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Epidemiologists love to crunch numbers - and Americans, on the whole, love to ignore them. Even the most health-conscious among us soon grow numb to the storm of statistics warning us about rising levels of obesity or falling levels of exercise or all the other numerical indicators that tell us...
Surprisingly - and encouragingly - rising heart-disease risk does not necessarily translate to rising heart-disease deaths. Last year, the American Heart Association announced that since 1999, deaths from coronary heart disease fell a remarkable 25.8%. There are a lot of reasons for that happy development, but the leading ones are...
5. Deal with Demographics With nearly half of its projected population of 95 million expected to be aged over 60 by 2050, Japan is the world's most rapidly aging nation. This means its domestic market is getting smaller and its workforce is inevitably becoming less productive.
No, the thing that sets Kennedy apart, in an international context, is neither his character nor his family: it is that he had a long and productive career as a legislator. The record of his achievements in the Senate, over 47 years, is immense - groundbreaking laws on education, health care...
The most plausible explanation for this happy outcome is that Japan was willing to recycle into Treasuries the dollars it earned selling us cars, TVs and stereos. That demand for U.S. debt kept interest rates low. By the early 1990s, though, the national debt - the accumulated product of those years...