Articles Archive for 13 September 2007
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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 …