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When(travel), we engage with cultures and experiences. However, according to a report by the World Wildlife Fund, tourists (leave) over 1.3 billion tons of food waste last year, accounted for about 8% of the total global gas release in 2024. To reduce our impact, we can take simple steps: empty the fridge before heading out, and choose sustainable dining options. These efforts help us travel more responsibly. After all, exploring the world shouldn't comethe planet's expense.

When was the last time you took on a tough choice? Maybe this morning you debated whether to get up or stay in bed slightly (long). Making choices is part of life. By the time you brushed your teeth, you (make) several decisions even without noticing. Some choices are quick, while others take more thought. Usually, better outcomes (achieve) through a thorough understanding of strategies like risk tolerance.

Most days after school, I love walking in the forest with my dog Nick. It's (peace), especially around sunset. Nick has a fun time smelling the leaves and running after rabbits. When Nick runs ahead, I hear him barking excitedly. I sometimes call him back, worried that he might have someone (scare). The truth, though, is could be guessed — there's never anyone else here. Just me, Nick, and the quiet forest.

At 15, I excelled academically yet felt overshadowed and unnoticed. The 1 to stand out consumed me, pushing me towards a regrettable decision. 

One day, during a class in the IT lab with my classmates, our teacher mentioned missing computer parts. 2 looks exchanged, everyone wondered how it could happen in a(n)3 lab. "It's possible to open that lock with another key," I said. Instantly, eyes turned to me with newfound interest and curiosity. It was a rush I had never experienced before. Enjoying all the eyes on me, I 4 how to open the lock. 

Little did I realize that single moment would ruin everything. 

The following day, called to the headmaster's office, I found myself accused of stealing the missing parts. "I didn't do it, sir," I argued, but suspicion 5 his eyes. His repeated 6 intensified, pushing me to the edge of fear and tears. In a desperate attempt to escape the mounting pressure, I 7 confessed (承认). 

The headmaster asked my father to come to school, whose shaky faith in me brought a mix of relief and 8 . My father gently asked me if I understood the gravity of my actions.9 , I confessed my misguided longing for recognition. In the headmaster's office, my father listened attentively, and then spoke with quiet authority: "I trust my son. He is not a thief."

With my father's support, I learned a valuable lesson:10 cannot be forced; true recognition comes from honourable acts.

In the summer of 2000, I was barely fifteen years old. I wore glasses, was a bit overweight, and was incredibly insecure and shy. Most of my peers thought I wasn't worth much and could never accomplish anything.

By that spring, I had withdrawn almost completely and preferred to be by myself, reading or drawing. My parents were worried and offered me the chance to attend a three-week summer camp in Orr, Minnesota.

Eager to escape, I jumped at the opportunity.

The campsite on the Pelican Lake had plenty to offer: acres of forest, bunkhouses, a mess hall, a gymnasium, shower facilities, and a full schedule of activities. But one experience stood out.

"Hey, Jojo! Ever go ‘Banana-Rafting (漂流)'? Greg, our counselor (辅导员), looked around at our group of fifteen campers and settled on me."

"No, what's that?"

"Here, I'll demonstrate!" He held up two bright yellow lifejackets. He put on one lifejacket normally and then the other upside down. He stepped his left leg through one armhole and right leg through the other, straddling the neck. He pulled the lifejacket up, zipped it up, and belted it around his hips. Turning around like a model, he showed us all what he looked like: a waddling yellow banana with arms, legs, and a head!

"Watch!" He took a running jump off an embankment (堤坝) into the riffles (浅滩) before the rapids on the river that fed Pelican Lake. Horrified and excited, we rushed to the edge to watch as he floated down, grabbed a rope, and pulled himself to the shore.

"That's Banana-Rafting!" Greg said, dripping wet but happy. All of us yelled and stormed the pile of yellow lifejackets.

"Are you ready?" Greg asked as I nervously stood on the edge overlooking the river.

"No — No I'm not!"

"It's okay to be scared," Greg continued. "You're brave and strong. We all believe in you."

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Everyone behind me was cheering me on.

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Something changed in me that day.

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Dear Michael,

I'm writing to share with you a career planning seminar I recently attended.

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Yours,

Li Hua

Chinese mathematician Wang Hong, born in the 1990s, has resolved a century-old mathematical puzzle, the three-dimensional case of the Kakeya conjecture (猜想), establishing herself as a potential candidate the Fields Medal.

In 1917, Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya posed a seemingly simple question: What is the (small) area that an infinitely (无限地) thin needle can sweep when rotated (旋转)? this problem was solved in two dimensions, its three-dimensional version remained unresolved for over a century, (puzzle) mathematicians worldwide.

Wang, now 34, demonstrated (exception) talent from an early age. At just 16, she achieved outstanding results in China's national college entrance exam, earning (admit)to Department of Geosciences at the Peking University.(drive) by a deep interest in mathematics, she later transferred to the university's mathematics department.

During her doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Wang studied under renowned mathematician Larry Guth, leading authority in geometric measure theory, guidance greatly shaped her academic development. Since July 2023, Wang has served as an associate professor at New York University.

In February 2025, Wang, together with her collaborator Joshua Zahl,(release) a 127-page paper formally announcing their achievement, which has gained considerable attention from the global mathematical community.

Bruno Lobo, a surgeon and a former champion swimmer, has been kitesurfing for 15 years. In 2016 and 2023, he held six Brazilian6 and won Olympic gold in kitesurfing.

On a7 day with some gray clouds and strong winds, Lobo went into the ocean near Sao Luis. "After8 a few meters, I heard a cry for help and noticed a girl who was drowning," he explained in a post on Instagram. "I9 approached her with the kite, tried to calm her down and asked her to10 on my back." Lobo used his equipment and experience as a11 and surfer to get the woman safely into the shallows, where lifeguards could12.

CNN13 the story. But instead of shining the spotlight on himself, Lobo used the opportunity to educate people about the14 of watersports. Lobo reminded everyone that knowing our15 and adopting a little humility is just as crucial as the excitement of watersports.

And that is the problem with medium friends, the unclear boundaries we create with them. Without clear expectations, medium friendships can easily become unbalanced. You may like your medium friends more (or less) than they like you. But these conversations are harder with medium friends.

They don't view it as a balance of give and take but as something that grows naturally, like art. Friendships, they say, are not ranked from best friends to strangers but reflect the effort two people put into them, showing what they enjoy, share, and how they' re different.

Medium friends should not be seen as less valuable than best friends. They might be a tennis partner, a long-lost friend, or someone you play games with abroad. Without the pressure to be "perfect," these friendships can grow and serve each person as needed.

At their best, medium friendships can feel freeing, with less responsibility. Psychologist Beverley Fehr points to recent research showing that a wide, diverse friend group made up of weak and strong ties is best. She suggested, "" While the emotional and psychological benefits of medium friendships have not been studied, Fehr believes they are considerable.

A. Friendship is based on shared care and trust.

B. Some social scientists see friendship differently.

C. Don't put all your eggs in one relationship basket.

D. They can be enjoyable and useful in their own way.

E. With close friends, you can talk about issues or wounds.

F. Scholars have tried to sort friendships into different levels.

G. Medium friends provided the lie in trying to satisfy too many people.

A new study by NYU researchers, Erin O'Connor and Robin Neuhaus, examined how articles about screen time resonated with parents, and found that articles combining attention-grabbing language with credible scientific framing (表述) were the most likely to gain immediate and long-term attention on social media. O'Connor says: "Parents deserve information that not only captures their attention, but also supports informed decision-making about their children's development."

O'Connor and Neuhaus analyzed 136 articles published between 2016 and 2021. They used BuzzSumo, a social media analytics tool, to track each article's total social media shares across websites and its evergreen score — to find how much attention the article continued to receive after its initial publication.

Each article was evaluated for two main factors: sensationalism (煽动性) and scientific framing. Sensationalism was measured by the presence of warning language (e. g., "alarming," "skyrocket", "irreversible (不可逆转) damage"), while scientific framing was measured by how well the article explained findings, noted limitations, and gave accurate reporting.

Their analysis revealed that articles with high sensationalism and strong scientific framing achieved the highest immediate shares and long-term attention. In particular, articles that focused on younger children, with a negative view of screen time, and published on popular websites showed stronger performance. Interestingly, warning language alone boosted short-term sharing, but it was only when combined with strong scientific framing that articles kept people interested over time. Additionally, longer articles with more detailed context were more likely to achieve long-term attention.

For the past decade, Lippo has made the same journey at the end of every summer, steering his boat to transfer mussels (贻贝) across the Mar Piccolo, a semi-enclosed bay located between the city and the open sea. Once the lifeblood of a centuries-old tradition, the Mar Piccolo supported generations of mussel farmers, producing 60,000 tons of mussels annually in the early 2000s. However, pollution and heatwaves have since taken a heavy toll, pushing the business into sharp decline and leaving farmers to pay the price.

Now, mussel farmers are pinning their hopes on a plan to restore the polluted Mar Piccolo through phytoremediation (植物修复). In early 2024, geologist Vito Uricchio and his team of researchers launched a pilot project, which focused on depolluting one hectare of polluted land using plants such as the Monviso clone. After a year of planting, chemical analyses revealed significant improvements, demonstrating the method's ability to address both organic and inorganic pollution. The process can treat soil up to 5m deep at a small part of the cost of traditional remediation methods.

Though current research so far shows promise, Werther Nissim, an assistant professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca, says phytoremediation alone is unlikely to fully depollute an area as large as the Mar Piccolo. He adds: "The need for a long time is another bottleneck. The technique should be combined with other more traditional remediation methods."

"Even with the best possible remediation, the benefits would be completely erased by the continuation of polluting activities," Uricchio remains full of fight. "I want to act; I want to remediate as much as possible."

Grandi claims in his latest book, Italian Cuisine Doesn't Exist, the idea that many beloved recipes and products such as cheeses or cured meats have hundreds of years of history is pure fantasy. Most dishes have a shorter history than most people imagine.

Migration is what made Italian cuisine what it is today. In the 19th and 20th Centuries, millions of people left Italy, a poverty-stricken country with limited dietary options, emigrating to South America, North America and European countries. The Italians who landed on New York's Ellis Island left hunger and misery behind. And it was in the "new world", Grandi argues, that Italian immigrants found the wealth and ingredients to create the recipes that eventually popularized Italian food worldwide.

However, many Italians are not familiar with this history. They might imagine that their beloved recipes were born in Italy, passed down, unchanged, from generation to generation and eventually exported abroad by Italian migrants.

Pizza is the most famous example of this. Born as a cheap street food in Naples, in the 19th Century it was synonymous with poverty and dirt. It was in America, says Grandi, that pizza became "red". While fresh tomatoes were among the original toppings, Italian immigrants to the US popularized pizza prepared with tomato sauce, a product that industrialization made easy to access and store. And it was in the US that pizzerias really started to take off. Scholars call this process "the pizza effect": when a product leaves its place of origin, gets profoundly transformed and then returns to its place of origin to be fully embraced in a completely different form.

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