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US Life Expectancy Improves (Popularity:

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http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2001pres/20011010.html
2001 press release from US Dept of Health and Human Services describing recent findings.

Death: An Inquiry into Man's Mortal Weakness (Popularity:

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http://library.thinkquest.org/16665/expectancy.htm
The life expectancy page within a much larger effort to put mortality into perspective.

Premature Death in the New Independent States (Popularity:

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http://www.nap.edu/books/0309057345/html/156.html
Causes of increased deaths in former states of the USSR. Book chapter viewable online at National Academy Press site.

Office of Population Studies, United Nations (Popularity:

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http://www.un.org/esa/population/unpop.htm
Link to documents describing impact of longevity trends on world population.

Calculation of Life Expectancy (Popularity:

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http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LifeExpectancy.html
Concise explanation of the mathematics of life expectancy calculation with links to related concepts.

What Kills Us? Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Popularity:

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http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/beh0051/
Discussion of the causes of changes in life expectancy over the last 150 years.

Healthy Life Expectancy (Popularity:

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http://www3.who.int/whosis/hale/hale.cfm?path=whosis,hale&language=english
Offers an international comparison of disability adjusted life expectancies.

Innovita Research Institute (Popularity:

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http://www.innovitaresearch.org/
Research on aging, molecular concepts of aging, cloning and age-related diseases such as Alzheimers, Werner syndrome, and Parkinsons.

Unraveling the Secrets of Human Longevity (Popularity:

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http://longevity-science.org/
Scientific and Educational Website on Human Longevity Studies

Between Zeus and the Salmon (Popularity:

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http://www.nap.edu/books/0309057876/html/index.html
Online version of multi-author book describing biology and demography of longevity. Book can be ordered from National Academy Press.

Review of The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging (Popularity:

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http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/344/12/941
Generally favorable review of a book by Olshansky and Carnes that argues that large increases in life expectancy are unlikely ...

UK Government publications regarding life expectancy (Popularity:

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http://www.statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nscl.asp?ID=7528
Topics of interest include Excel spreadsheets for life expectancy calculation as well as population statistics.

Life expectancy of Aboriginal and Torres Straits Islander Peoples (Australia (Popularity:

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http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/0/cd784ff808c14658ca256bcd008272f6?OpenDocument
Age specific death rates and life expectancies. Comparative causes of death.

senescence.info (Popularity:

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http://www.senescence.info
Informational website on Gerontology and Aging Research

Roman Life Expectancy (Popularity:

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http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/Life.html
Roman Life Expectancy: calculations and caveats about accuracy.

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