Even though it was about noon, the sky was so dark and the rain and lightning so bad that it took rescuers another two hours to discover Nancy. A helicopter lowered a paramedic, who attached Nancy to a life-support hoist. They raised her into the helicopter and took her to the school gym, where the Red Cross had set up an emergency shelter.

When the flood subsided two days later, Nancy immediately went back to the “island.” Lizzie was gone. She was one of 19 cows that Nancy lost. “I owe my life to her,” said Nancy sobbingly.

He refused medical aid, saying the only problem was the stain on his slacks, but it would wash out. He was given a fresh refill. Before Sherman drove off, the restaurant manager, John Johnson, gave him two free gift certificates--one for an extra-large coffee and one for the restaurant's newest sandwich, the McRap.

The employee, who was a new hire, was let go later that evening. She was quite upset. She said she would probably sue Burger Prince for letting her go. She said it was the man's fault for ordering something that she might be able to spill.
 

He really looks like an elder brother, Leads her to go to school, Accompanies her to play, Listens to her chirp with a smile grasps the speech.

He only uses the hand signal and she converses, Possible she to be able to read his each look. Gazes at in her vision from elder brother, She knew he has likes oneself.

他是个哑巴，虽然能听懂别人的话，却说不出自己的真实感受。她是他的邻居，和外婆相依为命。

他的确像个哥哥一样，领着她上学，陪着她玩耍，含笑听着她唧唧喳喳的讲话，领会她话中的意思。

他只用手语和她交谈，而她能明白他的意思，可能她能读懂他的每一个表情。从他注视她的目光里，她知道他对自己心有所属。

Afterwards, She finally tests went to college, Extremely happy, He then starts to go all out to make money, Then sends continuously for her. She has not rejected.

Finally, She has graduated, Started the work. Then, she said firmly to him that, “Elder brother, I must marry to you!” He looked like only the frightened rabbit to escape, again is not willing to see her, how regardless of she does entreat.

Do you think i pity you? Do you think i appreciate you? no, i've fallen in love with you since i was12。But, She can not obtain his reply.

后来，她终于考上了大学，开心极了。他却开始拼命挣钱，然后不断地寄钱给她供她读书。她并没有拒绝。

终于，她毕业了，参加了工作。这时，她坚定地对他说：“哥，我一定要嫁给你！”他却害怕得像一只受惊的兔子一样，唯恐避之不及，无论她怎样哀求，他再也不愿见她了。

她对他说：“你以为我是同情你吗？想对你报恩吗？不是，我12岁时就爱上你了。”可是，她得不到他的答复。

One day, She has been admitted to the hospital suddenly. He has scared, Runs looks at him. Doctor said, In her throat steadily a lump, Although has excised, Destroyed the vocal cord actually, Possibly again also could not deliver the speech. On hospital bed, Her tearful eyes dance gaze he, Therefore they married.

Very many years, Nobody listens to them to deliver a speech. They use the hand, With pen,  Converses with the look, Shares is joyful and is sad. They became have loved the object which the men and women envied. The people said,That pair of how happy mute husbands and wives!

Love could not prevent god of death arrival, He abandoned her to walk first.
The people feared she cannot undergo loses lover's attack to comfort her。By now, She takes back gazes at his portrait after-image the dull crazy vision, Opens the mouth to say suddenly that,“He walked.”

The rumor has revealed ............

有一天，她突然住进了医院。他吓坏了，跑去探望她。医生说，她喉咙里长了一个肿块，尽管已经被切除了，声带却意外被破坏了，可能她再也讲不了话了。病床上，她泪眼矇眬的注视着他，于是，他们结婚了。

很多年过去了，没有人听他们讲过一句话。他们用手、用笔、用眼色交谈，分享着生活中的喜悦和悲伤。他们成了男男女女羡慕的一对爱侣。人们说，“那一对哑巴夫妻多么幸福啊！”

但爱情阻挡不了死神的降临，他离开了她，先去了那个世界。人们担心她经受不住失去爱侣的打击，纷纷来安慰她。到这时，她收回注视着他遗像的呆痴迷失的目光，突然开口说了句：“他还是走了。

谎言已经被揭穿了……

“Daddy, may I ask you a question?”

“Yeah sure, what is it?” replied the man.

“Daddy, how much do you make an hour?”

“That’s none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?” the man said angrily.

“I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?” pleaded the little boy.

“If you must know, I make $20 an hour.”

“Oh,” the little boy replied, with his head down. Looking up, he said, “Daddy, may I please borrow $10?”

The father was furious, “If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I work hard every day for such childish behavior.”

The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door. The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy’s questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money? After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $10 and he really didn’t ask for money very often.

The man went to the door of the little boy’s room and opened the door.

“Are you asleep, son?” He asked.

“No daddy, I’m awake,” replied the boy.

“I’ve been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier,” said the man, “It’s been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here’s the $10you asked for.”

The little boy sat straight up, smiling. “Oh, thank you daddy!” He yelled. Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills. The man, seeing that the boy already had money, started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, then looked up at his father.

“Why do you want more money if you already have some?” the father grumbled.

“Because I didn’t have enough, but now I do,” the little boy replied. “Daddy, I have $20 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you.”
 

"There was a great interest in personal Windsor stories," said exhibit coordinator and curator Erin Stevic. "Windsor's story is all about being in an important location," she said.

Windsor, located between what would become Springfield and Hartford, was settled on an essential waterway that provided a location for vital commerce. The two-gallery display leads visitors through the settling of Windsor, the vocations which were once found here, the importance of the Connecticut River and the transition to farming and industry.

The attendees at the exhibition's opening reception noticed the spacious arrangement of the displays. "We have created a space where classes can sit," said Stevic, who did a lot of the work for the exhibit from her new home in Ohio. "But, for me, the interactive parts of the exhibit are going to be great for students of all ages," she commented.

"This is a true Windsor history, not just the English men's history," said Christina Vida, Curator of Collections and Interpretation.  The display illuminates the Native Americans who were living on the land when the settlers came, the Irish immigrants who came later to work the land and the issue of slavery within Windsor's boundaries.

For Christine Ermenc, Executive Director, the grand opening of this new exhibit is a culmination of a massive amount of work on the parts of a handful of her employees. "There is a lot of responsibility to portray different points of view," she said, adding that after two brainstorming days she and her team had come up with 25 potential ideas for new exhibits. After surveying the community and narrowing it down to seven solid ideas, Ermenc said Stevic got to work, figuring out how to make a "complex story understandable."

"The new exhibit tells you not only what was here, but also what brought them here," said Stevic.

Some important sponsors for this exhibit include Windsor Federal Savings, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, the Connecticut Humanities Council and Rabbett Insurance Agency.

The Windsor Historical Society is located at 96 Palisado Avenue in Windsor. They are open Tuesday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
 

You stare — often there are a couple of cute kids staring back from the cart — and you first wonder about the hats, the beards, the lack of electricity, the resolute determination to live according to non-materialistic values and so on. And then, at least for a fleeting second, you ask yourself a question: "Could I be better?"

I've surely asked that very thing, fresh from some Amish-themed, all-you-can-eat buffet or another. The Amish seem to demand it of us — even though they would, of course, rather we kept away.

That widow shows up, sort of, as one of the fictionalized characters in Dickey's piece, as do some of the victims and neighbors. But Dickey, who seemingly borrows here from a style of oral theatrical history popularized and mastered by Anna Deavere Smith, did not go to Nickel Mines and forge material by interviewing those involved. Thus unlike with, say, Smith's "Fires in the Mirror" or the piece "columbinus," you don't get copious amounts of original dramatic reportage revealing new facts and deeper truths. You get a writer's impression of events and characters, but they only go so deep in a 65-minute affair that often seems to reluctant to fully seize the horror of its own implications.

Dickey tries to explore the shootings without recourse to sensationalism and with both integrity and compassion. You feel that in her monologue. Among the many useful explorations here are the differences among the Amish themselves, a diversity that is typically overlooked in the news media. But you don't ever feel like you have a full picture of the impact of that day (and for various formative and other reasons, I found the inclusion of the dead killer to be a strange choice). Dickey struggles to really get at the silent pain of the bereaved. Understandably. It was, after all, hidden. Still, we go to the theater for insight. And while you can understand Dickey's laudable reluctance to exploit the real-time tension of the actual event for dramatic purposes, no fully workable theatrical structure replaces the obvious.

Working under the direction of PJ Paparelli, Rifai has the tough assignment of playing all these characters and this skilled, genuine actress has many powerful and moving moments. But on occasion, she tends to fall into the trap of making her characters seem like performers — they all press their ideas or personalities upon you — rather than people simply talking to another concerned individual. Projects like this need that crucial sense of intimate revelation, and the characters require more precise, distinguishing details than they all get here, much honest work notwithstanding. William Boles' setting — which gorgeously evokes the dignity and fragility of rural Pennsylvania — is certainly enveloping. And as horrible as the matter under discussion surely was, there is a lesson there for all.

(SOUND: Radio signals from Sputnik)

On a cold October day in nineteen fifty-seven, the Soviet Union launched a small satellite into orbit around the Earth. Radio Moscow made the announcement.

RADIO MOSCOW: "The first artificial Earth satellite in the world has now been created. This first satellite was today successfully launched in the USSR."

The world's first satellite was called Sputnik 1. Sputnik was an important propaganda victory for the Soviets in the Cold War with the United States.

Many people believed the nation that controlled space could win any war. And the Soviet Union had reached outer space first.

(MUSIC)

The technology that launched Sputnik probably began in the late nineteenth century. A Russian teacher of that time, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, decided that a rocket engine could provide power for a space vehicle.

In the early nineteen hundreds, another teacher -- American Robert Goddard -- tested the idea. He experimented with small rockets to see how high and how far they could travel. In nineteen twenty-three, a Romanian student in Germany, Hermann Oberth, showed how a spaceship might be built and launched to other planets.

Rocket technology improved during World War Two. It was used to produce flying bombs.

(SOUND: V-1 bomb)

Thousands of people in Britain and Belgium died as a result of V-1 and V-2 rocket attacks. The rockets were launched from Germany. The larger V-2 rocket had the ability to hit the United States.

After the war, it became clear that the United States and the Soviet Union -- allies in wartime -- would become enemies in peacetime. So, both countries employed German scientists to help them win the race to space.

(SOUND: Radio signals from Sputnik)

The Soviets took the first step by creating Sputnik. This satellite was about the size of a basketball. It got its power from a rocket. It orbited Earth for three months. \

Within weeks, the Soviets launched another satellite into Earth orbit, Sputnik 2. It was much bigger and heavier than Sputnik 1. It also carried a passenger: a dog named Laika. Laika orbited Earth for seven days (but died after several hours.)

(MUSIC)

The United States joined the space race about three months later. It launched a satellite from Cape Canaveral, in the southeastern state of Florida. This satellite was called Explorer 1. It weighed about fourteen kilograms. Explorer One went into a higher orbit than either Sputnik. And its instruments made an important discovery. They found an area of radiation about nine hundred-sixty kilometers above Earth.

The next major space victory belonged to the Soviets. They sent the first man into space. In April nineteen sixty-one, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was launched in the vehicle known as Vostok. He remained in space for less than two hours. He landed safely by parachute near a village in Russia.

Less than a month later, the United States sent its first astronaut into space. He was Alan Shepard. Shepard remained in space only about fifteen minutes. He did not go into Earth orbit. That flight came in February, nineteen sixty-two, with John Glenn.

By nineteen sixty-five, the United States and the Soviet Union were experimenting to see if humans could survive outside a spacecraft. In March, Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first person to do so. A strong tether connected Leonov to the spacecraft. The tether gave him oxygen to breathe. And it permitted him to float freely at the other end.

After about ten minutes, Leonov had to return to the spacecraft. He said he regretted the decision. He was having such a good time!

A little more than two months later, an American would walk outside his spacecraft. Astronaut Edward White had a kind of rocket gun. This gave him some control of his movements in space. Like Leonov, White was sorry when he had to return to his spacecraft.

Later that year, nineteen sixty-five, the United States tried to have one spacecraft get very close to another spacecraft while in orbit. This was the first step in getting spacecraft to link, or dock, together. Docking would be necessary to land men on the moon. The plan called for a Gemini spacecraft carrying two astronauts to get close to an unmanned satellite.

The attempt failed. The target satellite exploded as it separated from its main rocket. America's space agency decided to move forward. It would launch the next in its Gemini series. Then someone had an idea: why not launch both Geminis. The second one could chase the first one, instead of a satellite. Again, things did not go as planned.

It took two tries to launch the second Gemini. By that time, the first one had been in orbit about eleven days. Time was running out. The astronauts on the second Gemini moved their spacecraft into higher orbits. They got closer and closer to the Gemini ahead of them. They needed to get within six hundred meters to be considered successful.

After all the problems on the ground, the events in space went smoothly. The two spacecraft got within one-third of a meter of each other. The astronauts had made the operation seem easy.

In January nineteen fifty-nine, the Soviets launched a series of unmanned Luna rockets. The third of these flights took pictures of the far side of the moon. This was the side no one on Earth had ever seen. The United States planned to explore the moon with its unmanned Ranger spacecraft.

There were a number of failures before Ranger 7 took pictures of the moon. These pictures were made from a distance. The world did not get pictures from the surface of the moon until the Soviet Luna 9 landed there in February, nineteen sixty-six.

For the next few years, both the United States and Soviet Union continued their exploration of the moon. Yet the question remained: which one would be the first to put a man there. In December, nineteen sixty-eight, the United States launched Apollo 8 with three astronauts. The flight proved that a spacecraft could orbit the moon and return to Earth safely.

The Apollo 9 spacecraft had two vehicles. One was the command module. It could orbit the moon, but could not land on it. The other was the Lunar module. On a flight to the moon, it would separate from the command module and land on the moon's surface. Apollo 10 astronauts unlinked the Lunar module and flew it close to the moon's surface.

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Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin before launch in April 1961

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The Soviets launched a dog named Laika on Sputnik 2 in November 1957. She survived just hours.

     When the shoemaker opened the bag that had been sent by the merchant, he was amazed to find shining coins. “I must hide this from the eyes of my neighbors. If they see it, they will think that I have stolen it,” he thought. “I will keep it away even from my wife.” So he hid the bag of money under the floor. From then on he avoided his neighbors as much as he could. His wife who had been the best companion to him, became troublesome now his mind was too much set on the money bag to attend to his work with diligence. He could not sing merrily now. Whenever he thought of the money bag, he became uneasy and unhappy. At length one day his wife said to him in tears, ---“dear husband, what makes you so sad and uneasy? All our neighbors say you have changed. I wish you were as good and gentle as before.” He was so sorry for her that he told her everything. “We were happy before the merchant gave us the money, ” said his wife, when she heard the story. “We have good health. We have plenty of work to do. What more do we need? Send the money back to the merchant, and the happy life that was once ours will return to us.” The shoemaker agreed and went to the merchant to return the bag of money. “Sir” he said, “let me return this to you. By giving this to me, you have spoiled my happy and easy life. So I want to have it back by returning your present.” Merry song was again heard all over the house. He was as happy as he had ever been.

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曾经有一位富商在同一所房屋和一个贫穷的鞋匠。商人住在同一个房子。商人占据了二楼，但鞋匠生活和工作在一个小房间在一楼。鞋匠是地球上最幸福的人之一。他曾从早忙到晚，欢快地歌唱。他的心充满了喜悦，每当他在靴子和鞋子看着被修复。现在的商人楼上是如此丰富，他几乎不知道他有多少财富。他总是在他的金牌数，远到深夜银币。即使在床上，他对他的财富使他清醒时的不安，最后他已沉睡了一两个小时，来到了鞋匠的快乐歌，谁是早起。它持续了一整天，是一天天向商家一天的麻烦商人越想越通过睡眠要他问了他的明智的朋友，他怎么能杜绝鞋匠的歌曲累。 “好吧，如果我是你，我便给鞋匠一百斤”，回答他的朋友。 “你有钱，足以做到这一点，我想。要求什么回报。只要给的钱。他说：“商人容易遵循的意见。

     当鞋匠开了已发送包的商人，他惊奇地发现闪亮的硬币。 “我必须隐藏我的邻居眼中的。如果他们看到了，他们会认为我偷了，“他想。 “我会保持距离，甚至从我的妻子。”于是，他藏在地板上的钱袋。从此，他回避他的邻居一样多，因为他可以。他的妻子曾经是谁对他最好的同伴，现在成了他心中的麻烦太多的钱袋子集，出席他的勤奋工作。他不能欢快地唱了。每当他想到的钱袋子，他成了不安和不满。在长度有一天他的妻子含泪对他说， - “亲爱的丈夫，是什么让你这么伤心和不安？我们所有的邻居说，你已经改变了。我希望你像以前一样好和温柔。“他是为她难过，他告诉她的一切。 “我们很高兴之前，商家给我们的钱，说：”他的妻子，当她听到的故事。 “我们有健康的体魄。我们有许多工作要做。我们需要做什么更多？发送钱还给商家，而幸福的生活，曾经是我们将返回给我们。“鞋匠的同意，并到商家返回的钱袋。 “先生”，他说：“让我回到这个给你。通过给这样对我，你有我的快乐和容易被宠坏的生活。所以我想有你现在通过返回回来。“歌又被满屋子都听到。他一样高兴。