Read this piece of the text: “Please find my sister” and then answer the questions:

“I see”, I said. “Your sister has disappeared. Have you reported her disappearance to the police?”.

The blonde girl shook her head. She looked very nervous and was starting to cry.

“No, I haven’t told the police”, she said. I don’t want any trouble with the police. I just want you to help find my sister”.

She took a small, pink handkerchief out of her handbag and dried her eyes. “All right”, I said. “Tell me all about your sister”.

“Her name is Elaine Garfield”, said the girl.

“And what’s your name?” I interrupted.

“Helen. Helen Garfield”, she replied. “My sister disappeared a week ago. We had arranged to have dinner together last Monday night, but she didn’t come”.

“Perhaps your sister didn’t come because she doesn’t like the food you cook”, I suggested.

“Don’t try to be funny. I flew all the way from New York to see her last Monday”, she said angrily.

[...]

(PROWSE, Philip. The woman who disappeared. London: Macmillan, 1992, p.2)

Read this piece of the text: “Please find my sister” and then answer the questions:

“I see”, I said. “Your sister has disappeared. Have you reported her disappearance to the police?”.

The blonde girl shook her head. She looked very nervous and was starting to cry.

“No, I haven’t told the police”, she said. I don’t want any trouble with the police. I just want you to help find my sister”.

She took a small, pink handkerchief out of her handbag and dried her eyes. “All right”, I said. “Tell me all about your sister”.

“Her name is Elaine Garfield”, said the girl.

“And what’s your name?” I interrupted.

“Helen. Helen Garfield”, she replied. “My sister disappeared a week ago. We had arranged to have dinner together last Monday night, but she didn’t come”.

“Perhaps your sister didn’t come because she doesn’t like the food you cook”, I suggested.

“Don’t try to be funny. I flew all the way from New York to see her last Monday”, she said angrily.

[...]

(PROWSE, Philip. The woman who disappeared. London: Macmillan, 1992, p.2)

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Building for a flooded future: Architects are designing for the new climate reality

Written by Aaliyah Harris, CNN

Climate change is making cities more susceptible to flooding. According to a 2019 study, global sea levels are expected to rise between two and seven feet over the course of the century; by 2100, at least 190 million people could be living in areas below the projected high-tide line.

"If our findings stand, coastal communities worldwide must prepare themselves for much more difficult futures than may be currently anticipated," the study warned. Separate research concluded that if the world does nothing to mitigate sea level rise, coastal flooding could cause damage worth up to 20% of global gross domestic product by 2100.

The threat of flooding is changing the way cities are built, and architects are adapting their designs to a new climate reality. Using sustainable materials and innovative techniques, these designs from across the world could be increasingly important in a future where flooding might be widespread.

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/flooding-architecture-projects-spc-intl-c2e/index.html

(Extracted on 03/27/22)

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Building for a flooded future: Architects are designing for the new climate reality

Written by Aaliyah Harris, CNN

Climate change is making cities more susceptible to flooding. According to a 2019 study, global sea levels are expected to rise between two and seven feet over the course of the century; by 2100, at least 190 million people could be living in areas below the projected high-tide line.

"If our findings stand, coastal communities worldwide must prepare themselves for much more difficult futures than may be currently anticipated," the study warned. Separate research concluded that if the world does nothing to mitigate sea level rise, coastal flooding could cause damage worth up to 20% of global gross domestic product by 2100.

The threat of flooding is changing the way cities are built, and architects are adapting their designs to a new climate reality. Using sustainable materials and innovative techniques, these designs from across the world could be increasingly important in a future where flooding might be widespread.

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/flooding-architecture-projects-spc-intl-c2e/index.html

(Extracted on 03/27/22)

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Building for a flooded future: Architects are designing for the new climate reality

Written by Aaliyah Harris, CNN

Climate change is making cities more susceptible to flooding. According to a 2019 study, global sea levels are expected to rise between two and seven feet over the course of the century; by 2100, at least 190 million people could be living in areas below the projected high-tide line.

"If our findings stand, coastal communities worldwide must prepare themselves for much more difficult futures than may be currently anticipated," the study warned. Separate research concluded that if the world does nothing to mitigate sea level rise, coastal flooding could cause damage worth up to 20% of global gross domestic product by 2100.

The threat of flooding is changing the way cities are built, and architects are adapting their designs to a new climate reality. Using sustainable materials and innovative techniques, these designs from across the world could be increasingly important in a future where flooding might be widespread.

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/flooding-architecture-projects-spc-intl-c2e/index.html

(Extracted on 03/27/22)

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Building for a flooded future: Architects are designing for the new climate reality

Written by Aaliyah Harris, CNN

Climate change is making cities more susceptible to flooding. According to a 2019 study, global sea levels are expected to rise between two and seven feet over the course of the century; by 2100, at least 190 million people could be living in areas below the projected high-tide line.

"If our findings stand, coastal communities worldwide must prepare themselves for much more difficult futures than may be currently anticipated," the study warned. Separate research concluded that if the world does nothing to mitigate sea level rise, coastal flooding could cause damage worth up to 20% of global gross domestic product by 2100.

The threat of flooding is changing the way cities are built, and architects are adapting their designs to a new climate reality. Using sustainable materials and innovative techniques, these designs from across the world could be increasingly important in a future where flooding might be widespread.

https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/flooding-architecture-projects-spc-intl-c2e/index.html

(Extracted on 03/27/22)

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From duplicate dogs to modern mammoths, cloning has come a long way since Dolly the sheep took her first tentative steps.

By David Cox22nd March 2022

On 5 July 1996, a sheep was born who would go on to inspire entire industries, provide scientists with a new way of helping endangered species, and change medical science in ways that were barely conceivable at the time.

But this was no ordinary sheep. Her very entry to the world was groundbreaking – she was cloned using cells taken from another sheep's mammary gland as part of an experiment conducted by the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland. They named her Dolly after the singer Dolly Parton.

At that point, scientists had been dabbling with cloning – the process of creating a genetically identical copy of another living being – since the 1950s, when British biologist John Gurdon found a way to clone African clawed frogs. Despite many attempts, repeating the feat in larger mammals had proven an elusive and near-impossible task.

"The cloning of Dolly the sheep showed the world that it was possible to essentially reprogramme all the DNA in the nucleus of an adult cell, so it started behaving like an embryonic cell again, giving rise to a new animal," says Robin Lovell-Badge, who heads the Stem Cell Biology and Developmental Genetics Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute in London.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220322-why-dont-we-hear-about-cloning-anymore

(Extracted on 03/27/22)

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After a certain age, a person’s sound references are totally connected to the native language. It is almost as if the native language acted as a filter for any foreign sound. If the sound is identical, there is no problem. If the sound is different, it is reinterpreted according to the native sound system. For example, a beginning student who hears the pronunciation of the TH in English will find no corresponding sound in the Brazilian Portuguese system. The student’s sound system will approximate the TH to whatever sounds closer to it in Portuguese. That would bring the TH closer to /s/, / f /, or /t/, thus resulting in “sink”, “fink” or “tink” instead of think. Likewise, some people might pronounce “day” instead of they. As a result, we could conclude that the native language affects not only the production of sounds but also the way a student hears them. For that reason, we believe that it is also important to focus on the listening skill when it comes to pronunciation. Learning pronunciation is learning to listen again! Production of the sounds comes almost as a by-product of good listening. Think about it: would we even speak our native language if we had not listened to it a lot?

(GODOY, Sonia, et al. English pronunciation for Brazilians: the sounds of American English. São Paulo: Disal, 2006, p.18).

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After a certain age, a person’s sound references are totally connected to the native language. It is almost as if the native language acted as a filter for any foreign sound. If the sound is identical, there is no problem. If the sound is different, it is reinterpreted according to the native sound system. For example, a beginning student who hears the pronunciation of the TH in English will find no corresponding sound in the Brazilian Portuguese system. The student’s sound system will approximate the TH to whatever sounds closer to it in Portuguese. That would bring the TH closer to /s/, / f /, or /t/, thus resulting in “sink”, “fink” or “tink” instead of think. Likewise, some people might pronounce “day” instead of they. As a result, we could conclude that the native language affects not only the production of sounds but also the way a student hears them. For that reason, we believe that it is also important to focus on the listening skill when it comes to pronunciation. Learning pronunciation is learning to listen again! Production of the sounds comes almost as a by-product of good listening. Think about it: would we even speak our native language if we had not listened to it a lot?

(GODOY, Sonia, et al. English pronunciation for Brazilians: the sounds of American English. São Paulo: Disal, 2006, p.18).