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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.

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.

Part-black Generally Means All-black In Americans' Minds. Just As Part-asian Or Part-hispanic Or Part-anything-else Usually Puts Individuals In Those Minority-groups' Camps.

There's A Deep-freeze Of Sorts For All Good Intentions - A Place That You Store Your Plans To Make Changes In Your Life When You Know You're Not Going To Make Them At All.

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.