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Why Life Expectancy is Falling to Zero (or Less)

Originally published: Kurtzman NA:  Lubbock Magazine (July):6-7, 1999. It is axiomatic that the Western World has been in inexorable decline since the circumcision of Pericles. But this decline had not included a diminution in life span, until this cen­tury. I know people are more often reaching a grand old age, but are they really living…


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