There will soon be fewer men than women in the U.S., figured the Census Bureau. For 33 years the proportion of U.S. males to females has narrowed. Each year, with 100,000 fewer men, the U.S. has acquired 100,000 more spinsters. In 1910, men outnumbered women by 2,800,000. Soon some time this year women will be in the majority, regardless of war casualties. The U.S. will then be classed by census experts as an "elder" nation (in a "youthful" nation, men predominate).
One explanation: in three and a half decades, science has...
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