An Inclusive Litany

9/28/92

A study has found that left-handed men live 10 years less than right-handers on average, and the reasons are unclear. But the author of the study, psychologist Stanley Coren, thinks it is because of all the stress of being left-handed in a right-handed world. So he wants us to declare war on (his term) "handism"—to expand civil-rights laws to forbid discrimination against lefties.