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  Office of Population Studies, United Nations http://www.un.org/esa/population/unpop.htm
Link to documents describing impact of longevity trends on world population.
  US Life Expectancy Improves http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2001pres/20011010.html
2001 press release from US Dept of Health and Human Services describing recent findings.
  senescence.info http://www.senescence.info
Informational website on Gerontology and Aging Research
  Unraveling the Secrets of Human Longevity http://longevity-science.org/
Scientific and Educational Website on Human Longevity Studies
  UK Government publications regarding life expectancy 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.
  Calculation of Life Expectancy http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LifeExpectancy.html
Concise explanation of the mathematics of life expectancy calculation with links to related concepts.
  Roman Life Expectancy http://www.utexas.edu/depts/classics/documents/Life.html
Roman Life Expectancy: calculations and caveats about accuracy.
  Innovita Research Institute http://www.innovitaresearch.org/
Research on aging, molecular concepts of aging, cloning and age-related diseases such as Alzheimers, Werner syndrome, and Parkinsons.
  Death: An Inquiry into Man's Mortal Weakness 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 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.
  Between Zeus and the Salmon 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.
  What Kills Us? Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/beh0051/
Discussion of the causes of changes in life expectancy over the last 150 years.
  Healthy Life Expectancy http://www3.who.int/whosis/hale/hale.cfm?path=whosis,hale&language=english
Offers an international comparison of disability adjusted life expectancies.
  Review of The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging 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 in near future without fundamental advances in the science of aging. (Requires registration, but is reprinted in entirety on Amazon.)

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