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Producing genuine tears on demand is one of the hardest parts of my job as an actress. Acting teachers will tell you that in order to cry on screen you need to summon up something personal—a fear, an inner secret, a sad experience—that taps into your deepest emotions.

This may sound strange, but the inner secret I use when I need to cry during a movie scene is the image of an elephant. It's an image that haunts me, an image that will remain in my heart and mind for as long as I live.

Two years ago I visited Samburu National Reserve, a wildlife park in Kenya. There, on a guided walk through the bush, I saw my first dead elephant. Poachers had hunted down this magnificent animal before piercing her tough hide（兽皮） with poisoned spears. As if she already knew her fate, the elephant had walked through the bush, the toxins（毒素） coursing through her veins, until she found a quiet place to lie down. When I saw her, her body was lying in the dusty red soil. That moment, the sight of the dead mother and her mutilated（残缺的） body lying under the shade of the tree, changed something inside me. I remember crying for her as I thought about the cruelty and senselessness that had led to her death.

That's why I'm supporting a new United Nations campaign against the illegal trade in wildlife, which is pushing many species—not just elephants—to the edge of extinction in every corner of the world. Under the banner "Wild for Life", this campaign serves to raise awareness about the illegal trade in wildlife and encourage everyone to take action against these crimes. The time for tears is over. The time for action is upon us.

After more than 2 months trapped in a collapsed copper（铜） and gold mine in the desert, all of 33 Chilean miners（矿工） were rescued Wednesday. With ingenuity and cutting-edge technology, the men have survived for 69 days, some 700 meters underground fending off hunger, anxiety and illness in a record-setting feat of survival. How did they survive the ordeal? Have a close look.

Before the miners were reached, they survived for 17 days on food already stored in the emergency shelter. They rationed themselves to 2 spoonfuls of tuna, half a cookie and a half-full glass of milk every 48 hours. Then a 6-inch diameter bore hole allowed food and water supplies to be sent down to the mine. Doctors then put the men on a solid diet of meat and rice, with a strict 2,200-calorie limit to keep them slim enough to fit in the evacuation shaft, which is just 66cm in diameter.

Yonny Barrios Rojas, 50, used knowledge gained on a nursing course he attended to administer medicine to the group and perform daily health checks.

"I was with God and I was with the devil. They fought and God won," Mario Sepulveda, the second to be rescued, told CNN. He said he grabbed God's hand and never doubted that he would be rescued.

The snowstorm was supposed to hit the evening of Monday, Jan.31. I was working from home but I had to leave that afternoon and go to my office to sign an emergency financial aid check for a student. The route to the office took about 30 minutes along the highway. When I got there, my colleague came to my office to co-sign the check, and left. As I was packing up, I noticed he had left his laptop bag in my office.

"I can bring it to you," I assured him. It was just past 4:30 p. m. The snow wasn't supposed to start until later. On the way to his place, I picked up a new cellphone charger, and filled up my SUV with gas.

It took me about 15 minutes to get to my colleague's house, where I dropped off the laptop case and got back on the road. Then the snow started, and it was coming down fast. Within minutes, the windows were fogging up and getting covered with snow, so I rolled down my driver's side window, thinking I could better follow the edge of the road and keep to a straight line. But really, I didn't have a clue where I was or even which side of the road I was on.

I called 911, but the dispatcher（调度员） told me that nobody was coming to get me until morning at the earliest. The storm would continue for longer than predicted and I worried I'd freeze to death.

Breathe ,I told myself. Panicking won't help.

I stopped the car, pinning my location on Google Maps, figuring out that I was on a road called Bouvier Lane, in between two farms. I posted this new information to my Facebook community group, pleading for anyone who knew who lived on the farms to help me get rescued.

At 8 p. m., my cellphone rang. It was the son of the farmer, André Bouvier, who owned the land beside the road I was stuck in. He told me that his dad had just helped two other cars get to his house, a father and his two kids, and a couple with their daughter. He comforted me that his dad was coming to get me.

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Then, about 45 minutes later, I saw a tall figure, pacing toward me in the dark, carrying a flashlight.

We reached the house at last, I driving slowly behind Andre Bouvier.

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Harbin is the capital of Heilongjiang province. Harbin is now a large and open city,(influence) deeply by Russia, Europe, and Japan in (it) culture, architecture, and lifestyle. Harbin is one of the most popular destinations for winter tours,(host) the world's biggest ice and snow festival.

Harbin(become) world-famous for having the largest ice and snow festival. The opening ceremony is held January 5 every year. Lasting for more than two months, Harbin Ice and Snow international festival is also longest snow festival in the world.(near) all the ice for the festival is cut from the Songhua River in Harbin.

The most popular place is the Harbin Ice and Snow World, is like a frozen Disneyland, and you can see the big ice and snow castles, carto on sculptures, and enjoy the biggest (vary) of snow sports and activities in the world.

There are also ice and snow sculptures exhibitions on Sun Island and an ice lantern show in Zhaolin Park.

Harbin has long been a popular winter destination for snow tourism and skiing experiences. If you are skiing lovers, Yabuli Ski Resort and Jihua Ski Resort (recommend).

Dawn Loggins didn't have a typical senior year. Back in 2012, Loggins was waking up early to get to school to put in a before-school 1 as a janitor（清洁工）.

Before the rest of her peers 2 school, Loggins was cleaning bathrooms, scrubbing floors, and 3 down the very desks she would 4 later in the day as a student. After 7 hours at school, Loggins didn't get to 5 home to enjoy an after-school snack or downtime either.6 , she clocked back in for another two-hour time on janitorial duty.

"I don't mind cleaning, " Loggins said. "If you have to walk through trash to get to your desk, you're not going to have an environment that 7 learning."

While the teen was clearly hardworking, it wasn't immediately obvious to school officials how badly Loggins 8 the financial support her job provided, until she asked her boss for 9 one day. The reason? Without electricity at home.

Even more shocking, while Loggins was at summer school, she 10 calling home, only to find out the phones had been 11 and her parents had moved away-without her. And she became 12 . When the school realized the extent of the neglect Loggins had been living with, they surrounded her with 13 . The community took her in, providing her with housing and food and clothing and helping her to apply for college.

And the efforts 14 : Loggins was accepted into Harvard University. Today she works as a motivational speaker, speaking to 15 that include education, homelessness, and women and youth empowerment.

Loneliness can cause health problems. Around the globe, about 1 in 4 adults says they're lonely. How to deal with this kind of problem? Here are some tips to get going.

1. Be curious

It's easier to connect with people if you have shared interests or experiences, so start paying attention to what's on your mind. What are you thinking about? What motivates you? What excites you? Knowing yourself can be a first step to bonding with others. If you know what's meaningful or fun for you, it may lead you to an activity or creative outlet.

2. Make something

The opportunities for creative expression are endless. You can also do a dance move, resurrect your grandma's pie recipe, plant an herb garden, or try a textile art. Make something that puts your thoughts and feelings and vision about who you are and what matters into a tangible artifact that then can express those thoughts and feelings to others.

3. Take a risk by having conversations

Share something about yourself. It can just be something you think other people might find interesting and compelling, and see where it goes. Even if you're nervous about being judged or dismissed, putting yourself out there requires a bit of a risk, and it's the first step to authentic connection.

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Whether it's volunteering for a cause you believe in or playing frisbee or Scrabble, try to find others who share your interests. And if you follow your natural curiosities, you may find something new. Share your thoughts and feelings in creative ways with other people who have that interest. And, hopefully, in those interactions you can begin to reveal yourself and share the unique things that matter to you. Then, other people recognize that, share their story in return, and it's like an electric circuit is connected.

5. Other people's loneliness matters too

Loneliness can spiral. If the pangs of loneliness go unaddressed, people can end up in a world of hurt. If you see someone who's experiencing loneliness, tolerate the risk of asking them how they're doing. Be kind. Other people's loneliness makes us lonely too.

In July 1915, sick James Murray, one of the early editors of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), defined one final word. He had devoted 36 years to the dictionary. Knowing he would not see the project complete, he wrote his last entry: for "twilight".

The story of Murray's final days is one of many memorable tales in "The Dictionary People". Conceived（构思） in 1857, the OED was a huge crowdsourcing project comprising 3,000 people. The idea was to create a "descriptive" dictionary that tracked words' use and meaning over time. Volunteers read widely, mailing in examples of how "rare, old-fashioned, new" words were used. What is surprising about this random method is that it worked, achieving order through the large number of contributors.

The origin story of Sarah Ogilvie's book is almost as improbable as that of the dictionary itself. Ms Ogilvie, an editor for the OED, went into the archives（档案馆） of Oxford University Press and came across an old notebook. It had belonged to Murray and contained the names and details of the dictionary volunteers, most of whom had previously been unknown. "The Dictionary People" is her work of detective scholarship, presenting the lives behind the names.

The dictionary's contributors are an engaging cast, including one of Karl Marx's daughters and J. R. R. Tolkien. For some, the dictionary was something addictive: one contributor supplied 165,061 quotations. Murray, too, was assiduous. He once wrote to George Eliot to ask about a word choice in "Romola", published 17 years earlier.

Ms Ogilvie's book is full of strange but interesting tales. Many dictionary lovers engaged in another crowdsourcing fashion: collecting and measuring rainwater. The presentation of the book is irregular, too, taking its structure from the work it describes. For example, in her first chapter, "A for Archaeologist（考古学家）," she relates the early life of Margaret A. Murray, a pioneering Egyptologist. There are 26 alphabetical （按字母顺序排列的） chapters, each celebrating a group of contributors. This is a clever concept.

Jackdaws（寒鸦） are the smallest member of the crow family. They often live in a crowd. Indeed, when cold weather comes, they gather in the hundreds (and sometimes thousands) every evening so that they can sleep in the same place. If you've ever heard jackdaws during their evening gatherings and morning departures, you'll know they are not quiet birds. Despite being fairly low-volume during the day, they are really loud on either side of their night-time get-togethers. Why might this be?

A team of the Cornish Jackdaw Project set out to determine why jackdaws are so noisy before they depart from their sleeping spot. The team's theory was that the morning calls might be a jackdaw version of "voting". The researchers suspected that each individual's call might count as an "I'm in!". When a certain amount of "I'm in!" s are called —and so a certain volume of noise is reached -the group might then depart as a unit.

To test this idea, the researchers artificially increased the level of calls during the jackdaws' natural morning calls. Their expectation was that, if jackdaws really are "voting with their voice" to decide when to depart the sleeping site, artificially adding calls would make them leave earlier than they naturally would have done. Subsequent experiments confirmed their expectation. The team therefore showed that jackdaws use their calls as a sort of voting system.

You might wonder why this happens. The researchers suggest that individual jackdaws benefit from the voting system because they are less at risk of being killed and they can get more access to social information — such as where to find food.

So the loud calls of jackdaws in the morning are therefore not the pure chaos it sounds like. If you are ever being driven mad by the sound in the morning, you can find comfort in the fact that the louder they get, the sooner they will leave you in peace.