Word: normalization
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That in itself would be an important breakthrough. This form of language impairment afflicts up to 8% of otherwise normal children, most of whom go on to develop intractable problems with reading and writing. But Tallal and her colleagues take their findings one step further, and in doing so have aroused intense scientific controversy. They believe the same language-processing "glitch" may be the root of the more common problem of dyslexia, a reading disability that affects perhaps 15% of the population. If so, games like those that Keillan played could help at least some dyslexics whose impairment makes...
...President, gave Time official confirmation that Bosnia had received arms from Iran, bringing them through gaps in the nato no-fly zone. "What we received from Iran," he says, "it's kind of a science-fiction solution. You cannot load a ship with ammunition and bring it in a normal way." But Ganic won't quibble about cutting Iranian ties now. "You bring us stuff," he says, and "we won't look anywhere else...
...teams of researchers from Israel and the U.S. who announced independently last week that they have linked novelty seeking to a gene on chromosome 11. This marks the first time a normal personality trait has been firmly linked to a particular gene. Says Dr. Robert Cloninger, professor of psychiatry and genetics at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri: "Eventually we are going to be able to genetically map personality traits as precisely as we will physical characteristics like height and weight...
...ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THE 1950S, WHEN BLACKS were so rarely on television that the mere sight of one was enough to produce pandemonium in our Washington neighborhood. "Colored on TV," someone would shout from the front porch, and all normal activity ceased as everybody within earshot rushed to the nearest set for a moment of electronic racial solidarity. If somehow you missed the event, you felt seriously deprived. At a time when the civil rights movement was just beginning, seeing blacks on the tube made us feel more like a part of America. We wanted them to be there even...
...William Bennett, the former Secretary of Education and dependable moral scold who, along with Democratic Senators Joseph Lieberman and Sam Nunn, launched a crusade last October against what Bennett termed the "cultural rot" of TV talk shows. Said Lieberman at the time: "These shows increasingly make the abnormal normal and set up the most perverse role models. It's time for a revolt of the revolted." The trio went so far as to make a TV ad targeting advertisers on the more controversial programs...