Marriage and other terrorism

Last week we learned that the old adage (well, said in a Newsweek magazine back in June 1986) that a 30 year old woman had only a 20 per cent chance of getting married, 35 year olds only five per cent and by the time you were 40 and still single that you were more likely to be killed by a terrorist than get hitched is not in fact true: the study on which the 1986 "Marriage Crunch" piece was based has been exposed as flawed. The actual truth is that you are more likely to be killed by a policeman (especially if you are ‘foreign’ and in your pyjamas).