Word: normale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make traditional exploration and analysis difficult, if not impossible. Says A.B. ("Pete") Slaybaugh, chief of Continental Oil's exploration team in the area: "Frequently we find ourselves drilling through more than one layer of soil, shale and rock, only to find another layer of the same. With a normal well there is usually only one layer. Mother Nature didn't do us any favors...
Tatum seems jaded just now; she is on the outs with a childhood buddy ("You can't be friends with people who are not in the business; they are basically jealous"), and thinks that drugs and surfing, the normal amusements of rich, 15-year-old Los Angeles kids, are time wasters. "I think it is best that I grew up as fast as I did," she says. "I have a productive thing going. Those poor kids have nothing. Their parents leave them with maids...
...that music be banned from national broadcasting. "Worse than opium," he said, "music is among the elements that stultify the mind of our youth." Television and radio officials said they would go along with the ban for the holy month but would decide later whether or not to resume normal musical programs...
...shows little shyness. It boldly confronts the isolation and private logic of madness, and shows how aberration, anguish and longing can be turned into lucid fiction. Beyond this, Frame has a satiric grasp of the absurdities that pass for normal. Intensive Care (1970), for example, is about a future welfare tyranny in New Zealand where tranquilizers are put in the water supply, and all the grass and trees are plastic. Visions of brave new worlds are many, but Frame makes them newer with a brew of personal lyricism, broad cultural allusion and sudden chills...
Somatotropin is one of the body's important chemicals. Produced by the tiny pituitary gland at the base of the brain, it promotes normal physical growth, hence its other name, human growth hormone (HGH). The chemical is vital in the treatment of a certain form of dwarfism. Unless children who are deficient in the hormone receive injections of HGH, they rarely reach five feet in height. The supply, however, is severely limited: somatotropin can only be obtained from cadavers, and about 50 of the pea-sized glands are needed to treat just one child for a year (cost...