Word: normalization
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...smaller study in Baltimore suggests this might be true. He showed that the protective effects of vitamin E against prostate cancer followed a U-shaped curve: Men with the lowest levels of the vitamin in their blood lowered their prostate cancer risk when they took supplements, but those with normal levels did not enjoy the same reduction when they boosted their level of vitamin E through supplementation. "We don't want to be in short supply of vitamins that we need," says Nelson, "but over supplementation may not have great benefits...
...competing with each other on who could be harder on crime,” he said. In 1979, 12 percent of African American men would be incarcerated at some point in their lives. By 1999, that number had increased to 20 percent. “Prison has become a normal life event,” Western said. Law professor Carol Steiker said that up to 5 percent of prisoners on death row are wrongfully convicted.“The hunt goes on still for the executed innocent,” said Steiker, who added that 129 prisoners have been exonerated...
...This wasn't like normal flu," says Frank Snowden, Yale University's chair of the history of science and medicine department. "Physicians were horrified by what they saw. People's lungs filled with this terrible frothy fluid. They were literally choking to death. It was ghastly." Symptoms appeared so suddenly that victims sometimes died within just one day. The flu hit World War I soldiers especially hard; some historians believe more soldiers died from the flu than from...
...come to stand for was marked by a graceful sense of levity, camp, and a fundamental belief in people’s ability to appreciate complexity and duality. I mean, what more could a bunch of Black, Latino, and gay DJs hope for but that—a normalization of what was normal for them. It is this optimism—and the belief that the brightest future would see a blurring of the dividing line between intricacy and accessibility—that separates this disco from main stage Disco. Perhaps as a result of this hopefulness, many abandoned these...
...regulate certain gene, and another is to fix damaged areas of a cell. “You can’t wait for a bunch of proteins [to get to the damaged area],” so the protein is “recruited from its normal site to fix the damage, and then once it is done it goes back to its site,” Oberdoerffer said. While the protein is fixing the damaged cells, the genes in the protein’s normal site go unregulated. More problematically, when a cell is permanently damaged, the protein...