Word: normale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...normal year, politicians would scramble to be seen with a President whose job-approval ratings have remained over 60%. But in Raleigh, N.C., Democratic freshman Bob Etheridge proudly boasts that Tipper Gore will be appearing at a fund raiser for him this week and grows evasive when asked whether he'd like a similar favor from the Commander in Chief. "I ran my own campaign last time, and we plan to do the same thing this time," he says. His reluctance is understandable, given the fact that Etheridge recently became the first Democrat to be the target of a television...
Such cycles occur every several decades. Researchers emphasize that both phases, active and quiet, are normal, but that's not very reassuring. Even if the next high-intensity phase of hurricane activity is simply a replay of the last such period, it will wreak far more destruction. Reason: a frenzy of coastal construction has brought huge populations to live at America's beaches and barrier islands--people with no conception of what it's like to sustain a direct hit from a truly powerful hurricane...
...where New York and New Jersey meet, the New York Bight, would amplify the effects of a storm surge to the point where even a modest hurricane could generate deadly flooding in lower Manhattan. "That right angle, believe it or not, can cause 30 ft. of storm surge above normal tide conditions," says Donald Lewis, a hurricane-evacuation expert based in Miami who worked on the New York City study. "The same storm in other parts of the country might cause only a 14- or 15-ft. surge...
...many students were at first horrified, then angry at Cash, and finally resigned to doing nothing. "I personally think he's a psycho, but I'm not sure there's legal ground," said a student. Rajan Bhattacharyya, 19, a sophomore, says he knew Cash in junior high as a "normal bratty kid" and defended his legal right to remain in school: "I don't think this is the first time someone has left a crime victim at a scene or something like that. They can't just kick him out because they don't like him." Masoud Seberi...
Some nearly have. Take the case of the 25-year-old woman from Cheltenham, England, who developed a near fatal infection four days after her tongue was pierced. Most tongues swell--often as much as double their normal size--when they're punctured; hers grew so fat it became trapped against the roof of her mouth and pushed her epiglottis, a flap of tissue that keeps food from entering the lungs, against the back of her throat, cutting off her air supply. When antibiotics failed to reverse the swelling, oral surgeons had to force a tube through her nose...