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United States
Dine-In Restrictions by State
Online restaurant-reservation service company OpenTable has created an online, interactive map to showcase different dine-in restrictions by state. As the U.S. vaccinates more citizens and economies start to open up, more states are easing up their restrictions on restaurant dining. The platform also offers more information on dining locally, with local rules, diner picks, and restaurants open. The three colors used to code this map—grey, yellow, and green—symbolize the differing restaurant restrictions in place. The grey represents states where ‘restrictions vary by county’ and capacity limits and other mandates vary by tier. The yellow states allow for ‘dine-in with restrictions,’ and green states have ‘no restrictions’ with restaurants having no capacity limits.
This map depicts the states with differing COVID-19 restaurant restrictions. Click on the map to learn more.
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Israel
Syrian Misfire Raises Alarms
A Syrian surface-to-air defensive missile launched into Israel yesterday, travelling 125 miles (200 km) into Israeli territory and exploding mid-air 19 miles (30 km) from Israel’s Negev Nuclear Research Center. The missile had been launched to defend from an Israeli strike on military assets within Syria, but flew off-course. Its eventual trajectory towards the area of Israel’s primary nuclear facility raised alarms, as tensions in the region have been growing following a cyber-attack on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility less than two weeks ago. The Iranian government, which has been a long-time supporter of the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has blamed Israel for the cyber-attack, which has led Israel to prepare for Iranian retaliation.
This map depicts Israel and the location of the Negev Nuclear Research Center, near where a Syrian missile exploded on Thursday. Click on the map to learn more.
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Graphic Source: APNews
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United States
House Votes for D.C. Statehood
The United States House of Representatives approved a bill yesterday to grant statehood to Washington D.C. This is the second time that the House has approached the topic, with the majority of Democrats and Republicans voting down the idea in 1993. The current proposal would reduce the size of the district under Federal control, turning the remaining residential and commercial areas of the city into the newly formed state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth. Ratification of the measure in the U.S. Senate requires the approval of 60 senators, which many political analysts predict will be unlikely.
This map depicts the proposed boundaries of Washington D.C. and the federal government. Click on the map to learn more.
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Q: The world’s largest oceanic garbage patch, which is roughly three times the size of France, is located in what ocean gyre?
A: North Pacific Gyre
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also called the Pacific trash vortex, spans an estimated surface area of 620,000 square miles (1,600,000 sq km) in the large circular current of the northern Pacific Ocean. It is estimated there are 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic in the patch weighing approximately 88,000 tons. There are four other garbage accumulation patches in our oceans, all located in different ocean gyres: North Atlantic Gyre, South Atlantic Gyre, South Pacific Gyre, and Indian Ocean Gyre.
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Q: Standing at a height of nearly 25,000 feet (7,500 m), what mountain is the tallest unclimbed mountain in the world?
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