Cindy Alverez

A US Patient, With Leukemia, Is Believed To Be The Third Person And The First Woman In The World To Be Cured Of HIV. The Patient, Who Has Been HIV Negative For 14 Months, Was Treated With A Stem Cell Transplant From Someone With A Natural Resistance To HIV. But Some Experts Say This Treatment Method Is Too Risky For Most HIV Patients.

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Doctors, For The First Time, Successfully Transplanted A Pig’s Heart Into A Human. The Genetically Modified Pig’s Heart, In A 7 Hours Operations, Was Transferred To A 57-Year-Old David Bennett, Who Suffered A Life-Threatening Arrhythmia And Was Deemed Ineligible To Recieve A Human Heart Transplant. This Feat Could Curb Organ Donor Scarcity Crisis.

Gabriel Boric, A 35-Year-Old Congressman And A Former Student Protester, Has Become The Youngest President In Modern Chile History. And Also The Youngest Leader In South America. The Left-Wing Gabriel Boric Won The Largest Majority Ever Recorded In A Chilean Election, On 12/19/21, To Defeat The Ultra-Conservative José Antonio Kast, Age 56.

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Walt Disney Co. Has For The First Time Appointed A Woman, Ms. Susan E. Arnold, As Chairman Of Its Board. Ms. Susan Has Being A Member Of The Disney Board For 14 Years. And She Also Comes With Executive Experiences From Procter & Gamble, The Carlyle Group, And McDonald’s. Ms. Susan Will Succeed Robert Iger Effective December 31st, 2021.

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Ms. Magdalena Andersson, Elected As The First Female Prime Minister (PM) Of Sweden, Resigned On Wednesday, 11/24/21, Just Hours After Being Named The New PM. Ms. Andersson Resigned Out Of Self-Respect After Her Coalition Partner, The Greens Party, Quit The Govt., And Her Budget Failed To Pass. But She Hopes To Become A PM In The Future.

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Vice President (VP) Kamala Harris Became The First Woman To Have The Presidential Power Of The Most Powerful Country In The World, USA. VP Harris Had the Power For 85 Minutes When President Biden Was Under Anesthesia For His Routine Colonoscopy. This Temporal Transfer Of Power Is Not Unusual As It Has Happened During Past US Presidencies.

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Portugal Has Passed A Law That Bans Employers From Contacting Employees After Work Hours. The Law, Amid A Surge Of Home Workers, Is Part Of An Effort To Appeal To Remote Workers Coming To Portugal And To Promote Healthy Work-Life Balance. Employers, According To The Law, Could Face Financial Penalties For Contacting Employees Outside Of Work Hours.

Regina King, The Oscar-Winning Actress, Has Made History As The First Black Female Director To Have Her First Directed Film, One Night in Miami, Premier In The Venice Film Festival In Its 88-Year-Long History. The Movie Is Said To Be A Fictional Take On A True Event That Occurred On Feb. 25, 1964, When Muhammad Ali Beat Sonny Liston.

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Recently Released US Census Data Shows That The US White Population Declined For The First Time In History, Over The Past 10 Years. The White Population Fell From 63.7% In 2010 To 57.8% In 2020, The Lowest On Record, Driven By The Falling Birthrates Among White Women Compared With Hispanic And Asian Women. This Data Implies An Increasingly Diverse USA.

Researchers, Based On The Relationship Between Inflammatory Markers And Various Age-Related Conditions, Have Developed A New Tool Called iAge, Which Analyzes Blood-Borne Markers Of Chronic Inflammation. To Determine One’s Immunological Age, Which Could Hint At When/Whether A Person Will Become Frail Or Develop Heart Disease Later In Life.

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Researchers, Based On DNA Analysis, May Have Found The World’s Known Earliest Person, A 5000-Year Old Hunter Gatherer, In His Twenties And Buried In Latvia, Who Was Infected With An Ancient Strain Of The Black Death Plague, Caused By The Bacterium, Yersinia Pestis. The Plague Wiped Out About Half Of Europe’s Population In The 1300s.

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Gabon Has Become The First African Country To Get Paid For Reducing Carbon Emission By Protecting Its Rainforest, Which Covers ~90% Of Gabon. Norway, A Donor Nation, Paid Gabon $17m (£12m) Of The $150m Deal Struck In 2019, As Part Of The Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI). The Money Is Equivalent To The Tonnes Of Carbon Captured.

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3 Climbers Have Recently Set Records For Climbing Mount Everest. Hong Kong’s Tsang Yin Hung, 45, Has Set The Fastest Woman Record For Climbing Everest, Completing It From Base Camp In 25 Hours And 50 Minutes. Arthur Muir, 75, Became The Oldest American, While China’s Zhang Hong, 46, Became The First Blind Man From Asia To Summit Everest.

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Ms. Elisabetta Belloni Is One Of The Most Impressive Women In Power, As She Has Become The First Woman To Head The Department Of Information Security (DIS), Italy’s Secret Services. This Feat Is One Of Her Many Trail Blazes, As She Was Also The First Woman Secretary-General Of Italy’s Foreign Ministry – Italy’s Highest Diplomatic Post.

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The US FDA Has Authorized The Use Of Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine For Children, In The US, Btw The Age Of 12 To 15 Years. This Authorization Is Most Welcome, Especially For Schools Effectively Opening, And Other Adolescents Centered Activities Like Summer Camping, And Sleepovers. The Pfizer-BioNTech Is Already Available To Anyone Over 16.

Researchers Successfully Made A Second Attempt At Producing Human-Monkey Chimeras, By Infusing Human Stem Cells Into 132 Embryos Of Long-Tailed Macaques. But The Embryos Were Then Terminated 19 Days After Injecting The Stem Cells. Chimeras May Be Unethical, But May Help In Drug Tests Or To Overcome Donor Organs/Tissues Shortages Globally.

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Rachael Blackmore, A 31-Year-Old Irishwoman, And A Professional Jockey Since 2015 Is Now The First Woman, Riding Minella Times, To Win Britain’s Grand National Horse Race–A Male-Dominated Sport. Blackmore Is The 20th Female Jockey To Compete In The Grand National Race Since 1839. And Women Have Only Being Permitted As Jockeys Since 1975.

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Chloe Zhao Made History By Being One Of The Three Women Shortlisted For The Golden Globe Best Director Award. And Now, She Has Blazed Another Major Trail By Being The First Asian Woman And The Second Woman To Win The Golden Globe Best Director Award, After Barbra Streisand Won It In 1984. Congrats Chloe!

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Researchers, In A First Of Its Kind, Are Indicating That They Were Able To Converse With Lucid Dreamers—-People Aware That They Are Dreaming. The Research, Involving 36 Participants, Was Conducted By 4 Independent Labs That Used Different Communication Methods. This Feat Is Regarded As An Important Milestone For Understanding Dreams.

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