Hearts in His Eyes Cody started life weighing 24 ounces. Due to extreme prematurity 1 , our son had eye surgery to prevent blindness. As a result of the surgery, he lost peripheral vision 2 in his rig...
Recognition of Dedication Jane’s job was to monitor the assembly lines 1 at a cosmetics 2 manufacturer. Each hour she took note of the production level of each line and sent the information to the f...
The Language of Flowers Every flower tells a story. A red rose given to a true love, a daisy peeking out of a buttonhole, a bundle of violets handed demurely 1 to a crush 2 each conveys a different se...
Learn English for the 2008 Olympics The Younger Generation Foreigner: At present, China is the fastest developing country in the world. Your sustained fast economic growth has never been rivaled 1 in...
Dashan’s Feeling about Language Learning Zhao Wei: You have been in China for so many years, what’s your feeling about living in China? Do you enjoy it? Dashan: Well, actually, I lived in China fu...
Battling Against Depression “I was demoted 1 and demoted and demoted,” says Betty Whelan of how her depression affected her job. “I was lying in bed all day watching the clock go round and hatin...
Legionnaires' Disease 1 Legionnaires' disease is a serious and sometimes fatal form of pneumonia 2 . Legionnaires' disease is caused by infection with Legionella bacteria which are found naturally in...
Home in Space -- The International Space Station In 1984 the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced a new program to establish a permanent space station, called Freedom. I...
Autobiography of Nobel Prize Winner: Sidney Altman I was born in Montreal 1 in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants. My mother worked in a textile mill 2 and my father in a grocery store before the...
Modern Olympic Games Review 1960 Olympics, Rome Fifty-four years after Italy had to give up hosting the Olympics due to the eruption 1 of Mount Vesuvius 2 , Rome finally got its chance. Rome made the...
