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There's No Such Thing As Downtime For Your Brain.

Never Mind What You've Heard. Halle Berry Was Not The First Black Woman To Win An Academy Award For Best Actress. She Was Actually The 74th White One. And Never Mind All This Talk About America Electing Its First Black President; Barack Obama Is Actually The 44th White Man To Hold The Job.

Marriage Is A Lot Of Things - A Source Of Love, Security, The Joy Of Children, But It's Also An Interpersonal Battlefield, And It's Not Hard To See Why: Take Two Disparate People, Toss Them Together In Often-confined Quarters, Add The Stresses Of Money And Kids - Now Lather, Rinse, Repeat For The Rest Of Your Natural Life. What Could Go Wrong?

When You Learn Conflict-resolution Skills In The Playroom, You Then Practice Them On The Playground, And That In Turn Stays With You. If You Have A Combative Sibling Or A Physically Intimidating, Older Sibling, You Learn A Lot About How To Deal With Situations Like That Later In Life. If You're An Older Sibling And You Have A Younger Sibling Who Needs Mentoring Or Is Afraid Of The Dark, You Develop Nurturing And Empathic Skills That You Wouldn't Otherwise Have.

The Families Of Many Athletes - Incensed At The Sports Leagues And Hoping To Make Games Safer Overall - Are Increasingly Making The Brains Of Players Who Die Prematurely And Suspiciously Available For Study. Some Athletes Are Even Making The Bequest Themselves.