Living to be 100 - We still have a chance to avert crisis

DANISH researchers have predicted that more than half of the children born into comfortable circumstances today will live well into the next century.

This is a challenging and provocative forecast.

It can be put in context easily enough in this, the first decade of a new century, by pointing out that not too many people born in the first decade of the last century are alive today. If they are they are exceptional.