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.
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.
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.
Could a new treatment developed by the US company Lilly mean "the beginning of the end" of Alzheimer's? Could we even cure it some day? These are headlines and questions swirling （流传） around after news of a new drug, called donanemab, showed promising results in phase -3 trials.
The brain science behind Alzheimer's is complex, but CT and MRI scans suggest that poisonous changes occur in the brain, including the abnormal buildup of proteins called amyloid plaques and tau tangles. The damage starts in the parts of the brain essential for forming memories but then spreads throughout the organ, with brain tissue shrinking significantly.
Developing treatments for Alzheimer' s has been a challenge, with almost 20 years passing with no new drugs. But in the last year, two new ones have emerged: donanemab and lecanemab. Neither are cures or magic bullets for the disease, but they do address key symptoms. They target the amyloid proteins that can accumulate in the brain and damage neurons, slowing down its progression.
While this news is exciting, there are major caveats. One is whether it will ever become available on the NHS. The cost is estimated to be about £20, 000 per person per year of treatment.
Another is the serious side-effects: in the study, brain swelling occurred in 24% of participants and brain bleeding occurred in 31. 4% on the drug compared with 13. 6% in the placebo（安慰剂） group. There were also three deaths during the trial.
Part of the problem for me, as an academic, in assessing the drug is that the full results of the trial haven't yet been shared publicly or published in a peer-review journal. We cannot access the full data or examine the trial yet, and there is always a motivation for private companies to overstate the effectiveness of new drugs. Trial results need to be assessed by an independent body of experts.
While it is unlikely to change clinical practice until at least 2025, the news of donanemab is again an indication that science is continuing to make progress when it comes to treating the major causes of illness and death, even one related to the highly complex inner workings of the brain. So, there are caveats and the need for caution, but these new drugs are indeed the grounds for that rare thing these days: hope.
CHALLENGING STUDENT MYTHS
Everybody wants to be happy, lives in harmony with their parents and makes them proud, but in reality you may find yourself worried or even upset.. However, it may surprise you to know that research can help you become a more efficient and well-balanced student. Let's examine some student myths that may be interfering（干涉） with your progress.
"The most successful students have no worries in exams. "
. In fact, these students do suffer stress-just like those with average or below average scores. In the UK, a database in 2021 showed that doctors provided more calming drugs for students aged between sixteen and eighteen than they had ever done before. Many of these drugs were for very able students to help them cope with stress and exam pressure. So remember, be realistic about your abilities.
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It is just this kind of remark that produces pressure in anybody who is already anxious. Research shows that the most effective learning takes place if you use a quite different approach. So, adjust your study plan and take time to relax. In fact, an efficient learner knows how to strike a balance between work and rest..
"I won't be successful in the future if I don't go to a key university. "
This worry does affect many Chinese students and their parents. But how true is this point of view?. First, clearly not everyone can go to a key university. Second, even if you don't go to a key university, there is still the opportunity of going to one for post-graduate study. Third, if you take a course you like and do quite well in it, your motivation, training and hard work will impress your future employer. Remember, it is never too late to learn more!
A. Let's look at the evidence
B. The most efficient students have more flexible approaches to learning
C. Some of these students are suffering harmful consequences
D. Only students who work day and night will succeed
E. This is a common assessment made of students with high scores in school
F. Above all, don't become rigid in your approachwork hard but also work smart
G. Following a trend without thinking carefully can make you stressed and depressed
When you left us, it was the end of a long, painful road. Since then, I was1 my favorite memories of you.
I remember us taking our family dog for walks together on the 2 sand dunes（沙丘）. I remember sitting on your knee, watching candlelight3 inside. Once I bought you a gift—a4 printed on a glass board, titled "Walking With Grandpa. "5 , you wrote me your own poem, too. I imagine how you must have taken time finding the right words, how you printed it out and cut the paper to6 before placing it in the frame.
However, Alzheimer began its7 through your life. In your last few days of life, I was8 when sitting by your bedside silently, feeling very worried and afraid. I didn't know what to do or how to9 .
Now, I am an adult, I wish I had been10 -that I had come close to you and told you how deeply I loved you, how you filled the11 which was the absence of my father in those 10 years of my life, so that I didn't realize anything was12 . It's only now that I am aware that when I13 a relationship with my father, the reason why he fell short of14 is that he wasn't you. I really hope you know how much you15 to me.
On the east bank of Chaohu, China's fifth-largest freshwater lake, rests a （mystery） ancient "kingdom" of jade called Lingjiatan.
In Chinese culture, jade plays a significant role and has been long consideredessential symbol of harmony. Phrases like "replace weapons of war with gifts of jade and silk" and "gentle as jade" perfectly showjade symbolizes in the minds of Chinese people. Taiping Village, 40 kilometers north of Lingjiatan, has a volunteer team called "Taiping Women", which（found） by Wang Zilian several years ago. The name of the team, like jade, represents women who promote peace and harmony. Whenever any village r needs help, Wang and her teammates servethe first responders. Because many young men left the village for big cities to work, women, children and the elderly, including（she）, were left behind. Wang organized all the（housewife）who stayed behind and started the first support group for such women in Taiping Village. Group members would（definite） make every effort to assist one another and solve problems.
The volunteers not only take care of the aged and look after children but also resolve conflicts, Wang noted,（add） that if disagreements, quarrels,any other fights occur, "Taiping Women" will be there to help.
When my daughters reached the third and fourth grades, I occasionally allowed them to walk to and from school alone, if the weather permitted. One warm spring day, a small friend followed them home after school. This friend was different from any other friends they had brought home. With a yellowish coat and tiny brown spots dropped across her nose, she was the cutest puppy I had ever seen.
When my husband got home that evening, he recognized the breed——a beagle puppy（猎兔犬）, not more than twelve weeks old, he guessed. She ran to him right away and after dinner climbed into his lap to watch TV. By now the girls were both begging me to keep her.
She had no collar or identifying marks of any sort. I didn't know what to do. I thought about running an ad in the lost-and-found but I really didn't want to. It would break the kids' hearts if someone should show up. Besides, her owners should have watched her more closely. I tried to find seemingly logical reasons to explain my behavior.
By the end of the week, she was part of our family. We had named the puppy Molly. She was very intelligent and good with the girls. This was a good idea, I thought. It was time for the girls to take responsibility for another life, so they would learn the nurturing skills they'd need if they decided to become mommies when they grew up.
The following week, something told me to check the lost-and-found section in the local paper. One particular ad jumped out at me and my heart pounded with fear at what I read. Someone was asking for the return of a lost beagle puppy near our grade school. They sounded desperate. My hand shook.
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Paragraph 1: Instead, I pretended I hadn't seen the ad.
Paragraph 2: I knew in my heart I had to call that number and see if our Molly was the puppy they were desperately seeking.
