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...overlooked one important ingredient in the "How Long Will You Live?'" quiz, namely: If you have one teen-ager subtract 2. If you have two, subtract 4. If you have three or more, subtract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1981 | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

Four of us communal-living, celibate, nonsmoking, diet-conscious Franciscan Mars took TIME's life-expectancy quiz conjointly. It was a puzzlement. Friar No. 1, reasoning he lived with neither spouse nor friend, subtracted 1 point. Friar No. 2, claiming Friar No. 1 as his friend, added 5. Friar No. 3, a happy sort (add 1), was unhappy (subtract 2) that Friar No. 1 was friendless. Friar No. 4, to his consternation, had passed on last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 23, 1981 | 11/23/1981 | See Source »

...following life-expectancy quiz is one of many health questionnaires now used by doctors, medical centers and insurance groups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: How Long Will You Live? | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...sighs. "Sometimes when it got slow," she says, "I would quiz myself on how many numbers I knew by heart. The last time I counted, it was 450." She gestures to the push-buttons on her console. "I know a lot of them just by the pattern of the numbers. Like I'll know a number is a box in the top corner--something like that." She stops and thinks for a moment, and then breaks out laughing. "I guess I'd be totally shot on a dial phone...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Behind the Lines: | 10/8/1981 | See Source »

...leaders shout into the quiet darkness and their voices carry easily between the H-blocks separated by about 100 ft. The men are called "scorchers," an anglicization of the Gaelic word scairt, for shout, and they fill the air with orders and questions and plain gossip. Sometimes they conduct quiz shows, asking questions about entertainment figures, geography, history. When someone wins, a cheer rises in the blackness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Ready to Die in the Maze | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

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