Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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According to the CDC (http://www.cdcnac.org/hivtrend.html), intravenous drug use accounted for 26 percent of reported AIDS cases in 1995, hardly a handful. Heterosexual intercourse (what McFadden would call 'normal' sexual behavior) accounted for 11 percent of new cases, with a growth rate (in 1994) almost three times that of homosexual contact. And heterosexual women are accounting for ever larger numbers of those afflicted with...
...wish I could just enjoy it. This newly reignited bull market in stocks is minting millionaires from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Normal folks, who have found it tough to get a decent raise in the stingy 1990s, are benefiting too by using mutual funds to build nest eggs that they hope will fund their kids' college educations and their own retirement. It's all very exciting and, like a pot of Mom's ham bone and string beans, a nourishing meal for anyone with enough courage to sit at the table...
...photograph perpetuates the message that svelte sells. That slim, shapely body needs no Redux. My challenge: exhibit a "before" body, not an "after" one. And it should not be one held in by spandex or waiting to exhale. Make a statement. Be bold. Sacrifice the visually attractive for the normal, average, real. Were you afraid that a before shot might impact your newsstand sales "figures"? CAROL SIMONSON San Diego...
...into EAT COUCH), users must write in Graffiti, a simplified written language that replaces each letter with a geometric pattern; an A looks like an upside down V, for instance. It took us 10 minutes to learn, and after a week we were up to about 80% of our normal writing speed...
...leads a very conventional life suddenly has his world turned completely upside-down. In this case, however, the story follows a different path. Scott Brown plays George Spelvin, an accountant, who one day finds himself in a theater and is expected to perform. Now it is the "normal" man who finds himself out of place...