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Napkin, fork, knife, plate, mobile phone — it’s the 21st century’s place setting where the mobile phone is now as ubiquitous at the dinner table as the presence of pepper and salt.

The best thing you can do in times of high stress may be the one thing you don’t want to do. That thing? Get some exercise.

Anyone who has ever endured the misery of a migraine or the agony of an infected tooth can easily relate to the images of a pounding hammer or a merciless drill. It’s as if the pain itself assumes a shape or an active image separate from the intensity of physical suffering that it engenders.

Growing older, while preferable to the alternative, is a process that most of us view with a combination of dread and more dread.

Don’t worry so much about whether you're being witty or charming. And don’t sweat the fact that you’re not looking your best before you meet your boyfriend’s grandmother or your sister’s boss for the first time.