2022年10月27日「モバイル英語学習」第757号(英語エッセイ): Solving Zambia’s Stroke Epidemic

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acute (角の)鋭い、重大な、深刻な;
crippling (機能を失わせるほどの)大きな損害を与える;
neurologist 神経学;
toll 〈晩鐘・弔いの鐘などを〉ゆるやかにつく,鳴らす;
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Strokes kill six million annually and leave millions more disabled. This problem is particularly acute in sub-Saharan Africa, which suffers from a crippling lack of trained neurologists who can diagnose strokes. Although communicable diseases like HIV, malaria, and Ebola command the attention of the media and aid organizations, stroke in Africa is a growing and neglected crisis that, if unchecked, will have a greater toll.
In Zambia, there are two neurologists in a country of 18 million. One of them, Harvard-trained Omar Siddiqi, has launched a pilot program for Zambian doctors to become neurologists. Journalist Oliver Staley reports on efforts to seed Zambia with doctors trained to diagnose and treat stroke, and who then can train the next generation neurologists themselves. (by Oliver Staley)
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2022年10月19日「モバイル英語学習」第756号(英語エッセイ): A New Kind of National ParkNotes

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entrepreneur 企業家、事業家;
prairie 草地、牧草地;
ranch 牧(畜)場、(…)農場;
bison 野牛;
grizzly bearハイイログマ
pronghorn プロングホーン 《北米西部の大草原にすむレイヨウに似た動物》;

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In 2004, an ex-Silicon Valley entrepreneur and his nonprofit, American Prairie Reserve, set out on a mission to create a bigger, better Yellowstone. Unlike typical U.S. national parks, this one would be privately funded and free to the public. To accomplish this, American Prairie Reserve has been buying up ranches in East Montana, removing the cows, and replacing them with animals that would have been present in the area centuries ago before white settlers moved in, like wild bison, grizzly bears, wolves, and pronghorn. Nate Hegyi, a Pulitzer Center grantee and reporter with the Mountain West News Bureau, spent two weeks during summer 2019 living out of his truck and talking to all the stakeholders: ranchers, hunters, biologists, conservationists, and residents of the Fort Belknap and Fort Peck Indian Reservations. The end result is a nuanced and character-driven story t. (by Nate Hegyi)
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