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The Edge, do U2, faz história ao se apresentar na Capela Sistina
VATICANO — The Edge, guitarrista da banda irlandesa U2, se tornou o primeiro roqueiro a tocar na Capela Sistina, local que descreveu como "o salão paroquial mais bonito do mundo".
O músico, cujo nome de batismo é David Evans, cantou quatro músicas na noite de sábado para um público de 200 médicos, pesquisadores e filantropos que participaram de uma conferência sobre medicina regenerativa no Vaticano.
Acompanhado por um coral de sete jovens irlandeses e vestindo o gorro preto que é sua marca registrada, ele tocou violão e cantou um cover de "If it be your will", de Leonard Cohen, além de versões das músicas "Yahweh", "Ordinary love" e "Walk on", do U2.
The Edge, cujo pai morreu de câncer no mês passado e cuja filha superou uma leucemia, faz parte do conselho de fundações que trabalham para a prevenção do câncer.
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Choose the correct alternative to complete the blanks in the correct tense with the verbs in parentheses.
"My boyfriend, John, and I 1_______ (be) together for about six months. My 16th birthday was coming up and I was so excited because my previous birthdays 2_______ (be) bad. Of course I was 3________ (crush) when he told me his family was going away to Florida that weekend! While he was 4_______ (go), my sister 5_______ (take) me to the mall to get my mind off it. The whole time I kept texting him how much I missed him. I really 6_______ (start) to get bummed out and we 7__________ (shop) all day, so she decided to take me home. On the way, my sister said she wanted to stop at her boyfriend's house to say hi. When we 8________ (walk) in my friends all screamed, 'Surprise!' I was happy about the party but still upset because John wasn't there. Then my sister told me to go to the closet to get my presents. I walked over and opened the door, and there stood John with a big red ribbon on his shirt! It turns out he 9__________ (plan) the whole party just so I could finally have an amazing birthday. I couldn't 10_________ (ask) for a better day, or a better boyfriend!"
Disponível em: <http://www.seventeen.com/love/dating-advice/advice/a9286/love-stories-present-perfect/>. Acesso em: junho de 2015.
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Death Rates Rising for Middle-Aged White Americans, Study Finds
Something startling is happening to middle-aged white Americans. Unlike every other age group, unlike every other racial and ethnic group, unlike their counterparts in other rich countries, death rates in this group have been rising, not falling.
That finding was reported Monday by two Princeton economists, Angus Deaton, who last month won the 2015 Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences, and Anne Case. Analyzing health and mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and from other sources, they concluded that rising annual death rates among this group are being driven not by the big killers like heart disease and diabetes but by an epidemic of suicides and afflictions stemming from substance abuse: alcoholic liver disease and overdoses of heroin and prescription opioids.
Avaliable in: . Access: november 2015.
According to the text, we can state that:
I. Startling means “something good”.
II. Unlike means “differently from”.
III. Rising, in this text, means the opposite of falling.
IV. Heart disease and diabetes are the main reasons of the high death rates presented in the text.
V. The word “stemming” can be replaced by originated, without changing the meaning.
Why the Clintons Don’t Fear the Coming Armageddon with Donald Trump
Hillary Clinton’s ultimate trump card will not be her gender but her relative humanity.
By Joe Klein
On the night that Donald Trump effectively won the Republican nomination for President, Hillary Clinton observed radio silence. She had lost Indiana to Bernie Sanders, a small embarrassment in a year of galling humiliations. Indiana was a stubborn reminder of her weaknesses after a series of powerful victories in the Northeast–the sort of victories that Bill Clinton never won in 1992 until the general election. By contrast, his New York primary victory in ’92 over Jerry Brown was Pyrrhic, even though it pretty much clinched the nomination for him; he was battered by the tabloids, he seemed exhausted, his unfavorable were stratospheric.
He had larger problems than an email server: he had recently been found out as a Vietnam draft dodger and a womanizer. People called him Slick Willie. Within weeks, he would be in a deeper, darker hole than Hillary has experienced this year–he would be running third, behind George H.W. Bush and the independent Ross Perot. By June, only 13% of the public thought him trustworthy. He was toast.
This is old news, but it’s living history for the Clintons. It is what keeps Hillary buoyant, even as the most glamorous Democratic constituencies–celebrities, idealistic college kids–have flocked to Bernie Sanders. More than any other politicians I’ve covered, the Clintons have a perfect sense of chronology. They know that politics moves more slowly than the daily media frenzy, that new story lines – comebacks, especially – are catnip to cable networks. They know that polls can change, that Trump will have his day, that the general election will be Armageddon. But they are confident she’ll win.
Bill Clinton had help in his 1992 comeback. Perot proved to be something of a loony: he dropped out of the race in July and then dropped back in for the debates that fall. Bush was uninspiring throughout. But Clinton also made his own luck. His choice of Al Gore as Vice President was unconventional: Gore seemed a Clinton clone, young and moderate and Southern, rather than the usual ticket balancer–and his campaign team’s sense of tactics was refreshing. When Clinton and Gore took off on a celebratory bus tour through America right after the Democratic convention, the election was all but over. (Clinton’s domination in the fall debates sealed the deal.)
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Which Brazilian problems can be deduced from this image?
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Which are the two meanings to the word “lecture” in this joke?
New Year’s Eve
On New Year’s Eve, Daniel was in no shape to drive, so he sensibly left his van in the car park and walked home. As he was wobbling along, he was stopped by a policeman. ‘What are you doing out here at four o’clock in the morning?’ asked the police officer.
‘I’m on my way to a lecture’, answered Daniel.
‘And who on earth, in their right mind, is going to give a lecture at this time on New Year’s Eve?’ enquired the constable sarcastically.
‘My wife,’ slurred Daniel grimly.