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These results seem like small gains, but other studies have shown that ever total elimination of cancer would only about two years to the average lifespan...

Author: By John E. Stafford, | Title: HEALTH WATCH | 3/2/1993 | See Source »

LONGEVITY. Japanese live longest (women, 82.5 years; men, 76.1). Average lifespan in Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latest World Health Organization Statistics | 5/11/1992 | See Source »

...side after all) early, early on granted this media man the right to treat as important only those things which are immediately appreciable as dynamic and exiciting, such as famine war and pestilence and otherwise exciting and sound-biteable things like charisma, Madonna, valuable political wisdom, the lifespan of the common gnat, poll results, arms agreements, editorial comments, earth evaporating nuclear strikes...hey, what a Sound Bite that would be, get that on all the networks, yeah boy. News Flash! and we do mean flash. And we do mean bite. And we do mean noise. BAWOOOOM !... as Calvin and Hobbes...

Author: By John P. Thompson, | Title: Cheesy Politics | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

...average lifespan of a star is 10 million years, Kirshner says. So what seems to be a huge difference, "is only one three thousandth of a star's life." He says it is comparable to "two events happening in the same second...

Author: By Rebecca A. Jeschke, | Title: Cosmic Conflagrations | 1/20/1989 | See Source »

...week debut Lear's, a glossy upscale bimonthly for women over 40. Major firms are forming special groups to study the senior market, and at least one company that offers ageless ads has opened. "My sense is we're on the leading edge right now," says Jerry Gerber of LifeSpan in Manhattan, "way out there, totally new, totally different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Grays on The Go | 2/22/1988 | See Source »

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