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Germany: Life Expectancy Has Risen in East Since Reunification, Study Says
nytimes.com ^
| SEPT. 11, 2014
| REUTERS
Posted on 10/03/2014 1:26:14 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
The life expectancy of East Germans has risen sharply since their state was reunified with the more prosperous West in 1990, a new study shows. Reunification added 6.2 years to the life of men in the former East and 4.2 years to their female counterparts, according to calculations by Tobias Vogt, of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, that were published ahead of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall this year.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Society
KEYWORDS: eu; germany
The Day of German Unity (German: Tag der Deutschen Einheit) is the national day of Germany, celebrated on
3 October as a public holiday. It commemorates the anniversary of German reunification in 1990, when the goal of a unity of Germany that originated in the middle of the 19th century, was fulfilled.
To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
10/03/2014 1:35:31 AM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
('We've Got To Kill Them Like Cockroaches')
To: Berlin_Freeper
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posted on
10/03/2014 1:45:46 AM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
('We've Got To Kill Them Like Cockroaches')
To: Berlin_Freeper
So as it would appear in America's media,
"Since Unification, we're all gonna die"
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posted on
10/03/2014 1:48:33 AM PDT
by
blackdog
(There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Opening a luxury department store in Germany's poorest town doesn't seem like the brightest business idea—unless this town is Germany's easternmost settlement and the store is eyeing big spenders in neighboring Poland and the Czech Republic.
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posted on
10/03/2014 1:50:42 AM PDT
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Berlin_Freeper
('We've Got To Kill Them Like Cockroaches')
To: Berlin_Freeper
This news probably took 10 years off Zeke Emmanuel’s life.
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posted on
10/03/2014 2:20:04 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Heads surely to roll at Reuters & the NYSlimes.
This is very bad publicity for socialized medicine & ObamaCare, unless, of course, you want to die young because of the state.
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10/03/2014 4:27:22 AM PDT
by
Amagi
(Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
To: Berlin_Freeper
We freed them from Russia, and today Russia is fighting wars to re enslave them.
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10/03/2014 9:46:28 AM PDT
by
ansel12
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