> Or, it could be due to fudged statistics, my
> favorite explanation for
> it. I wonder how they factored out all the civilian
> dead from the
> Battle of Okinawa at the end of WW2. If they include
> those people it
> would sharply reduce average life spans. If they
> simply ignore them, it
> would make the Okinawans appear to have unusually
> long life spans.

That still would not explan why so many people on the
island reach 100+ years.

Mark


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