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	Current Issue: Volume 21, Number 3 • July 2008		Return to Table of Contents
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Facts and ideas from anywhere William C. Roberts, MD, Editor in Chief Topics covered in this issue: • Our dependence on oil • The Iraqi war and Iraqi oil • Cornographic panacea • Drinking and driving • Truckers, obesity, and drowsiness • Motorcycles • Food shortage • It’s one billion by 2100 • US Hispanic population • Dallas–Fort Worth population growth • Life expectancy through the ages • Supercentenarians • Senior moment or blip or gaffe • Health records of presidential candidates • Medical emergencies in commercial airlines • National Institutes of Health • Abdominal fat and dementia • Sleep deprivation • Breast-feeding • Eroding teeth • Height vs hair • Attitudes towards pharmaceutical companies • Final advice on leaving The Wall Street Journal • Cost of health care vs costs of food, clothing, and shoes • Baseball salaries • Taxes • Cutting cigarette and alcohol consumption • Update on Medicare and Social Security • Successful vs unsuccessful marriage • St. Randy of Pittsburgh and “The Last Lecture” • Missing in action • What e-mailers might learn from pre-electronic era letter writers • Books—reading them or writing them • David McCullough on leadership • Uncovered family secret • Dallas hospitals scorecard • Gary Player

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