Word: normale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NORMAL, Illinois: Mitsubishi Motors removed two top officials from its U.S. auto division Tuesday because they have failed to implement anti-sexual harassment policies almost a year after two class-action suits were filed against the company. Mitsubishi sacked Tsuneo Ohinouye, U.S. manufacturing division chair, and Tohei Takeuchi, president of U.S. auto sales, for not ensuring that recommended changes took place at the company's Normal, Illinois plant. The factory is the target of two still-pending suits charging that hundreds of female assembly line workers were groped, fondled and subjected to other harassment. But TIME's Bill McWhirter notes...
...will use normal security measures at tonight's forum, which will begin...
Reading is a lot like sex. People who rarely read can feel abnormal. People who read all the time can feel abnormal. And because so much reading is done in private, behind closed doors (often bedroom doors), no one really knows what normal is. A book a day? A month? A year? Do self-help books count, or only novels? What if they're on tape...
...heat on. The risk of heart attack--a major cause of postoperative death--can be cut in half by warming a patient to normal temperatures during SURGERY. Body temperature tends to plummet during an operation, which can cause arteries to constrict and blood pressure to soar. The cost of warming up? Just $15 for a special no-chill blanket...
...happen if the universe was the same in every direction. Imagine the universe as a piece of wood and the radio waves as a saw blade. Because of the differing density, the blade cuts more easily with the grain of the wood than against it. Similarly, the faster-than-normal cycling radio waves could mean a difference in density, a sort of "grain" to the universe. The radio signals emanating from Sextans seemed to have a higher magnitude of polarization than constellations at 90 degree angles. This led the team to conclude that Sextans lies along a universal axis which...