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To: KyrosL who wrote (62128)	4/27/2008 6:57:49 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541921

My original reaction was the same but now I'm not so sure how to interpret the impact. I found this bit in another piece on the same subject the other day. Seems to mitigate the impact. "Life expectancy is not a direct measure of how long people live. Instead, it is a prediction of how long the average person would live if the death rates at the time of his or her birth lasted a lifetime. For that reason, life expectancy can dip or rise abruptly. The death rate from the Spanish flu was so high, especially among the young, that life expectancy fell by about seven years in 1918. But it rebounded quickly when the epidemic was over." Message 24521158 It's strange when you find terms of art that don't mean what you've always thought.