【推荐2】Aerial (空中的）performer Jennifer Bricker was born without legs, but she never let it stop her.

Wrapped in a loop (圈）of red silk hung from the ceiling, Jennifer Bricker climbs and twists to the music. Her head hangs down and her strong arms let go as she balances on her back, high above the ground — a move that is all the more daring because she has no legs.

Jennifer was a few months old when she was adopted by Sharon and Gerald Bricker. She had big brown eyes, a bright smile, and huge amounts of energy. When a doctor advised her adoptive parents to carry her around in a kind of bucket (桶)，they refused.

Jennifer soon learned to walk and run on her hands and bottom, and grew up fearlessly climbing trees and bouncing on the trampoline (蹦床）with her three older brothers.“My parents didn’t treat me differently so I didn’t grasp the concept that I was different .1 knew I didn't have legs but that wasn’t stopping me from doing the things I wanted to do.”

At the age of three she was fitted with artificial legs, but she never really took to them she moved more freely without them.

In 1996 the Olympic Games took place in Atlanta. Jennifer loved to watch the women's gymnastics team, and especially adored the 14-year-old Dominique Moceanu who competed for the US. When Moceanu and the women’s team won the gold, Jennifer decided she was going to be a gymnast, too. She took up power tumbling, which involves performing floor exercises down a runway. But Jennifer did not want any allowances to be made for her disability.

At the age of 10 she took part in the Junior Olympics and by age 11 she was the tumbling champion for the state of Illinois.

Jennifer now travels the world as an inspirational speaker and acts as an aerial performer.

【推荐3】What are your favorite stories you learned as a child? What stories do you hope your loved ones will tell about you when you aren’t around?

Storytellers were once known as “liars”. This was not to say their stories weren’t true. But they were often exaggerated in colorful ways that brought a story to life.

I grew up in a family of “liars”. They all told stories. And I grew up to earn my living by writing stories. The stories I write about my family are always true. But I can’t always be sure of every detail, so I rely on imagination to fill in the gaps.

My grandmother’s stories changed a bit each time she told them, and I smiled at how her changes made a story better. I loved hearing her stories. And my grandchildren seem to love hearing mine.

“Tell it again, Nana!” they say. I do, and they start laughing before I get to the funny part. Recently, they begged to hear a Halloween story I’ve told countless times. Here it is:

Once upon a time, when I was 10, my mother told me to make costumes (服装) and take my brothers to go trick-or-treating. Denton was 4. He looked like a monkey. Joe was 6 and totally blind. I threw a sheet over his head but forgot to tell him he was a ghost (鬼).

We knocked on the first door and waited. The door flew open, and we all shouted, “Trick-or-treat!” Mrs. Fisher patted Joe’s head through the sheet and said, “What a cute little ghost!”

And Joe yelled (叫喊), “I am not a ghost!”

True story. My grandchildren love it. They beg me to tell it again and again.

I hope to tell them more stories as they grow older. I want them to remember me and the big, crazy family I grew up in. Stories are the unbreakable threads that bind generations together, tell us who we are and give us hope.

My grandchildren have never met their “Great Uncle Joe”, but they won’t soon forget him. To them, he will always be, not a ghost, but very lovable.

【推荐2】Most people have never heard of Tim Berners-Lee. He is not nearly as rich or famous as Mare Andreessen, who is the founder of Netscape, or Bill Gates, whose name has become a well-known word.

Berners-Lee, who worked in a small office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the creator of the World Wide Web. The creation of the Web is so important that some people compare Berners-Lee to Johann Gutenberg, who invented printing by movable type (活字) in the fifteenth century.

Berners-Lee was born in England in 1955. His parents, who helped design the world’s first commercially (商业地) available computer, gave him a great love of mathematics and learning.

In 1980,Berners-Lee went to work at CERN, a physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland,where he had a lot of materials to learn quickly. He had a poor memory for facts and wanted to find a way to help him keep track of things he couldn’t remember. He invented a software program that allowed him to create a document that had links to other documents. He continued to develop his idea through the 1980s. He wanted to find a way to connect the knowledge and creativity of people all over the world.

In 1991,his project became known as the World Wide Web. The number of Internet users started to grow quickly. However, Berners-Lee was not completely happy with the way the Web had developed. He thought it had become a passive tool for so many people, not the tool for creativity that he had imagined.

In 1999,Berners-Lee published a book called Weaving the Web, in which he answers questions he is often asked,“What were you thinking when you invented the Web?” “What do you think of it now?” “Where is the Web going to take us in the future?”

【推荐3】Who dares to stage a concert without even releasing an album of her own? It’s Li Yuchun, the once Super Girl competition winner.    1    Though she may not have the best voice, her popularity would make almost any star jealous.

Her first ever concert held recently at the Shanghai Grand Stage has attracted fans from all across the country and even some from abroad. “We came from Beijing to support you. And wherever you go, we’ll follow you and keep supporting you.”

In the shows first surprise, Li Yuchun performed One Night in Beijing.    2    To Li Yuchun who has often appeared on stage dancing and singing foreign tunes, a song with strong Beijing flavor is a breath of fresh air.

    3    The fruit of her efforts was evident in her final song If There Is Tomorrow—a song in which Li Yuchun can be heard rapping for the first time. Li Yuchun sang more than 40 songs and didn’t perform an encore(加演的节目)．    4    “I didn’t prepare any encore songs. I think a concert should be a coherent process. I don’t like it to be too showy.”

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