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...various behaviors including what they eat, how they drive and how much they sleep. The decidedly ominous Death Clock calculator generates a countdown timer with the number of seconds the user has left to live, but other sites display an age someone with characteristics like the user can expect to attain...
...have the average life expectancy at birth of about 75 years; females can expect to live about five years longer. Like gender, the most important factors in determining longevity are out of your control: online calculators ask what how long your parents and grandparents lived as a way of assessing your family's medical history. "In order to live a long life, you have to begin by having won the genetic lottery," Olshansky says. "Then you have to avoid getting...
...always an intriguing process when leaders gather together to choose their leadership. Where we might expect to see a demand for challenging visions of change or decisive commitments to the values we endorse, instead we sadly find ourselves struggling against the same currents of convention and paralyzing fear of youthful energy that characterize our larger societal malaise. I hold out hope, however, that at least this time in this moment, Harvard’s student body—all of whom are leaders in some respect—can tap enough into their own optimism and passion to recognize...
...biggest problem with “Kingdom Come” is that it does nothing new. It will have its commercially successful tracks, and it will sell, but don’t expect anything too innovative...
...Baker report, the fruit of a 10-member bipartisan panel created by Congress, sought - but failed to find - any silver bullet to reverse the slide in Iraq. Like many such efforts that subcontract the thinking that Americans expect to be done by their President and lawmakers, the panel appears set to recommend goals without specifying the tools to achieve them. It will declare that the U.S. military presence in Iraq not be open-ended while simultaneously refusing to set a timetable for its withdrawal. At the same time it will call - as has incoming defense chief Robert Gates...