Word: normally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years. Several of these television commercials feature all-Black casts; others are completely white. While the commercials usually have some themes in common--McDonald's family setting, their low prices, their oh-so-appetizing foods--the language and pretenses in both types of commercials constitute stereotypical parodies of normal life...
...responsible for their condition, according to a report to be published Thursday in Nature, a scientific journal. The findings -- which raise the possibility that drugs could control weight problems -- were developed by researchers at Rockefeller University. They say they have isolated the first gene that clearly participates in the normal process of regulating weight, though genetics remains one of several factors involved.TIME medical writer Christine Gormansays the discovery, through "top-drawer" research, is the first hard evidence to support a decades-old hypothesis that a "feedback loop" between body and brain regulates weight. In the case of many obese people...
...countries with names like St. Kitts and Nevis or Turks and Caicos. The U.S. says, "Give me your tired, your poor." These tax havens say the opposite. They are places of Third World poverty where the well-to-do, in exchange for some investment, are invited to shed the normal obligations of citizenship in the developed world...
...more likely to be middle- ! aged couples with kids in tow than computer geeks sporting Vulcan ears. "In the early days, everyone had a shirt and a costume," says Mary Warren, who was selling Trek apparel at a recent convention in Tucson, Arizona. "Now you get all these normal people in here." Among the 2,000 who attended was Elaine Koste, who came with her husband David and five-year-old daughter Karessa. "I use Star Trek as a tool to educate my daughter," said Koste. "It's good for her to see the characters deal with other races...
...adventures, in the early days, were often allegories for earthbound problems like race relations and Vietnam -- problems that were solved with reason. A key concept of the show, which began during the Vietnam War, was the Prime Directive. It stated that the Enterprise crew must not interfere with the normal course of development of any civilization they might encounter...