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When We're Awake, Cortisol Can Fragment Memories - One Reason Eyewitness Crime Scene Accounts Are So Unreliable. But At Night That Very Fragmentation Allows Creative Recombinations Of Ideas.

There's Plenty To Read About Keeping Your Sanity While Raising Children, But It's All Common-sense Stuff About Task Division And Taking Breaks And The Relentlessly Repeated Magic Of Date Night With Your Spouse. What's Missing Is Some 'tude.

There's A Universe Inside Your Head - A Place Of Pictures And Passions, Of Songs And Sorrows. It's Everything You Are - And It's An Utter Mystery.

There's A Sort Of Sibling Moratorium When You're Establishing Yourself As An Adult. So Much Of Your Energy Has To Be Focused On Other Things Like Work And Kids. But When People Become More Settled, Siblings Tend To Regroup Because Now You're Building A New Extended Family.

Operating-room Errors Hold A Special Terror For Patients, If Only Because They Seem Like The Most Avoidable Kind Of Complications. The Occasional Horror Stories Of Patients Who Have The Wrong Leg Removed Or The Wrong Knee Replaced Generate The Most Headlines, As Do Tales Of Patients Whose Identities Are Mixed Up Entirely.