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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.

Jellyfish Serve As A Model For Bioengineers For The Same Reason Yeast Were Once So Valuable To Geneticists: They're Simple To Deconstruct.

Narcissism Falls Along The Axis Of What Psychologists Call Personality Disorders, One Of A Group That Includes Antisocial, Dependent, Histrionic, Avoidant And Borderline Personalities. But By Most Measures, Narcissism Is One Of The Worst, If Only Because The Narcissists Themselves Are So Clueless.

Marketers Have Long Known That A Name Can Make All The Difference When You're Trying To Move The Merch. The Kiwifruit Was Once The Chinese Gooseberry, After All - At Least Until The Produce Peddlers Wised Up - And The Chilean Sea Bass Was Once The Singularly Unappetizing Patagonian Toothfish.