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Left-Handers Day celebrates creative minority What do tennis player Goran Ivanisevic and songwriter Paul McCartney have in common with Fidel Castro? Along with 10 percent of the world's population they are left-handed, according to Lauren Milsom, organiser of Monday's Left-Handers Day 2001. "It is well-known that a lot of creative people were left-handed," Milsom said. Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Jimi Hendrix and Pablo Picasso are all among them, she added. But Left-Handers Day was not merely a celebration of the creative superiority of lefties, she added. It also aimed at raising awareness of the difficulties presented by a right-handed world. "It is not a disability, but most things are so tailored to the right hand. A lot of companies are not interested -- they say it's a minority market and not commercially viable, but it's a big minority," Milsom said from her stall, which sells left-handed corkscrews, tin-openers and scissors. Left-Handers Day, featuring a recital by a left-handed concert pianist on his left-handed piano, also served to highlight the dangers left-handers faced when using power tools in the home, Milsom said. |
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