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NUMBERS, FACTS AND TRENDS SHAPING YOUR WORLD

August 29, 2013
AUG. 26 - ORLANDO SENTINEL
Would you want to live to be 120?
Looking at findings from the recent Pew Research Center survey on “radical life extension,” the Orlando Sentinel points out that a majority of Americans (56%) say they would not want medical treatments that would slow the aging process and allow the average person to live decades longer. The article quotes Pew Research experts Cary Funk and David Masci, and also gets views from religious leaders and other Floridians.
 
AUG. 27 - PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
Medical treatment trumps religious beliefs, courts say
AUG. 25 - THE NEW YORK TIMES
Egypt military enlists religion to quell ranks
AUG. 25 - THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Authorities detain activists, Hindu holy men in India