Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gather inductees before midnight like other normal student groups? The glee club sings, but sings at 11 p.m. The Crimson even comes at 6 p.m. But wait--these groups all have a higher purpose than mere social reinforcement...
...other slept at random hours, adding up to about six hours per day over each three-day period but otherwise conforming to no particular pattern. I found myself calling home and slyly asking my parents what time it was, but even this proved difficult, since they are in the normal-people habit of going to sleep before midnight and waking up at six to go to work. After a while, a friend directed me to The Atomic Clock, a cesium-based timekeeper maintained in a laboratory somewhere in France and used by scientists worldwide as the standard-setter for time...
...surrounded by people who were suffocating under the burden of a normal life," she said. "I realized I had a life...
Those attitudes also affect straight people directly. Homophobia is usually aimed not just at people who are gay, but at those who appear gay. Straight men and women are limited in their choices for fear of seeming out of step with what's normal, just like gays and lesbians...
...essential first step for African nations is the step back from the edge of famine. The Mozambicans are doing other things right too. Theirs is a people's peace, driven by popular refusal to continue the conflict and a fierce determination to live a normal life. Today political stability--though not much democracy--has been achieved through the government's policy of "no victor, no vanquished." Four years ago, Renamo elected impressive numbers to the national assembly; now it has a stake in running the country, and hostilities find voice mainly as parliamentary debate. Frelimo jettisoned its socialist economic credo...