From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"Phil Payne"  wrote in
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>> This seems to be the actual paper , note that the paper and the news
>> story
>> are from 2004..
>>
>> http://www.bc.edu/crr/issues/ib_21.pdf
>
> It isn't.
>
> http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/295/17/2037
>
>

Gee that's quite a trick for this story

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1307954,00.html

dated Sept 19 2004 to reference this study

http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/295/17/2037

Dated May 3 2006

You posted links to two different links. The one I commented on does seem
to reference the Boston study in 2004

"In another newly published paper, statisticians at Boston College
reveal that in France, Japan and Switzerland, men and women aged 65 now
live several years longer than they do in the US. Indeed, America only just
scrapes above Mexico and most East European nations."

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