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France wants to put a lid on the tourist crowds that flood historic landmarks and natural treasures each year, though officials have said it would not be easy. Tourism Minister Olivia Gregoire unveiled a plan to regulate visitor flows at the most popular sites and lay out a strategy against overtourism. She said France, the world’s biggest tourist destination, particularly needed to better manage the peak-season influxes that threatened “the environment, the quality of life for locals, and the experiences for its visitors”. The issue is urgent for prime destinations worldwide as international travel surges after covid-19 lockdowns. Many of the most revered French sites, such as the Mont-Saint-Michel abbey in Normandy, say they are overwhelmed by the number of visitors.
On the famed Channel beach of Etretat, which saw a tourism surge thanks to the plot of the Netflix detective series “Lupin”, the 1,200 residents see up to 10,000 tourists a day in the high season. “This massive influx ends up eroding the cliffs and endangers the beach cliffs,” co-head of the Etretat Tomorrow residents’ association Shai Mallet said. She also laments the lack of local economic benefits, with visitors staying just a few hours, maybe grabbing an ice cream but not constantly frequenting restaurants or hotels.
The government’s announcement comes as Paris, which is dealing with a housing shortage in part because homeowners prefer short-term rentals to tourists, said last week it expects 37 million tourists this year, just short of the pre-pandemic level of 38.5 million in 2019. Limits are already being set, with officials limiting day visits to the gorgeous Brittany island of Brehat at 4,700 during the peak summer months.
(www.euronews.com, 20.06.2023. Adaptado.)
No trecho do primeiro parágrafo “though officials have said it would not be easy”, o termo sublinhado equivale, em português, a
Match the columns according to the meaning of the modal verb in bold in each sentence below.
1 – Impossibility ( ) Mark studied hard for his exams, but he got poor marks; he can’t be very clever.
2 – Possibility ( ) You should work less! You look too tired!
3 – Prohibition ( ) She may be in the garden.
4 – Advice ( ) You mustn’t enter here.
Read the cartoon and, without changing the meaning, choose the alternative that substitutes the modal verb CAN in “We can do something about the future”.
Good oral health leads to general overall better health: How strokes may be preventable with oral care
1.º§ COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Neurologists at Prisma Health published results of a 17- year-long study of the potential link between oral health and stroke risk. A group of 9,666 patients was followed to study the relationship between gum disease severity and atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat condition that doctors say is a huge risk factor for strokes. “We found that those who went to the dentist regularly – their risk of developing atrial fibrillation was almost 20% lower,” said Dr. Souvik Sen, researcher and Chair of Neurology at Prisma Health.
2.º§ Strokes are the third leading cause of death in South Carolina. The state is considered part of the Stroke Belt, a band of 11 southeastern states that exhibit higher rates of stroke mortalities. South Carolina is the buckle of the stroke belt, along with North Carolina and Georgia, and the buckle displays higher stroke mortality than other states in the country.
3.º§ Scruggs says the best way to maintain oral hygiene is to have a good routine at home of brushing twice a day and flossing once per day. Dentists say coming for dental checkups every six months is crucial for diagnosing gum disease and other issues. “Good oral health leads to general overall better health,” Sen said. “I think the 2 are very strongly tied to each other. Obviously, stroke is just one of them. There are other factors linked with oral health that would probably benefit as well.”
4.º§ “Gum disease is a painless problem that doesn’t have symptoms usually. The maintenance is the most important part because you really don’t know you have it until you have it – until you come in and it’s actually diagnosed,” said Dr. Caroline Hartley, a dentist at Southern Shores Dental.
5.º§ Sen says the study is in clinical trials and should wrap up by the end of this year. He says he expects to have the results of the study ready by early 2022.
Adapted from WISTV. Available at: https://www.wistv.com. Accessed 17 September 2021.
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New Zealand will ban the sale of tobacco to its next generation, in a bid to eventually phase out smoking. Anyone born after 2008 will not be able to buy cigarettes or tobacco products in their lifetime, under a law expected to be enacted in 2022. “We want to make sure young people never start smoking,” Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verall said. The move is part of a sweeping crackdown on smoking announced by New Zealand’s Health Ministry.
Doctors and other health experts in the country have welcomed the “world-leading” reforms, which will reduce access to tobacco and restrict nicotine levels in cigarettes. “It will help people quit smoking or switch to less harmful products, and make it much less likely that young people get addicted to nicotine,” said Prof Janet Hook from the University of Otago.
The crackdown has been met with mixed reactions. “I reckon it’s a good move, really,” one man told Reuters news agency. “Because right now there’s a lot of young kids walking around with smokes in their mouth. Public are asking how they’re getting these smokes. And it’s also good for myself too because I can save more money.”
However, others have warned that the move may create a black market for tobacco — something the Health Ministry’s official impact statement does acknowledge, noting “customs will need more resource to enforce border control”. “This is all 100% theory and 0% substance,” Sunny Kaushal, chairman of the Dairy and Business Owners Group, a lobby group for local convenience stores, told New Zealand’s Stuff news site. “There’s going to be a crime wave. Gangs and criminals will fill the gap.”
(www.bbc.com, 09.12.2021. Adaptado.)
No trecho do quarto parágrafo “However, others have warned that the move may create a black market for tobacco”, o termo sublinhado expressa uma
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How does being on social media make you feel?
In a study published in the Journal of Happiness Studies, Dr. Wirtz, an associate professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia, examined how people use three of the largest social media platforms: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. The study boiled social media use down to four key components: feed watching, messaging, posting updates, and reading world news. Checking the main feed was by far the most common activity, with many users not bothering to post or send messages at all.
The study found that the more people used any of these platforms, the worse they felt afterward. Dr. Wirtz said in a news release, “The more respondents had recently used these sites, either in aggregate or individually, the more negative effect they reported when they responded to our randomly-timed surveys over a 10-day period.” He believes that the reason is the passive contact. People look longingly at other people’s lives and feel dissatisfied with their own.
Being active could be the key to healthy social media use. By posting and engaging directly with other people, rather than treating social sites as static feeds to browse, you can experience some of the benefits of in-person interaction. If people form and maintain direct connections, Dr. Wirtz said, “the negative impact of social media use could be reduced — and social network sites could even have the potential to improve our well-being and happiness.”
(Sean Marsala. www.medicaldaily.com, 10.11.2020. Adaptado.)
No trecho do último parágrafo “Being active could be the key to healthy social media use”, o termo sublinhado indica
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