【推荐1】Weald & Downland Living Museum

Fun fact

Over 50 historic buildings from across the Weald and Downland area have been dismantled (拆除) and then reconstructed across a lovely 40-acre site in the South Downs national park. The collection of buildings represents almost a thousand years of rural life in south-east England: furnished just as they would have been in the past — complete with the homes, farms and public buildings. There’s a sense of exploring a real village as you wander between them along green paths, stopping to climb the stairs of a 17th-century craftsman’s (工匠) cottage to lie on the straw bed or sheltering from a shower in a smoky, 14th-century hall.

Getting there

The Stagecoach 60 bus service from Chichester to Midhurst stops just five minutes away at Grooms Yard, Singleton. The nearest railway stations are Chichester (2 miles) and Haslemere (7 miles). The museum is on Town Lane in Singleton, reached via the A286 from Chichester to Midhurst. Parking is free and there are disabled parking spaces opposite the museum shop.

Value for money?

Yes. It’s not cheap but it’s a special experience that easily fills a day. Plus, it’s a valuable cause worth supporting. Adults ￡14, children 5-17 and students ￡6.50, under-4s free, family ￡38 (two adults and two children) or ￡25 (one adult and three children).

Opening hours

Daily 10am-5pm (last entry 4pm).

【推荐2】Five of Missouri's Top Outdoor Attractions

If you are in Missouri, where would you like to visit outdoors? Here are some recommendations.

Dogwood Canyon Nature Park

Is 10, 000 square miles of nature enough for you? Well, that's what you will get a visit to this nature park. Dogwood Canyon is one of the oldest landforms in the United States, with some log cabins of long history. You can explore the habitat with activities like horseback riding， fishing, hiking, wildlife tours and more.

Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge

If you are looking for the feathered creatures， this wildlife preserve is your best bet. It was established for migratory birds in 1935. It is one of the top areas for bird-watching in the United States of America. Fishing, hiking and photography are all on the agenda.

Ha Ha Tonka State Park

This park features everything from hiking trails to an abandoned stone castle. Ha Ha Tonka State Park，a 20th-century stone mansion, has caves, sinkholes ，geological formations and so on. There are boardwalks that make trails accessible to all visitors ，along with convenient picnic areas for lunch.

Chaumette Vineyards & Winery

Who needs Europe when you can just pop over to Missouri to enjoy a best-in-class luxury wine-tasting vacation? This resort destination offers local wines grown in the region. The tasting rooms are open year-round.

Elephant Rocks State Park

Rocks that represent elephants? Yes， please. These natural geological formations look like they stepped right out of the circus, when in fact they were formed from 1.5 million-year-old stones. These rocky wonders are a can't-miss item on your Missouri list.

【推荐3】Whether you’re traveling to the next town over or to the other side of the world, careful planning goes a long way toward ensuring your trip is a success. The right preparation helps you avoid potential disasters, such as having your credit card declined or running out of clean clothes to wear.    1    .

Make your reservations for flights and accommodations. Once you’re sure of where you want to go and when you want to go, where you want to stay and how you want to get around, make your reservations. For flights, book around two months out.    2    You don’t want them to be booked or almost-booked, because then prices skyrocket.

Set a travel budget.    3    It’s easy to overspend when you’re traveling if you don’t plan ahead, so start your planning by breaking down how much you want to spend on transportation, food, accommodation, sightseeing and any other activities you hope to include in your trip.

    4    If you’re going abroad, you may be required to get a visa. Besides, check the website of your intended country’s consulate or embassy to see what is required for you to enter the country. Visas may take weeks or even months to finalize, so check early in the planning process.

Pack appropriate clothing for your destination and trip. Check the weather at your destination 2-3 days before you depart. This will let you know what type of clothes you need to bring.    5    Will you be expected to wear a suit for a conference, or will you be able to bathe in a bathing suit on the beach?

【推荐1】August 21st, 2020 was a day of excitement for panda lovers. Mei Xiang, a 22-year-old panda, gave birth to a baby at American Smithsonian’s National Zoo. It is the seventh baby panda since she came to the country in 2000. Three of her babies have survived to adulthood. Mei Xiang is the oldest panda in the U.S. and the second-oldest recorded in the world to give birth, which surprised professionals.

“Pandas are an international symbol of endangered wildlife and hope,” said Steve Monfort, the zoo’s director, “and we are excited to offer the world a much-needed moment of joy.” As pandas are endangered animals, the birth of every panda holds special meaning.

“This is part of our bigger program, where it’s not just about keeping panda babies in zoos and educating people about pandas, but it’s about the wild protection work we do,” added Brandie Smith, the zoo’s deputy director. According to Smith, the birth suggests people-to-people cooperation and wildlife protection between the countries have been going well. “Our partners in China were the first we contacted. They have much experience since there are so many pandas born in China.” Smith said.

As home to pandas, China spares no effort to protect pandas. Efforts have included protecting their living environment, introducing pandas to the wild and issuing laws to punish hunters. The Chinese government also set up iPanda as a website streaming (直播) pandas’ lives to a global audience.

For years, the animal has never failed in its duty as China’s ambassador (大使) of friendship and won hearts of fans worldwide. Since 2008, the movie series Kung Fu Panda has become popular globally, strengthening China’s international image, as Kung Fu Panda represents Chinese wisdom and courage. Bing Dwen Dwen, the cheerful official mascot (吉祥物) for the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games, connected and brought joy to people around the world.

【推荐2】In the last school year, nearly 1 in every 10 students in New York City public schools was homeless, according to new data released on Wednesday. A total of 104,383 children lacked permanent housing during the 2021-22 school year across districts, an increase of about 3.3 percent from the previous school year, according to an annual report released by Advocates for Children New York,a nonprofit organization that annually collects data on homeless students.

About 28 percent or more than 29,000 students were living in city shelters, while nearly 5 percent or about 5,500 students were considered “Unaltered”, living in cars, parks and abandoned buildings, according to the report. Nearly 360 children lived in hotels or motels. About 69,000 children were “doubled up”, meaning they stayed with extended family and friends after losing permanent housing or facing economic difficulties, the report found.

Meanwhile,the country’s largest school district has been losing students,with roughly 120,000 leaving over the last five years. Public school enrollment(入学) has dropped by nearly 9.5 percent since the pandemic started.

“While the city works to address the issue of homelessness, we also must ensure that students who are homeless get to class every day and receive the targeted support they need to succeed in school,” Kim Sweet, executive director of Advocates for Children, said.

During the last school year, almost 2 in 3 students living in shelters were considered “chronically (经常反复发生地) absent”, which means they missed at least 10 percent of school days. Chronic absence hurts students’ academic performance. In the 2020-21 school year, 70 percent of students who were homeless graduated, compared with 81 percent of all students. They were also more than three times more likely to drop out of high school than their classmates who do have housing.

“If we want to break this bad cycle of poverty and homelessness, we have to make sure we’re prioritizing education of students in temporary housing,”Jennifer Pringle, director of Project Learning in Temporary Housing for Advocates for Children, told The New York Times.“The consequences are just awful and without a coordinated(协调一致的), targeted response, we’re not going to see a change.”

【推荐3】Recently, soap sales in the UK have more than doubled. This substance has a unique chemical make-up that allows it to get rid of viruses, breaking up bacteria in a short period of time. It has truly been a life-saving straw during fighting against dangerous diseases.

Invented in the ancient world, the first soap was just a paste made from fat and ash. People discovered it while trying to remove the substances with oil from wool, noticing that mixing burnt wood with water made the process easier. Over time, people improved the soap-making process, learning to boil the fat and ash together to create soap before applying it to their cloth. By the Middle Ages, soap makers had started to spring up in Europe, where cloth production was big business. They cut down huge forests to make ash and mixed that ash with whatever fat they had available.

It wasn’t until the 1800s that the cleaning power of soap was properly released. Around that time, illnesses like typhoid (伤寒) and cholera were widespread. Most people didn’t have easy access to running water, and many believed that washing their skin would cause disease. But this was the century of public health, and that was all about to change.

Louis Pasteur proved that viruses made people sick. John Snow noticed that cholera was spread by dirty water and doctors made the link between the degree of hand cleanness and the spread of dangerous diseases. As a result, local governments started to install public health equipment in towns and cities, dealing with waste water properly and supplying their populations with clean water.

Soap makers started to put effort into making gentler soaps for use on skin, adding perfumes and dyes to make their products more appealing. And people finally started using it to wash their hands and bodies, greatly improving their health.