Word: normalization
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...provoked a harsher response were Tehran more confident that Washington's confrontational rhetoric was meant only to intimidate. Former president Mohammad Khatami, viewed here as a valuable interlocutor in dealing with the United States, attended a session with Senator Bob Kerrey at the World Economic Summit in Davos - under normal circumstances such a meeting would leave radicals here livid...
...adult cells into embryonic stem cells may present new therapeutic opportunities in the future, the new process still contains major complications that prevent it from being a viable source of embryonic stem cells, Cowan said. He explained that the fused, reprogrammed cells contain twice the number of chromosomes as normal cells and therefore do not function like normal human cells. While scientists attempt to understand and perfect cell reprogramming, Cowan said that current adult stem cell research should not impede methods using embryonic stem cells to treat diseases. “It may take us 10 to 15 years...
...challenge: for it to be most effective, it should include Israel. That would require an Israeli peace with the Palestinians, which would permit Israel to escape from having to occupy the West Bank indefinitely. The opportunity is that Israel could (as the Saudi plan of 2002 suggested) then establish normal relations with the moderate Arab states, and the new military alliance could provide the security guarantees that could make any Israeli-Palestinian settlement work...
Even the best-intentioned men, once they enter the jungle of power politics, have to confront the necessity of directing actions that they would, in normal circumstances, be in clined to call immoral. The high-minded Abraham Lincoln, for example, was provoked by antiwar agitation into suspending the right of habeas corpus and arresting a number of peaceable citizens who had generally committed no crime worse than being Democrats...
...watermark in the Great Lakes depends on the weather. A hot, dry spell means not only less rainfall but a higher rate of evaporation from the lakes' surfaces. But precipitation has been above normal for 15 of the past 18 years, and temperatures have grown cooler. September, for example, is usually a dry month, but it brought drenching rains to the Great Lakes basin. In October Lake Michigan crept to an average of 581.6 ft. above sea level, more than a foot higher than a year earlier and topping its 20th century record of 581 ft., set in 1974. Lakes...