Word: normalization
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...counters the economic pull of poaching with a safer, more consistent alternative: organic farming. Villagers who sign up for COMACO receive training in sustainable agriculture - such as organic bee-keeping techniques - and band together to form farming co-ops. COMACO agrees to buy their produce at a higher-than-normal price, and the organization markets the products to Zambian stores, under the brand name "It's Wild!" If villagers agree to join COMACO, they aren't allowed to poach, and they pledge to protect the land, eschewing slash-and-burn farming techniques. COMACO checks up on its members - villages that...
...motorists safely apart actually discourage both groups from engaging with each other. In an interview with TIME several weeks before his death, Monderman explained that removing signs forces you "to look each other in the eye, to judge body language and learn to take responsibility - to function as normal human beings...
...lesbians in uniform. Barring the pre-enlistment question about homosexuality "was the only compromise Congress let Clinton get away with," says Elaine Donnelly, president of the non-profit Center for Military Readiness which supports continuing the ban. "The law respects the power of sexuality and the normal human desire for modesty in sexual matters...
...elegant does not mean easy. DNA's nucleotides are strung together like beads on a string, but because it adopts a crystalline structure, that string behaves more like glass. "Even doing normal things like pipetting the pieces would shatter it," says Venter. And although tiny in the microbe world, the mycoplasma's genome still required more than 580,000 nucleotides to assemble...
...Chinese revolution, Red Star Over China, had given Sinclair a pent-up curiosity about Chinese culture since his boyhood, and from the moment of his arrival as a 25-year-old he became an assiduous student of it. He openly despised the kind of expatriates who "seldom meet a normal Hongkonger" and instead sided with and befriended Chinese at the grass-roots level. For the next 40 years, his work and life were peopled with laborers, police constables and villagers of Hong Kong's rural New Territories region, which he explored obsessively, resided in and became a leading authority...