Word: normale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some townspeople cite the controversy surrounding a proposed "overlay zone" to limit the height of buildings in Harvard Square as the best example of their grievance with the University. The petition won six out of nine votes, enough for passage of a zoning change under normal circumstances. But the circumstances weren't normal--antiquated state law allows the owner of 20 per cent of the property in an affected area to file an objection demanding a seventh vote in the city council. Harvard exercised its option, a seventh vote was nowhere to be found, and the overlay failed...
...unexpected relief this January, when the state fire marshall rushed to the Science Center to dilute a batch of nitroglycerine prepared by a freshman working on science experiments. The building was evacuated in mid-exam, the nitro was defused, and before long the college was back to mid-winter normal--and more exams...
...dusty, steamy Abadan, where temperatures routinely hover at 100° F and the airport VIP lounge has lately been converted into a mosque, an air of normality appears to have returned. But life is anything but normal inside the world's largest refinery (capacity: 630,000 bbl. per day) in the heart of the city. Members of the workers' council argue interminably. Said one welder after a particularly boisterous session: "Nobody can make any decisions. All anybody does is talk...
...behavior is based on the same drives found in extreme form in sexual perverts. In fact, Stoller says, "we try to make the outlandish folk function as scapegoats for the rest of us, but anyone-not just analysts-who collects erotic thoughts knows that many citizens, avowedly heterosexual, conspicuously normal... are also rilled with hatred and wishes, if not plans, to harm others...
Nothing has done as much to revolutionize treatment of serious mental illness as the development of drugs like Thorazine. Since their introduction about a generation ago, these powerful antipsychotics have freed tens of thousands of patients from the despair of mental institutions. Some patients have even resumed normal, useful lives. Yet as important as the miracle drugs have been, they are not without serious drawbacks...