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Current CDC guidance recommends active monitoring of individuals with high-risk Ebola exposures.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
Also read: Government is now an active investor — and it’s why your portfolio needs ‘home-court advantage’
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
Both are from the town of Ranya in Iraqi Kurdistan - a region "riddled with active smuggling networks", according to a report by the UK think tank, Chatham House.
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
During one particularly active stretch last weekend, one post showed Trump riding horseback beside George Washington, next to a race car, with the White House in the background.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
Noisy, active, obsessive, eccentric—with a dervishlike mind that spiraled from one scientific question to the next—Thomas Morgan was a professor of zoology at Columbia University.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 4
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