Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decided against giving the Lampoon this advice, however. For if members stopped producing their parodies and throwing their parties, they might feel compelled to (tell their agent to) produce more normal Lampoon issues with normal Lampoon jokes...
...blunting mental trauma is counseling. Survivors need to be assured that their reactions are normal and expected. Talking to family and friends is encouraged, but often it is not enough. Says Susan Solomon, coordinator of the National Institute of Mental Health's emergency and disaster research program: "The thing that makes disasters particularly damaging is that the people you normally turn to for help are also victims." Many Alaskans affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill last March are finding professional help useful. In the three months after the accident, the number of people seeking assistance at the Valdez Counseling...
...they are going to Mt. Auburn Hospital they don't have to change buses," said Charles Bahne, a member of the Cambridge-based Association for Public Transportation. "A lot of people who are older find steps an obstruction, especially the steps on a bus because they're higher than normal ones...
...spirited debate over oncogenes -- the genes, or units of heredity, that cause cancer. Researchers had previously theorized that cancer genes were separate entities, unrelated to the healthy functioning of a cell. But in studies of a cancer-causing virus in chickens, Bishop and Varmus found that oncogenes were normal genes, vital to cell growth and development, that had somehow gone awry -- probably as a result of mutations induced by carcinogens such as cigarette smoke and radiation. The team thus helped explain the role of genetic damage in cancer development and established a common pathway by which all cancers seem...
Electricity was restored to about 98 percent of the area, utility employee Greg Pruett said. an armada of boats assembled to ferry commuters across the San Francisco Bay as business got closer to normal. The main lifeline between San Francisco and Oakland, the Bay Bridge, was closed with a 30-foot section collapsed and estimates for its reopening have grown more pessimistic, with some officials saying it could take as long as two months...