Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forced to serve his fertile imagination as much as it serves him. As a kid, he says, "there was no place in the world I wanted to be except in my bedroom, drawing pictures. I got so lost in it that if my mother wanted me to do something normal, take the garbage out or anything, I would literally have a temper tantrum." It continues today, in a way: "I have to have an outlet. Always. Or I start having bad dreams." He's not joking...
...straining, it grows too big to pump blood very well. Fortunately, the abnormal thickening can be spotted by ultrasound. And in most cases, getting that blood pressure under control--through weight loss and exercise or, as a last resort, drug treatment--allows the overworked muscle to shrink to normal size...
...with high blood pressure? It's not the sort of thing you can catch by putting your child's arm in a cuff at the free monitoring station in your local grocery. You should have a test done by a doctor, who will consult special tables that indicate the normal range of blood pressure for a particular child's age, height and sex. If the doctor finds an abnormal result, she will repeat the test over a period of months to make sure the reading isn't a fluke. She'll also check whether other conditions, like kidney disease, could...
Around noon on Monday, Indian soldiers descend on villages just a few miles from the desert test range and order the pacifist Bishnoi herdsmen, who refuse to kill animals or cut down trees, to evacuate. At precisely 3:45 p.m., three devices explode in five seconds: a normal fission bomb, a low-yield bomb for tactical battlefield use and something like a hydrogen bomb, which U.S. officials later insist could have been only a less powerful "boosted" weapon using tritium fuses to amplify the fission chain reaction. Altogether they unleash around 80 kilotons of atomic power, six times as powerful...
...strings are much tighter. From Japan's Nissan Motor to South Korea's Shinsegi Telecom, employees are being told to walk through business class to economy on airplanes and to downgrade from five-star hotels to four- or even three-star establishments when they land. "People used to buy normal tickets so they could change schedules a million times, but nowadays people fix their business meetings according to the schedule of their air tickets," says Yuko Sugihara, a Tokyo travel agent who specializes in planning executive travel...