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Instinctive

Instinctive = doing things without thinking about it

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Adversity - a difficult or unpleasant situation

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Rectifying - put right, correcting

Ethnic - a group of people who share the same culture, language, religion ke traditions

Reassurance - words or actions done to make someone feel less worried and scared

Obscure - not clear, hard to understand

To hide or make unclear

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Editorial: Schools deserve praise, but fresh ideas are needed to shrink the attainment gap between rich and poor areas

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Static- lacking in movement, action or change

Vivid- producing powerful feelings or strong, clear images in the mind

Tremors- involuntary quivery movent

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Experience: I see the world through a layer of snow

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My condition has a name – visual snow syndrome – and it could be with me for the rest of my life

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Rational- reasonable

Ludicrous-unreasonable and so foolish

Inflammatory - especially of speech or writing) arousing or intended to arouse angry or violent feelings.

Corralled- gather and confine

Rootlessness- the state of having to roots eg a person showing no connection with a particular place or community

Resentment- a feeling of anger because you have been forced to accept something that you do not like

Inadequate-insufficient

Colluding- to work together secretly especially in order to do something illegal or dishonest

Integration- combination

Dehumanising- to make them either feel or appear somehow less than human.

Deprived- Lacking important things

Bewilderment- confused

Plaintive- sounding sad and mournful

Insidious-proceeding in a gradual, way but with very harmful effects.

Moral- what you beleive to be right and wrong

rhetoric-persuasion

Exhortation - encouraging someone to really do something

Facilitating- make something easier

Stand-off-stalemate

Heritage-something that is handed down from the past, as a tradition.

Homicidal-A dangerous person who is likely to kill someone

Regimes- an authoritarian government

Sullen- bad tempered or gloomy person

Dignity- the state or quality of being worthy of honour or respect.

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Ordinary people outside hotels raging at ordinary people inside them: that’s the tragedy of this refugee controversy | Rowan Williams

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Anyone who has met refugees sees the ordinariness of their hopes and dreams. If we reject their humanity, how can we be proud of ourselves, asks former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams

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Oral- spoken

Lobbying - Trying to persuade someone in power to do something

Promotes - to support or to raise someone in position

Correlation-connection

Incidentally- by the way

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Letter: Teaching toothbrushing to prevent dental decay is a waste of time unless it is backed up by advice on sugar intake, says Nick Hopkinson

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Romcom- romantic comedy

Extraordinary - very unusual or remarkable

Bingeable - something that is really entertaining that you can watch or read a lot of it at once

Lapsed- stopped or ended

Blunders - silly or careless mistakes

- nonstop

Deadpan- shows no emotions , expressionless

Revelation - a surprising discovery or truth

Integral- very important

Magnificent- extremely beautiful or impressive

Enterprise - project, business or bold activity

Sublime- extremely good or heavenly

Glamorised- making something look better than it actually is

Charisma’s natural charm that a person has that makes people like them

Excoriating - hard to bear

Exquisite- very beautiful or perfect

Premise - the main idea something is based on

Plaisible+ believable

Spanning - lasting

Wistfulness - sad longing

Summon- call for something or someone

Excised - removed

Viscous- violent snd cruel

superlative- the best or highest quality

Qoutofian- normal,everyday

Heartwrenching- emotioanl and sad

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One Day shouldn't work. Consider its premise: posh southern boy fancies working-class northern lass ... for two decades. He grew up in the Cotswolds and is planning on spending the summer after graduating from university in France "with the Marlborough lot". She tours dusty village halls with plays about suffrage and pauses to put on Joan Armatrading's Love and Affection before she gets off with someone. It doesn't sound plausible. Or touching. Or funny. Or relevant to our times, which have travelled so far beyond "class-conflicted" that I can't summon a word vicious enough for them.

And yet. When David Nicholls' third novel came out, in 2009, it won over every person who read it, even the ones who don't do romantic comedy. It was so funny and unpretentious, so heartfelt and true. The film that followed was weirdly awful, but let's treat that as the rebound relationship instantly excised from your romantic history so you can love again. Because we now have the hot 2020s version. And this one's a keeper.

A limited series is the perfect format for One Day, a love story at once epic - spanning 20 years - and quotidian, with all the action taking place on a single date, 15 July, St Swithin's Day. Each half-hour episode, bar the heart-wrenching finale, covers a day, beginning in 1988 with Dexter Mayhew ( Leo Woodall) and Emma Morley ( Ambika Mod) meeting on the night of their graduation from Edinburgh uni. This neatly carves up the story into 14 highly bingeable slices of wistfulness.

The format made me realise what One Day is really about: the poetry of day-to-day life and the power of nostalgia. As Philip Larkin wrote in the poem that opens this flawless adaptation, written by a team led by Nicole Taylor ( Wild Rose) and executive-produced by Nicholls: "Where can we live but days?"

Each episode is an exquisite miniature set-piece. There is the 15 July when Dexter, now an unravelling TV presenter, goes home to visit his dying mum and screws everything up. Even the abandoned exercise bike in his old bedroom and the Bugsy Malone video on the shelf bring a lump to my throat. And the woozy summer's day when Em and Dex get a bottle and a bag of Kettle Chips from the off-licence, lie on Primrose Hill and watch the sundown. And the excruciating round of the parlour game Are you there, Moriarty? when Dex accidentally whacks his new, even posher girlfriend in the face with a rolled up copy of the Times.

The supporting cast is superlative, the period details magnificent, the soundtrack sublime. By the time Rip It Up by Orange Juice comes on, I am a mess, capable of falling apart at the sight of a hamburger phone.

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Of course, the whole enterprise hangs on Em and Dex, who must be completely believable and lovable, individually and together. They are extraordinary. Woodall's wide-boy charisma and frightful yet endlessly forgivable privilege are perfectly pitched; I forgive him a thousand times. His poshness is neither glossed over nor glamorised; it is simply integral.

Ambika Mod ( This Is Going to Hurt) is such a revelation that it is hard to believe this is her first lead role. Her Em is flinty, vulnerable, committed and relentlessly deadpan. On the hungover morning after they meet, they pass the time climbing Arthur's Seat. "Is that a religious thing, not sleeping together?" Dex asks. To which Em explains drolly that her mum is a Hindu and her dad a lapsed Catholic: "God wasn't involved."

Which brings me to a confession. My initial reaction to seeing Mod play Emma was complicated. I was thrilled: I've never seen someone who looks like me, living the life I lived around the time I lived it, on screen before. But this is also why it didn't ring true. Because race (and class, for that matter) didn't work like that back then. By which I mean - I'll just say it - white boys like Dex didn't fancy brown girls like Em. I know because I was one, although I went to Glasgow. In the first few episodes, the unmentionability of Emma's race got to me. The truth is, Dex (and his parents) would have made unintentionally racist blunders. And Em would have forgiven him.

But then I kept watching. I started to fall for them, hard. And I began to appreciate the lovely Shakespearean bones of this story, which is about two wildly different people connecting through humour, shared cultural references and, above all, time. And, God, it passes so fast. Suddenly it is 15 July 1991, Dex and Em are skinny-dipping in Greece and I am all in. By the time it is 2007 and Dex is back in Edinburgh, where I ended up and from where I am writing these words, I am crying my eyes out and longing to do it all over again.

One Day is on Netflix on 8 February

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One Day review - a flawless romcom you'll fall for, hard

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Resident- to live Prevailing

Prevailing - current

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I’m not surprised you’re depressed, you put up with things that make you unhappy. But if you work out what you want, you can take steps to get there

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Dainty- very small and pretty

Stigmatized - judged or treated bad

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Disentrigated - break into small pieces

Furrowed - wrinkled up

Befriend - making friends

Agonising - very very painful

Abstract - Am idea something that you can't touch

Orientation - introduction, first guide to something new

Impairment - weakness

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A moment that changed me: I froze in a job interview – and it made me stop hiding my disability

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I had always been hyper-independent, preferring to get the wrong bus than ask for help with my visual impairment. When I finally acknowledged it, I was overwhelmed by the love and support of friends and strangers

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Curated- carefully chosen and thoughtfully organised

Milestone - a big stage or event

Sincerity- when you are not pretending or being deceitful, you are genuine orchestrated

Orchestrated - organised

Narrative - a story

Phenomenon- an observable event

Evocative -
bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind.

Sartorial- relating to tailoring , clothes etc

Galvanising- shocking or exciting someone into taking action

Entrenched - something that is difficult to change , eg it’s stuck to something, engrained

Aspirational- when you have good hopes about moving on to a higher status

denote- is a sign of

Manifest - make clear or evident

Coined - invent

Embodiment- a representation of something else

Esque - like

Lest - for fear that

Acclaimed - publicly praised

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‘Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married,’ the couple wrote on Instagram

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Recession- economic decline

Perceptive - insightful

Incendiary- tending to story up conflict / cause fires

Coalition- alliance

Depiction- representation

Feckless- useless

Subtlety-doing something in a delicate way

Aroused- sexually excited

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John M Morrison: Those who seek to dismantle the welfare state should hasten down to the National Theatre – but Ena Lamont Stewart’s play is far more than an exercise in agit-prop

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Recuparation - recovery from illness

Itinerarant - travelling from pace to place

Liberating - makes you feel free

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Gruesome - horrifying

Troves - a collection

Perpetrator - someone who commits crime

Reinforce- strengthen

Vitriol- string and angry criticism

Polarization - division into two contrasting groups

Humility- when someone is humble

Boastful - bragging

Hubris - someone who is very self confident and has too much pride

Modest - not showing off

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Hoisted - raised

Supersonic - faster than the speed of sound

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Human error caused crash that killed record-breaking skydiver Felix Baumgartner

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The paragliding crash that killed extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner in July was caused by human error, an investigating prosecutor said on Tuesday

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Imposter ayndeom- when you doubt your talents and intelligence a lot.

Eased- making something less serious or severe

Cultivated - well educated person or developed

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From coping with big city life to surviving existential crises, university years are filled with opportunities to become who we really are. Three students from the University of Greenwich reflect on their defining moments

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Compulsion - an urge to do something without knowing why

Maladaptive - bad way to deal with your problems

Self sabotage - behaviours that prevent you from reaching your goals

Acknowledging- accepting or recognising

Ironically - in a way that's opposite of what you except

Accountable - taking responsibility for something

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Superficial - one the surface or not real

Ransacked - search through a place in a voilent manner

Douse - french

Indulgence -

Extravagant- spending a lot of money

Nihilism - believing that life is meaningless

Perishable - likely to decay

Relished - enjoyed greatly

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Originated - began

Featured - given prominence

Bane - a cause of unhappiness or annoyance

Consecutive - one after the other

Plague - disease

Preface - the introduction of a book

Moral - related to right or wrong

Corresponding- relating to / matching to

Flog- beat up or steal

Incorporated- add / include

Basis- the main idea

Acquired - obtain for oneself

Phenomenon - a rare or significant fact or event

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‘Six-seven’: what does the latest slang mean (and should parents be worried)?

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Compulsively - doing something over end over again because you have a strong urge to , even if you don't want to

Revenue - income

Corporate - relating to a large group

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Experience: I’ve been on television more than 2,500 times (but you won’t know my face)

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My work as a TV and film extra was a dream come true. My look – skinny and not too good-looking – was in high demand

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Convergent - coming close together

Cognition - mental processes

Consolation

Mollusks - animals that don't have a backbone

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I spoke with philosopher Toby Ord about extinction events and the likelihood of a species-wide human extinction.

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Extort- - obtain

Reckless - careless

Transparent - open person

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I was led down the wrong path into cybercrime as a teenager. Here’s what I would tell my younger self

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Deemed - considered

Enrol - officially register

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Like millions of others whose regular job is deemed less than essential to the survival of others, I have wanted to find, in these strangest of times, a way to make myself useful.

A throat infection forced me into self-isolation as, outside, the crisis deepened. But on the first day I'm allowed to go out, there's a call for NHS volunteers. I sign up together 749,000 others, and I also enrol with the Red Cross reserves and Covid-19 Mutual Aid UK, which supports local community groups. My first call to action comes from the People's Army, a rapidly growing collection ofmy fellow residents of Islington, north London, most of whom have never met, liaising via WhatsApp to support those in need - be they vulnerable because of age or underlying health conditions, or left stranded by the recent closure of food banks due to the crisis.

I collect the package, marked with my name and left by an unseen hand by the pillar

The army, or at least my battalion of it, is commanded by Hazel Jhugroo, a 29-year-old stay-at-home mum, who lives with her six-year-old son. She WhatsApps me a shopping list and instructs me to deliver the goods to an address off Essex Road. When I get there, I'm to message her and she will tell me where to leave it. I stand in the spaced queue outside Budgens. No one looks at each other. It's something I've noticed with the distancing rules: people avoiding eye contact, as though a stray glance could contaminate.

Once inside, I swerve up and down the aisles, grabbing items for my list, while maintaining a two-metre distance from fellow shoppers. It's not until I am standing in the spaced checkout queue that a glance to double-check the list on my phone reveals my battery is on 14%. This might not seem critical, but I have noticed of later that my phone has a tendency to run down from 10% to zero in as many seconds. My basket is full of frozen goods: ice-cream, frozen peas and fish. I am a fool. A green recruit. I jog/walk all the way to Essex Road, sprint for the door (there are several flats), text Hazel, and my phone goes dead. I leave the bag on the step, stand back two metres, three for good measure, and wait. At last, the door opens, a face peers out. I wave, and a hand takes the bag. First mission accomplished.

At home, I pick up a power pack, plug in my phone and immediately receive my next instructions. A package has been left for me to collect behind a pillar on Upper Street. When I was maybe nine, I founded a spying society. I was Agent X, I remember, and persuaded two friends to be Agents Y and Z. We'd comb the recreation ground looking for clues, attempt to decode a shopping list dropped on the muddy path beside the allotments. Adult life has proved less thrilling, until now, until this. I collect the package, marked with my name and left by an unseen hand behind the pillar.

Next up, another shopping list, for Charles, who lives off City Road. Charles's list is very specific. This particular bread from the Polish deli, this yoghurt from the Turkish shop. I like this. I like Charles, though I've never met him. I like the fact he trusts me with such detail, trusts me to understand that details are important, that our lives are stitched together with small preferences. I determine that in his isolation Charles will have as many of his preferences as possible, and deliver his shopping with a feeling of satisfaction.

The rest of the day is spent collecting care packages - vegetables, milk, bread, polenta cake - donated by various shops and cafes, and delivering them to those in need. My trail crisscrosses Islington like tangled string in the paws of a playful kitten. Heads poke out of upper-floor windows, entryphones issue disembodied thanks, two children wave down from a balcony near Old Street roundabout.

Next morning, out early with my dog, I meet a young woman in jogging pants and we briefly chat from a distance. How are you finding it? I ask. Not good. She doesn't want to stay in. They should just let us get it, she says to me, survival of the fittest. I stare at her but she doesn't appear to be joking. Nor to appreciate the irony that she is talking to someone pushing an ageing three-legged dog in a buggy.

I think of Charles and his particular list, of the millions like him and not at all like him, the face at the window, the hand round the door, each life inestimably precious. I think of the thousands striving to help them, and in doing so, helping ourselves. For there is no "us" and "them" in this, I think. Just "us". And we will see each other through it.

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Being a coronavirus volunteer shows how our lives are stitched together | Clare Allan

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The yoghurt from the Turkish shop, the bread from the Polish deli: delivering shopping at this time is full of small preferences, says author Clare Allan

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Loathsome - causes hatred

Envy - jealousy

Murky - dark and unclear

Counterintuitive - something that goes against with what you would normally expect

Embark- begin a new journey

Robust - strong

Fertile disappointments - disappointments that leads you to growth

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Life let you down again? Congratulations – you’re growing

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Rather than running away from disappointment, we need to face it and learn from it. Otherwise we will never try anything new

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Albesim - discrimination against disabled people

Depravity - bring evil

Intoxicating - able to make someone feel drunk, or feel extremely happy or excited

Attuned - aware

Ovating - prolonged applause

Obscene - disgusting or offensive

Panache - confidence

Flair - stylish

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Compelling & very interesting or exciting

Integrated - separated

Deems - consider so ething in a particular way

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Feel like your mind and body are separate? Here’s how life changes when we become whole

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When I was younger, I valued my body only for what it could do for me. A quick jog was enough to make me see where I’d been going wrong

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Flurry- swirl

Muffled - not loud or quiet because if being obstructedpanarima - view

Efficient & performing s taka in the best way possible

Winds - turns

All-encimpassing - covering everything

Ambler - a person who walks at a slow, easy pace

Flamboyant

Collected - calm

Purged - tid

Overcast - sky covered with clouds

Flamboyantly - in a way that is showy confident

Pristine - unspoilt

Ecstatic - very happy

Soar - ride or fly high

Frequented - visited

Luminaries - inspirational person

Convenient - fits in well with a person's need

Tranquil - calm

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‘The silence allows me to hear every flurry of falling snow’: walking in Switzerland’s hidden valley

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Laced with hiking trails, the remote Swiss valley of Lower Engadine is the perfect place to reconnect with nature

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Stagnation- the state of not moving

Stark - severe

Indegionous - native

Inadequate - not good enough

Soaring - rising high

Squabble - quarrel

Decimates - destroyed

Breach - violated

Marred - ruined

Hoax - a joke

Cincvrnr - bring together for a meeting or sctivity

Negotiators - pesdon who is there to work things out, come to an agreement

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‘It will never be forgiven’: UN climate chief warns world to act or face disaster

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Faltering governments will be blamed for famine and conflict abroad, and face stagnation and inflation at home, says climate chief at start of Cop30

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Craic - good time

Perverse - illogical

Profanity - bad language

repeats the Refrain

We had trefnation

Ruminating- thinking deeply about something

Discerned - find out

Pyrotechnic - brilliant

Calumnies - lies said to ruin someone’s reputation

Expunge - remove

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Pathos and comedy combine in an energetic collection of tales from one half of the Rubberbandits

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Wisdom - Being able to make the right decisions because of your good knowledge and experiences

Pioneering - doing something new before someone else tries

Collective behaviour - the behaviour of a group

Pursuit - chasing something

Disingeneous- lacks candor and sincerity

Scorn - something that people think is not good or does not deserve respect

Cock ups - so ething that has been done bad

Scornful - showing through emotions that something is not good enough

Pillory& a form of punishment

Stoicism - being able to endure pain and hardship without complaint

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Wildest feeling - an emotion that is hard to control

Anticipation - the feeling of waiting for something to happen,

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Experience: I donated my uterus to a stranger – now we’re close friends

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When her son was born, it felt like another member of our family had arrived

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Lured - tempted

Manic - being extremely excited and having high energy

Stifling - suffocating

Memoir - a piece of writing written by someone about their life

Empathy - the ability to understand each other

Misconduct - a wrong thing

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My ex shot me 10 times – and after the coma, I became an undercover cop

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When Katrina Brownlee tried to leave her fiance, he aimed a gun at her pregnant stomach. The 22-year-old wasn’t expected to survive, let alone walk again. But she soon began her fight for other victims of crime

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Rogue - someone who behaves in a bad or unpredictable way

Hailed - praising

Inexplicably - in a way that cannot be explained

Aired - ignored something

Leveraging - using something to it's maximum

Breaching - violating a law etc

Integrity - beging honest and having strong moral ways

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‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI

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Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent

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Cognitive - the mental ptocess involving thinking, learning and understanding

Salvage - rescue

Idle - lazy

Agitation - a state of nervousness

Menace - Something that it's likely to cause harm

Odyssey - long journey

y salvage

Digression -

Rude - a trick

Detour - a long route taken o avoid something

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Giving - someone who gives out love

Sacrilege - violation

Voyeuristic - having enjoyment by seeing the pian and stress of others

Nurturing - caring

Dire - very serious

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‘My mother had dementia but beautiful things unfolded’: Cheryle St Onge’s best photograph

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In 2024, an AI-controlled robot system performed a dental procedure on a human patient for the first time. Perceptive, a dental technology company, created the system. It featured a robotic arm and 3D-imaging technology. The robot successfully prepared a patient's tooth for a crown. While most people probably won't encounter this type of high-tech "dentist" anytime soon, we'd like to know: Would you trust a robot to perform dental work? Here's what six kids had to say about the issue. Where do you stand?
Oscar Yocom-Piatt, 10 Northfield, Illinois
Robots could be even better than real dentists. They could go way faster and clean your teeth better. Plus, there could still be a real dentist in the room. That way, if the robot breaks down, the human dentist would be there to complete the work.
Avery Rosen, 11 Rescue, California
Robots have wires and batteries. What if a robot got wet when it went to clean your teeth? That could end very badly. Robots would also take the place of human dentists. Some people really like being a dentist. If a robot were to replace them, that might take away their joy.
Kaylee Su, 8 Bethesda, Maryland
Robots are smarter than people. They are machines. Machines can be really smart. Robots' "brains" are computers. With all of that information, they can tell you the correct thing about taking care of your teeth. People don't know everything, but machines know most things.
Claire In, 9 Los Altos, California
Robots can malfunction at any time, and even a small mistake could be dangerous when it comes to teeth. I think robots are useful and reliable in some places. But for something as serious as our health, I believe humans should always be in charge-not machines.
Madeline Martinez, 11 TFK Kid Reporter
Robots can be programmed to perform a task in a way that is more precise than humans. If a robot dentist were assigned to me, I'd have no concern about the risk of malfunction or something going wrong. These robots would have been tested first before being sent into the world of dentistry.
Vicky Sun, 12 TFK Kid Reporter
Everyone's teeth are different. A robot might not understand something specific that's wrong. And robots can't pick up on how someone is feeling. They wouldn't know if a patient were afraid. Dentist visits can be stressful. Having a dentist who can reassure patients is very important.
Aoi Ichinose, 11 Tokyo, Japan
Robot dentists might sound cool, but I wouldn't trust them. First, even though robots might be able to schedule appointments or send reminders, they can't smile at you, ask how your day is going, or make you feel comfortable. Human dentists can tell when someone is scared or worried. They can notice body language, like if you're gripping the chair or looking nervous. A real dentist's kindness can help patients feel less nervous. Robots don't have those caring instincts. Taking care of teeth is important, but so is making people feel safe and cared-for. Only real people can do both.
Evie A., 11 Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
Robots are a little too literal. For example, if you say, "My tooth is killing me! I wish it were gone," a robot might think, "Oh, they want their tooth out. Maybe while I'm at it, I'll take all their teeth out so they'll feel less pain." Robots are already helping in some aspects of healthcare, but they just aren't cut out for dental work.
The Next Debate: Should kids be allowed to play contact sports? Email tfkeditors@time.com by December 12. Your response might be featured in an upcoming issue. *Submissions have been edited only for length and clarity. They are not intended to reflect the views of TIME for Kids. Ages are accurate as of the time of submission.

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Nietzsche On What ‘Finding Yourself’ Actually Means | Philosophy Break

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For 19th-century philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, our ‘true selves’ are not hidden within us: they are something ever above us, something we must actively work towards. Here’s his sage advice for how we can authentically ‘become’ ourselves.

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Bunker Hunt supposedly had a two-step policy for success: Figure out what you want, and the price you’ll have to pay to get it. Resolve to pay that price. I guess his philosophy is a bit more nuanced in implementation, but taps on a common theme in life-advice, that the first step to achieving anything […]

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Should Parenting Require a License? | Philosophy Break

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Done badly, parenting has tremendous scope for harm. The philosopher Hugh LaFollette suggests we can better protect children by introducing a parental license: people should undergo a competency check before raising children, just as we already qualify adoptive parents.

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The Last Time Meditation: a Stoic Tool for Living in the Present | Philosophy Break

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How many things have you done for the last ever time, without knowing it was the last ever time? Here’s a quick mental practice for returning to (and appreciating) the present moment.

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Lesions - damaged tissues

Bastion - strong protection

Sordid - dirty and band

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If we gave you a comprehensive brain scan, with what degree of certainty can we predict what you’re thinking about right now?

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Cacaphony- harsh mixtures of sound

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Rouse - waken up

Puny - small

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The Sublime: Edmund Burke on the Feeling Thunderstorms Give You | Philosophy Break

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Have you ever felt a thrill during a thunderstorm? Awe before a dark, looming mountain range? Then you have experienced what philosopher Edmund Burke calls the sublime…

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Discourteous - Rude

Jeopardy - danger

Secular - non religious

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Fabled ,- fanousv

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‘I’ve never been scared of saying what I think’: Janet Ellis on godlessness, grief and life beyond Blue Peter

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The broadcaster becomes president of Humanists UK in the new year. She talks about juggling TV work with single motherhood, losing her husband, and why she’d rather have specialised in acting

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Explicitly - expressing something directly

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Pupils told us how school feels. Now we must act on it

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The Department for Education’s newly published pupil experience data should stop all of us in our tracks

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Cue - a sign that tells you to do something

Keystone - central part

Curtailed -reduced

Abbreviated - shortened

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Experience: I won the lottery for 15 minutes

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My heart skipped a beat. I felt quite light-headed. Finally, the moment I dreamed of had arrived

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Nebulous - vague

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All children should have access to arts education | Letters

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Letters: Readers respond to an article by Martin Kettle about the impact of educational inequality on Britain’s cultural sector

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Avail- help

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Billowing - swelling up

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Just days before Christmas in 2018, I took a flight from New York City to visit my family in southern Italy. My wife, Elvira, and daughter Caroline had moved to a small town in the countryside a few years earlier, and I planned in due course to join the festivities permanently.

I'd made the trip before, once or twice a year since they moved, mainly to get the lay of the land. But this time was different. Caroline had recently had her first child and our first grandchild. And now, after making do with photos and videos, I was finally going to meet Lucia Antonia, all of 11 weeks old. Rarely in my life had I felt more giddy about an encounter in the offing.

Coming out of the airport, I spotted Caroline, cradling the baby in her arms. "Hello, Lucia," I said, reaching out to take her tiny hands in mine. "I'm Grandpa. I'm thrilled to meet you."

So far, so good, I thought. Except we all then got in the car for the 134-mile drive to our houses in Guardian Sanframondi, an ancient town of 4,700 residents perched on a hillside in the Campagna region. And Lucia immediately started crying. Hard. For the next hour.

We stopped for lunch at a roadside restaurant, where Lucia took a breather. But once we buckled her back in her seat, she resumed crying, only more intensely now. She wailed like an ambulance siren, her eyes crinkled shut, tears streaming down her cheeks, gasping between sobs.

All the while, Caroline cooed to Lucia in a tender singsong voice, trying to soothe her. "We'll be home soon, baby," she said. "Then you can go right in your crib and feel better." My son-in-law Vito did the same from behind the wheel, but to no avail. Lucia kept squalling away for another hour, her lungs billowing like bellows. As we neared our destination, after almost three hours en route, Lucia reached a crescendo, her decibel level almost operatic.

"I'm so sorry, Dad," Caroline said from the back seat. "Lucia must be making quite a first impression. Are you sorry you came?"

"No," I said. "Why would I be sorry? I'm listening to our first grandchild. I can imagine no sound in the world more beautiful." And I meant it.

Naturally, I was sorry Lucia was upset. Maybe she was hungry or thirsty or felt stifled strapped into her seat. But this much I knew: babies cry. And may cry no matter what you do. I assumed Lucia had her reasons.

By then, even though we'd just met, I already had some history with Lucia. Seven weeks before her birth, we'd seen her image on a sonogram. She was floating in utero, all three pounds of her, ensconced in her amniotic castle. We heard her heartbeat thump away, too. My wife had called me just hours after Lucia was born. "She's here," Elvira whispered, her voice catching in her throat. "And she's perfect."

Later, I learned that Lucia had emerged from the womb with her eyes open, as if to signal she was ready for action - a phenomenon seen in only about one in three babies.

Suddenly, arriving home from our ride, I was stricken with a strange sensation. This was going to be my first Christmas as a grandfather. And, by extension, my first designated officially as "old man". It was foreign terrain. Would I do right by Lucia as her "Nono?" How well would I adapt to my new station in the precincts of the elderly? I would find out soon enough.

Today, we live a five-minute walk away from Lucia. She is now seven years old, a second-grader at middle school. Any time she goes to the park in the town, all the kids call out to her, ready to partner in play. Usually toddling along next to Lucia, hand in hand with his big sister, is her two-year-old brother Nicola.

Lucia changed the equation for me once and for all that day. So what if she cried her eyes out for three hours in the car? Since then, her arrival on the planet has enriched my every moment, and never more so than when Christmas rolls around.

Playing Catch with Strangers: A Family Guy (Reluctantly) Comes of Age by Bob Brody is available now (Heliotrope Books)

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My weirdest Christmas: I spent three hours in a car with a screaming baby - and she completely changed my life

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Her decibel level was almost operatic. But the sound of my first granddaughter wailing like an ambulance was the most beautiful I had ever heard

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Pleasantries - jokes

Dawn - sunrise

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Rituals serve psychological functions that go far beyond mere habit or tradition.

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Remote - far away

Hitchhike - getting a free ride from passing vehicles

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Experience: I cycled the length of the UK on a wooden bike

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With no plans, I set off from John O’Groats to travel down south to Dover. Friends and family didn’t think I’d last a mile

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Precarious - uncertain

Brittle - breakable

Stillborn- born dead

Fragile - easily broken

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Edinburgh children’s hospital has been our home for 17 months

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Teena Thomas and Sebastian Paul have not spent a single night at home since their son was born in June 2023.

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Anticlimactic - causing disappointment at the end of a exciting event

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Experience: My friend turned out to be my long-lost sister

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We were colleagues, had both been put up for adoption and were from the same place – but the paperwork said we weren’t related. Then a DNA test changed everything

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Materialised - happen

Seedy - dodgy

Orgy - a wild party that involves drinking etc

Compensating - make amends

Averse - opposer

Jaywalking - walking across roads carelessly

Longevity - a long life

Allure - attraction

Hindsight - understanding a situation after it has happened

Repressed - keeping feeling and thoughts hidden

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My mother repeated one Cantonese idiom throughout my life: ‘you want beauty, you don’t want life’ | Michelle Law

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Sometimes Michelle Law looks at people who make risky decisions and feels a deep sense of envy. But when that envy materialises, so too does the voice of her mother

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Rookie - new person to a situation

Proficient - skilled

chuffed - pleased

Impromptu - doing something without preparation

Muffling - saying things quietly

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My rookie era: I’m learning to swim in the ocean, braving the waves and marine life

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I’ve swum and squealed alongside enormous blue gropers, tiny stingrays, silver and striped fish and even a Port Jackson shark

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Clamour - lots of noises

Premiered - first taken place

Appealling - making a heartfelt request

Halt

Amid - surrounded by

Unfathomable - unable to ever understand

Frontiers - a border seperation two countries

Radical - thorough

Fleetingly - very short time

Impassivity - indifference

Harrowing

Amnesia - a loss of memory

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‘It felt like she was asking me to save her’: the film based on a five-year-old Palestinian girl’s dying pleas

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The Voice of Hind Rajab has stunned audiences with its use of the real-life audio of a girl’s call for help after her family’s car was attacked by an Israeli tank in Gaza. Its director explains why she had to tell Hind’s tragic story

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Foraging - searching for food

A large area of grass

Reared - care for

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It makes me feel like a proud parent to see them take flight

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Legacy - consequence

Shunned - avoided

Trajectory - path

Opus - composition

Captivated - attracted, hold interest

Macro - large

Epoch - period of time

Transcendence - go beyond , exceeding

Measly - ridiculously small

Ceaselessly - contionously

Akin - similiar

Commercial - profitable

Spurned - refused

Gross- earning excessive amounts of profits

Concoct - prepare

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‘More than a song’: the enduring power of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah

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In a new documentary, fans and experts explore the legacy of a song that was originally shunned before becoming a timeless classic

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Deluge - a heavy flood

Pledged - promised

Soliciting - make petition to the court

Renowned - talked a lot about

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Crocodile warnings as floods devastate southern Africa

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More than 100 people killed and hundreds of thousands displaced in South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe

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Unimpaired - not weakened

Sophisticated - advanced

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Reading was the key to breaking through the fog of my parents’ dementia | Jo Glanville

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It was hard to communicate with my mother or father, until reading a book out loud led to a discovery, says journalist and radio producer Jo Glanville

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Offhand- saying something without thought

Inadvertently - without intention

Obstinate - refusal to change

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The pet I’ll never forget: Cocolo, the donkey who arrived unexpectedly at our door

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An offhand comment from my mother meant we suddenly owned a donkey. I loved him – but was embarrassed when I had to ride him to school

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Grueling - tiring

Bubbly - lively

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‘I wanted him to know he was my hero’: I met the kidney donor who saved my life

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Years of gruelling dialysis forced Ruby McGowan to put her life on hold. Now, at 32, she reflects on the selflessness of the stranger who gave her a new chance at life

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Commute - travel form home to work or vice versa

Dawdle - waste time

Novelty - new

Mindear - a curve

Notoriously - generally know and talked off

Pertinent - relevant

Trodden - explored

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Billowing - rolling / rising

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A moment that changed me: I wasn’t sure about my relationship. Then my boyfriend went missing on 9/11

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I was quite spoiled and he could be a little dour. But on that terrible day, when he was just two blocks away when the South Tower exploded, I realised he was all I wanted

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Mirth - happiness

Straightlaced - strict

Manipulate - handle

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Matthew Kelly: ‘Something extinct I’d bring back to life? Wokeness – a good thing that’s been hijacked’

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The actor on a massive scam, the guilty pleasure of Judge Judy and why he’s never done a day’s work in his life

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Funny & True Stories | NotAlwaysRight.com

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Chief Examiner: “So you’ve been here the entire time?” Me: “Uh, if you mean since the exam started, then yeah. Is something happening?” Chief Examiner: “Just… carry on.”

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Flagrant - obviously wrong or bad

Deploy - position

Meticulous - shows extreme care

Defectors - opposers

Oversee - supervise

Despicable - deserves to be dispised

Nefarious - evil

Renounce - give up

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Russia killed Alexei Navalny with frog toxin, UK and four European allies say

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Intelligence agencies say deadly toxin in skin of Ecuador dart frogs found in Navalny’s body and highly likely resulted in his death

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NHS hip and knee operations threatened by bone cement supply shortage

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Campaigners say the news is a ‘crushing blow’ to patients waiting for surgeries

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Misogyny - hatred towards women

Objectification - treating a person like an object

Incessantly - without interuption

Overt- openly

Remarks- comments

Trivialised - make something seem less important than it actually is

Unprompted - doing something without being promoted before

Conceive - imagine or understand

Humanoid - robot etc

Contempt - dislike

Perpretator - people who commit immoral acts

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I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous

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Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

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A new start after 60: I baked a pie every day for a year – and it changed my life

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Vickie Hardin Woods was worried she would lose her identity when she retired. Instead, she came up with a plan that made her feel more creative, connected and valued than ever

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Perilous - dangerous

Hitch - get a ride

Trundled - move slowly and noisily

Careered - rushed

Righting - restoring something back to it's normal, right position

Blistered - support

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I suddenly went blind 2,000 miles from home – alone, penniless and confused

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In 1990, Gary Williamson was 18, backpacking in Europe, when his vision began to fail. It was the start of a perilous journey

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Liaising - communicating

Demeanour - outward behaviour

Agitated - nervous

Alibi - evidence that the someone was somewhere else during the crime they were suspected to commit

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Soham murderer Ian Huntley seriously injured in prison attack

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Inmate understood to be Huntley taken to hospital after being assaulted at HMP Frankland in County Durham

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Fantasy - a genre of fiction like supernatural , magical, imaginar

Prodding - poking

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I am in my 30s, unmarried, and afraid I’ve missed my chance. How do I make peace with my fear? | Leading questions

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Your life may not look the way you thought it would, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith, but whatever happens it can still be rich and fulfilling

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Mutinous - rebellious

Inherent -built in

Regime - goverment

Discerning - able to notice small differences

Parsed - resolve

Simulations - to test something by making a pretend version of it

Roiled - making something buddy

Embroiled - involved

Autonomous - self governing

Remote - isolated

Deterrence - stopping something from doing something by making them afraid of the consequences

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Trump is using AI to fight his wars – this is a dangerous turning point | Chris Stokel-Walker

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The technology most people use only as a chatty tool for daily tasks is reportedly aiding US military aggression. And there is not much we can do about it, says technology writer Chris Stokel-Walker

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Ingenuity - think cleverly

Dyspotic - tyrannical

Crippling _ damaging to your health

Obnoxious - unpleasant

Provinces - parts of a country

Venture

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‘There’s no safe place any more’: inside Tehran under attack – photo essay

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Photojournalist Stefanie Glinski speaks to Iranian photographer Mohammad Mohsenifar, who has been documenting the attacks on the Iranian capital over the past week

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Carbon footprint - greenhouse gases

Long haul - travelling for a long period of time

Seethe - taste of extreme anger

Apocalyptic - relating to the destruction  of the world

Frazzled - extremely exhausting

Jeopardy - in danger

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I worry about my carbon footprint, but you can't go everywhere by train and I want to see the world

My husband, Teddy, and I are very environmentally conscious and try to minimise our carbon footprints. We heat the house with a heat pump, we're vegetarian and we hardly use the car.

We live on the border of France and Switzerland, and rarely fly because it has an enormous carbon footprint. One long-haul flight can generate more CO ₂ than the average citizen of some countries does in a year. We haven't flown long distances in 12 years. We once even took the train from here to see family in Scotland, and the journey was horrendous. After that experience, I do fly to see them once a year.

Teddy's fine with me flying to see my family, but I'd also like to have a winter holiday with him. We're retired, and he just sits on his computer all day doing mathematical models like he did in his job. I'm 73 and he's 69; it's time to do things.

Teddy and I are punishing ourselves for no reason. Our abstinence doesn't make a dent in global carbon emissions

I'd really love to go to Madeira. It's cold, grey and miserable here now, and Madeira would be a great escape. It isn't as far as the Caribbean or Australia, so we'd save some emissions too. I've considered where we could get to by train, but anywhere warm and sunny is too far. I did think about Italy, and we've taken the train there before, but the journey was too long. There were also horrendous storms in Italy once so I get worried about extreme weather.

I get upset when people don't seem to care about their carbon footprints or what's happening to the planet. I'm reluctant to go to our local social club, because I invariably hear about people's exotic holidays. I want to hear about their adventures, but it also makes me seethe because I've decided I shouldn't fly and neither should they.

When I hear their stories, I feel as if Teddy and I are punishing ourselves for no good reason. Our abstinence doesn't make the tiniest dent in global carbon emissions - what's the point?

When I try to influence others, I get accused of guilt-tripping, so I feel like giving up on my principles. Teddy says I should stick to my guns, but I think he just doesn't want to travel. Can I be reckless and guilt-free?

The defence: Teddy

It's not an environmental issue. I've just had my fill of flying and don't really enjoy being a tourist

When Jenny and I discussed holidaying in Madeira, we never really talked about the impact on our carbon footprint. She always thinks about that more than me.

If she wants to change her moral compass and take this flight, it's her decision. She's anti-flying because she has an apocalyptic vision of the world and thinks we're all going to frazzle or drown in huge storms.

Climate change is important, but it's not the only thing. For the rest of my life - I've probably got 20 years at most - things will get worse, but not by that much. Jenny says: "Can we fly, and still think about our grandkids?" But they can think about themselves.

I am against the holiday because I've travelled by air a lot. I used to work in public health. We lived in Papua New Guinea for four years. Then I worked around east Africa and had to fly to the US regularly. Eventually I was sick of long-haul travel, irrespective of its carbon footprint. If I had the option, I would prefer to travel by train. It took about 18 hours for us to get to Sicily once, as everything was delayed, but if you don't have any urgent plans it doesn't matter.

Before I met Jenny, I never really went on holiday at all. I used to do volunteer projects abroad rather than tourism

Besides, I've never really been into holidays. Before I met Jenny in the 80s, I never really went on holiday at all. I used to do volunteer projects abroad rather than tourism. I don't like being a tourist. Economically it's not great, and I don't feel I benefit from it much. I'm also diabetic and trying to control my diet. I don't sleep well in hotels. I don't like being somewhere where I'm not fluent in the language. Plus, Madeira is steep and volcanic, and Jenny doesn't like to hike much. And there are risks - extreme weather and medical emergencies. We had friends who got sick in Madeira and had to wait to get home to receive proper care.

I don't have a hard line against flying. I just don't particularly want to travel. If I got on a plane, I'd feel annoyed because I'd been overruled. I just don't get the point of tourism - if I'm not going to enjoy the destination, why bother getting on the plane?

The jury of Guardian readers

Teddy doesn't want the Madeira holiday for lots of reasons that are important to him. A holiday should be a pleasure for both people. Jenny isn't picking up on Teddy's concerns about his health that may be influencing his feelings about travel.
Eleanore, 66

Jenny seems happy enough in her marriage and should not put this in jeopardy by making her husband travel with her against his will. She has strong views about how immoral it is to increase her carbon footprint. I suggest a compromise where they go away for a glamorous weekend in a hotel not too far from them. Summer will come round soon with lots of sun.
Belinda, 68

Teddy sounds like a bore complaining about flights and tourism and money. He needs to inject more positivity into his time with his wife. Madeira sounds great. They don't have infinite years left, so should have fun while they can.
Lydia, 32

Couples have to compromise for each other, and it sounds as if Teddy would get nothing from the trip. I feel Jenny has to accept that she should go with a friend instead.
Julius, 67

Teddy sounds like poor holiday company. Jenny, just go on your own: you'll have a much better time. That way you can feel less guilty about the environment too, because there's only one of you travelling. Helen, 33

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