Description: The article presents statistics for Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces per 1,000 Population for the years 1972, 1975, 1978 and 1981. It also contains another table with motor vehicle deaths for the same years.

Description: This is a reprint of a 'tongue-in-cheek' letter that appeared in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association about correlation between life expectancy and the length of life lines.

Description: This article contains responses from five actuaries to a request for an explanation of how the 15% figure is calculated in the contention by unisex-pricing advocates that 15% of women live longer than men, but 100% of women are penalized.

Description: Brown, who has used this book for two years at University of Waterloo, provides his review.

Description: Society of Actuaries research efforts currently in development

Description: Discussion of the need to understand the implications of demographic and family diversity for the design of retirement programs. The design of retirement programs is a design of programs for the elderly, who are more often women, because women live longer and because their work histories often lead to reduced levels of pension and social security benefits.

Description: This is an article regarding a trip the author took in search of centenarians in a remote area of Pakistan.

Description: Article announcing a revised edition of Introduction to Demography.

Description: This article is a book review of Gerald T. Gruman's, A History of Ideas about the Prolongation of Life, which gives an historical view of the desire to extend the human life span.