sheep, that was the first of the mammals to be cloned by nuclear transfer, had died at, I think, at 6 years of age," Kraemer said."So the fact that CC didn't die young was news."