Word: normale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year, has launched a pre-emptive strike on younger rivals who just can't resist sniping at his age. The GOP frontrunner's campaign has released a medical report that says he's in excellent shape for a man who will turn 72 Saturday -- with clear lungs and a normal heart and pulse, with good blood pressure and cholesterol kept in a normal range by medication. But is that enough? "Dole and his campaign are trying to be aggressive and proactive about a problem that doesn't really exist now but might flare up on them later," saysTIME's Michael...
...outward appearances, Elliot is a perfectly normal middle-aged businessman. Despite an operation a decade ago for removal of a benign brain tumor the size of a small orange, he remains intelligent and seemingly rational, with a wry sense of humor. Yet his behavior makes it clear that there is something very wrong. After years of rock-solid competence, Elliot now has trouble keeping appointments and making decisions. He has squandered much of his life savings on a series of bad investments. And, strangest of all, the very fact that his behavior is self-destructive doesn't seem to bother...
...craves information, and when it can't come by the data honestly, it does the best it can with what it has. One of his patients, for instance, a physical-therapy professor from San Antonio, Texas, suffered a brain hemorrhage that left a huge blank spot in her otherwise normal field of vision-or, rather, it would be blank if her brain allowed it. First, she saw a drawing of a cat, presumably supplied by her visual memory. "Then," says M.J. Blaschak, "I started to see flowers." Soon cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse began to appear...
...were judging from summer school, it's above our normal summer crowd," Berry said in an interview yesterday. "We are very pleased with...
...enamored of luxury boxes--and the Washington lobbyists are so eager to buy them--that the joke around the Beltway is that the new Redskins stadium, which is planned for Landover, Maryland, will have 850 luxury boxes, with a handful of standing-room spaces left over for normal people...