The Malaysian Insider :: Features
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| Women like their men tall, but not too tall Posted: 17 Jan 2013 03:29 PM PST  The world's tallest man, Sultan Kosen, poses next to school children at an event in London September 16, 2009. — Reuters pic Researchers from Groningen University in the Netherlands analyzed data based on the Millennium Cohort Study of parents of almost 19,000 babies born in the UK in 2000. They found that in more than nine out of ten couples, the man was taller than the woman. Differences in height were on average about 14cm. A previous 1980 study of US and UK couples found that in only one out of 720 couples was the female taller than the male. Because women are on average shorter than men, chance predicts that the occurrence of couples in which the female is taller is two out of 100, 14 times higher than the findings observed in that study, wrote the Dutch researchers. But researchers note that while women prefer tall men, they do not want them too tall. Couples in which the male was more than 25cm taller than the woman were rarer than expected by chance. Interestingly, women preferred larger height differences than men, but tall women and short men preferred smaller height differences, while short women and tall men preferred larger differences. The findings were published yesterday in the journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) One. Past research has also found that taller men are more likely to be married and tend to have more children than shorter men. — AFP/Relaxnews |
| Antarctica and a llama for UK queen in jubilee year Posted: 17 Jan 2013 03:24 PM PST  Queen Elizabeth records her Christmas message from Buckingham Palace in London December 7, 2012. — Reuters pic Foreign leaders, emissaries, luxury goods businesses and members of the public gave the British monarch a treasure trove of gifts from jewels given by the Emir of Kuwait to a wind chime from a nursery school near her Sandringham estate, according to a list released by Buckingham Palace. The list documents more than 140 gifts given to the queen in honour of her 60 years on the throne from world leaders such as US President Barack Obama (1950s Tiffany & Co silver compact) to the president of Sri Lanka (a portrait and a special box of tea). Unsolicited gifts included 436 books, 235 CDs and DVDs, 81 pieces of embroidery or knitting — including a tea cosy of the queen with her corgis — 78 portraits of the queen, 40 digital photograph books, 28 wall hangings or bunting, 19 tea towels and nine jigsaws. Other gifts included honorary ownership of a baby llama and adoption of a baby Asian elephant. Her husband Prince Philip also received a number of gifts over the period including Swarovski binoculars, a wooden cigar box from the King of Jordan, a "Highland Gentleman" made from biscuits, beer and a large gold sword in a leather box Buckingham Palace release a list every year detailing gifts received by the queen and the royal family, although a separate list is released for heir-to-the-throne Charles and his children. — Reuters |
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