C When he was nine years old, American boy Milo Cress had a question: How many plastic straws (吸管) do Americans use every day?He quickly learned there wasn't a simple answer. The boy tried to find it out himself. Through lots of research,Cress found that Americans use about 500 mill...
"You’re never going to match this court anywhere in the world," he said, "365 days a year there's always going to be a ball bouncing. A come-as-you-are place." The Hoop Bus founder made it a mission to visit every court in Los Angeles (there are over 500), he made it to ...
When I was nine years old, I went to a new school. So no one knew who I was. I felt lonely. Then one day when I sat at my desk unhappily as usual, a girl walked to me and smiled. Though she said nothing, I felt the touch of something bright and friendly and it made me fee...
“I didn’t have a knack for [it],” Joshi said, but after four years, “I’ve kind of figured out how to do it.” Joshi, along with other activists and creators, joined “TikTok for Biden,” which was founded to oppose Trump administration policies ahead of the 2020 election....
He covers human spaceflight, exploration and space science, as well as skywatching and entertainment. He became Space.com's Managing Editor in 2009 and Editor-in-Chief in 2019. Before joining Space.com, Tariq was a staff reporter for The Los Angeles Times covering education and ci...
The latter imposed some limitations that meant the site was bound to have a finite lifespan. No website has unlimited file storage space for the pictures it features. This one is now getting close to full up. The only ways around this would be either to free up space by deleting a ...
You encountered two important people in the retail direct to consumer space: Hayley Barna, who co-founded Birchbox, and Jeff Raider, who co-founded Harry's and Warby Parker. What did you learn from them about building a brand? Kadakia:Birchbox was a company when I was in those early days...
Our family was a unit and we supported each other, and nurtured each other, and pked each other, and--we were even wilpng to admit--we loved each other.Today, the family round table has moved to the local fast-food restaurant and talk is not easy,much less encouraged.Grandma, who ...
Helen was very famous. She helped many blind(盲) and deaf(聋) people. She traveled around the world and helped many people. Helen was a very old woman when she died. The world remembers her today as a brave and wonderful person. She was blind and deaf, but she found a way to see...
“I think you can figure out a way to get more water in the hydrants. I don’t think there’s room for excuses here.” A widening problem Los Angeles isn’t the only city to see its public water system stressed by firefighting demand as human-caused climate change makes wildfires worse...