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From: dubois@uwmacc.UUCP (Paul DuBois)
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Subject: Re: how do you get a boy?
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Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 11:13:06 EST
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> 
>      Seeing the statistics posted by Dennis Griesser:
> 
> >                              male         female
> >                 birth         105            100
> 
>      stired a memory of a friend saying that after World War II 
> the percentage changed just a bit, more males were born.  The 
> claim was somehow "mankind" reacted to losing thousands of males.  
> Did that perecentage of males born go up after WWII?  Is this 
> docuemented somewhere?
> 
>      Henry III			UUCP: {nsc,csi}!cadtec!cate3
>      Cadtec Corp San Jose, CA   408 942 1535 x384


I don't have any documentation, but I have heard that this, too, and
also that it is a general phenomenon associated with war (which is
concomitant with large-scale male loss).

If true, then the solution to the original question is easy:

	We should have a war!


Yes, yes, I know:  ":-)"



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