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This is an excerpt from the final speech in the movie “The Great Dictator”.

I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. I
don’t want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to
help everyone — if possible — Jew, Gentile — black
man — white. We all want to help one another. Human
[5] beings are like that. (…) In this world there is room for
everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide
for everyone. (…)
Greed has poisoned men’s souls. (…) The hate
of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they
[10] took from the people will return to the people. And so

ong as men die, liberty will never perish. (...)Then — in
the name of democracy — let us use that power — let
us all unite. Let us fight for a new world — a decent
world that will give men a chance to work — that will

[15] give youth a future and old age a security. By the
promise of these things, brutes have risen to power.
But they lie! They do not fulfil that promise. They never
will!
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the
[20] people! Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us
fight to free the world — to do away with national
barriers — to do away with greed, with hate and
intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world
where science and progress will lead to all men’s
[25] happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us
all unite!

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Insomnia and Anxiety in Older People

Sleeping pills can have serious, or even deadly side effects.

All sedative-hypnotic drugs have special risks for older adults. Seniors are likely to be more sensitive to the drugs’ effects than younger adults. And these drugs may stay in their bodies longer. The drugs can cause confusion and memory problems that:

▪ More than double the risk of falls and hip fractures. These are common causes of hospitalization and death in older people.

▪ Increase the risk of car accidents.

Most people know of the Karen people from television documentaries, magazines and encyclopedias as the “long-neck” or “giraffe” tribe. But the women who wear these brass rings on their neck belong to a sub-group of the Karen known as the Padaung. Whatever the origin of the custom one of the more common reasons it continues today, particularly in Thailand, is tourism. Although the Padaung have migrated to Thailand in only the last ten years, they have become the most popular “attraction” for hill-tribe trekking tourists. Some have written of this as exploitation of the Padaung; many westerners liken the experience of visiting one of these villages to visiting a human zoo. Some tour operators in Thailand now refuse to take tourists into such villages, while some tourists boycott those operators that do.

On Tuesday, Merriam-Webster selected its word of the year, not some viral neologism like post-truth or selfie but a word that has been around since the Middle Ages: the pronoun they.

Pronouns are tools that people typically use with all the thought one gives to using doorknobs. Students are taught in early language lessons that every sentence needs a subject and are given a short list of usual suspects: words like he, she, you and they. The latter, they are told, is used to refer to more than one person. Yet that’s not always the case. Merriam-Webster chose the singular form, one that has been gaining currency and causing controversy

There are two reasons that singular they is on the upswing. One is that it’s a convenient way to refer to an unknown person in a gender-neutral way, versus using cumbersome constructions like “he or she.” In recent years, it has been far easier to find this generic they in mass media because using it makes life easier for readers and writers alike.

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Missing Dentures Found Stuck in Man's Throat 8 Days After Surgery

Here’s why it’s best to remove false teeth before surgery: You just might swallow them.

A medical journal is reporting the case of a 72-year-old British man whose partial dentures apparently got stuck in his throat during surgery and weren’t discovered for eight days.

The man went to the emergency room because he was having a hard time swallowing and was coughing up blood. Doctors ordered a chest X-ray, diagnosed him with what they wrongly thought was pneumonia and sent him home with antibiotics and steroids. It took another hospital visit before another X-ray revealed the problem: His dentures — a metal roof plate and three false teeth — lodged at the top of his throat.

The man thought his dentures were lost while he was in the hospital for minor surgery.

How it happened isn’t exactly clear, but a halfdozen previous cases have been documented of dentures going astray as surgical patients were put to sleep.

Placing a tube in a patient’s airway can push things where they don’t belong, said Dr. Mary Dale Peterson, an anesthesiologist at Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Besides dentures, retainers, loose teeth and tongue piercings can cause problems, said Peterson, who is president-elect of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. Before a child’s surgery, she’ll pull a very loose tooth and tell the patient to expect a visit from the tooth fairy. ''We can make a nice game of it.''

In the British case, after the dentures were removed, the man had several bouts of bleeding that required more surgery before he recovered. The journal article didn’t identify the man or the hospital involved. […]

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The Baseball game

Dad took his son Chris to a baseball game. The Los Angeles Dodgers were playing the San Francisco Giants. The Dodgers were the home team. The Giants were the visiting team. Dad and Chris walked into Dodger Stadium. Many people were there. Most of them wanted to see the Dodgers win. They wanted to see the Giants lose. Dad and Chris found their seats. They sat down. Chris told his dad he was hungry. His dad bought two bags of peanuts for Chris. He bought two hot dogs for Chris. He bought a big soda for Chris. A foul ball came their way. People dived for . the foul ball. They knocked Chris' soda over. His dad bought him another soda.

Mark the option that completes the text with the right form of the verbs in parenthesis, respectively.

Betty's doctor told her to exercise more. So she begar running. She ________________ (to enjoy) running. She ________________ (to run) almost every day. Betty will run ir the marathon next week. A marathon ________________ (to be) 26 miles.

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force in 2018, was the biggest shake-up to data privacy in 20 years. A slew of recent high-profile breaches has brought the issue of data security to public attention. Claims surfaced last year that the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica used data harvested from millions of Facebook users without their consent. People are increasingly realizing that their personal data is not just valuable to them, but hugely valuable to others. Now the law on data protection is about to catch up with technological changes.

TEXTO – New Data on Autism Spectrum Disorder in 4- Year-Old Children.

CDC scientists published a report on the prevalence and characteristics of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) among 4-year-old children. This report is based on information from the Early Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring (ADDM) Network. Early ADDM is a subset of the broader ADDM Network, which has been doing ASD surveillance among 8-year-old children since 2000.

In this report, published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Surveillance Summaries, scientists analyzed information from the health and/or education records of preschool-aged children. Identifying children with ASD early helps families get access to services in their communities. This report provides valuable information on progress made toward early identification of children with ASD, and informs providers, particularly public schools, of upcoming service needs. The data in this report demonstrate a continued need to identify children with ASD sooner and refer them to early intervention.

Seven sites from across the United States were included in this report. These sites participated in Early ADDM for at least one year during surveillance years 2010, 2012, and 2014. However, trends in the prevalence and characteristics of ASD could only be analyzed across three sites: Arizona, Missouri, and New Jersey. This is because not all seven sites participated and had consistent data sources for all three surveillance years.