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The argument for long life

Broadcast: Midday, 10/09/2008, 12:00 p.m.

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In a speech at the Chautauqua Institution this summer, Art Caplan, one of the country's leading bioethicists tried to answer the question: "Is it immoral to want to live longer, be smarter and look better?"

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