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    I was on a plane returning home to Dallas, Texas after completing my duty in Vietnam. There were no hometown parades for us veterans (退伍军人) from that 1 war and I had been warned about the unfriendliness from our countrymen at that time. 2, I was just trying to get home without incident.

    I sat, in uniform, in a window seat, 3 eye contact with my fellow passengers. No one was sitting in the seat next to me, which 4 my loneliness. A little girl, not more than 10 years old, suddenly 5 in the passage. She smiled and, without a word, 6 handed me a magazine. I accepted her 7 together with her quiet "welcome home". I turned to the window and wept. Her small 8 of caring was the first I had 9 in a long time.

    I believe in the 10 between strangers when we reach out to one another.

    Today, that young girl 11 has no memory of what happened years ago. I like to think of her as having grown up, continuing to 12 others and teaching her children to do the same. I know she might have been told to give me the "13" by her parents. It doesn't matter why she gave me the magazine. The 14 thing is that she did.

    From then on, I have followed her 15 and tried, in different ways for 16 people, to do the same for them. I know that my 17 since then are all due to that little girl. Her offer of a magazine to a tired, scared and 18 soldier has echoed throughout my 19. I have to believe that my small gestures have the same 20 on others.

    Joy Mangano was 33 and divorced. She had three kids under age 7, and was hardly keeping up payments on her small two-bedroom home by working extra hours as a waitress. "There were times when I would lie in bed and think. I don't know how I'm going to pay that bill," Mangano says.

    But she had a special ability for seeing the obvious thing. She knew how hard it was to mop the floor. "I was tired of bending down, putting my hands in dirty water, wringing (拧) out a mop," Mangano says. "So, there's gotta be a better way."

    How about a "self-wringing" mop? She designed a special tool that you could twist in two directions at once, and still keep your hands clean and dry. She set out to sell it, first a few at flea markets.

    Then Mangano met with the media. But would couch potatoes buy a mop? The experts on shopping TV were less than certain. They gave it a try, and it failed. Mangano was sure it would sell if they'd let her do the on-camera display. She said, "Get me on that stage, and I will sell this mop because it's a great item."

    So QVC, a multinational corporation specializing in televised home shopping, took a chance on her. "I got onstage and the phones went crazy. We sold every mop in minutes."

    Today she's president of Ingenious Designs, a multimillion-dollar company, and one of the stars of HSN, the Home Shopping Network. Talking about the household invention, Mangano says, "It is as natural for me as it is for a parent to talk about his/her child."

    Alfred Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on October 21, 1833 but moved to Russia with his parents in 1842, where his father made a strong position for (he) in the engineering industry. After his father went bankrupt, most of the family returned to Sweden in 1859. Alfred Nobel had never been to middle school university, but had studied (private) and by the time he was twenty, he was a skilful chemist and excellent linguist, (speak) Swedish, Russian, German, French and English. Like his father, he was imaginative and inventive, but he had better luck in business and showed more (finance) sense. He was quick to see industrial chances for his scientific inventions and (build) up over eighty companies in twenty different countries.

    But Nobel's main concern was never with making money or even with making scientific (discover). Instead, he was always searching for a meaning for life, and from his youth he had taken serious interest in Literature and Philosophy. He also cared deeply about the whole of mankind. His greatest wish was to see an end to wars and the peace between nations. In 1896, Nobel died in Italy. In his will, he left money (provide) prizes for outstanding work in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology, Medicine, Literature and Peace. And so, the man who felt he should have died at birth is remembered and respected long his death.