The odds are pretty good, but the goods are pretty odd.
--Comment from an Alaskan tour guide on the eligible-male to -female ratio in Alaska, quoted by a commenter on an article in the Wall Street Journal on unnatural boy-girl ratios in Asia
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Alaskan male-to-female ratio: the deal
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