Daily bread 11/27/2019

• The return of Salvatore Mancuso, the man who demobilized Colombia's paramilitaries

  • he is obliged to
  • complying with his obligations
  • former arch enemy.
  • likely to cause unrest among
  • did major damage to
  • that impunity party
  • begins spilling his beans

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Daily bread 11/26/2019

• Frozen 2 rakes in $127m at its US box office debut - BBC News

  • box office debut
  • rakes in

• BBC - Travel - Australia’s subterranean oasis

  • for the faint of heart
  • blisteringly hot
  • a thin veil of red dust
  • Outback
  • have gotten
  • dug-out homes
  • flocked to
  • In its heyday
  • Harnessing the area’s sunny, windy weather
  • to climb to 53°C

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Daily bread 11/25/2019

• The science of creating a dream team - BBC Worklife

  • should never have
  • they were ranked 131st
  • their biggest scalp
  • fail to cash in on
  • overly risky
  • an impasse
  • overly complicate a problem
  • a Herculean task
  • a five-hour battery of tasks
  • she had ever come across
  • lacks a hierarchy
  • to take charge
  • destructive dynamic
  • feel threatened by
  • has garnered particular interest
  • mansplain
  • teams with a greater proportion of women have a higher collective intelligence
  • in the pecking order
  • jockeying for authority
  • powerplays
  • flock together
  • the benefits of additional star talent tailed off
  • on the payroll of
  • was undoubtedly better than
  • far above the optimum threshold.
  • traits like humility can be contagious
  • the down-to-earth attitude of

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Daily bread 11/23/2019

• Hyundai and Seoul set to test self-driving cars on city roads starting next month | TechCrunch

  • hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles

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Daily bread 11/15/2019

• Scientists Demonstrate Direct Brain-to-Brain Communication in Humans - Scientific American

  • rich repertoire of
  • in such a way that
  • opens the door to
  • blurring fundamental notions about
  • subject of intense interest
  • tethered together
  • Could such a network be a faster, more efficient and smarter way of working together?
  • were equipped with
  • to escalate the
  • noninvasive manner
  • impressive in scope and sophistication
  • are dwarfed by
  • raises ethical concerns,
  • takes us a step closer to

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Daily bread 11/01/2019

• Halloween Vocabulary Word List - Enchanted Learning

  • afraid
  • black cat
  • blood
  • broomstick
  • casket
  • cauldron
  • coffin
  • corpse
  • costume
  • creepy
  • disguise
  • dress-up
  • eerie
  • fangs
  • frighten
  • grave
  • haunt
  • haunted house
  • make-up
  • mask
  • pirate
  • pumpkin
  • scarecrow
  • skull
  • skeleton
  • spider web
  • spooky
  • trick-or-treat
  • wicked
  • witch
  • wizard

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