Must reads

• An August 6, 2013 Washington Post article reported on a new poll by the Pew Research Center that "found most Americans wouldn’t want a treatment that would let them live to 120. Fifty-six percent said no thanks — although two-thirds expect most other people would want to try such a step." According to the article, "When asked about living to 120 or beyond, the survey found 51 percent of people said that would be bad for society. They worried about a strain on natural resources, and that such treatments probably would be available only to the rich rather than to everyone…With a rapidly graying population that is bringing concern about the growth of Alzheimer’s disease and an overburdened Medicare system, caution about the idea of one day living even longer may not be surprising." More from the Pew Research Center on expanded life here. 

• An August 6, 2013 blog post by the Associated Press' Russell Contreras reported on the death of Texas civil rights leader David Adame, who helped to organize the first meeting between a U.S. President and a Latino group. According to the article, "David Adame, a Houston-area Mexican-American civil rights leader, who helped organized the historic meeting between President John F. Kennedy and LULAC the night before the president was assassinated, died Tuesday, LULAC National President Margaret Moran announced. Adame was 95 and had been suffering for Alzheimer’s Disease."

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