Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House-leadership staff members were inside, cleaning up the week's business after the final big health-care vote, toasting their success with champagne. DeLay himself was back in his private office. His plainclothes guard, Special Agent John Gibson, 42, was sitting near the rear entrance when the normal merry chaos of the afternoon was punctured by sharp explosions in the hall. Gibson knew it was gunfire and had his hand on his hip as he moved toward the door. A leadership staff member yelled "Everybody get down, get down!" and pushed people under the desks and into side offices...
Whatever the reason, the cloned mice were perfectly normal in all respects. They could mate and give birth, and their DNA was so robust that they themselves could be cloned--and their clones cloned. So far, Wakayama and his colleagues at the University of Hawaii have produced three generations of identical mice...
...distinction between La Nina and so-called normal conditions is not at all obvious. El Nino, for example, is truly an aberration. It makes dry places wet, wet places dry, warm places cold and cold places warm. By contrast, La Nina appears to exaggerate conditions that are more or less normal. Thus, under La Nina's sway, the Indonesian archipelago, which is usually wet, should expect to receive substantially more rain than it got last year. But in the absence of La Nina, Indonesia would still receive a lot of rain. Similarly, Canada and Alaska, which tend to be cold...
...clear-cut cases of thyroid disease, there is one controversy women should be aware of. Screening will pick up lots of borderline cases. As many as 10% of older women may have slightly abnormal blood tests but appear to be otherwise healthy. Sometimes their hormone levels will return to normal after a few months. So far, there hasn't been a research study large enough to determine whether they should be taking drugs as well. Until there is, most doctors will be understandably reluctant to treat a woman whose only symptom is an oddball number on a blood test...
...years of seasoning are required before an agent is given the responsibility of preparing security for a major presidential event. (It falls to the SAIC to plan for such dicey foreign ventures as Clinton's 1997 Bosnia tour.) The schedule is routinely grueling. When the President is traveling, a normal eight-hour shift can easily stretch to 18 or even 24 hours. After every six weeks on the job, members of the detail return to the service's facility in Beltsville, Md., to receive two weeks of intensive retraining...