Life, The Odds: And How to Improve Them

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Chapter 1: Love and Marriage: Dating a Supermodel
Determining the odds of dating a supermodel begins with two vexing questions: how does one define a supermodel, and how many are there? Most experts (including a lot of very strange, lonely men who have established websites for this purpose) identify

Chapter 1: Being Poorly Endowed
Ask any man the three declarative sentences he most fears hearing, and the answer will always be the same: Bend over, spread your legs slightly, and cough. I think you're starting to lose some hair. You've got a small one.

Most of us have wondered about the likelihood of striking it rich, being audited by the IRS, or living to be a hundred years old. But how many of us have actually sat down and calculated the chances that we could marry a millionaire? Or that the earth could be destroyed by an asteroid?

Now, with Gregory Baer's Life: The Odds, you can find out the answers to these questions and more in a fun, freewheeling, and compulsively readable book. Baer not only gives startling statistics, but also advice for nudging fate in your favor. Readers will discover the odds of:

Gregory Baer is the coauthor of The Great Mutual Fund Trap: An Investment Recovery Plan. He has served as assistant secretary of the treasury for financial institutions, and was formerly managing senior counsel at the Federal Reserve Board. A graduate of Harvard Law School, he is now a partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm..

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