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Every year many tourists go to the island of Bali in Indonesia. In fact, it is the most popular place among foreign tourists in Indonesia. It has very beautiful beaches and a unique culture. Now, the tourists who are on Bali have a problem. Mt. Agung is a volcano on the island, and it started to erupt over the weekend. The Bali Airport has closed, so the tourists cannot go home. They don’t know how long they will have to stay on Bali. For the moment, they don’t seem to be in danger because the volcano is far from the tourist areas. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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Notes:
bellboy ホテルで客の用事をすましたり荷物を運んだりする職員;
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Albert Einstein learned that he had won the Nobel Prize when he was in Tokyo to give lectures in 1922. He wanted to give a bellboy at his hotel a tip, but he didn’t have any money. Instead, he wrote a note and gave it to man. The note said that a calm life made people happier than always trying hard to succeed. He told the bellboy that the note would probably be worth more than a tip because he was famous. Now, almost 100 years later, Einstein was right. The note sold at an auction for $1.56 million dollars (almost 178 million yen)!　(by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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