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Article:

From a pandemic to plastic surgery: how Covid changed the way we see our faces

- Jane, a 40-year-old mental health professional from Cork, never worried too much about how she looked. (Inserter)

-But when her job went fully virtual, she found herself dreading Microsoft Teams meetings.(Introducer) 

-Her face looked rounder, her nose looked bigger, and her top lip looked thinner than she’d ever noticed in the mirror.(Coordinator)

-“I’ve always thought I was attractive, and people would always compliment my looks in person,” she says.(Coordinator & Introducer)

- “But on video, nobody was saying how nice it was to see my pretty face.”(Introducer)

EDITING PRACTICE:

1.People are more likely to live long, enough to get old in wealthy countries than in poor countries. 2 In rich countries people have nutritious food, modern medical care, good sanitation, and clean drinking water; but poor countries lack these things.  As a result, the mortality rate, especially infant mortality is very high.  4 Citizens of Ethiopia and Yemen ,which are two of the world's poorest countries, 1. have an average life expectancy of 35-39 years.  Citizens of Japan, Hong Kong ,Singapore ,Australia ,Iceland, and Sweden, in contrast ,have an average life span of more than 80 years.  Japan has the highest; Yemen has the lowest.  7One exception is Saudi Arabia, one of the world's wealthiest nations.  Having an average life expectancy of 45-49 years, Saudi Arabians live about as long as Bangladeshis and Cambodians.  ° Surprisingly the United States is not among the highest rated nations ,having an average life expectancy of only 77 years.  10 Compared to other mammals humans have a relatively long life span.  11 The average life span of elephants is 70 years, of dogs 18 years, of cats 14 years, and of horses 20 years.  12 The life spans of other species are as follows 2 eagles, parrots, and owls ;60 years parakeets; 12 years guppies; 5 years; and box Somo plants such as treos live much longer than animals.  tortoises 100 ycars.  13 14 Redwood trees for example live more than 3,000 years and bristlecone pine trees can live over 4,000 years.

1The life expectancy of people who live in industrialized societies is increasing rapidly, in fact it has doubled in the past hundred years.  1When comparing males and females, one finds that women generally live longer than men.  1TH oldest person in the world until recently was a French woman, Jeanne Calment.  1At her death de ella Madame Calment was both blind and deaf, but ella had not lost her sharp wit for which she had become quite famous.  1Asked what kind of future she expected :she replied A very short one.  2Bragging about her smooth skin de ella she said: ella l've only had one wrinkle in my life and l'm sitting on it.