It also helps to explain something I found a little odd a couple of months back when I did a piece for them.

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But as the UK has got safer and healthier, the force-of-mortality has been decreasing for decades, so that life expectancy has been rising at about three months a year - it's odd to think we have been essentially ageing only nine months for each year that passes.

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The timing of this threat looks particularly odd: even Soviet hawks used to wait for six months after an American election to make big statements of military strategy.

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The Independence stadium in Lusaka, once the pride of the nation but neglected for most of its 40-odd years, has been out of action for several months due to its dilapidated state.

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Hue is also the launching pad for an odd kind of travel that has been gaining popularity and will likely soar in coming months: war tourism.

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