Be able to suffer wearing a necktie or slightly high heels for an entire evening without complaint or early removal.

Think of a hypothesis as a card. A theory is a house made of hypotheses.

Know how to garnish food so that it is more appealing to the eye and even more flavorful than before.

One of the few articles of clothing that a man won't try to remove from a woman is an apron.

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors. Behind one door is a car, the others, goats. You pick a door, say #1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say #3, which has a goat. He says to you: 'Do you want to pick door #2?' Is it to your advantage to switch your choice of doors?

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.