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Spare A Thought For The Poor Introverts Among Us. In A World Of Party Animals And Glad-handers, They're The Ones Who Stand By The Punch Bowl. In A World Of Mixers And Pub Crawls, They Prefer To Stay Home With A Book. Everywhere Around Them, Cell Phones Ring And E-mails Chime And They Just Want A Little Quiet.

The Families Of Many Athletes - Incensed At The Sports Leagues And Hoping To Make Games Safer Overall - Are Increasingly Making The Brains Of Players Who Die Prematurely And Suspiciously Available For Study. Some Athletes Are Even Making The Bequest Themselves.

There Are A Lot Of Ways To Make People Not Like You, But One Of The Most Powerful - If Least Fair - Is To Be Really, Really Successful. Nobody Resents The Guy Who Just Lost His Job. But The Guy Whose Internet Start-up Made Him A Billionaire At 25? That's A Whole Different Kettle Of Envy.

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.

Never Mind What You've Heard. Halle Berry Was Not The First Black Woman To Win An Academy Award For Best Actress. She Was Actually The 74th White One. And Never Mind All This Talk About America Electing Its First Black President; Barack Obama Is Actually The 44th White Man To Hold The Job.