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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 »

...drink the equivalent of 1½ oz. of liquor a day? Subtract...

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

...overweight by 50 Ibs. or more? Subtract...

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

...Subtract 4. By 10 to 30 pounds? Subtract...

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

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