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Have we ever heard so much about silver bullets as in recent times? Not that anyone is being over-optimistic about the power of the famed SB... far from it.

I had a grim week this summer. I stopped drinking coffee.

With great hair, perfect makeup and huge CVs, they're the world's new powerful females. But forget tired old feminist notions. This lot still want to change things, but differently - via conscious evolution.

Feeling stressed or stuck? Here's a solution from author/editor Lindsey Dawson

Lindsey contemplates what exactly a trillion is.

Once it was acronyms that drove us nuts. Well, they still do. I'm forever stumbling over clumps of letters that mean nothing to me. Now we're also being faced with the challenge of understanding itty-bitty letters.

I'm thinking of setting up meetings with all the people who have invaded my privacy.

In a TIME magazine list of the top 10 graphic novels for last year, I found this picture of the number three book on the list, by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely. It's Superman, but not as we know him.

Quentin Crisp once said: "The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another."

You know how it is when the friendly waitperson offers the dessert menu - and everyone hesitates? No-one wants to be first to mutter, "Oh, go on then", even if you are secretly hanging out for crème brûlée or chocolate mud cake. Or pudding. Yay, pudding!