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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (217267)2/4/2005 7:29:08 AM
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All of those links are for life expectancy. That is a figure that includes things like infant mortality. As noted in the Wikipedia article, the improving life expectancy we have experienced has more to do with decreasing infant mortality than anything else. This is why the average life expectancy in the US is so much lower than many other countries. Our infant mortality rate is higher.

I did make a mistake, though. I was off by close to a decade. Still, the fact remains. Unless they make some sort of breakthrough, we aren't going to be seeing a bunch of people living to 120 anytime soon.
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