【推荐2】Thai wildlife officials have laid out a plan to bring peace to a central Thai city after at least a decade of human-monkey conflict （冲突）.

The monkeys that hang around Lopburi are a major tourist draw. But after years of conflicts with residents and visitors, and several failed attempts to bring peace with population controls, local people and businesses have had enough.

The monkeys often try to take food from humans, sometimes leaving people with injuries. In March a woman got her knee hurt after a monkey pulled her off her feel, and another man was knocked off a motorcycle by a hungry monkey.

The authorities hope to catch some 2,500 monkeys and place them in massive wildlife preserves, said Athapol Charoenshunsa, the director-general of the Department of National parks, Wildlife and plant Conservation. They’ll work with wildlife experts to find a way for a limited number of monkeys to stay freely in the city, he added.

“I don’t want humans to have to hurt monkeys, and I don’t want monkeys to have to hurt humans,” he told reporters during a news conference in Bangkok. “I expect the first period of the operation to start within weeks, and I believe the wildlife preserve will be able to contain （容纳） thousands of them and will solve the problem very quickly.”

Athapol said they are also working in other areas of Thailand that are facing problems with monkeys. He said 52 of the country’s 77 provinces often report monkey problems.

The monkeys are said to be a symbol of the province, about 140 kilometers north of Bangkok, where the ancient Three Pagodas temple celebrates a yearly “Monkey Buffet” festival. However, some have complained about the city’s monkey troubles on tourists and residents feeding the animals, which they say drew monkeys into the city, helped with their numbers, and got them used to getting food from humans.

【推荐2】Someone says that no one in the world is there to match Elon Musk. There are three kinds of people in this world:those who make it happnen, those who watch it happen, and those who spend their life asking what happens about Musk. The whole world knows where he stands. It seems like he follows the rule: “Do or do not”, “There is no try”.

Musk was born on June 28,1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. He spent his earlys childhood with his sisters Tosca and Kimble in South Africa. At the age of ten, he won over his age fellows: He learnt how to program computers. Moreover, Musk’s brain was a great gift. At the very young age of 12 he created and sold his own video game, Blaster, for $500 to a magazine. Musk was so absorbed in his dreams and inventions (发明) as a child that his parents asked doctors to check his hearing. Moreover, he was bookish and a man of few words at school.

Though Musk was an outstanding child, yet he didn’t have a happy childhood. Other kids used to bully (欺凌) him and he tried to avoid going to school. This continued until he learned boxing and wrestling (摔跤) at 15.

Then Musk moved to Canada to attend Queens University, where he got a Bachelor’s degree in economics. After that he continued his business career.

Musk has been an American since 2002 and enjoys the nationalities (国籍) of South Africa and Canada too. He became rich in his late 20s when he sold his company Zip2. In 2016 he w as the 21st richest person in the world. He is now a member of the top twenty richest persons of the world and holds the net worth of $44.2 billion.

【推荐1】I was fortunate to spend every summer camping with my parents when I was a kid. By the age of 18, I’d visited every province in my home country of Canada. Even today I can still recall an impressive tour vividly.

It took us six people a long time to drive to Newfoundland from Ontario. When we arrived on the island, it poured rain every day. We just kept driving north, hoping to outrun it. We jumped on a ferry to Labrador Peninsula, crossing the Strait of Belle Isle, and moved our way up the coast of this northerly and thinly-populated region.

The scenery in Labrador is beautiful. We saw long white sand beaches along the Atlantic coast that looked inviting, but the water was cold year-round. While standing at the top of a lighthouse, my dad said, “This will be the new Caribbean once global warming hits.”

We soon discovered Battle Harbor, a historic fishing village that can only be reached by ferry. In the mid-1800s it had a population of 350 people and was considered the unofficial capital of Labrador. Now it was more like a deserted town, and I distinctly remember feeling the furthest from anything that I’ve ever felt. Multiple ferry rides and 600 miles separated me from the nearest major city of St. John’s.

If you’re curious about Newfoundland & Labrador (NL), I highly recommend a 2013 film called The Grand Seduction. It’s a delightful comedy about a small fishing village called Tickle Head that’s struggling to figure out its future.

Travelling made me get to know my country so well, which has had a tremendous influence on shaping the person I am now. I hold a solid mental picture of Canada, stretching from sea to sea, which I’ve taken with me to other parts of the world because I have great passion for it.

【推荐2】Brandon Jones and his wife, Rina, needed some carryout. They needed the fried broccoli(西蓝花)from Ekiben, the beloved local restaurant. Not just for any customer. The dish was for Rina's mom, who lives in Vermont and is dying of lung cancer.

Rina's mom had loved the dish since she first came to visit her daughter six years ago in Baltimore. “She had jokingly said that she wanted it on her deathbed,” Rina said. In December, Rina's mother became ill with cancer. She chose to live her last days on her own terms at home.

Last week, as Brandon and Rina prepared to visit Rina's mom, they wondered about one thing. How could they make that fried broccoli from Ekiben for her?

Brandon emailed Ekiben's owners Steve Chu and Ephrem Abebe for some tips. Chu wrote back that he and Abebe would meet them in Vermont. They would cook it themselves. They just need the date, time and location.

On Saturday, Chu, and Abebe made the six—hour drive to Vermont in a pickup. They pulled up to Rina's mom's house the following day. Like magic, the snow paused. They set up the fryer in the back of the truck, staying outside to keep things a surprise, and out of concern for COVID—19. It took several hours for the fryer to get up to temperature. When all was said and done, Chu said," It was the most perfect broccoli we ever made.”

The odor of the frying food flew into the house. Rina said it took her mom a moment to realize what was going on. “This is from Baltimore!” she said. Rina said her mom, who has struggled to eat because of sores on her mouth from the cancer, managed to eat the broccoli. “I can't believe that people would be so generous and kind for someone that they don't even know,” Rina said. Chu and Abebe, she said, wouldn't even accept gas money.