Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...simulates the ideas and the issues that we are facing in the world, and it provides a distinct connection between our normal lives and global issues," said Tom W. Oakley, a sophomore from the United States Military Academy representing Russia...
Against a normal Ivy League adversary, shooting 50 percent from the field would be impressive, almost ensuring a victory. In this game it was enough to lose only by 28 points and to avoid a game filled with garbage time and security guards escorting fans from their seats...
...baby girl is born free of the gene that causes Tay-Sachs disease, even though both her parents are carriers. The reason? In the embryonic cell from which she was cloned, the flawed gene was replaced with normal...
...that cloning is the technology that will finally make it possible to apply genetic engineering to humans. First, parents will want to banish inherited diseases like Tay-Sachs. Then they will try to eliminate predispositions to alcoholism and obesity. In the end, says Silver, they will attempt to augment normal traits like intelligence and athletic prowess...
...form, posting a fourth-place finish in a World Cup downhill at Cortina, Italy. But her comeback took a scary detour in a downhill last Saturday at Are, Sweden, when she crashed at about 75 m.p.h. and was knocked briefly unconscious. Afterward, coach Herwig Demschar proclaimed it "just a normal crash" and said the worst damage was to one of Street's favorite skis. Her father, Ron Street, predicted she would be fit for Nagano, despite a bad headache at the moment: "This will just make it more interesting...