Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same study clocked amateurs generating 85 Nm (newton meters) of torque, compared to 57 Nm generated by professionals with more energy-efficient swings. Normal joints in the spine fail, Watkins notes, at 88 Nm of torque, while degenerated joints, typical of avid or professional golfers, fail...
...private speech therapy had failed to bring her up to speed. So her mother Donna enrolled her in "Fast ForWord," a powerful video-game program developed by Scientific Learning Corp. of Berkeley, Calif., to aid children like her who cannot process the sounds of language fast enough to comprehend normal speech. Nicole spent six weeks of intense game playing at a speech clinic in New Jersey, emerging "like a different child," Donna Davis says. Today the ebullient second-grader chatters away with classmates, gets good grades and has stellar reading skills. As Nicole puts it, "I like to write stories...
...Fast ForWord games attack this problem by training youngsters to distinguish among phonemes, first at artificially slowed speeds and then at normal rates of speech. The kids click their mouses on animated screen games to identify what they hear. The training is intense--students must sit before computers for 100 min. a day, five days a week for four to eight weeks--because it takes sharply focused attention to rewire a brain. Last fall, Scientific Learning rolled out Fast ForWord II for children who can use additional training. (Parental disclosure: this writer's 12-year-old son Billy made welcome...
...early teens are the years when parents fall off the pedestal. While 57% of 9- to 11-year-olds say they want to be like their parents, only 26% of 12- to 14-year-olds do. "This is the 100% normal, virtually inevitable moment when kids develop an allergy to their parents," says Wolf. "They don't want to breathe the same way their parents...
Subjects left their wristwatches at the door and lived for 28 days in an environment of subdued light. Cut off from normal activities such as work and school, study participants lived a 28-hour day as researchers studied their sleep patterns...