The effect is so strong that since 2000 US White non-Hispanic men and women (of both classes) in mid-life have experienced continual increases in mortality and morbidity, while US Blacks and US ...

As my thinking progressed, I realised that there was also a moral problem. We are not immortal. When we borrow for today’s ...

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Between 1942 and 1945, four refugees from Vienna each published a ground-breaking – seminal – book.* They left their country after Austria was taken over by fascists in 1934 and by Nazi Germany in ...

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