Word: normally
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...professors to get a reality check and realize that they are simply human-smart humans, of course-and not superheroes? A combination of both efforts would be really nice. Maybe it would have been better if we didn't go to Harvard, but instead to a normal college, where you can get a pretty good education and where the professors have the time and the heart to care more for their students than for how many times they can see their name in the paper...
...spring semester is here and, for most of us just returning from a relaxing intersession, everything is fairly normal...
...problem, Tallal believes, is all in the timing. Vowel-rich sounds resonate for 100 milliseconds, sometimes longer, and are thus easier to make out than hard consonants, which fly by in normal conversation at speeds of 40 milliseconds or less. Language-impaired children, Tallal has demonstrated, can more reliably identify fast consonants when the sounds are slowed to half their normal speed...
...point out that the earphones that transmit the exaggerated speech sounds to children's ears in the lab are only temporary aids. "When you take off eyeglasses, you can't see," observes Kuhl. "But when you take off these funny-looking earphones, then you might just proceed to understanding normal speech...
Marcy and Butler's announcement could change the course of astronomy. "This is extraordinarily important," says astronomer Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. "This is the first glimmering we have that normal solar systems exist beyond our own." It is sure to trigger a rush to find new planets. Indeed, half a dozen teams around the world are already looking. And in an address to the astronomers a few hours after Marcy's talk, NASA administrator Daniel Goldin announced a new program whose goal, he says, will be "not only detecting but taking direct images of Earthlike worlds...