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　　Love, suaeess, happincss, family and frecdom－how important are these valucs to you?Here is one interview which explores the fundamental questions in life．

　　Question：Could you introduce yourselr first?

　　Amswer：My name is Misbah,27 years old．I was born in a war-torn area．Right now I'm a web designer．

　　Q：What are yout grcat memorise?

　　A：My parents xxxx to take xx to hunt birdo．and play in the fields．For me it was like a holidax xxx we were going to have fun all day long．Those aer my great mernorics．

　　Q：Does your childhood mean a lot to you?

　　A：Yes．As life was very hard, I used to work to help bring money in for the family．I spent my chidhood working．I learnt to be independent．

　　Q：What changes would you like to make in your life?

　　A：If I could change comething in my life．I'd change it so that my childhood could have taken place in another xxx．I would have loved to live with my family in freedom．Who cares whether we have mach money, or whether we have a beautiful house?It doesn't matter as long as I can live with my family and we are safe．

　　Q：How do you get along with your parents?

　　A：My parcnts supported me until I came of age．I want to give back what I've got．That's our way．But I am working in another city．My only contact with my parents now is tbrough the phone, but I xxx using it．It filters(过滤)out your cmotion and leaves your voice only．My deepest feelings should be passed through sight, henring and touch．

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　　One morning more than thirty years ago．I entered the Track Kitehen, a reandeant where everyone from the humblest(卑微的)to the most powerful came for breakfast．I noticed and empty chair next to an elderly．Unshaven man, who looked somewhat disheveled．He was wearing a worn-out hat and was alone, I asked if I might join him．He agreed quietly and I sat down to have my breakfast．

　　We cautiously began a conversation and spoke about a wide range of things．We never introduced ourselves．I was concemed that he might are no money and not be able to afford something to eat．So as I rose to go back to the counter and buy a second cup of coffee, I asked．

　　“May I get you something?”

　　“A coffee would he nice．”

　　Then I bought him a cup of coffee．We talked more, and he accepted another cup of coffee．Finally, I rose to leave, wished him well, and beaded for the exit．At the door I met one of my friends．He asked．

　　“How did yountre to know Mr．Galbreath?”

　　“XXX?”

　　“The man you were sitting with．He is chairman of the Board of Churchill Downs．”

　　　I could hardly believe it．I was buying, offering a free breakfast, and feeling pity for one of the world's richest and most powerful men!”

　　My few minutes with Mr．Galbreath changed my life．Now I try to treat everyone with respect．no matter who I think they are, and to meet another human being with kindness and XXX．

For these reasons, I believe that lawmakers need to legislate(立法)against spam．Spammers should be fined, and perhaps sent to prison if they continue to disturb people．E-mail is a tool which helps people all over the world to communicate conveniently, but spam is destroying this conwenience．

The 1900 house

　　The bowler family was one of more than 400 families who applied to 1900 house, a reality TV shout which took a typical family back a hundred years to se how people lived in the days before the internet, computer games and even electricity．

　　The bowler family spent three months in a London home without a telephone, computers, TV, or fast food．The bowlers wore clothes from 1900, are only food available in English at that time, and cooked their meals on a single stove．Paul bowler still went to work every day in a then uniform．The children changed their clothes on the way to and from school and their classmates didn't know about then unusural home life．Joyce stayed at home, cooking and cleaning like a typical housewife of the time, though everything took three times as long．

　　So does Joyce think that people's lives were better in the old days?

　　“I think people in the old days had just ad many troubles and worries,”Joyce said．

　　And I don't think their life was better or worse, there were lots of things back then that

　　I'm happy I don't have to deal with nowadays, but on the other hand life was simpler．”“We had a lot more time with our family, and it was hard being nice to each other all the time,”eleven-year-old Hilary said．

　　So what did the Bowler family miss most about modern life while living in the 1900 house?

　　Paul, 39：”telephone and a hot shower”

　　Joyce, 44：”a quick cup of tea from a kettle you could just turn on”

　　Hilary, 11：”rock CD”

　　Joseph, 9：”hamburger and computer games”

　　Brave Frenchman Found Half-way Around the World

　　(NEW YORK)A French tourist highly praised for rescuing a two-year-old girl in Manhattan said he didn't think twice before diving into the freezing East River．

　　Tuesday's Daily News said 29-year who left the spot quickly after the rescue last Saturday．

　　He lifted the little girl out of the water after she fell off the bank at the South Street Scaport museum．He handed the girl to her father, David Anderson, who had dive in after him．

　　“I didn't think at all,”Duret told the Daily News．“It happened very fast．I reacted very fast．”

　　Duret, an engineer on vacation, was walking with his girlfriend along the pier(码头)when he saw something falling into the water．He thought it was a doll, but realized it was a child when he approached the river．In an instant, he took off his coat and jumped into the water．

　　When he reached the girl, she appeared lifeless, he said．Fortunately, when she was out of the water, she opened her eyes．

　　Anderson said his daughter slipped off the bank when he was adjusting his camera．An ambulance came later for her, said Duret, who was handed dry clothes from cookers．Duret caught a train with his girlfriend shortly after．

　　The rescue happened on the day before he left for France．Duret said he didn't realize his tale of heroism he was leaving the next morning．

　　“I don't really think I'm a hero,”said Duret．“Anyone would do the same ting．”

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　　People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions--and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why．

　　Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly(均匀的)across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes．

　　"We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions," Jack said．"Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect(忽略)the mouth．"

　　According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed．As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations．

　　The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of．expressive faces and put them into categories：happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral．They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies．

　　It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than did Westerners．"The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions," Jack said．"Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less．"

　　In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion．From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion．Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation．

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　　When Mary Moore began her high school in 1951, her mother told her,"Be sure and take a typing course so when this show business thing doesn't work out, you'll have something to rely on．"Mary responded in typical teenage fashion．From that moment on, "the very last thing I ever thought about doing was taking a typing course,"she recalls．

　　The show business thing worked out, of course．In her career, Mary won many awards．Only recently, when she began to write Growing Up Again, did she regret ignoring her morn," I don't know how to use a computer," she admits．

　　Unlike her 1995 autobiography, After All, her second book is less about life as an

award-winning actress and more about living with diabetes(糖尿病)．All the money from the book is intended for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation(JDRF), an organization she serves as international chairman．"I felt there was a need for a book like this," she says．"I didn't want to lecture, but I wanted other diabetics to know that things get better when we're self-controlled and do our part in managing the disease．"

　　But she hasn't always practiced what she teaches．In her book, she describes that awful day, almost 40 years ago, when she received two pieces of life-changing news．First, she had lost the baby she was carrying, and second, tests showed that she had diabetes．In a childlike act, she left the hospital and treated herself to a box of doughnuts(甜甜圈)．Years would pass before she realized she had to grow up-again-and take control of her diabetes, not let it control her．Only then did she kick her three-pack-a-day cigarette habit, overcome her addiction to alcohol, and begin to follow a balanced diet．

　　Although her disease has affected her eyesight and forced her to the sidelines of the dance floor, she refuses to fall into self-pity．"Everybody on earth can ask, 'why me?' about something or other," she insists．"It doesn't do any good．No one is immune(免疫的)to heartache, pain, and disappointments．Sometimes we can make things better by helping others．I've come to realize the importance of that as I've grown up this second time．I want to speak out and be as helpful as I can be．"

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