Feb 1, 2015
The island where people forgot to die. Why do people on a small Greek island live so long, reaching 90 nearly four times as often as their American counterparts?
In 1943, a Greek war veteran named Stamatis Moraitis came to the United States for treatment of a combat-mangled arm. He’d survived a gunshot wound, escaped to Turkey and eventually talked his way onto the Queen Elizabeth, then serving as a troopship, to cross...
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