Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Method; he would simply stand on his mark and stammer out his lines. He wore his renown comfortably, like a pair of overalls, and enjoyed as scandal-free a life as any top Hollywood star. "My husband," said Stewart's one and only wife Gloria, "is much too normal to be an actor." The man himself considered his job well done "if you can get through a film and not have the acting show...
BRAIN DRAIN Loss of brain tissue--something that occurs naturally with aging--seems to be greater in older people who have high blood pressure than in those elderly with normal readings...
...atomosphere of surrealism throughout, contributes to the flagrant misuse of the word "surrealism" to mean anything bizasrre, strange or unusal, and enforcers of consensus reality, determined to pull the noose they have slipped around the throat of the imagination ever tighter, make ever stricter what can be defined as "normal." This debasement is symptomatic of the scheme to murder interest in authentic surrealism through the promotion of its counterfeits...
...Dunn. "There are 30 people standing around a pile of money, and what they don't spend at the end of the year they get to split with the CEO." Dunn makes a point of not rushing patients out the door. The average length of stay for a normal birth is two days, compared with 1.3 at Bedford Regional. And the stay is also longer at Dunn for conditions like heart failure and shock, atherosclerosis and diabetes...
...chemical called serotonin plays an important role in triggering migraine headaches. For reasons that are still unclear, serotonin sometimes floods the blood vessels of the brain, causing them to constrict. The body then overreacts, sending serotonin levels plummeting and forcing the blood vessels to expand to several times their normal size. This cycle of contraction and expansion results in the headache's characteristic throbbing pain. In 1993 Glaxo introduced a drug called Imitrex that allowed doctors for the first time to prescribe something that was specifically designed to interrupt the cycle of pain. Last week Glaxo announced encouraging results...