Word: normale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What exactly does a normal child look like? We've long since passed the time when childhood was an ungraded test--take your time, build your forts, play your games, the clock does not start until high school, maybe college. We give homework in first grade now. We're very busy people. And your parents will do anything, just anything, to help you get ahead...
...severe cases so much as the borderline ones--the children who occupy that gray area between clear dysfunction and normal unruliness--who raise the tough ethical issues, both public and private. The pace at which Ritalin use has been growing has alarmed critics for a while now. Some doctors find themselves battling anxious parents who, worried that their child will daydream his future away, demand the drug, and if refused, go off to find a more cooperative physician. Some parents feel pressured to medicate their child just so that his behavior will conform a bit more to other children...
...with school officials. After evaluating Erin, they said she was not a "special needs" child and could be treated in the classroom. "The only ones who did not believe that were us and the teacher," says Tim. "ADHD does not mean you are missing a limb. She looked normal, but she was slightly...
...They make us play on a piece of dirt," Paolisaid. "It's got rocks all over it. We sufferedthree times the normal amount of injuries...
...take a third--too dangerous for a surgeon to work with all the rubbery scar tissue on the heart, like so much plastic in his hands. With an ejection fraction of 31% (the ejection fraction is the percentage of blood expelled, with each heartbeat, from the left ventricle; normal is 50% or more), with venous grafts to the left anterior descending artery and with the right coronary artery totally occluded, I have pretty much exhausted the surgical techniques available until...