This is Population Studies No. 77 for the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs Survivorship functions vary among countries and change differently during the universal process of mortality ...

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - If Petra Nemcova's life were a movie plot, nobody would believe it. Girl grows up under Communism in the former Czechoslovakia, climbs to the top of the fashion world as one of ...

A Model Life is a reality television series hosted by model Petra Němcová. The series debuted on July 13, 2007 on TLC in the United States. It follows six young models from around the world as they ...

The University of Illinois at Chicago has received a $1.1 million, five-year grant from NASA's Astrobiology Institute to identify biosignatures of life on Titan -- Saturn's largest moon -- from either ...

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