Word: normalization
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...Toronto has grown from its place as the most influential fall film festival to the most influential film festival, period, thanks to something rarer than its timing. Toronto boasts a festival oddity: "A semi-normal audience," says Picturehouse president Bob Berney, who is bringing The Orphanage, directed by Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro's protégé, Juan Antonio Bayona. Unlike Cannes and, increasingly, Sundance, Toronto saves lots of tickets for civilians, who buy the majority of the more than 300,000 tickets each year. And though hotel and restaurant prices have risen in recent years...
...during Sundance in January, they're not just protecting against the cold, but also against the teeming horde in search of a hot cup of coffee in one of Park City's crowded cafés. Toronto, with its easy public transportation, crisp weather and metropolis full of "semi-normal" people, retains its identity. "The tone is set by Canada," says Poland...
...study, published in the September issue of Diabetes Care, found that mothers with untreated gestational diabetes - a form of the disease that occurs only during pregnancy - were nearly twice as likely to bear overweight children, compared with healthy moms. And the data showed that some mothers with "normal" blood-sugar readings were at risk as well: pregnant women with blood-sugar levels at the highest end of the currently accepted normal range were at least 22% more likely to have heavy children than women in the lowest quartile...
Women whose blood-sugar tests indicated gestational diabetes were 89% more likely than other women to have overweight children, and 82% more likely to have obese kids. Women whose blood-sugar readings were at the upper end of normal (122 mg/dl to 140 mg/dl) were still 22% more likely to have overweight children than women at the low end of normal (with blood-sugar levels between 43 mg/dl and 94 mg/dl), and 28% more likely to bear children who become obese. "Even in what's considered normal, in the highest quartile there was an elevation in risk," says Dr. Teresa...
...bored shopkeepers sit around a table sipping tea as a couple of college-aged students browse for gifts for their professors. Most customers buy fossils for others, as gifts or bribes. After an initial rush, shopkeepers say, demand has leveled out, although their stores remain open. "It's normal to go a month or two without a sale, because there are so many other shops," says one dealer. But she didn't seem worried, explaining that selling just the occasional $300 petrified tree stump or $600 marine lizard will keep her business afloat...