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Women Live Longer Because Men Are Dumb

stevesliva writes "CNEWS Canada reported on Sept. 30th that, 'If men dropped their risky ways and bad habits they would live just as long as women.' The story was an interesting spin on a study by the Canadian Institute for Health Information, which spun the study very differently. (Thanks to ThisIsTrue for bringing the respun spin to my attention.)"

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  1. Re:cool quotes! by ee_moss · · Score: 2, Informative

    Sure thing! You can actually find quotes like this all over:

    http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/artic les/fee/average.html

    http://www.cei.org/gencon/029,03332.cfm

    http://www.off-road.com/green/ecoquote.html

    http://www.bloomington.in.us/~lgthscac/biblicalchr istianity'sdefinition.htm

    If you copy one of those quotes into Google, you'll come up with a whole slew of good results.

    Offtopic Stuff:
    Always good to compliment the fellow slashdotter - the sliderule thing mentioned in your sig is awesome. I got a couple sliderules and read the Log-Log Duplex Decitrig Slide Rule Manual to learn how to use them. My plan was to use a sliderule in the classes where calculators were not allowed :)

    Hopefully the sliderule will not go the way of the Abacus.. the symbols in the books that teach abacus algorithms are all forgotten; nobody knows how to use an abacus like we did at the beginning of the century. It took only 50 years of western influence (pencil and paper math) on Japan at the beginning of the 20th century for them to completely forget how to use it. Pretty amazing. Although we can at least read our former sliderule books, hardly anybody knows how to use them. And for a legitimate reason too: we have calculators.