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...surprise that Americans are turning toward these operations - joint replacement has spared millions of older adults from spending their older years in a wheelchair. "We have a perfect storm of an aging population, increased demands by younger patients, a better ability to do the procedure, and increased arthritis in the general population," says Dr. Richard Iorio, a senior orthopedic surgeon at the Lahey Clinic Medical Center in Burlington, Mass., and lead author of the paper. Painful osteoarthritis, he explains, is responsible for the vast majority of joint replacement surgery...
...black 1 in 36 Hispanic men age 18 or older are in prison...
...Hispanic 1 in 106 white men age 18 or older are in prison...
...support whichever candidate they wish. In a sense, the Pennsylvania primary will be aimed directly at impressing them. Obama will get another chance to beat Clinton when all the chips are in the pot. For Clinton, it is another chance to demonstrate her appeal among core Democratic constituencies: women, older voters, Hispanics and households earning under...
...African-American electorate, and may win in the city's suburbs, which have the same kinds of upscale, well-educated professionals that have gone for Obama in recent contests. Western and Central Pennsylvania are much more conservative, blue-collar and Catholic, and the voters tend to be a bit older, all of which seem to favor Clinton. The key battleground is likely to be in the Lehigh Valley and the Northeast, toward Scranton and Wilkes-Barre, where traditional blue-collar industry is giving way to high-tech...