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There's an image of big cities as soulless places, where everyone appears to be looking out only for themselves. However, my own experiences tell a different story. During some of the most challenging times of my life, when I was struggling to find proper housing, I worked as an artist on the street. For years, I played my flute (长笛) there, and in doing so, I discovered the natural kindness of people. They showed compassion without expecting anything in return, driven purely by human goodwill.

This profound realization took hold when I was 21, living in Sydney. I worked at a local pub, feeling lost and directionless. Amid the chaos of my life, playing the flute was my only constant source of comfort. Looking back, my connection with the flute began when I was 16. Earning a mere $2.35 an hour at the supermarket, I saved for two long years to buy it. Every day after work, playing the flute became my way of processing the day's emotions.

One day, while working at the pub, someone asked me what I was doing that night. "I'm going to be playing the flute at —" I started to say, but then it struck me: I had forgotten to pick up my flute when I got off the train. Panic set in immediately. In a fit of frustration, I threw the plastic chair I was holding across the room.

I rushed to the train station, hoping someone had handed in my flute. No luck. Still, I left my number, clinging to the slim hope that it would turn up. Convinced that it was gone forever — after all, I hadn't even written my name on the case — I spent the next week drowning in self-blame, drinking heavily and feeling sorry for myself.

Then, out of the blue, I received a call from CityRail. They had my flute. I hurried to the lost property office at Central Station. And there it was, among all the other lost items.

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As I went to grab it, the guards there asked for my ID.

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Desperate and anxious, I said, "What if I play you a tune?"

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Dear Alex,        

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Yours,

Li Hua

Known as the "male embroiderer", Ji Qiyu is the seventh-generation inheritor of the Zhuang brocade (锦) technique. He has introduced innovations to the art form and has turned the village into  fascinating tourist destination.

Now, about five tourist groups visit the village every month. These (visitor) spend their time sightseeing, relaxing, and attending cultural workshops, immersing themselves in the charm of the rural  (mountain) village and the unique Zhuang ethnic culture.

Ji  (grow) up in a family of Zhuang brocade craftsmen. After graduation, Ji returned to his hometown  founded a Zhuang brocade cooperative. His technological advances lowered the barrier for others to learn the craft,  (offer) local women the opportunity to work from home and earn an income.

Ji's designs,  combine ethnic costumes and brocade elements, have gained market recognition for their uniqueness and craftsmanship. His innovative approach has not only attracted attention but also (significant) boosted local job opportunities and sales of agricultural products.

Thanks to Ji's efforts, Zhuang brocade, known for its vibrant colors and intricate patterns,  (preserve) for decades. With over a thousand years of history, the art form continues to be passed down from generation generation.

Not for the first time, Stewart was caught between concern and3. Wasn't it time, he asked, for me to consider using a wheelchair? Once again, I4 the suggestion.

I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (类风湿性关节炎) in my 20s. Over the following years,   movement and mobility became more and more painful and challenging, but I was5 to stay on my feet — to still be a "walking person". But, slowly, walking unaided became impossible. The morning after my6, the truth of what Stewart had been saying7 me: trying to stay on my feet was disabling me further. My perspective8 and I admitted what felt, at the time, like defeat. At 46, I started using the wheelchair. Suddenly, having been9, here I was, a "disabled person", sitting at the height of most people's waists.

However, being more10 disabled has had other silver linings, too. People are kind. And, I often feel as if I am seeing the very best of human11.

Now, when I look at the wheelchair, I see the imprint of myself on it, how its shape has12 me, and mine to it, and I feel greater13: it is a part of me now.

Of course, I long to walk, but I am learning to live with my14. Using a wheelchair can be challenging, but it has also proved hugely15; together, it feels as if we are starting a whole new adventure.

Cleaning your house seems like a fairly self-explanatory task, but when you sit down to think about it,   you might realize that you have a lot of questions. We'll work it down into a process that seems simple enough to tackle.

Decide how clean you want your house to be and how much time you have. So, be honest with yourself about what you can do, how much time you have, and how motivated you're feeling.

You don't want to vacuum and then get crumbs all over the floor, or dust the bottom of something and knock more dust down when you work your way up onto the previously uncleaned areas. If you don't have much time, start with the mess first and work your way to more serious things from there.

Make a checklist and a plan of attack. Know which rooms you plan to start and finish your cleaning in. This will help speed up the process and ensure you are not repeating your efforts, especially if more than one person is involved in the cleaning. You can follow the steps in the cleaning part in order. Attempt to delegate tasks. If you live with other people, cleaning the house should not be exclusively your responsibility! You may have to take on leadership by setting up a rotational (轮流的) cleaning schedule, but it's far better than having to do this backbreaking work alone. For example, grade school children can pick up their bedroom floors, teenagers can clean the garage or bathroom, etc.

Once you get started, you won't want to stop until the whole house is spotless and organized.

A. For example, how do you clean a toilet?

B. Work from the top down, if at all possible.

C. Once you get started, make sure it is equal.

D. Make sure the tasks assigned are age-appropriate.

E. Should this really be something you do in everyday life?

F. This way, you'll have a checklist already written out for you.

G. This will help you decide how to set up your cleaning schedule.

"Until recently, we might consider the material left behind during the space race of the mid-20th century as relatively safe, "said Justin Holcomb, researcher at the Kansas Geological Survey. "However, the material record that currently exists on the moon is rapidly becoming at risk of being destroyed if proper attention isn't paid during the new space era."

Applying geoarchaeological tools and methods to the movement of people into space and the solar system is a natural extension of the study of human migration on Earth, the focus of the ODYSSEY Archaeological Research Program directed by Holcomb's co-author, Rolfe Mandel.

How planetary geoarchaeologists will determine whether an item is worth preserving is an open question. "We feel that all material currently existing on extraterrestrial (地球外的) surfaces is space heritage and worthy of protection, "Holcomb said. "However, some sites,   such as the very first footprints on the moon represent the material footprint of a long history of migration. "Beyond those"firsts", making decisions on a case-by-case basis will be necessary to sort through the tens of thousands of pieces of debris (残骸) now in orbit or dropped across the surfaces of the moon and Mars, which many people refer to as "trash" but Holcomb and his colleagues see as heritage.

Holcomb thinks geoarchaeologists ought to be a part of upcoming NASA missions to ensure the security and preservation of space history. As for being part of a space mission himself? "I'll leave that to other geoarchaeologists," Holcomb said. "There's plenty to do down here, but I do hope to see an archaeologist in space before it's all over."

Koch conducted her research using data from the Nijmegen longitudinal study. This study follows young people from infancy (婴儿期). First, the researchers looked at how frequently the teenagers had attended day care as babies. Then, the same youngsters were assigned the duty of playing a game when they reached the age of 17. In the game, they had to work with another person they couldn't see. Both players had the same goal:   find an object on a gameboard. Only the 17-year-old knew where the item was. The 17-year-olds had to communicate this location to each other without using words. They had to design communicative patterns that would assist the other person in locating the object. This could be accomplished, for example, by performing specific movements.

The 17-year-olds were informed they were playing with a 5-year-old in one game and an adult in another, despite the fact that it was the same individual each time. Initially, the 17- year-olds adjusted their communicative patterns when they thought they were interacting with the child by placing more emphasis on their movements. How quickly they abandoned this pattern depended on how much time they spent in day care. 17-year-olds who had come into contact with many different people as infants were more likely to get over a stereotype (刻板印象). They found out in the interaction that the "child" was also very good and then based their play on that.

According to the researcher this means that babies who have had more diverse social interactions can more easily let go of a stereotype later in life. They are more sensitive to social interaction and can more quickly let go of the image they have in their minds of their peers.   Koch says, "Gaining many diverse social experiences early in life allows us to adapt better to the needs of our partners in social interaction. "

It's easy to tie yourself in knots trying to find the perfect Mother's Day gift. Flowers are a very convenient present. Many online flower delivery services offer same- or next-day delivery.

Marks & Spencer

Marks & Spencer has recently improved its flower business, offering a five-day freshness guarantee on its bouquets. M & S sources as many British flowers as it can, depending on what's in season. It also uses sustainable packaging.

Fastest delivery: next day

Delivery cost: free

Scilly Flowers

All Scilly Flowers stems are grown naturally outdoors without artificial light or heat. As such, these particular flowers are available from October to Easter. The whole farm is making strides in sustainability with low-irrigation initiatives, a solar power cold store and postal plane and boat shipping.

Fastest delivery: 1st class Royal Mail

Delivery cost: free

Smith & Munson

Smith & Munson grows all its flowers in Lincolnshire — it specialises in tulips, lilies, peonies and ranunculus. These are all seasonal, so you can't get them out of season. They are all buds when they arrive, ensuring they last as long as possible.

Fastest delivery: 24 hours (Tuesday — Saturday)

Delivery cost: free

Interflora

Interflora is effectively a flower matchmaker. You choose from a huge menu of flowers and then it matches you with a florist (花店) local to your delivery address. The florist then creates and delivers the arrangement.

Fastest delivery: same day (order before 3 pm)

Delivery cost: £10 for same-day delivery, £7.50 for named-day delivery

Thanksgiving for the Soul

Working as a primary teacher in Pompton Lakes Primary School, New Jersey, I particularly believed in cultivating love in children from an early age. I wanted children to experience that it's more blessed to give than to receive. I wanted them to understand that love of society and love of life is not just lip service; that people somehow have to make it come alive. I hoped they could experience a sense of their own power to make a difference.

There was a rural area nearby where a lot of aged people lived in solitude (孤独). They either had no family or their children had left to work in big cities. Most of them lived on government aid to keep body and soul together. An agency, which was in charge of the elder people in this region, had once told me about a needy grandmother, Mrs. Wilson, who had lived alone for many years. I had always desired to do something for her. So I came up with the Thanksgiving plan.

In October, I told the eight-year-olds in my class about my plan. "I'd like all of you to do extra jobs around the house to earn some money," I said. "Then we'll buy food for a Thanksgiving dinner for a needy grandma who might not have a nice dinner otherwise."

Early in Thanksgiving week, the boys and girls arrived in class clutching (紧握) their hard-earned money. They had cleared rubbish, set tables, washed dishes, helped with younger siblings. And now they couldn't wait to go shopping.

I watched while they ran up and down the supermarket aisles (货架通道). At last we headed toward the checkout, pushing a cart filled with turkey and all the trimmings (配料). Then someone spotted a "necessity"—flowers, which caught their attention. All kids ran toward the holiday flowers, with one proposing, "Flowers! We can buy her a bunch of flowers!"

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"Flowers may not be as practical as food." I said.

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With a food box and a bunch of flowers, we finally arrived at Mrs. Wilson's home.

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Dear fellow students,

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the Students' Union

Filial piety, otherwise (know) as xiao, is at the core (核心) of Chinese culture. Originating from Confucian philosophy, filial piety means love and respect for one's elders and (obey) their wishes. But there is something else, too. (achieve) filial piety, you have to be there for them physically, and look after them in their old age.

In our modern 21st century, (globe) migration has long become a norm (标准). Many of my Western friends say they feel very little connection to (they) birth country after a few significant moves across regions.

, China's case is a little different. Although we Chinese young generations have embraced our new lives all around the world, the (strong) of our family ties and filial piety deeply links us our cultural roots. Like kites flying high in the sky, we will (connect) with the land and the people who have shaped our characters to make us we are.

Ma, who uses a wheelchair, was born in 1995 in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region. His2 piece is his debut prose collection, Qing Bai Shijie. The opening chapter delves into Ma's childhood memories. While his peers ran and played, Ma could only sit on the stone steps, watching in3 and sadness. His limbs were weak, and he couldn't move or stand without help from birth, which4   him from other children. This5 memory has stayed with him, and it became the title of his first6 published prose piece and the entire book.

Ma's writing journey began in 2016, the year he passed his college entrance exams but7 not to enroll in university due to his family's financial circumstances and his health conditions. Although his decision was8 love and sacrifice, it plunged Ma into despair.

The turning point came9 a friend gave him a book, Shi Tiesheng's best-seller Wo Yu Ditan. Shi, a renowned writer who also uses a wheelchair, had10 his struggles into profound literature. At first, Ma had no interest in the book — he had lost11 for everything. But one word caught his eye: "wheelchair". As he read, Ma felt a spark of light illuminating his world. He could gather the courage to do something, like writing, instead of staying in bed letting life pass him by.   

He embarked on a three-year odyssey of writing the book by12 his own life, pouring his heart and soul into the words. In June 2023, Ma received unexpected good news: His book was one of 10 selected for publication through the project. This achievement marked a significant milestone in his13 journey.

Ma writes this line in the profile for his personal social media account as his motto: "Be a(n)14 writer." Writing is not just a profession for Ma — it's a lifeline, a way to15 the world and leave behind a legacy of courage, sincerity and hope.

Since the 1970s, researchers have suspected that some fish can detect magnetic fields. But no one had shown that sharks use the fields to find their location or navigate (导航), partly because the animals aren't so easy to work with. It's one thing if you have a small fish, or a baby sea turtle, but when you work with sharks, you have to upscale everything.

Bryan Keller, an ecologist at Florida State University, and his colleagues decided to do just that. They lined a bedroom-size cage with wire and placed a small swimming pool in the center of the cage. By running an electrical current through the wiring, they could generate a custom magnetic field in the center of the pool. The team then collected 20 young bonnethead sharks — a species known to migrate hundreds of kilometers — off the Florida coast. They placed the sharks into the pool, one at a time, and let them swim freely under three different magnetic fields, applied in random succession. One field mimicked (模仿) Earth's natural field at the spot where the sharks were collected, while the others mimicked the fields at locations 600 kilometers north and 600 kilometers south of their homes.

They used software to track the sharks' responses, observing which direction in the tank they were trying to swim towards. When the young sharks were exposed to the magnetic field of the place they were captured, or ‘home', they stayed put. But when subjected to the southern magnetic field, the sharks persistently changed their headings to swim north, as if trying to get back home. This suggests that the sharks were using the magnetic field to guide them, similar to how humans use GPS.

Surprisingly, the researchers found that the sharks didn't favor any direction when swimming under the northern field. Keller says this might be because they don't go north of their home location since there is only land there, and so they rarely have to find their way back south again. "This could support the theory that their ability to go back home is a learned behavior," he says. They might not know what to do in the northern field because "they've never been up there." says Keller.

Keller's research adds a significant piece to the still-incomplete puzzle of shark biology. Sharks have been declining at an alarming rate due to mostly overfishing and habitat change. Studying the life cycles and migration patterns of sharks can help us understand what arcas to protect when managing marine spaces.