The Modal Age at Death and the Shifting Mortality Hypothesis • Vladimir Canudas-Romo, University of California, Berkeley

Convergence of the Aging Rates for Healthy and Unhealthy Elderly at Advanced Ages • Aliaksandr Kulminski, Duke University ; Svetlana V. Ukraintseva, Duke University ; Kenneth C. Land, Duke University ; Kenneth G. Manton, Duke University

Testing the Influenza-Tuberculosis Selective Mortality Hypothesis in Australia • Andrew Noymer, University of California, Berkeley

The Triumph of Cohort Effects in the Explanation of Mortality Change: A New Age-Period-Cohort Analysis of Adult Cause-Specific Mortality in the United States • Yang Yang, University of Chicago