Word: normale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, Williams said that members of theHRC had exploited a November promotion to attractDemocrats to the organization. Following theNovember Republican election landslide victoriesin the House and Senate, Campbell offered membersof the Harvard Democrats an opportunity to jointhe HRC at five dollars, half of the normal price...
...their attempt to fathom the bombers' motives, many Americans discovered just how deep the paranoia runs among a small minority of their countrymen. It was easy to laugh at the wackier notions, uttered by the most normal-looking people speaking in reasoned tones: Russian troops are hidden in salt mines under Detroit waiting for their orders, the U.N. has a secret plan to disarm the public with the help of L.A. gangs. What was less easy to dismiss were those Americans who realize Janet Reno is not a paid agent of Jewish Colombian drug lords but who nonetheless...
...service. "Tim was the perfect soldier," Littleton told TIME. "I swear to God he could have been sergeant major of the Army -- he was that good of a soldier." One of his former commanders, Captain Terry Guild, 28, now stationed in Hawaii, agrees: "He was a very normal, good American serving his country." He was also a loner who never seemed to have a girlfriend, never talked about his family, and kept to the barracks reading Guns & Ammo and watching TV. His closest bond appeared to be with Terry Nichols. Says Littleton: "You could have put them with a million...
Then we meet Crumb's brothers Charles and Max, and we realize with a shudder that Robert is the normal one. Charles was the one who encouraged--forced, really--Robert to draw. Gradually Charles' own comics became choked with words, rantings in a minute hand. For 30 years now he has hardly left his mother's house. Max eats string, sits on a bed of nails, then goes begging. He felt that his elder brothers never encouraged him to create art. He finally did, saw that it was good, and had an epileptic seizure...
...adversely affected than adults are. That isn't to say there aren't severe emotional consequences. After the initial shock has worn off, children who have survived a shooting, explosion or natural disaster tend to be generally fearful, have trouble sleeping and have difficulty concentrating and carrying on their normal activities. Those who are especially sensitive to stress may suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder, in which the mind keeps replaying the trauma with terrifying realism. Others will deny the experience entirely, treating the disaster as a story, often as something that happened to someone else. Many become edgy and almost...