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Wilma was a lively child who always wanted to play outside. The only problem was, she got sick — a lot! Ever since she was born, she was either feverish, coughing, sneezing or covered in spots. . . or at least, that was how she remembered it! Poor Wilma caught lots of diseases with long names and spent a lot of time in the hospital. "If being ill were a sport, I'd be a champion!"

When she was five, Wilma caught something called polio, and it looked as if she might never get to play outside again. Wilma recovered from catching polio, but her left leg and foot were badly weakened by the disease. This made it difficult for her to walk.

That meant she couldn't go to nursery school or her first years of primary school like everyone else. It made her upset to see the other kids having fun outside. While the doctors treated her weak leg and she learned how to walk again, she had lessons at home.

Wilma also had to take a fifty-mile bus ride with her mum twice a week to go to Meharry Medical College. The kind doctors and nurses at the college gave her exercises to strengthen her muscles. She had to wear a metal brace (支架) that supported her left leg. Using this, she could finally walk by herself and go to school with other kids. That sounded good, but the little girl really hated wearing it. She had to wear it with heavy shoes that made her stand out.

"What will the other kids say? " she asked her mum. "I don't want to look different!" Her mother tried to cheer her up. "You won't have to wear it forever, dear. Just keep exercising and make your leg strong!" That's what Wilma did! She made sure to do all the exercises the doctors gave her to make her leg better. It wasn't easy, but she kept imagining how wonderful it would be to walk to school without the brace.

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When Wilma was twelve, the doctors decided that her leg was strong enough.

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Then, she was invited to join her school's track team.

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Dear Linda,

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Yours,

Li Hua

The world's largest three-dimensional LEGO model of "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" was displayed in Hong Kong last week.

Covering 47 square meters, the exhibit became a popular attraction, artfully (piece) together a wonderful world where the old and the new met.

"We rolled out this exhibit mainly (promote) traditional Chinese culture through creative events appealing to young people, " said a deputy general manager of Bank of China.

As people walked along the 26-meter-long and three-dimensional model made of up to 3 million lego bricks, they could picture themselves in lively ancient streets, sellers were offering goods and kids were playing hide and seek.

Pointing at two-storey building with a front door decorated with colorful ribbons, Li Chun-tung, a (lecture) at the University of Hong Kong, said, "This was one of the (busy) restaurants then, with decorations that were typical inns and bars in Northern Song Dynasty. "

The lego model recreated many details of life over centuries ago, much the same as those presented in the painting. It combined two (entire) different cultural representatives from the East and the West, (offer) viewers a glimpse into the past and inspired them to explore the (rich) of Chinese heritage.

Silver Spring, a Washington, D. C. , suburb of about 80, 000, is a5 community bringing together families, young professionals, retirees like Vera, and a large community of immigrants and refugees (难民)6 to make this place home.

Vera tunes (调整) up the donated bikes and7 them to parks, food banks, and apartment complexes. He camps out with his Free Bikes sign and waits for people to wander over. Then he8 people with the perfect new ride and watches them ride away happy. His initial9 saw six bikes go in under 30 minutes.

In addition to the adults and kids he10 at his Free Bikes events, customers come from local resettlement agencies and other nonprofits. The groups11 information including the height, gender and age of a12 , and Vera delivers a fitting bicycle to their door. He's happy to make the13 .

Now neighbors know him as the Bike Dude, and they keep him busy with a14 supply of bikes, helmets and locks. So far, more than 700 Silver Springers have new wheels to take them anywhere their feet can15 , thanks to the big-hearted Bike Dude.

In the old days, Samoans greeted each other by touching foreheads and noses together. The practice was widely discontinued after the Spanish influenza pandemic (流行病) wiped out around 20 percent of our population.

Now, what about the language that Samoans use to greet people?

Talofa is the official word for hello in Samoan. That is Si-o'u-alofa, which literally means: my love, but the unspoken understanding behind it is that I'm offering my love to the person I'm addressing. So basically, Talofa means my love is for you.

Another greeting expression is Ua'e sau, which confused me when I first heard it. But I soon learned that it's so common and so very Samoan. When you show up somewhere, it's perfectly natural for a Samoan to ask, "Ua'e sau? " Anyone outside our culture might think, "Uhh, can you not see that I am here, and I have arrived?" Actually, it's just a way for the greeter to acknowledge you are now in their presence. Also I've noticed that if your arrival is unexpected, this question is a beautifully subtle (微妙的) way of asking why you are here.

A. It means, "Have you arrived? "

B. But they use a few other greetings as well.

C. Remember it next time a Samoan asks you, "Ua'e sau? "

D. They might wonder why you bother to ask such a question.

E. It comes from an older greeting packed with beautiful meaning.

F. So we should practice some of Samoa's most common greeting words.

G. These days, Samoans like to greet each other with a single kiss on the cheek.

"Interpersonal conflict is on the rise, driving increases in anger, anxiety, and general stress, " says Angus Fletcher, a researcher at the Ohio State University. "We wanted to look into those misunderstandings and see how they could be reduced. "

In the study, the team surveyed 1, 261 Americans online. All the participants read an article about an imaginary school with water shortage. Group one read an article that only gave reasons for merging (合并) with another school that has better water. Group two read an article that only gave reasons for the schools staying separate and hoping for other solutions to the problem. Group three was the control group that read both sets of the arguments.

They found the majority of the first two groups believed they had enough information to decide what to do. They said they would follow the recommendations in the article they read and thought others would make the same decision. About 55 percent of the control group recommended the schools merge.

The team calls this belief IOIA. Fletcher describes it as, "The less our brain knows, the more confident it is that it knows all it needs to know. This makes us leap to confident conclusions and decisive judgments, when we miss necessary information. "

The team also found some were willing to change their minds — once they had all the facts. Timing also plays a role. The people in the study changed their opinions that were recently formed, not long-held beliefs.

According to Fletcher, one of the best ways to reduce IOIA when disagreeing with someone is to stop and ask, "Is there something I'm missing that would help me understand their position better? " This can help reduce unnecessary interpersonal conflict.

"Children are born with skepticismc (质疑) and they can adapt their level of skepticism according to the quality of information they've seen before in a digital context," Orticio said. "They can use their expectations of how this digital environment works to make reasonable adjustments to how much they trust or distrust information. "

Minors encounter health misinformation within minutes of creating a TikTok account. Even platforms intended for young audiences like YouTube Kids have become spaces for misinformation. That's a particular problem because parents may have the impression that these are safe places their kids can explore. That may give a false sense of security and allow falsehoods and problematic content to go unchecked and be taken as true and acceptable. So encountering misinformation when children surf online is unavoidable.

If children have some experience working in controlled but imperfect environments where they are constantly encountering things that aren't quite right, and we show them the process for figuring out what is actually true and not, that will set them up with the expectation to be more critical. Orticio said, "Rather than trying tosanitize their online environments, parents should have discussions with their children about how to check claims and talk about what they're seeing. " It's not that we need to enhance their skepticism. It's that we need to give them the ability to use that skepticism to their advantage.

"In much of the world, women and girls are responsible for household duties," said McGriff, "It's seen that girls won't ever be putting their education to use." Additionally, many poor families can't afford girls' tuition fees, school supplies and uniforms (校服). Yet, studies have shown that providing free uniforms can reduce dropout rates by 16% and absenteeism by more than 35%. This simple solution took root in McGriff's mind and started her journey helping girls transform their lives.

As she took an entrepreneurship (创业) class, she was tasked with creating a business or nonprofit for a class project, which reminded her of the idea of the school uniform. Soon she developed an idea. After conducting field research, McGriff returned home, presented her education project at entrepreneurship competitions and won $35, 000 in startup fund. Eventually she established her nonprofit, Style Her Empowered (SHE), to bring her vision to life.

That first year, the group hired local tailors and provided uniforms and school fees for65 girls. But they soon ran into a problem — the students were outgrowing quickly. To address this, McGriff's team, together with local tailors and students, designed an innovative "growing uniform" which could be adjusted to fit a girl for up to three years, accommodating six different sizes.

Today, SHE serves girls in 20 rural villages in southern Togo, providing 1, 500 girls a year with free uniforms, school fees, supplies, tutoring, and much more. Once enrolled, students receive weekly tutoring. As a result, SHE's students consistently pass their exams at higher rates than the national average. "Our students have increased their performance in school dramatically," McGriff said. "If given the opportunity, they shine."

Officially known as the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, this conference held at Dartmouth College is widely considered to be the birthplace of AI as a field. A small team of scientists coined the term artificial intelligence for the event and set the course for future thinking and research on the technology.

1997: Deep Blue

IBM's Deep Blue became the first computer system to defeat a world chess champion in a standard tournament match. Deep Blue's underlying technology advanced the ability of supercomputers to tackle complex calculations (运算).

2019: GPT-2

While many major tech companies are involved in the development of AI, it was the publication of then-little-known OpenAI's Generative Pre-trained Transformer 2 that showed the power of natural language processing. Able to work out the next item in a sequence, it could perform tasks such as summarizing and translating text.

2022: ChatGPT

The chatbot ChatGPT, released in late 2022, was built on a large language model — and introduced generative AI proper to the wider world. Its release sparked a new phase of rapid development, and generative AI quickly began to transform every aspect of business and our lives.

What's next for AI? Experts say we should expect interactive AI that can instruct other software to carry out tasks for you, AI making new scientific discoveries, and models that understand the physical world, remember, reason and plan.

Be Like Dad

Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people.

I was in my study on a cold Sunday in May 2020 when I glanced out the window and saw my dad's car parked in our driveway. He was walking from my front door to his car, about to leave. Why would he drive all the way to my house, only to turn around and leave? Had the doorbell stopped working? I raced downstairs, opened the door and yelled "Dad! What are you doing?" I shouted.

My dad lives forty minutes away, and I hadn't seen him since COVID-19 because we were following the health-department guidelines to self-isolate and not leave the house, so it's strange that he would show up.

He smiled and pointed beside the door, where I could see a bright yellow begonia (秋海棠) plant.

"I know it is Mother's Day, but... I'm not a mother," I was puzzled.

My dad smiled. "But I think you should get flowers, too, my dear son." With that, he winked and drove off.

That evening, I called to thank him and told him how touched I was that he had driven such a long round trip just to leave begonias on my doorstep.

That's when he let me in on his little secret. It turns out I wasn't the only receiver of an act of kindness from him. To keep away from the loneliness during epidemic he decided to do acts of kindness to remove the social isolation (隔离，孤立), and it made him so happy to see the smiles on people's faces.

"But why?" I continued.

It just had started a couple of weeks before, when a friend of his was having a tough day and called him to talk about it. He knew she loved ice cream, so after ringing off, he went straight to the grocery store, bought a huge ice cream, drove to her house and left it on her doorstep. Then he called from the driveway to tell her to look outside.

"She just beamed when she saw it. I don't think leaving her a million dollars would have made her happier."

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After listening to story after story like this, I was inspired.

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1. 表达感谢；

2. 提出个人建议；

3. 说明理由。

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Dear Lucas,

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Yours sincerely,

Li Hua