Word: normalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans really happy in their relentless search for trim, regimented bodies? By most standards, they are the healthiest people in history, generally blessed with low cholesterol levels and normal electrocardiograms and blood counts. Yet they seem to have become so preoccupied with the quest for the elusive perfect physical condition, so haunted by the very possibility of sickness that they are unable to enjoy the benefits of good health. They love to go out in the sun, only to worry about skin cancer. They diet continually, but agonize about gaining weight. They exercise relentlessly, yet live in dread of heart...
Because of this sense that the world is an unsafe place, says Author Barsky, "we find more things wrong with ourselves. We feel under siege." Everyday ailments, from tension headaches to forgetfulness, that would once have been dismissed as normal are now seen as a symptom of disease. "We're told that everything is an early-warning sign, from night sweats and gas pains to dry coughs," says Barsky. "But it's normal for some people to sweat at night, a dry cough will probably go away, and gas pains are gas pains." Americans, he declares, "have to stop running...
Simultaneously, Ali Akbar Velayati, Iran's Foreign Minister, was trying to convince the Security Council that the shootdown was deliberate. He read a transcript of conversations between the pilot of the doomed Airbus and Iranian flight controllers that seemed to indicate that Flight 655 had been proceeding at a normal altitude, speed and flight path. However, on one crucial point -- whether the U.S.S. Vincennes had tried to warn the Airbus -- the transcript was inconclusive. Flight 655 received no warnings, but the pilot may have been too busy chattering to his ground controllers to listen to an emergency channel over which...
Bumpers, after much agonizing, opted to sit out the 1988 presidential race, a decision he says he has since questioned. "It wouldn't be normal not to have second thoughts from time to time," Bumpers said. But nonetheless, the senator says he feels "pretty comfortable" with the decision...
...then, can the Aegis system or its operators tell what kind of aircraft they are tracking? One method is flight pattern. Although the Pentagon at first asserted that the Airbus was outside the normal pathway for airline flights over the gulf, it has since conceded that the plane stayed within the 20-mi.-wide corridor all the time. The Pentagon claimed, however, that the pilot had wandered toward the western edge of the corridor and corrected that by veering back east toward the center line. As fate would have it, that turn headed the plane in the direction...