Word: normalization
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Deprived of a stimulating environment, a child's brain suffers. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, for example, have found that children who don't play much or are rarely touched develop brains 20% to 30% smaller than normal for their age. Laboratory animals provide another provocative parallel. Not only do young rats reared in toy-strewn cages exhibit more complex behavior than rats confined to sterile, uninteresting boxes, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have found, but the brains of these rats contain as many as 25% more synapses per neuron. Rich experiences, in other words...
...those Catch-22's that's normal for Harvard. You have to pray you get into one of these classes, and if you don't get in, you don't graduate," Kargman said...
...Mike has an unbelievable ear for normal conversation," notes Johnson. "He is obsessed with the details and nuances of the way people talk. If you go anywhere with Mike in his car in Austin, he'll pop in a tape of some recorded conversation, some prank phone call." Adds Judge's friend, movie director Richard Linklater (Slacker): "Mike just has that gift of being tapped in. He has all these great facial expressions and voices. Ask him to re-create a lunch he had with David Geffen...
...children. From his Brentwood home, O.J. Simpson issued a "first and final" statement about regaining custody, saying he was "grateful to have the children home again where they want to be." He requested that the media and the public "allow my children their privacy and to live in as normal an environment as possible...
...cause of neuroses. Nothing could be further from the truth. Over and over, Freud cited the individual's constitution as an important factor disposing to neurosis. Further, it is misleading to ascribe the label neurotic to everyone who might be carrying this newly discovered short gene. So-called normal people can also be anxious and worried. GAIL S. REED New York City...