今天是女儿卡琳上大学后第一次回家，我们开车去我父母那儿，他们住在华盛顿州的安娜柯特斯市，是位于圣胡安群岛中最大的菲达尔戈岛上的港口城市。

My daughter, Karlene, was home for the first time since leaving for college. We drove up to Anacortes , Washington, on Fildalgo Island, the largest of the San Juan Islands, where my parents live.

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马萨诸塞州伍斯特市克拉克大学地理研究生院的生物学副教授多米尼克·库拉科夫斯基说：“越来越多的人把房子建在了容易起火的环境之中。”

"We are increasingly building our homes in fire-prone ecosystems," says Dominik Kulakowski, adjunct professor of biology at Clark University Graduate School of Geography in Worcester, Massachusetts.

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加州圣马特奥市的希尔斯代尔高中就是其中之一，在《新闻周刊》的美国顶级高中年度排名中排第423名——名列全国前2%。

Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, Calif, is one of those, ranking No.423—among the top 2% in the country——on NEWSWEEK's annual ranking of America's top high schools.

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