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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?

Athletes Often Start Life At The Opposite End Of The Wealth And Prestige Spectrum, But As Soon As They Exhibit An Unusual Talent For Swinging A Bat Or Sinking A Free-throw They May Find That The Rules Have Been Suspended For Them. They Are Waved Through School And Into The Pros, And Incidents Of Bad Behavior Are Overlooked Or Covered Up.

There Are A Lot Of Downsides To Being Male. We Age Faster And Die Younger. But Give Us This: We're Lifetime Baby-making Machines. Women's Reproductive Abilities Start To Wane When They're As Young As 35. Men? We're Good To Go Pretty Much Till We're Dead.

Since Narcissism Is Fueled By A Greater Need To Be Admired Than To Be Liked, Psychologists Might Use That Fact As A Therapeutic Lever - Stressing To Patients That Being Known As A Narcissist Will Actually Cause Them To Lose The Respect And Social Status They Crave.

There May Be No More-radioactive Term In The English Language Than What We Now Almost Always Refer To As The 'n-word' - Itself A Coy Means Of Linguistic Sidestepping That Is A Sign Of How Perilous It Is To Utter The Thing In Full, Even In Conversations About Language.