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So the Carter Center has worked with African and Asian health agencies to change how rural villagers live daily life by offering education about how the disease spreads and how to prevent it, providing water filters to those in need and using larvicides to control outbreaks.—
Evan Bush,
NBC News,
31 Dec. 2024 -
Those performances are tourist events geared toward the public, as villagers march during the daytime along the town’s main road.—
Jennie Rothenberg Gritz,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Dec. 2024
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Recommended for European travelers and colonists heading to the East in the late 1800s, quinine was initially added to various alcoholic beverages to mask its bitterness.—
Alexandra Emanuelli,
Southern Living,
23 Dec. 2024
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Hot, wet, insect-ridden, and with a climate that made early colonists exceptionally susceptible to disease, the islands became the center of an idea formulated in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century.—
Rob Crossan,
JSTOR Daily,
13 Dec. 2024
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Over half a million migrants have crossed through Panama on their journey north toward Mexico and, ultimately, the United States.—
Andy Biggs,
Newsweek,
25 Dec. 2024
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Some aid organizations have criticized France’s treatment of migrants on Mayotte, where citizenship and residency rules for foreign nationals are stricter than in the rest of France.—
Julie Bourdin,
New York Times,
25 Dec. 2024
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In the towns and kibbutzim of the Golan, news of the plan to increase the number of settlers was met with a mixture of skepticism, excitement and shock.—
Elena Becatoros,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Dec. 2024
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White settlers, however, viewed the growing Ghost Dance practice as a harbinger of insurrection.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
29 Dec. 2024
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Today, the caucus includes notable newcomers like Janelle Bynum, a Democrat from Oregon who became the state’s first Black member of Congress by winning the 5th Congressional District.—
Melissa Noel,
Essence,
4 Jan. 2025
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O'Reilly's acceptance of newcomers helped grow his city while other cities in the region with smaller immigrant communities saw a population decline during that decade.—
Niraj Warikoo,
Detroit Free Press,
3 Jan. 2025
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Two Israeli citizens and two Mexican nationals were also hurt, officials in both countries told CNN and the Times.—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes,
3 Jan. 2025
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All passengers were South Korean, except two Thai nationals.—
Conor Murray,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2024
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