My father died at 76 and his brothers died in their late eighties and nineties. I have had my first cancer at 70 probably courtesy of the mines and the heavy metal pollution. Especially the Arsenic which was supposed to be fine. A large number of my classmates didn't reach my age.
REH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Weick Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 10:12 AM To: [email protected]; 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: [Futurework] Fall in US life expectancy As reported in the NYTimes on September 20th: For generations of Americans, it was a given that children would live longer than their parents. But there is now mounting evidence that this enduring trend has reversed itself for the country's least-educated whites, an increasingly troubled group whose life expectancy has fallen by four years since 1990. ... http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/us/life-expectancy-for-less-educated-white s-in-us-is-shrinking.html?_r=1 <http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/us/life-expectancy-for-less-educated-whit es-in-us-is-shrinking.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all> &pagewanted=all Ed
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