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Mayor Fighting for Seals in Alaska
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Fur seals rest along the northern shore in St. George, Alaska, U.S., May 22, 2021. Hundreds of thousands of fur seals spend their summer on St. George each year. Picture taken on drone May 22, 2021. REUTERS/Nathan Howard
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Fifty years ago, Patrick Pletnikoff spent his summers cutting fat off dead seals during Alaska’s yearly harvest. He competed with other young men to show who had the fastest knife.
Today, he is fighting to protect the small remaining population of seals. He is hoping to create Alaska’s first marine
Do You Take Note or Make Note ?
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Dear VOA, I have a question for you. At school I usually get asked the difference between the
phrases “take note” and “make note.” Would you tell me?
-Galmesa, Ethiopia
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Hello Galmesa! You say that you are often asked about these phrases at school. It sounds like you might be an English teacher. Am I right? In any case, you ask a good question.
The phrases “take note” and “make note” are sometimes
interchangeable. But there are small differences between the two phrases.
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A virus that usually sickens children during cold weather months has surprised doctors and put many babies in the hospital in the United States.
The virus is called RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus. It is a common sickness that is like the common cold. But the virus can also cause severe sickness in babies and old people. Cases of RSV dropped sharply last year, when people mostly stayed at home and avoided busy areas during the COVID-19 health crisis.
But RSV cases began increasing as pandemic restrictions eased.
“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” said Dr. Kate Dutkiewicz. She is medical director at Beacon Children’s Hospital in South Bend, Indiana. “I’ve never seen cases in July, or close to July,’’ she added.
US COVID-19 Cases Rising Again, Doubling over Three Weeks
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The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States is increasing again after months of falling numbers.
The number of new cases a day has increased by 100 percent over the past three weeks. Experts say the increase has been caused by the fast-spreading delta variant, low vaccination rates and recent holiday gatherings in the country.
Confirmed infections rose to an average of about 23,600 a day on July 12, up from 11,300 on June 23. Those numbers come from reports from Johns Hopkins University. Every state except two Maine and South Dakota reported that case numbers have gone up over the past two weeks.