Word: normalization
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...ordinary life and he's eager for more. "It's bizarre," he mused in an interview recorded during his tour of duty. "I'm out here now, haven't really had a shower for four days, haven't washed my clothes for a week and everything feels completely normal." He spoke of how fun it was to spend time with a "bunch of normal guys," and, revealingly, commented wistfully, "I think this is about as normal as I'm ever going...
...team was in tears. Tears of joy, naturally, as Pangilinan touched the wall first with a time of 2:14.69. “Those are big shoes to fill for next year,” Morawski finished. It was a gutsy win on a day with quicker times than normal, a phenomenon that will likely keep Pangilinan out of the NCAA Championships. “The time she had to win the Ivies this year was faster than the time it took to be an All-American back in 2005,” Morawski said...
Even without the decrease in admissions, the Class of 2012 was set to be the most selective in Harvard history. Applications for regular admission to the College ballooned over 18 percent this year, meaning that even if the normal number of applicants were accepted, the admission rate could have dipped as low as 7.7 percent, down from 9.1 percent last year...
...well, doomed to sport a pig nose until she finds true love. To hide her daughter’s ugliness and protect her from the press, her mother, played by Catherine O’Hara (“Home Alone”), does “what any normal mother would do”: She takes out the eye of invading paparazzo Lemon (Peter Dinklage, “The Station Agent”), fakes baby Penelope’s death, and locks the girl up in the family’s country estate. As soon as Penelope turns...
...Simply put, these medications won’t do any good unless your brain is unhealthy in very specific ways. Moreover, the notion of “better than well” is an optimistic myth: medications for psychiatric disorders enable people to feel normal, not better than normal. Antidepressants bring people from the hell of severe depression to a sense of being able to function normally; they aren’t magic happy pills. Similarly, they don’t make normal and appropriate feelings of sadness (or anxiety or anger) go away; a person whose brain chemistry...