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In Iceland, you never know if it could be that just-married guy taking off three to six months next year, instead of the woman with the big bad wedding ring on her finger.

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Children with Asperger's also had abnormal index-to-ring finger ratios, though less so than full-blown autistics.

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They worked out the ratio of the length of the index finger to the length of the ring finger for each child, and compared it with those of 34 of the children's healthy siblings, 88 of their fathers, 88 of their mothers, and a number of unrelated controls that were matched for sex and age.

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On the middle finger of his right hand he wore a ring with an oblong piece of faceted green glass that caught the light.

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The answer was implicit in the question, and with a resigned gesture Rousselot showed her the gold ring that was constricting his ring finger at that moment as never before.

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Instead, a simple band studded with black diamonds or black jade, worn on the right hand's ring finger, can add some oomph to a suit while still being appropriate, he says.

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They found the age range for heart attacks in men where the index finger was relatively long was 35 to 80 years of age, but in those with relatively long ring fingers it was 58 to 80.

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