Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scent of incense around the corner and discovered that I was at the right apartment. Pausing a bit to gather myself--after all, it was not every day that I visited a psychic fair--I tiptoed nervously down the hall and entered a sunlit living room where several very normal-looking people were standing around dressed in very normal-looking clothing...
Well, that's what I felt about participating in Harvard's prefect program. Although I made friends with some freshmen I probably would not have met in the course of my normal routine, I got very little out of being a prefect, and I don't think my freshmen got much out of it, either...
Because the defective site is on the X chromosome, females (who are born with two Xs, one inherited from each parent) are less often affected by the syndrome; their normal X chromosome can mask the effects of the faulty one. But males, who have one X and one Y sex chromosome, have no such backup and are therefore more susceptible. Still, for reasons that baffle scientists, not all females are protected, and some males are spared. "About 20% of males who inherit the gene are unaffected carriers, and about a third of all females who are carriers are affected," says...
...Fragile X mutation affects the brain. Autopsy studies by IBR Director Henry Wisniewski and his colleagues have shown that the number of connections, or synapses, between brain cells in autistic children with Fragile X syndrome is unusually low and the connections that do exist are not well developed. "In normal adults the connections are short and stubby," says Brown. "In Fragile X, they are longer and thinner, as in newborns. It's as if a stage of development hadn't been achieved. They haven't made the normal contacts between cells...
...Australia, Shevardnadze sought to remove "reefs of apprehension and suspicion" about Soviet activity in the South Pacific by insisting that his country seeks only normal diplomatic and commercial relations. Despite his avowed desire for peace and stability, Southeast Asian nations expressed concern over Soviet support of Hanoi, which invaded Kampuchea in 1978. The / six-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations backs the anti-Vietnamese coalition of Kampuchean guerrillas...