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From: "Chris Manning" <>
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Subject: Re: Gene Discovered, etc.
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 11:10:59 +1000

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> Message #29482
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> Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 23:47:39 -0500
> Subject: Gene Discovered that Enables Calorie Restriction to Extend Li...
>
> Now if they can only figure out how to utilize it!
>
> http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article2504640.ece
>
> Scientists find the gene that decides how long we live
> The science of ageing
> By Steve Connor, Science Editor
> Published: 03 May 2007

[snip]

> There has been a dramatic increase in longevity over the past couple of 
> centuries due to improvements in housing and sanitation, nutrition and 
> health.
>
> Some 60 per cent of boys and 70 per cent of girls born in 1981 are 
> expected to survive to celebrate their 75th birthday in 2056. In 1881, 
> only a third of girls and just one in five boys reached the same age.
>

I take it this refers to the world, not a particular country. Also, that the 
second sentence should have read 'Only a third of girls and just one in five 
boys born in 1881 reached the same age (in 1956).'

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