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1. The newly renovated bathrooms at Bryant Park, which The Times has described as the “Tiffany’s of public restrooms,” reopened last month after a $280,000 makeover.

2. The internal investigator at Rikers Island was placed on modified duty in response to accusations that he had spied on city investigators.

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4. The water crises on Long Island has resulted in “dead rivers, closed beaches, harmful algal blooms.”

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A New Zealand pizza chain aims to become the world's first company to offer a commercial drone delivery service, a milestone in the onceunthinkable quest to save time and money with an air-borne supply chain dispensing with people. Domino's Pizza Enterprises Ltd conducted a demonstration pizza delivery by drone in the New Zealand city of Auckland on Thursday, and afterwards said it aimed to be the first company to launch a regular drone service, late this year, despite the fact that Domino's Chief Executive Officer Don Meij had said in a statement "We've always said that it doesn't make sense to have a 2-tonne machine delivering a 2-kilogram order."

Even though Domino’s Pizza used in its test drones provided by U.S.-headquarted Australian drone company Flirtey, Philip Solaris, director of a New Zealand based drone company called X-craft Enterprises, said that while New Zealand has accommodating regulations on drones, Domino’s would be held back by a rule requiring drones to be kept in sight at all times, and added “I can't truly see how commercially viable that idea is because you would have to literally have somebody walking along to keep it in the line of sight, watching it at all times.” Other than that, he warned that “Domino’s service would still need to overcome random hazards (like) power lines, moving vehicles, children in the backyard playing”.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-drones-food-idUSKCN1100H0 Acessado 12/01/2017. Adaptado para fins educacionais.

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A New Zealand pizza chain aims to become the world's first company to offer a commercial drone delivery service, a milestone in the onceunthinkable quest to save time and money with an air-borne supply chain dispensing with people. Domino's Pizza Enterprises Ltd conducted a demonstration pizza delivery by drone in the New Zealand city of Auckland on Thursday, and afterwards said it aimed to be the first company to launch a regular drone service, late this year, despite the fact that Domino's Chief Executive Officer Don Meij had said in a statement "We've always said that it doesn't make sense to have a 2-tonne machine delivering a 2-kilogram order."

Even though Domino’s Pizza used in its test drones provided by U.S.-headquarted Australian drone company Flirtey, Philip Solaris, director of a New Zealand based drone company called X-craft Enterprises, said that while New Zealand has accommodating regulations on drones, Domino’s would be held back by a rule requiring drones to be kept in sight at all times, and added “I can't truly see how commercially viable that idea is because you would have to literally have somebody walking along to keep it in the line of sight, watching it at all times.” Other than that, he warned that “Domino’s service would still need to overcome random hazards (like) power lines, moving vehicles, children in the backyard playing”.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-newzealand-drones-food-idUSKCN1100H0 Acessado 12/01/2017. Adaptado para fins educacionais.

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In this quote, Dr. Andrew Weil

TEXTO:

  Alcohol is the Goldilocks of the nutrition world. Too

much can be destructive to your health, raising your

blood pressure and your risk of developing several kinds

of cancer. Too little may hold you back from some of the

{5} benefits that moderate drinkers enjoy, like lower incidence

of cardiovascular disease, mortality and type-2 diabetes.

  Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the

Negev in Israel wanted to look at how safe and effective

it is for a specific group of people — those with

{10} well-controlled type-2 diabetes and who had a low risk

for alcohol abuse — to drink moderately. People with

type-2 diabetes are more likely than the general

population to develop cardiovascular disease and have

lower levels of heart-protective HDL cholesterol, the

{15} authors note.

  They chose 224 people who fit this profile, and who

didn’t drink wine currently, then assigned them to start

drinking one of three things. At dinner, the people in the

study were told to drink five ounces of one of the following

{20} beverages: mineral water, dry white wine or dry red wine.

Under the guidance of dietitians, they also followed a

Mediterranean diet without calorie restrictions — and

kept it up for two years.

  Intermittently, they took questionnaires and were

{25} subjected to follow-ups, including blood draws at the

start of the study, six months in and at 24 months, so

the scientists could look at biomarkers of glycemic

control, lipids and liver function.

  They found that the red wine drinkers had

{30} significantly increased their levels of good HDL cholesterol

and had a more beneficial cholesterol ratio compared to

the group that drank water. They were also the only group

to experience a significant drop in components of

metabolic syndrome. People who drank either red or

{35} white wine also reported better sleep quality than the

group that drank water, and the researchers found no

significant adverse effects with any group.

  (It’s worth making it explicit that those who drank

alcohol, drank just one glass per night, with meals.)

Disponível em: diabetes/>. Acesso em: 12 out. 2016.

The experiment showed that

TEXTO:

  It is widely known that walking and running are good

for our hearts. New research has also revealed pounding

the pavements can improve long-term brain function.

Experts believe the impact of the foot hitting the ground

{5} sends pressure waves through the arteries, significantly

increasing the brain’s blood supply. In the short term,

this triggers the well-known release of endorphins, making

people feel happy after a workout

  But the new study suggests it may also help to

{10} improve brain function overall. Walking or running boosts

the brain’s blood supply, which improves its function and

wellbeing. Researchers at New Mexico Highlands

University used ultrasound to measure the brain’s blood

supply in 12 adults while resting, standing and steadily

{15} walking. Both walking and running created pressure

waves that significantly increased blood flow. The effect

was unsurprisingly bigger while running than walking. Yet,

the effect of walking was greater than cycling, which

involves no foot impact at all.

{20}   It was once thought that the brain’s blood supply

was involuntarily regulated by the body and affected by

changes in blood pressure. The researchers wrote in

the study: ‘New data now strongly suggest that brain

blood flow is very dynamic. ‘Speculatively, walking and

{25} running may optimize brain perfusion, function and overall

sense of wellbeing during exercise.’

  This comes after researchers from Iowa State

University found every hour you run could extend your

lifespan by seven hours. This holds true no matter how

{30} fast you run or how many miles you cover, they found.

THOMPSON, Alexandra. Health Reporter For Mailonline. Disponível em: <www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4440196/walking-running-boostsbrain- s-blood-supply.html>. Acesso em: 13 maio 2017.

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