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Men want hot women, study confirms

WASHINGTON (AP) – Science is confirming what most women know: When given the choice for a mate, men go for good looks.

And guys won’t be surprised to learn that women are much choosier about partners than they are.

“Just because people say they’re looking for a particular set of characteristics in a mate, someone like themselves, doesn’t mean that is what they’ll end up choosing,” Peter M. Todd, of the cognitive science program at Indiana University, Bloomington, said in a telephone interview.

Researchers led by Todd report that in Tuesday’s edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that their study found humans were similar to most other mammals, “following Darwin’s principle of choosy females and competitive males, even if humans say something different.”

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Study affirms that rock stars more likely to die young than regular folk
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LONDON (AP) — Living fast and dying young has long been part of rock ‘n’ roll lore.
And now there are statistics that affirm the image, according to a study released Tuesday. Researchers at Liverpool John Moores University, whose report appeared in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, studied a sample of North American and British rock and pop stars and concluded they are more than twice as likely to die a premature death as ordinary citizens of the same age.
The team studied 1,064 stars from the rock, punk, rap, R&B, electronic and new age genres in the “All Time Top 1,000” albums published in 2000. They compared each artist’s age at death with that of European and U.S. citizens of similar backgrounds, sex and ethnicity.
Mark Bellis, leader of the study, said his research showed the stereotype of rock stars was true - recreational drugs and alcohol-fuelled parties take a toll.
The report found that, between two and 25 years after the onset of fame, the risk of death was two to three times higher for music stars than for members of the general population matched for age, sex, nationality and ethnic background.

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Scientists have proven that choosy women are waiting for rock stars who, most unfortunately, drop dead before they can be snagged.

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… or that sharing alimony with seven to eleven other ex-wives isn’t that good a deal… nor is having idiots with cameras foloowing you everywhere… and we do mean “everywhere”. :astonished:

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Reminds me of another study some years back wherein it was found that young, healthy, good-looking people with a lot of money are generally happier than everyone else. Who’d have thought it?

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The first article mentions the name of a researcher at Indiana University at Bloomington. When I was attending school there in the 60’s, there was a wooded area near our dormitories that was named after the sex researcher,Alfred Kinsey, who also had his headquarters on the IU campus. Most of the related research that I know anything about took place in Kinsey Hollow after the sun went down.

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Well I dunno about that, I’m bloody miserable.









But at least I’m young.