... promised future bene-fits once the huge baby-boomer genera-tion retires. The basic cause of the shortfall resides in the awesome, glacialpressures of demographics. The pay-as-you-go concept ... called the U.S. Bur-den of Disease and Injury, by the Harvard School of Pub-lic Health, found a staggering 40-year gap between the longest-lived Americans—Asian -American women—and the shortest, ... Books, 1999. AND THE WINNER IS 114-year-old Eva Morris of Eng-land, who is currently the oldest person alive, accord-ing to the Guinness Book of Records. THE SENTINELCopyright 2000 Scientific American, ...