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In 1925, when American anthropologist Margaret Mead was 23 years old, she travelled to the volcanic island of Tau, in eastern Samoa, to study a group of "primitive" teenage girls. Her findings-namely that Samoan adolescents were unusually free with their bodies and their hearts-would make their way into her most famous book, Coming of Age in Samoa, three years later.

If he has no friends, or if you can't see in him the qualities you want in your children, run by By Julia Mckinnell on Monday, May 3, 2010 3:11pm - If love is blind, "marriage is like a trip to the optometrist's office," warns an 81-year-old priest from New Jersey in a new book for women designed to help them evaluate whether the man they're dating is marriage material.

In 2003, a young Mark Zuckerberg sat in front of his computer and instant-messaged a friend. Back then, "the facebook thing" was still a rough idea, and 18-year-old Zuckerberg was trying to finesse the concept. Already, he knew what he didn't want.