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From The Time We're Born, Our Brothers And Sisters Are Our Collaborators And Coconspirators, Our Role Models And Our Cautionary Tales.

It's Not Mere Extremism That Makes Folks At The Fringes So Troubling; It's Extremism Wedded To False Beliefs. Humans Have Long Been Dupes, Easily Gulled By Rumors And Flat-out Lies.

The Best You Can Sometimes Do Is Learn To Take A Breath, Count To Ten And Simply Accept That Try As You Might, No, Your Husband Will Never, Ever Learn Not To Drop A Wet Towel On The Bed. That Acceptance Too Counts As Resolving A Fight.

There's Only One Thing Harder Than Living In A Home With An Adolescent - And That's Being An Adolescent. The Moodiness, The Volatility, The Wholesale Lack Of Impulse Control, All Would Be Close To Clinical Conditions If They Occurred At Another Point In Life. In Adolescence, They're Just Part Of The Behavioral Portfolio.

Jellyfish Serve As A Model For Bioengineers For The Same Reason Yeast Were Once So Valuable To Geneticists: They're Simple To Deconstruct.