For all those who agree with Neil Gaiman's motto in American Gods that "a town isn't a town without a bookstore, "what might be the perfect holiday choice has just been listed on Airbnb: the chance to become a bookseller for a week or two.

For the total cost of ￡150 a week, guests at The Open Book in Wigtown, Scotland's national book town, will be expected to sell books for 40 hours a week while living in the flat above the shop. Given training in bookselling from Wigtown's community of booksellers, they will also have the chance to put their "own stamp" on the store while they're there. "The Open Book's aim is to celebrate bookshops, encourage education in running independent bookshops and welcome people around the world to Scotland's national book town, "says the Airbnb listing.

The Open Book is leased (出租) by the Wigtown Book Festival from a local family. Organisers have been letting paying volunteers run the shop for a week or two at a time, and opened the experience up to the world at large.

"I wouldn't call it a working holiday, "said Adrian Turpin, director of the Wigtown Book Festival." It's not about cheap labour (体力劳动) —it's about offering people an experience. "The money is "just necessary to cover our costs,"said Turpin, admitting that" it can be a hard life, selling books in a small town, so it's not a holiday for everybody."

"I think the shop would have closed, without this," he said. "So part of the idea was to get new people in—people who would hopefully end up having a good time and a long-standing relationship with the town."

The idea comes at a difficult moment for independent booksellers. In 2005, there were 1, 535 independent bookshops in the UK, with the number dropping to 939 by 2014.

So far, The Open Book has been leased around 10 times, with guests including those from The Bookshop Band, a librarian from Portland, a Dutch government employee, and an 80-year-old couple.

"It is playing shop in a way, but they are truly selling books," said Turpin. "Wigtown has only 800 people, but it's a real community of bookshop owners. The aim is that people come and take part in the community."

These days, modern buildings are everywhere. But if you want to see   life was in the old days, China still has many beautiful water  (town) to visit. CNN has chosen four of the country's most beautiful ones.

The village of Zhouzhuang in Jiangsu calls (it) "the oldest water town in China". The village, which  (build) in 1086, is crossed with canals. Hongcun,  (fill) with lakes and beautiful Anhui-style buildings, is 900 years old.

Fenghuang in Hunan doesn't look like a bird,  its name is "phoenix" (凤凰) in Chinese. The town is as  (beauty) as the bird. The buildings on each side of Tuojiang River make the area look like a scene from  postcard.

While most water towns are in the south, Shandong's Tai'erzhuang stands out in the north. The town  (be) on the back of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. In the town, there are ancient bridges, a canal and temples,  (make) you think of its past glory.

Do you have a younger brother? Does he always get in trouble? Well, there might be some science behind that.

According to a report from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, second-borns are more likely than first-borns to behave badly, which could be why you from time to time consider your younger brothers or sisters sprites.

Researchers, who explored data from tens of thousands of sibling (兄弟姐妹) pairs from Denmark and Florida, found second-borns are 20% to 40% more likely to have behavioral problems. If you're the second-born child you may want to have a little chat with your parents. The reason why second-born siblings may be worse behaved than first-borns is that parents tend to pay less attention to them.

"Second-born children tend to have less attention from the mother than their older siblings because first-born children experience their mother's maternity leave (产假). First-borns enjoy the rewards of not only their own time with Mum following their birth, but the time Mum takes off with younger siblings, too, " the authors explain.

It's not just about the parents, however. Speaking to NRP, co-author Joseph Doyle said, "The first-born has role models, who are adults. And the second, later-born children have role models who are slightly unreasonable 2-year-olds, you know, their older siblings. The difference of parental investments and the sibling influences probably contribute to these differences we see in the labor market and what we find in behaviors against rules, even against laws. It's just very difficult to separate those two things because they happen at the same time. "

The results, the authors argue, have an important effect on social policy.

New lives for old phones

When a new mobile phone starts to be sold in stores, many people rush out to buy one. We all want the newest, latest thing.

Mike Townsend works at Total Recall, a mobile phone recycling (回收利用) company. "Don't throw your old phone away.  If you throw it away, it goes with other rubbish to become landfill (填埋的垃圾). In other words, it is put in a big hole in the ground—and it becomes a big problem, "he says.

Mobile phones contain some poisonous materials (物质). If your phone goes to a landfill, these poisonous materials can get out and get into the water under the ground. That's the water we need to drink or water that goes into rivers or the ocean.  That's a lot of landfill and a lot of poisonous materials.

"At Total Recall, we separate the old phones into pieces. Most of the materials in a mobile phone can be recycled and used again.  For example, phone batteries (电池) contain nickel and cadmium. The nickel is used to make steel (钢), and the cadmium can be used to make new batteries," explains Mike.

" You can usually just take it into a mobile phone shop and they'll send it to us, "says Mike.

So, before you throw that old mobile phone away, use it one last time: search for a recycler near you and give them a call.

A. Send it to us and we'll recycle it.

B. Recycling your old phone is easy.

C. How much is our old mobile phone worth?

D. But what should we do with our old mobile phones?

E. Millions of mobile phones are thrown away every year.

F. We sell the parts and they are used to make new products.

G. Recycling materials helps keep the environment greener and cleaner.

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