Word: biostatistician
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...jolt to be told by the experts that human beings have taken life about as far as it can go. That is the sobering conclusion of a report in Science magazine last week by demographer S. Jay Olshansky and gerontologist Christine Cassel of the University of Chicago and biostatistician Bruce Carnes of Argonne National Laboratory. Barring an unexpected breakthrough in basic science that would forestall the aging process, they say, the era of rapid increases in human longevity has come to an end -- at least in developed countries. Even if science could eliminate heart disease and cancer -- which account...