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[13 Sep 2007 | No Comment | ]

Americans can now expect to live about 28,470 days as long as they’re white and male now.  If you’re female, you get to live longer; if you’re black, shorter.
The improvement was led by a drop in deaths from heart disease and stroke — two of the nation’s leading killers, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, which released the new life expectancy report Wednesday.
My question is:  is this a good or bad thing?  Logic says “definitely a good thing!  Let’s all live to be 100!”  So let’s take a …