Imagine that our country is under threat of imminent nuclear attack. You must make the important decision of who to let into the nearest fall-out shelter. There are 12 people vying to get in, but you can choose only five. Your choices include:

a 40-yr-old violinist who is a suspected narcotics pushera 60-yr-old architecta 26-yr-old lawyer who will only go in if he can bring his wifethe lawyer's 24-yr-old wife who has just gotten out of a mental hospitala 70-yr-old rabbia 34-yr-old retired prostitute who was so successful that she has been living on her annuities for five yearsa 12-yr-old girl with a below-average IQa male high school student who needs a wheelchair to get arounda 20-yr-old gang membera 23-yr-old female Catholic graduate student who speaks publicly on the virtues of chastitya 28-yr-old male physicist who will only come into the shelter if he can bring his guna 19-yr. old college student who has just come out of the closet