Word: lifespan
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Vision Thing: "If we can use target identification technology to fight tumors effectively, cancer will become a chronic disease essentially like diabetes, allowing patients to live out their normal lifespan...
Northern Afghanistan subsists in biblical times - except for the Kalashnikovs, that is. There is no electricity, no indoor plumbing, no running water. The average lifespan is less than 50 years. A three year drought has ground everything into a yellow dust, a choking powder that clogs lungs and obscures hope...
Several causes have contributed to the proportion living alone. Medical and technological advances have increased the average lifespan, meaning that more people are living alone into their old age. Divorces have left couples alone for many years in middle age. And Americans are waiting for longer periods before marriage and longer still before having children...