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Quick Glance: The world's oldest person has died at the age of 118.
- Sister André was born when the Tour de France had only been staged once, and she witnessed 27 French heads of state.
- Sister André was believed to get along well with her brothers.
- Sister André was born into a Protestant family but converted to Catholicism before being baptized at the age of 26.
- Jeanne Louise Calment, also of France, is thought to have been the oldest person ever to live, having been born on 21 February 1875 and living to the age of 122 years and 164 days.
Quick Glance: The Time Has Come to End the Prescription Drug Industry's Insatiable Greed
- Nobody knows how many people die because they can't afford to buy their prescription drugs.
- How is it possible that Americans pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs?
- In fact, only ten pharmaceutical companies in the United States - AbbVie, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly, Merck, Moderna, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Amgen, Gilead Sciences, and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals - made more than $102 billion in profits in 2021, an increase of 137 percent from the previous year.
- But it's not just the profits of the industry.
Quick Glance: Macron declares 2023 to be the year of French pension reform.
- PARIS, 31 December (Reuters) - President Emmanuel Macron warned the French in a New Year's Eve speech on Saturday that the new year will be one of long-delayed pension reform.
- When Macron took office in 2017, one of his main campaign promises was to reform France's costly and confusing pension system.
- Macron placed the effort on hold when he declared a state of emergency in France in early 2020.
- In his New Year's address, he also urged the French to continue with energy savings, noting that this was one way for the country to prevent power outages as the war in Ukraine raged on.
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Born on Feb. 11, 1904, Sister André lived through both the 1918-19 influenza and the coronavirus pandemics.
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Quick Glance: Major Chinese cities have passed their Covid peak as the wave shifts to rural areas, new research projects
- According to a new study, the wave of Covid infections sweeping throughout China may have already peaked in some of the country's largest cities, including Shanghai and Beijing.
- "The results showed that Guangzhou already passed the recent wave, while Beijing, Shanghai, and Chongqing urban areas are in the midst of the current wave that would likely pass by the end of 2022," according to the report.
- "It is reasonable to speculate that the Omicron outbreak in Chinese mainland might appear in multiple waves, with re-appearance of new local surges possibly in late 2023," the report said.