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To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.
Robin Marantz Henig
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The music that was popular in your youth seems to be the music you recall most vividly - and most nostalgically - for the rest of your life. But so is the music that was popular in your parents' youth.
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The tenuousness of modern life can make anyone feel overwrought.
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Some people, no matter how robust their stock portfolios or how healthy their children, are always mentally preparing for doom. They are just born worriers, their brains forever anticipating the dropping of some dreaded other shoe.
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Anxiety is not fear, exactly, because fear is focused on something right in front of you - a real and objective danger.
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There's very little about being in a functional-M.R.I. scanner that is natural: you are flat on your back, absolutely still, with your head immobilized by pillows and straps. The scanner makes a dreadful din, which headphones barely muffle.
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When a trait is universal, evolutionary biologists look for a genetic explanation and wonder how that gene or genes might enhance survival or reproductive success.
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Parents bobble between a nostalgia-infused yearning for their children to play and fear that time spent playing is time lost to more practical pursuits.
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For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill.
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The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered.
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Biology sets the context, and that is critical, but obesity still boils down to whether a person eats too much or exercises enough.
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Many of us are tethered to bodies that sabotage us in our struggle to keep from getting fat, or to slim down when we do.
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