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Mixing Drinks, Adding Class
Even for the New York Times this seems a little snooty: "In my opinion, if you don’t have a bartender at your party, you’re a loser". Of course that was from a guy who "said his job was to get models and Saudi royalty into hot clubs"
Sexual Partner Divorce Risk
The study's graph of the correlation of the number of sexual partners a person has and divorce is kind of interesting.
The Politics of Fear
Drives home the point that it's not just conservatives who could be spoken of as invoking the politics of fear
Canadians tend to fib about church attendance: Research
" ... while Europeans report their religious attendance more or less accurately, there's a big gap between what Canadians and Americans say and what they do."