So why do we persist with the male mid-life crisis, talk about it, believe in it?
And worst of all, women are just as likely to report a mid-life crisis as men.
In other words, the mid-life crisis is a fable - but we all love fables, don't we?
The upgrade - known as Ariane 5ME (Mid-Life Evolution) - would introduce a more powerful upper-stage engine.
EU, Mr Laqueur is right that it is having a mid-life crisis, but he exaggerates its gravity.
Hordes of mid-life baby boomers ask themselves that very question, often upon waking at 3 in the morning.
He said disadvantaged men in mid-life were facing a "perfect storm" of challenges, including unemployment and social inclusion.
So, we have a dichotomy between middle age and the mid-life crisis.
Most people read Rand when they are young and are deeply moved by her, only to outgrow her by mid-life.
Musk echoes France's position that Ariane should skip a mid-life upgrade to its vehicle and jump directly to a less expensive Ariane 6.
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Something after my mid-life crisis, I think I want to get into something I feel I missed in portraying or in going through myself personally.
It will also have a life-of-ship nuclear core for its propulsion system designed to last 40 years, which means no mid-life refueling will be required.
Martha, we learn, has fled without warning to a run-down apartment complex downtown named The Madrid and is living out a sort of post-mid-life-crisis fantasy.
The day may not be far off, then, when a dicky heart can be serviced in mid-life and made good for a few more years.
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One of the texts to her tutor had referred to a mid-life crisis, prompting him to remind her of the boundaries between a student and tutor.
And, having demolished these three pillars of the so-called mid-life crisis, we can see the final nail in its coffin comes when people are asked if they have experienced such a crisis.
The beauty of this film is that unlike others involving middle-aged men, a mid-life crisis and a woman young enough to be his daughter, theirs is a purely platonic relationship.
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"I didn't consciously think I was having some kind of mid-life meltdown, but I have made two movies with 40 in the title so that must mean something, " he laughs.
The book is as relevant to a mid-career, senior executive having a mid-life crisis as it is to an undergraduate student wrestling with what she wants to be when she grows up.
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So middle age is a very real and distinctive phenomenon, one central to the success of our species - which places it in stark contrast to the mid-life crisis, which turns out not to exist at all.
We're not sure if it's Sir Howard Stringer at the helm, or if it's just a corporate mid-life crisis, but we almost fell out of our chairs when Sony announced last year that their audio players would start supporting MP3.
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Clearwire's far too young of a company to be dealing with a mid-life crisis, but just a year or so after it really began rolling out its Clear WiMAX services in select portions of America, it appears that the outfit is changing names.
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Since 1995, Dr. Ryff and her Wisconsin team have been studying some 7, 000 individuals and examining factors that influence health and well-being from middle age through old age in a study called MIDUS, or the Mid-Life in the U.S. National Study of Americans, funded by the National Institute on Aging.
Take yet another turn and see otherwise intelligent commentators argue that since so many people cheat on their partners (20% of Americans in mid-life, according to some surveys), we should not be wringing our hands about the recent scandals but just accept them as the norm and go on about our daily lives.
Having said that, it is worth also saying that Mr Sharif is an implausible upholder of the democratic ideal, that the country now needs an impartial judiciary more than ever before, and that this episode is not the end of the story: although, at 50, Pakistan might be considered ripe for a crisis of the mid-life variety, this one had more to do with growing up than growing old.
But after the oil-price crash in the mid-1980s, life for most of the young became grim.
Apart from a few appearances with Zappa in the mid-1970s, life after the band involved little music.
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