The first hijacking occurred on June 16, 1948, on a plane traveling from Macau to Hong Kong. Some men with guns told the pilot that they wanted money. The pilot tried to fight them off, but the hijackers shot him. The plane crashed into the ocean, and nearly everyone on it died. Only one man survived. His name was Wong-yu Man. When the police brought the plane out of the ocean, they looked at it very carefully. They found bullet holes in its walls. That’s how they knew there had been a hijacking.  

　　A police officer sat near Wong-yu Man’s bed in the hospital. Before long, Wong-yu Man started to talk in his sleep. “Where are my men?” his said. “Are they all right? Did they get the money?”  

　　The police officer wrote everything down. He thought that Wong-yu was one of the hijackers, and he was right. When Wong-yu came out of the hospital, he went to jail for a long time. 

After five decades of Coast Guard Auxiliary service, friends and family honored a Palm Beach Gardens man Tuesday before burying him at sea. People who knew William P. Kaufmann said he 51 grateful for the memorial service at Station Lake Worth Inlet, a place he thought of as home. Two servicemen presented Kaufmann’s son with a flag before scattering his ashes three miles off shore. Kaufmann, 96, was often spotted wearing his Auxiliary uniform, and he seldom left the house 52 his Coast Guard hat. He was proud to answer anyone who asked about it that he was still an active member, said Pearl Ginsburg, 85, his companion of seven years.

        There is a(n)  27  – a surprising, opposite result – to all this dieting. While many people are becoming thin, other people are becoming overweight. More people are overweight than in the past! In many countries, there is a  28  problem with obesity. There are two main reasons. First, these days, many people often go to fast-food restaurants. At these restaurants, many of the foods (such as fried potatoes and deep-fried meat) are  29  in fat, so are some of the dairy products. Second, dieting doesn’t often work. Sometimes people  30  weight fast, but they usually gain it back again. Almost 95 percent of all people gain back weight after  31  . One problem with obesity is easy to see: overweight people have more sicknesses, such as heart disease and diabetes. (excerpted from Interactions Access by McGraw-Hill, 2007)

A recreational vehicle is a large vehicle designed for people to live and sleep in when they are traveling on the road. Many recreational vehicles today are equipped with bedding, cookware, and furniture. Therefore, they have made it possible to combine nonstop travel with a real home. They become a home as well as a base where different lifestyles find a way to go on. Simply close your eyes and imagine the free roving life on wheels. Are you itching for such a choice now? 

As a matter of fact, living and traveling in recreational vehicles is becoming a trend in many countries around the world. Ironically, this boom is fueled by a new coronavirus disease since a lot of people agree that one way of dealing with it is to buy a recreational vehicle. Nevertheless, even if you simply decide to become a part-time recreational vehicle traveler, there are still some issues that you have to deal cautiously with. 

To begin with, you should avoid biting off more than what you can chew. Do not go over budget when you purchase a recreational vehicle. Moreover, just because you can afford a new recreational vehicle, this does not mean that you have no other expenses to cover. Oil, fuel, tires, insurance, and turnpike fees will all cost you a great sum of money. You may also have to take care of various problems, such as staying alive on the highway, finding acceptable campsites, encountering mechanical breakdowns, and even putting up with rainy days and campground neighbors.

 If you find the above problems conquerable, you may hit the road now, either alone or with people on the same wavelength. Wish you safe miles!