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A 2 Night Study, Involving 20 Persons, Indicates That Sleeping With Light On, At Night, Increases The Risk For Heart Disease And Diabetes. The Study May Have Attributed The Cause To The Body Being Kept More Alert Via The Light Activation Of The Autonomic Nervous System. However, Further Larger Studies Are Advised To Confirm This Result.

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President Joe Biden Has Nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Age 51, For The USA Supreme Court. The Nomination, A Historical Feat And In Fulfilment Of Biden’s Presidential Campaign Promise, Will Make Judge Jackson The First African American Woman Tapped For Such A Position. Judge Jackson Currently Sits On The U.S. Court Of Appeals For The D.C. Circuit.

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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Pakistan Has Made History With The Appointment Of Ayesha Malik, Age 55, As Its First Female Supreme Court Judge, In A Judiciary That Is Considered Conservative And Male-Dominated. Pakistan Is Said To Be The Only South Asian Country To Have Never Had A Female Supreme Court Judge, With Only 4% Of High Court Judges Being Women.

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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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Nasa’s Parker Solar Probe Is Now The First Spacecraft To Touch Our Sun . The Probe Successfully Flew Through The Sun’s Upper Atmosphere To Sample Our Sun’s Particles And Magnetic Fields. This Feat Will Give Us Deeper Insights Into Our Sun’s Evolution And Impacts On Our Solar System, Inferably Teaching Us About Other Suns In The Universe.

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Ms. Magdalena Andersson, Who Resigned From Office As The First Female Prime Minister (PM) Of Sweden, Has Made History Again As The First Female Elected Twice As Sweden’s PM, After Being Re-Elected On Monday 11/29/2021 By Parliament. Ms. Andersson Was Re-Appointed As PM When Majority Of The Parliament Did Not Vote Against Her.

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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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Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Survey, By Comparing The Cost In Dollars For Goods And Services In 173 Cities, Has For The First Time Named Tel Aviv, Israel, As The World’s Most Expensive City To Live In, While Paris And Singapore Came A Joint Second. Zurich Came Third. Damascus, In War-Torn Syria, Remains The World’s Cheapest City.

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