Should both squads win their next two games, the US and Canada are on a collision course to meet on Saturday in the semifinal round. Wednesday will mark the start of bracket play and the Round of 16. #2 Canada 85, #38 Senegal 56 - Box Score - Video - Highlights Canada walloped Senegal 85-56 to finish atop the Group A standings with a 3-0 record. Incoming Creighton freshman started his third straight game and finished with 17 points, eight assists, four steals and four rebounds in 27 minutes of work. His steal and behind-the-back pass to a teammate was named the No. 4 Play of the Day on FIBA's YouTube

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It’s official: China has eliminated malaria The World Health Organization (WHO) today is certifying China as free of malaria, after a decadeslong effort drove an estimated annual toll of 30 million cases in the 1940s, including 300,000 deaths, to zero in 2017. Along the way, China developed new surveillance techniques, medicines, and technologies to break the cycle of transmission between the Anopheles mosquitoes that spread malaria parasites and humans. Antimalaria efforts started in the 1950s with programs to distribute antimalarial medicines to people at risk, reduce mosquito breeding

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For half of that time period, Earth's regular daily tides are suppressed with high tides at a low average and low tides happening at a higher rate. In the other half of the cycle, the opposite occurs. "High tides get higher, and low tides get lower. Global sea-level rise pushes high tides in only one direction – higher. So half of the 18.6-year lunar cycle counteracts the effect of sea-level rise on high tides, and the other half increases the effect," NASA explains . The moon is in its tide-amplifying cycle right now, and there is no cause for concern of dramatic flooding given sea levels in the

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