Word: normalizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Harvard notifies early applicants in mid-December, under normal circumstances students applying for regular admittance are not notified until April...
...time something acquires a nickname, it may be said to have entered the realm of the normal. "Blood pinning," however, is anything but. Ordinarily, when Marine paratroopers complete 10 training jumps, they receive their golden wings, a pin with two half-inch protruding points on the back. Sometimes, with that military love of macho ritual, the pin is even proudly thumped into a Marine's chest to draw a little celebratory blood. But according to two amateur videotapes obtained by Dateline NBC and aired as well on CNN late last week, that ritual sometimes descends into something much more barbaric...
...Wars' reappearance in theaters a few months in advance of its 20th anniversary (notice you didn't see Vertigo cups at Taco Bell on the occasion of that film's rerelease last year). Not only has Star Wars had its negative restored and its sound track digitally remastered--the normal course of events for such updating--but outtakes have also been added, original scenes spruced up and new elements worked into old footage to take advantage of 20 years' worth of progress in the effects trade. Similarly enhanced "special editions" of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi...
Whether these fluctuations in the number of courses offer are normal for the Core or not, Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53, chair of the committee re-evaluating the Core this year, says the occasional shortfall is a key area of concern...
...within 400 feet of the plane. Air traffic controllers could not help, because the aircrafts' radar blips had merged on their screens. Although the military says the pilots followed correct procedures, "The fighter pilots could simply have radioed the other guy for ID, but they didn't follow the normal procedure," says TIME's Edward Barnes. The close encounter has also renewed speculation about the still unsolved crash of TWA flight 800. Conspiracy buffs on the Internet were quick to point to the latest incident as evidence supporting their theory that a military screw-up caused the crash...