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		<title>By: Michael Higgins</title>
		<link>http://retrovirus.com/brunch/2003/05/musical-chairs/comment-page-1/#comment-46</link>
		<dc:creator>Michael Higgins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Fear not.  If statistics hold, 49% of your soon-to-be-married friends will get a divorce, and re-enter the narrative of youth (in a somewhat more creaky way).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In other depressing news, &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;http://web.archive.org/web/19970124154801/latifundium.res.cmu.edu/~higgins/&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Is archived from 1997, but the original design is circa early &#039;94 (with fancy updates like image alignment and image maps as the technology became available).  I appear to have become either busy or bored around 1996.  My design sense has no doubt matured since then, but my design capacity probably hasn&#039;t...  check the reference to Mosaic!&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fear not.  If statistics hold, 49% of your soon-to-be-married friends will get a divorce, and re-enter the narrative of youth (in a somewhat more creaky way).</p>
<p>In other depressing news, </p>
<p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19970124154801/latifundium.res.cmu.edu/~higgins/" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/19970124154801/latifundium.res.cmu.edu/~higgins/</a></p>
<p>Is archived from 1997, but the original design is circa early &#8217;94 (with fancy updates like image alignment and image maps as the technology became available).  I appear to have become either busy or bored around 1996.  My design sense has no doubt matured since then, but my design capacity probably hasn&#8217;t&#8230;  check the reference to Mosaic!</p>
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		<title>By: Nick</title>
		<link>http://retrovirus.com/brunch/2003/05/musical-chairs/comment-page-1/#comment-47</link>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;...49% of your soon-to-be-married friends will get a divorce...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But here&#039;s a cheery fact:  I read somewhere that the longer men wait to get married, the less likely they are to have their wives divorce them.  Male critters typically seek &quot;health&quot; in a mate, while female critters screen contenders for &quot;status.&quot;  And people tend to increase in social status as they get older.  &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sure enough--according to that article, anyway--men tend to leave women for healthier partners (young, spunky types); women leave men for higher-status partners (suits, drug dealers).  So, up to a point, time increases a man&#039;s odds.   &lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;49% of your soon-to-be-married friends will get a divorce&#8230;</p>
<p>But here&#8217;s a cheery fact:  I read somewhere that the longer men wait to get married, the less likely they are to have their wives divorce them.  Male critters typically seek &#8220;health&#8221; in a mate, while female critters screen contenders for &#8220;status.&#8221;  And people tend to increase in social status as they get older.  </p>
<p>Sure enough&#8211;according to that article, anyway&#8211;men tend to leave women for healthier partners (young, spunky types); women leave men for higher-status partners (suits, drug dealers).  So, up to a point, time increases a man&#8217;s odds.   </p>
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