Archive for September, 2005

Researchers said that willingness to take risks depended on body height: for every centimetre the amount invested rose by 200.

Unmotivierte Naturfotografie 3
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I like Sunflowers because they are tall.The tallest ever sunflower was grown in 1986. Martien Heijms of Oirschot, The Netherlands, grew a sunflower with a total height of 7.76 m (25 ft 5 in!!)

sunflower

BBC News
A graduate whose job offer from air traffic control was retracted because of his 6ft 10in (2.08m) height, has lost an employment tribunal.
Ben Sargeaunt-Thomson, 24, of Northampton, won a coveted place to train at the National Air Traffic Control Centre in Swanwick, Hampshire.
But health and safety assessors ruled it would be “dangerous” for him […]

While research has always suggested that tall adults earn more money, University of Michigan economist Dan Silverman has found that what matters most is how tall a person was as a teenager.


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