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The U.S. death rate rose last year for the first time in a decade. This led to the first drop in life expectancy since 1993. The typical American in 2015 can expect to live 78.8 years, down slightly...
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Work/life balance is a relatively new concept. There was a time when Americans (mostly men decades ago) were supposed to work as many hours as their employers wanted and move from place to place when...
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Life expectancy is one of the most important and commonly cited indicators of population health — and in the United States, life expectancy is falling at a historic rate. According to the...
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Because most of us have little knowledge of electrochemistry, the only thing we know about batteries in our mobile devices is that they either last a long or a short time between charges.
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Humor—and a touch of jealousy—go a long way in a 30-second advertisement.
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Cinedigm Corp. (NASDAQ: CIDM) has always been considered a speculative stock among the movies, content and video segment. Despite some major ongoing woes in the movie theater business and in the...
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Gap reported better-than-expected profits after markets closed last night as same-store sales at the company's Old Navy stores rose 8%.
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Sony’s (SNE) new Playstation 3 sold 600,000 copies in the first two days it was available in Europe. In its first full month of sales in Europe, Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox sold 500,000 units and...
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Google (GOOG) has been offering spreadsheet, word processing, and other desktop software with data stored on its servers for some time. The Microsoft (MSFT) model for its OS and Office software is...
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Life expectancy is considered a measure of progress in a society. In the United States, with life expectancy steadily rising since at least 1900, there is likely an expectation that people will live...
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“How’s life?” asks the headline on the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s evaluation of the quality of life among the world’s richest countries. As its survey reveals,...
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Wave Life Sciences has filed an amended S-1 form with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its initial public offering (IPO). The company expects to price its 5 million shares in the...
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The oldest living former president in U.S. history turns 99 today. He was diagnosed with cancer, subsequently cured, in 2015 and more recently suffered a brain bleed from a fall and a urinary tract...
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The cities where life expectancies are the shortest tend to report lower household incomes and more unhealthy behaviors than cities with longer life expectancies.
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These 10 cities had the longest life expectancies in the entire United States. They tend to have certain characteristics common.
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