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Despite a relatively low birth rate, the U.S. population has doubled in the past 50 years. Improved health care makes the difference. In 1900 in New York City, a 70-year-old man had a better chance than a newborn infant of surviving the next year. As Dr. Walsh McDermott, recently retired professor of public health at Cornell University Medical College, says, the two great triumphs of modern health care have been 1) the victory over the "pneumonia-diarrhea complex" that once caused half the tragic wastage of early deaths, and 2) the dramatic gains since antibiotics were introduced...
Modern Greeks still like to refer to their country as the cradle of democracy, but in fact Greek politics has rarely reflected Attica's ancient heritage. Scarcely had Greece won its independence from the Turks in the 1820s when the infant republic ended in a presidential assassination. The great powers protecting the new nation promptly imposed an absolutist King from Bavaria. Ever since, Greece's political history has seesawed between short periods of volatile republicanism and longer ones of oppressive authoritarianism...
...there are more old people than ever to care for. In 1900 only 3.1 million, or one out of every 25 Americans, were over 65. Now 21.8 million, or one out of every ten, fall into this category. The reason for the rise is twofold. Modern medicine has cut infant mortality rates and increased the average life expectancy from 47 years in 1900 to 71.3 today. Since 1957 the U.S. birth rate has dropped (TIME, Sept. 16), increasing the ratio of elderly to young people. If present population trends continue, those over 65 and those under 15 should each account...
...support the children," Lazare says. "It's better for the child and for the country that they are adopted." But Lazare says that Vietnam has always been "riskier" for adoptive American parents than Korea. "The ages are guess-work and it is not the same as getting a healthy infant," she says. The Vietnamese children American families adopt are either orphaned or abandoned (in Vietnam, an "abandoned" child can be one whose parents have signed a release form to an orphanage.) They are the survivors of orphanages where a death rate of 90 per cent is common, thanks to epidemics...
...about $95, and volume jumped to 650,000 even as the recession deepened. Tom M. Hyltin, president of Micro Display Systems, a subsidiary of the Japanese watchmaker Seiko, estimates that this year sales will leap to 2.2 million, as the price drops to the $50 range. By 1977 the infant industry confidently expects to sell a cool 10 million quartz watches at just $20 each...