Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...capitalism's mercantile excesses ever since the West forced open its doors as a treaty port in 1842. Today Guangzhou is China's best example of the worst the West has to offer. Its take-no-prisoners style has encouraged official corruption and ruthless business practices. "Corruption is normal," shrugs businessman Wang Shi. "Crime is new." So are beggars in the streets. This is a city that thumbs its nose at the government, holding on to as much of its wealth as it can, ignoring orders it dislikes, following its own drummer. Guangzhou's party chief, Gao Siren, says...
Like that of so many Chinese, Wang's behavior during the Tiananmen democracy protests was less clear-cut than it seems. "Students are students," he says. "They always have opinions. We had them in the Cultural Revolution. That's normal for students." He won't say whether he shared the Tiananmen protesters' ideas, but he went to the square, and when he saw the filthy, desperate conditions, "I felt a humanitarian urge to help." So he gave the demonstrators money, medicine and tents and went home. But then, he says, "I couldn't stand it when they started shooting...
...million Americans who have the disease but don't know it, the American Diabetes Association has called for all adults 45 and older to be tested for adult-onset diabetes every three years. The Association also dramatically lowered the blood glucose threshold that alerts doctors to the disease. Previously, "normal" glucose levels were at least 140 milligrams per decileter of blood plasma. New research shows that repeated blood sugar levels of as low as 126 milligrams can later set off a string of potentially life-threatening, complications ranging from heart disease to kidney failure. By detecting the disease early...
...eluded science for decades. The answer, it turns out, may be in their genes, according to a report in the current issue of Nature. Turner's girls--and boys of all sorts--may get their social ineptitude from, astonishingly, their mother. Even more surprising is the implication that normal girls inherit their poise--and perhaps even their famous intuition--from their father...
Clinton: I have no recollection of exposing myself to Ms. Jones, although it may be a possibility inasmuch as I regularly adjust, lower or remove my pants in the course of normal grooming or hygienic routine, and she may have been inadvertently included on one such occasion. I do, however, deny that I then directed Ms. Jones to perform anything that would fall outside her normal duties as a conference hostess...