¹Chopsticks are important part of Asian culture.  ²Their popularity and widespread use across Asia have a long and rich history.  ³It is believed that the first chopsticks were used over 5,000 years ago in China.  ⁴By 500 A.D., the use of chopsticks had spread from China to other countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, and Japan.
⁵Chopsticks are usually made of bamboo.  ⁶This is bacause there is a lot of bamboo in Asia, it is easy to split, and it is resistant to heat.  ⁷Other popular materials used to make chopsticks have included plastic and bone.  ⁸In addition, in ancient times, gold and silver chopsticks were commonly used among the wealthy.  ⁹It was even once thought that silver chopsticks would turn black upon contact with poisoned food, although this has since been disproved.  ¹⁰Regardless of the material, chopsticks have evolved into an important part of Asian culture.

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¹Many variety of papaya are consumed in the United States, and two of the most popular are the Hawaiian papaya and the Mexican papaya.  ²Hawaiian papayas are commonly stocked in supermarkets.  ³These pear–shaped fruits weigh about half a kilo on average and have yellow skin when they are ripe.  ⁴The fruit inside is bright orange or pink, depending on the variety, with small black seeds clustered in the center.  ⁵Hawaiian papayas are easier for farmers to harvest because the plants seldom grow taller than two meters.  ⁶Mexican papayas are much larger and may weigh up to four kilos and may be more than 45 centimeters long.  ⁷The fruit inside may be yellow, orange, or pink.  ⁸The flavor is less intense than that of the Hawaiian papaya, but it is still delicious.  ⁹Mexican papayas are slightly easier to grow than Hawaiian papayas.  ¹⁰Regardless of the origin, both kinds of papaya are widely enjoyed across the United States.  

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¹Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, and died on October 5, 2011.  ²In between these dates, Jobs created a world-wide revolution in several fields and changed the way that people utilize technology.  ³In 1976, at the age of 21, Jobs and his friend Steve Wozniak started a small company called Apple that made great changes to the entire computer industry by creating one of the first personal computers to use icons and a mouse. ⁴Not just content with revolutionizing computers, Jobs led Apple into the movie and music markets.  ⁵In the 1986, he invested money in Pixar, a company which produced Toy Story—one of the most popular computer-generated animated movies ever made.  ⁶Jobs and Apple then completely transformed the way music is played, stored, and distributed by introducing the iPod music player and the iTunes online store.  ⁷In 2007, Jobs and Apple then went on to create the iPhone, which combined the iPod with a digital camera and an internet connection.  ⁸Three years later they created the iPad.  ⁹Jobs was no engineer, nor was he a designer.  ¹⁰He was a dreamer who with the help of a talented team created beautiful things that changed people’s lives.

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¹If you’ve been to the movie theater recently, then you know that superhero movies are very popular.  ²Millions of people go to see not only the most famous superheroes like Spiderman or Superman but also the lesser known ones that not many people have heard of like Deadpool or Ant Man.  ³So
why are superheroes so popular with movie goers?  ⁴The answer is rather simple.  ⁵We want to believe that there is a hero out there who will care for us and never fail us, no matter what.  ⁶To imagine that such a
person exists is comforting.  ⁷What’s more, there are so many types of superheroes
that everyone can identify with at least one of them.  ⁸In real life, we sometimes treat athletes and celebrities like superheroes because they are the closest thing to “perfect” human beings.  ⁹The difference, however, is that these people eventually disappoint us and show us that they have faults just like everyone else.  ¹⁰But superheroes, such as those who come to life thanks to Hollywood movies, can make the world seem a safer place, when humans
can’t or won’t.

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¹For thousands of years, many people around the world have enjoyed relaxing in saunas.  ²Recently, scientific research has shown that besides making people feel good, saunas benefit people in many ways.  ³First of all, when people sit in saunas and sweat heavily, unhealthy substances are removed from the body.  ⁴Everyone absorbs these substances from their environment, and the sweat produced by taking saunas is a great way to detox.  ⁵In addition, saunas help fight illness.  ⁶As the body is exposed to the heat of the saunas, it produces more white blood cells, which fight disease.  ⁷Furthermore, saunas help to improve the condition of the heart.  ⁸Another important benefit of saunas is that they help people to sleep more deeply.  ⁹The heat from saunas also helps the body to burn calories because the body uses up energy when it sweats.  ¹⁰Taking a sauna also helps to promote mental health as many people report that their stress level goes down after taking a sauna.  ¹¹This is because the heat from the sauna relaxes the body’s muscles and speeds up the blood flow.  ¹²In addition, the body produces chemicals that make us feel good and which are normally released through physical exercise.

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