In one trial, a white, goateed, middle-aged man came up as most resembling the young black comedian Chris Tucker — and onlookers exclaimed, "You know, I can see that."
Okay, I spent 25 years, in my middle-aged lungs now, breathing various concentrations of that. And on a clear day it always looked like this, so you never saw it. It was insidious and it was really happening.
In a series of interviews Rawlins did with middle-aged Americans, he found that many still considered themselves to be friends with people they hadn't been in touch with in a long time.
" The fact that cancer deaths are now twice as frequent as CVD deaths in high-income countries, " Yusuf said, " shows a change in the main cause of death in middle-aged people" .