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For males the average life expectancy is now 75.1 years and for females, 80.5 years.
This means that several of our most important national leaders (President Joe Biden, 78; U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, 80; and U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, 79) are past their life expectancies.
For most of the rest of us the approach of our eightieth birthday is a time of retreat, not a time for taking on challenging new ventures.
Not so for an 80-year-old North Carolina native who recently became the founding dean of a new medical school in the planning stages. The school is a joint venture between Belmont University and Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), both based in Nashville.
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“Life expectancy in the United States dropped a staggering one year during the first half of 2020,” according to last week’s news reports. For males the average life expectancy is now 75.1 years and for females, 80.5 years. This means that several of our most important national leaders (President Joe Biden, 78; U.S. House Speaker […]
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East Mecklenburg High students Gloria Boykin (left) and Lucy Smithwick posted sticky notes with encouraging messages around school before going remote.
Next week Charlotte-Mecklenburg high school students will return to classrooms for the first time in almost a year.
Over the past 11 months, they ve found ways to cope with distance whether that means moving the school newspaper online, playing bagpipes over Facebook or turning off Zoom cameras in class.
As you might expect, there’s a sense of fatigue and loss when teens talk about how their lives have changed since schools closed last March.
East Meck Body Banter notes from last school year.