With its wonderful Georgian and Victorian architecture, and winding medieval streets, it’s easy to see why Edinburgh has been listed as a World Heritage Site.

The     1     of Edinburgh is fascinating. Edinburgh Castle dominates the urban skyline, lying on the cliff of an ancient volcano right in the center of the city. Yet Edinburgh is not     2     in the past. And neither is it all about bagpipes, shortbread, whisky and tartan.

In fact, the city is one of the most vibrant, international cities in Europe and is     3     voted as one of the most desirable places to live in the world. The capital is     4     with arts, culture, sports and attractions and is famous for playing host to the world’s largest arts festival. After dark Edinburgh has a lively nightlife with     5     bars and pubs, restaurants, clubs and live entertainment to rival any European city.

In Edinburgh, there’s plenty of open space too, with a large number of public parks and green spaces     6     in the busy city center. For active types, there’s a(n)     7     and varied choice of activities and sports in Edinburgh and the surrounding area. Or if you just want to     8     your wallet, the capital is a great place to shop. This is a city that knows how to be both     9     and modern.

The capital of Scotland is a great place to live and study in, with a wide range of theatres, galleries, clubs and shops to     10    , not to mention the plenty of arty bars and cafes.

Many parents have toyed with home schooling. The idea conjures up idyllic(田园诗般的) images of bright-eyed children and earnest parents clustered at the kitchen table, unravelling the mysteries of maths, science and languages free of the dogma and structures of     1     education.

This week, parents have confronted a more chaotic reality－not home schooling in the usual sense, but enforced schooling, from home. Kitchen tables strewn(布满) with books and cereal bowls;     2     parents trying to remember how to do improper fractions while taking part in a Google Hangout(一款群聊视频软件) with work colleagues; fights over laptops as children insist they need to log on to online lessons—such scenes will have been repeated in households across the world.

A video that went     3     this week depicted the feelings of parents around the world.It showed a mother who broke after just two days of trying to marshal(安排) the schedules of her children as well as dozens of messages on WhatsApp:“If we don't die of corona, we'll die of     4     learning,”she ranted.

Some will have taken instantly to schooling from home, pleasantly surprised at the     5     to be gained from teaching young minds and at their own aptitude as teachers. For others who find the whole thing a Sisyphean(不可能完成的) task, the idea that schools may be     6     for months to come is daunting.

Home learning, as more usually understood, is not a new idea. The modern homeschool movement emerged in the 1970s, promoted by the likes of John Holt, an American teacher and education writer. He advised parents to     7     the curriculum to fit the child's interests, not the other way around.

The most recent estimates suggest that close to 60,000 children are home schooled in England, for reasons including mental health issues and special educational needs. Some parents have given up on what they see as a     8     “one-size fits all” education system.

Many technology entrepreneurs, including Google founder Larry Page, have talked about their formative years attending Montessori schools,     9     them with helping to promote a sense of questioning and self-motivation.

For parents settling in for the long haul during today's health crisis, technology is proving a     10    . School by Google Hangouts, Microsoft Teams or Zoom has been hugely popular to keep children focused as well as connected as a class.

How best to make it work? Experts say children should rise, breakfast and work according to a clear timetable in line with normal schooling and parents should take a deep breath and keep calm.

Today, the events     1     in realistic-looking or-sounding video and audio recordings need never have happened. They can instead be     2     automatically, by powerful computers and machine-learning software. The catch-all term for these computational productions is “deepfakes”.

The term first appeared on Reddit, a messaging board, as the username for an account which was producing     3     videos. An entire community     4     up around the creation of these videos, writing software tools that let anyone automatically     5     one person’s face onto the body of another. Reddit shut the community down, but the technology was out there. Soon it was being applied to political     6     and actors.

Tools for editing media     7     have existed for decades—think Photoshop. The power and peril of deepfakes is that they make fakery cheaper than ever before. Before deepfakes, a powerful computer and a good chunk of a university degree were needed to produce a realistic fake video of someone. Now some photos and an Internet connection are all that is required.

The consequences of cheap, widespread fakery are likely to be     8    , albeit slow to unfold. Plenty worry about the possible impact that believable, fake footage of politicians might have on civil society—from a further loss of trust in media to the     9     for electoral distortions. These technologies could also be deployed against softer targets: it might be used, for instance, to bully classmates by creating imagery of them in embarrassing situations. In a world that was already saturated with     10     imagery, deepfakes make it plausible to push that even further.

An     1     arson attack on a respected Japanese animation studio left a shocked nation grieving, as investigators looked to identify victims and determine a possible motive in one of the deadliest acts of     2     in Japan's modern history.

A total of 33 people — many of them young — were killed a day earlier when a man     3     to douse flammable liquid through the Kyoto Animation Co. studio and set it alight,     4     an inferno, officials said. Some 36 others were injured, about 10 critically.

The blaze at the production house struck at a pillar of Japan's anime industry, an obsession in the country and a cherished cultural     5    . Kyoto Animation, known as KyoAni, had produced hits such as "Lucky Star, " "K-On!" and "Haruhi Suzumiya, "     6     worldwide acclaim for its skilled drawings.

Outside the charred shell of the company's workspace in Kyoto's outskirts on Friday, crowds of well-wishers left flowers and messages of support for the victims. Many bowed, or     7     down and prayed as they offered their respects.

The     8    , Shinji Aoba, aged 41, remained in the hospital after     9     burns all over his body. A woman who saw police detain the man a day earlier told reporters that he "seemed to be discontented, he seemed to get angry, shouting something about how he had been plagiarized, " according to Reuters.

Hideaki Hatta, a co-founder and president of Kyoto Animation, said Thursday that the studio had been receiving     10    , including emails threatening murder. He said the attack had "broken our hearts."

Japanese firms encourage daytime naps

Imagine working for an employer who, aware that you’re probably not sleeping enough at night, allows you to down tools and nap as part of your regular work     1     -- and not just forty winks at your desk, but a restorative snooze in a quiet room.

These are some of the measures being used by a growing number of companies in Japan to counter an epidemic of sleeplessness that costs its economy a(n)     2     $ 138 bn a year.

Tech startups have been quickest to     3    the “sleep debt” among irritable and unproductive employees. Last year, Nextbeat, an TT service provider, went as far as setting up two “strategic sleeping rooms” -- one for men, the other for women -- at its headquarters in Tokyo. The aroma-infused rooms     4     devices that block out background noise, allowing workers to stretch out on sofas for a(n)     5     nap. Mobile phones, tablets and laptops are banned.

“Napping can do as much to improve someone’s     6    as a balanced diet and exercise,” Emiko Sumikawa, a member of the Nextbeat board, told Kyodo news agency.

Nextbeat also asks employees to leave work by 9 pm and to avoid doing excessive overtime, which has been     7     for a rising rate of death from overwork.

Japanese workers have more reason than most to submit to （服从）the     8     for a daytime snooze, whether at work or during long commutes.

A survey conducted using fitness trackers in 28 countries found that Japanese men and women sleep, on average, just 6 hours and 35 minutes a night -- 45 minutes less than the international average -- making them the most sleep-deprived of all. Estonians, Canadians, Belgians, Austrians, as well as the Dutch and French, all get a comparatively decent night’s sleep, according to the survey.

The government has also come to appreciate the     9     of a well-rested workforce, with the health ministry recommending that all working-age people take a nap of up to 30 minutes in the early afternoon -- advice     10     embraced by some of the country’s politicians.