A Head Above

At times like this, I wish I were Dutch.
[edit] Hurray for links that don't work... Must be a great news site 8-). Anywayz, here's another one (although less fun to read), and also some bits posted below here in case this link goes wacko too.

The New World has lost its superiority over the Old - at least in terms of physical stature - and John Komlos has the evidence. His records, including files on runaway slaves, indentured servants and West Point graduates, bear testament to the US decline.

"Americans have stopped growing while Europeans are increasing in height at quite a pace," said Professor Komlos, a leading anthropometric historian who studies such development.

He has discovered, for instance, that American men were nearly eight centimetres taller than the Dutch in the 1800s. Now the tables have turned, and the Dutch - the tallest people in Europe, with an average height of around 1.85 metres - stand eight centimetres above Americans.

They're not kidding either..















And this guy's take on it is simply hilarious

In yet another blow to its global ego, the United States must now face the fact that it no longer grows the world's tallest people. The news from Europe is that Americans have been overtaken by those cheesemakers, the Dutch.

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How can this be? Their country is barely watertight. They live hedonistic lives and even smoke marijuana at will. Eveyone else has to hide it. Let's not even talk about their language. Researchers are now trying to figure out how they got to the top of the tree.