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A new model to predict the life expectancy of older people relies less on their specific disease diagnoses and more on factors such as the ability to grocery shop, the amount of certain small cholesterol particles circulating in their blood, and whether they never or only occasionally smoked. The findings provide a way to predict whether a person over the age of 70 is likely to live two, five or 10 years. "This study was designed to determine the proximal causes of longevity—the factors that portend whether someone is likely to live two more years or 10 more years," said...

by Mark Finkelstein February 17, 2006 - 08:51 Openness is for other people. In the wake of the Cheney flap in which the MSM vented its fury over the Veep's failure to disclose facts rapidly enough to suit their taste, and in where even dark cover-up theories were floated, it seems more than a little ironic that an MSM icon has refused to reveal her age, even though that fact was very relevant for the story she was covering. Barbara Walters has been guest-hosting on Good Morning America this week, and this morning conducted a segment on an index that...

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