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The Death of Dying

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Friday, December 22, 2006

We’re living longer than we used to, but that’s not necessarily a good thing. Atlantic Monthly writer Charles Mann says our coming death shortage will cause problems we’ve never imagined. Plus: New York City Housing and Preservation commissioner Shaun Donovan and a history of girls in college.

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Hevesi Out?

Bob Hardt, executive producer and political editor, NY1
- on the expected resignation of Alan Hevesi

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Housing Matters

Shaun Donovan, commissioner of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development
- on the 421A housing tax break

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Who are we?

Sam Roberts, reporter, columnist and editor for The New York Times, and author of Who We Are Now: The Changing Face of American in the Twenty-first Century (Times Books 2004)
- on what the new abstract census says about Americans

Who We Are Now available for purchase ...

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Science Times

Charles Mann discusses his essay The Coming Death Shortage
-on how increasing longevity will impact health care, family relationships, and the economy.
Charles Mann's website

The Best American Science Writing 2006 available for purchase at Amazon.com

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Bachelorette of Arts

Lynn Peril, author College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Coeds, Then and Now (W.W. Norton, 2006)
- on the social history of women attending college

College Girls available for purchase at Amazon.com

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