Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time to hear the evening prayers. And I'd walk out alone at 5:30, maybe a little more energized to study (having just eaten), but most of all longing to call home--and picturing my family's dinner table. I thought this feeling of lonely disconnectedness was normal. I didn't expect more...
Padilla says he has gotten this reaction less as his classmates have gotten to know him better. "But there is still no effort to make conservatism seem like a normal thing," he says...
...after a week in which nearly everyone repented but no one confessed, things seemed to be returning to normal. A new independent counsel was, for the moment, a distant prospect. Janet Reno was content to let her own task force of 25 lawyers and FBI agents look into whether foreign money was funneled illegally into either party's coffers last year. "When the independent-counsel statute is triggered," Reno said once more, "I will take appropriate action." Even Kenneth Starr, the once and future Pepperdine law-school dean, was back in Little Rock, Arkansas, working an old angle: trying...
...embryos' minuscule, 1-mm- to 2-mm-long neural tubes (out of which the brains develop), removing cells from the chickens and replacing them with corresponding cells from the quail. Closing up the windows, he returned the chicken eggs to the incubator, allowing them to hatch at a normal 21 days, whereupon they soon began crowing...
...loss of a single program. In October the board of Penn's medical school debated eliminating tuition entirely. To ease the cost to undergraduates, Penn could resolve to spend annually a full 5% of its endowment or boost the amount to, say, 6%, a level some universities consider normal. With its $2 billion endowment, Penn, if it increased its spending just 2 percentage points, could generate an extra $40 million, enough to reduce the tuition of each undergraduate by $4,000. Harvard, with its $9 billion endowment, is in an even more advantageous position. A 1-percentage-point increase...