Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year. Experts are particularly worried about Brazil, where a new dry season is just starting. Daniel Nepstad, a tropical-forest ecologist at the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, notes that "the eastern Amazon is teetering on the edge." The region has received one-fifth of its normal rainfall in the past year, and Nepstad says an area 20 times the size of Massachusetts is at risk...
...setting them aflame and then blowing out the fire before he was burned. He warned the girl that he would ignite her if she spoke out. Morales tells of another girl, 11, whose meth-crazed mother prostituted her for a onetime windfall of $360. The girl thought this was normal life, Morales says. Mom needed the money...
Should he quit, he cannot expect to lead the normal life he says he wants. On account of the ever growing hunger of the media, he has less chance than Muhammad Ali of taking his wife and three kids to the mall he keeps saying he longs to stroll. Because even in countries that don't have basketball courts (which, come to think of it, probably don't have malls), he's the man. Photographers traveling in Asia and Eastern Europe have used photos of him as currency. And in some countries, Americans are sometimes greeted by locals...
...American life without resorting to good housekeeping and cereal commercials, Byers' families are conventional and ones that we can relate to. His pediatrician mothers don't save the lives of 30 cholera-stricken infants a day, nor do his scientist fathers discover life-saving cures for cancer. They are normal parents who read to their kids when ill, cancel vacation plans without too much ado, have a verbal fight or two without getting distraught over it. Byers' characters are not larger than life, despite their whimy--they're just about life size...
...rest of Byers' literary turf. Were he intending to give a lesson in ethics by preaching them, these stories could not seem less undeserving of an exemplary attitude that they seem to take. Happy endings don't have to straighten their moral codes to be "good." In fact, normal as they seem, the characters in Byers' book are drawn out of their amorality with the help of his skillful word-painting, thus saving them from an eternal literary damnation...