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I didn't see in this article a fact I am checking now,

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a916131954&...

that fully one-half of girls born this year or later in the developed world will live to the age of 100. Male life expectancy for boys born after the year 2000 is also well into nine decades of life.

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Here's the full text of the article (no registration or cost, as opposed to the previous link):

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2772142/

That's not a fact, it's a prediction.

Yeah, I know what you mean, but if you accept the statements that

a) global warming will continue

or

b) human population will continue to increase for a few more decades

or

c) the sun will rise tomorrow

you know in what sense I can take a statement about the future as a fact.

Here's a link to a popular account of research on this issue:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8284574.stm

Here are links to research articles:

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7288/pdf/nature08...

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