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Third, new databases need to be created and statistical methods developed that enable researchers to expand measures of inequality in child survival in the first two years of life to inequality in health expectancy in general.
The NYT and WP run inside stories on a fresh UN finding that in Africa, AIDS is cutting life expectancy and will reduce the continent's population within the next ten to fifteen years.
One is that--contrary to the opinion of virtually everyone else in the world--AIDS in fact hasn't reduced gay males' life expectancy by that much--a few years, at most.
And that more than makes up for the collapse of the health-care system, the declining life expectancy, the resurgent anti-Semitism, the militant nationalism, and the fighting in Chechnya."
The easy winner--and easy target--in this category is Ehrlich's 1976 The Population Bomb , a neo-Malthusian tract, which predicted a population explosion that would cause global shortages, raise prices, poison the environment, and lower life expectancy.