The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene had some discouraging words this week for XY-chromosome New Yorkers. Not only do men in this city, on average, live shorter lives than women do — that's true almost everywhere in the world — but the gender gap in life expectancy is also wider here than in the United States as a whole. Based on 2008 figures, the most recent, newborn American girls can expect to live to 81, boys to 76. The comparable numbers in the... (GunPolicy.org)