OUTLIVES THEM ALL
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Image of Jimmy Carter holding hands with his wife of 77 years. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post)
WOMEN LIVE LONGER
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For 100 years, US women outlived US men, due to cardiovascular and lung cancer death rates related largely to smoking habits..
A new study systematically examines the contributions of COVID-19 and other underlying causes of death to the widened gender life expectancy gap from 2010 to 2021.
As life expectancy at birth in the US decreased for the second consecutive year, from 78.8 years (2019) to 77.0 years (2020) and 76.1 years (2021), the gap between women and men widened to 5.8 years, its largest since 1996 and an increase from a low of 4.8 years in 2010
FATHER AND SON
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'Three Words' or 'Tres palabras' de Bebo & Chucho Valdés produced by Fernando Trueba y Nat Chediak en Javier Limón Studios.
CALIFORNIA BLUES
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A California native, a transplant, or dreaming of returning there to be with family? The amount of media or music offers no shortage.
From the US-Mexico border along the Pacific for nearly 900 miles. Its terrain includes cliff-lined beaches, redwood forest, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Central Valley farmland, and the Mojave Desert. LA is the Hollywood entertainment industry.
RIP HENRY KISSINGER
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Five decades later his legaciy in question as US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died at the age 100.
He served as America's top diplomat and national security adviser during the Nixon and Ford administrations.
In a statement, Kissinger Associates, a political consulting firm he founded, said the German-born former diplomat died at his home in Connecticut.
During his decades long career, Mr Kissinger played a key, and sometimes controversial, role in US foreign and security policy.
REMEMBER JESSICA?
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What Really Happened to Jessica Savitch? I worked with her as a young NBC producer. She was a one-of-a-kind anchorwoman.
Jessica Beth Savitch was an American television journalist who was the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily newsreader for NBC News during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
RIP GEORGE HARRISON
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On this date 11/29/01 - The Beatles lead guitarist George Harrison died in Los Angeles of lung cancer. He was 58 years old.
Following The Beatles breakup he had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMVjToYOjbM&list=RDEMpapDu9V1HLtqD6LLJq…
George was the youngest member of The Beatles, aged 16 when he joined, his compositions include:
US DIPLOMAT FREDERICK DOUGLASS
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Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey along with Abraham Lincoln were great Americans during the 19th century.
Good folks like FD are unfortunately born into slavery, but unlike many others, that did not stop him. He escaped to the North in 1838, and quickly became an activist, writer, and lecturer, pursuing all three without rest until he died in 1895.
GREEDFLATION
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With the dysfunctional GOP, Greed is bringing US Inflation for the holidays, also including a return to a new isolation.
Instead of illogically blaming Joe Biden for inflation because he was dealing with worldwide structural economic changes as we emerged from the pandemic, more focus needs to be placed on greedy corporations who wildly exaggerate their cost of doing business and fraudulently point to increases as they unfairly gouge consumers with sky-high pricing.
ITS COLD OUTSIDE
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Below-average temperatures for the East Coast and South with freeze advisories for the Florida Panhandle and south Georgia.
We woke up with temperatures in the 20s, according to the National Weather Service. a new storm system brings the threat of severe thunderstorms. When they call it Fall, they are referring to the temperatures keep falling.