Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Afghan officials put a brave face on the fighting even while issuing contradictory statements. Sulayman Laeq, Minister for Tribal Affairs and Nationalities, reported early last week that the "security of the Gardez- Khost highway has now been ensured" and "traffic is now normal." Two days later, however, Radio Kabul said that "fierce" and "heavy" fighting was raging on the highway. On New Year's Eve, the station reported victory again and said that bunting-clad relief trucks were rolling into Khost...
...obsessed with getting out of here," says Krabacher. "I didn't want that." Instead, she sought help at a local clinic, where she received a novel prescription: sit in front of a bank of bright lights for several hours a day. Within a week she was back to her normal sunny self. Says Krabacher, who now basks in fake sunlight each day at the desk in her office: "I'm finally having a good winter up here...
...sexual differentiation works, Page and his team decided in 1981 to study the sex chromosomes of people who are genetically abnormal: men with two X chromosomes and women with an X and a Y. Despite the genetic reversal, the XX men and XY women, although infertile, appeared normal. The scientists showed that one X chromosome in these men always had a tiny bit of Y attached, while the women's Y chromosomes always lacked that same tiny bit. The TDF gene, they figured, must be contained in that fragment, which sometimes breaks off from...
...Medvedev: "A regional party first secretary who was intelligent and congenial would have been considered untypical. If Gorbachev had yelled, sworn, been a heavy drinker or a high liver with a rest house outside of town where officials could be entertained by pretty waitresses, that would have been considered normal behavior...
...traditional-style marriage was expected, among other things, to buttress Bhutto's image as a "normal" Pakistani woman. Still, some allies were concerned that the union with Zardari, a onetime playboy, could damage Bhutto's political career. Not so, averred Bhutto, who added, "I'd certainly like to have a family...