Just read it in today's Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090409.FASS09/TPStory/?query=world+o'+cougars
World o' cougars
Two wry views:
"[Last] month, the journal PLoS Medicine analyzed data from a study of over 50,000 pregnant women and came to a simple but stunning conclusion:
Older fathers have dumber kids," Emily Nussbaum writes in New York magazine. "... But what really caught my eye was the secondary finding, which was that older mothers were associated with smarter children.
I quickly did the calculations and was pleased with my findings. The most intelligent children, I deduced, must be the outcome of 45-year-old career women inseminated by their 21-year-old personal trainers.
At last, science has produced the case for cougars."
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"A few weeks ago, on a book tour of Australia, I found myself signing books in Sydney," novelist Alexander McCall Smith writes in The Wall Street Journal. "As the line of readers moved, two young women presented copies of books for signature.
These books were from a Scottish series I write, one featuring a heroine called Isabel Dalhousie. Isabel, who is in her early 40s, has a boyfriend considerably younger than she is - by 14 years, in fact.
As I signed their books, one of the women mentioned that she thought that this relationship between Isabel and Jamie, the younger man, was not a good idea at all.
I defended Isabel's choice. 'Why shouldn't they be together?' The answer came quickly. 'Because it's not going to go anywhere.'
'But I thought it was going rather well,' I protested. Again my reader lost no time in replying. 'No, it isn't,' she said emphatically. That was me put in my place.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090409.FASS09/TPStory/?query=world+o'+cougars
World o' cougars
Two wry views:
"[Last] month, the journal PLoS Medicine analyzed data from a study of over 50,000 pregnant women and came to a simple but stunning conclusion:
Older fathers have dumber kids," Emily Nussbaum writes in New York magazine. "... But what really caught my eye was the secondary finding, which was that older mothers were associated with smarter children.
I quickly did the calculations and was pleased with my findings. The most intelligent children, I deduced, must be the outcome of 45-year-old career women inseminated by their 21-year-old personal trainers.
At last, science has produced the case for cougars."
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"A few weeks ago, on a book tour of Australia, I found myself signing books in Sydney," novelist Alexander McCall Smith writes in The Wall Street Journal. "As the line of readers moved, two young women presented copies of books for signature.
These books were from a Scottish series I write, one featuring a heroine called Isabel Dalhousie. Isabel, who is in her early 40s, has a boyfriend considerably younger than she is - by 14 years, in fact.
As I signed their books, one of the women mentioned that she thought that this relationship between Isabel and Jamie, the younger man, was not a good idea at all.
I defended Isabel's choice. 'Why shouldn't they be together?' The answer came quickly. 'Because it's not going to go anywhere.'
'But I thought it was going rather well,' I protested. Again my reader lost no time in replying. 'No, it isn't,' she said emphatically. That was me put in my place.
