Says our friend and colleague, Bruce Kidd, an Olympic runner, Commonwealth Games gold medalist and sports scholar, the Olympics and organized sport would prepare young men for all this by "instilling physical and mental toughness [and] obedience to authority".
Evidence of a general association between deprivation and mortality has been found for respiratory diseases (men) and 'all causes of mortality' (men) for all the cities altogether.
They are men for all seasons, indeed.
The two men, for all their policy differences, have some similarities.
There is a 75/25 ratio in favour of men for all appearances on television by people over 50.
Unfortunately, chief executives and chairmen who are the right men for all seasons do not yet exist.
Yet that's also the revelation of the book, that the two men, for all their manifest differences, are largely, perhaps even boringly, similar.
Jack Harris, real name John Harrison, was head waiter at the Shakespear's Head, supplying women, and occasionally men, for all tastes.
Having resisted the overtures of men for all of her adult life, Haza advanced towards her 40th year unsure who she would settle down with.
Reducing New Zealand to 14 men for all but the first minute might have been a way to ensure a serious contest, but even then, it is likely that the All Blacks would have won.
In the end, perhaps the issue is not that mothers are overburdened by their children -- my husband was right when he said I liked being a mom -- but that men, for all their progress as fathers, are still missing out.
