Word: normally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...monthly accumulation for January so far is 25.1 [inches of snow]," Seeley said. "The normal snowfall for the month of January is 12 inches...
...First "good" cholesterol, now "good" fat. A type of body fat has been found that, paradoxically, protects against obesity. Mice bred to have a deficit of "brown fat" gain a great deal of weight very quickly when fed a normal diet. Researchers believe that the brown fat, which is also present in humans, triggers the burning of extra calories...
...book Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season 20 years ago, it is still, for the moment, a stranger place than Omaha or Sacramento or Worcester or even Atlantic City, if only because there are so many cheerfully offered temptations to lose the tuition and so many normal-looking people flirting feverishly with that risk. The mobs on the casino floors are in a kind of murmuring trance, each middle-aged housewife or young lawyer at the slots or the poker tables mentally grappling with a nonstop flow of insane hunches and wishful superstitions, continuously driven to unworthy leaps...
...first blush, this may seem no bargain, and on normal transactions it's not. But here's the deal. The ATMS limit you to $400, but by going into a bank that honors MasterCard, as most do, you can grab a cash advance equal to your entire available credit. From a human teller (remember them?). Because of the $20 cap, that 2.5% maxes out at $800. Borrow more, and the effective percentage you pay begins to fall. Say you borrow $2,000. The charge is still $20, which works out to 1%. Borrow $10,000, if your credit limit...
...countries, but the linchpin to a lasting peace is the Golan Heights. Israel may be ready to negotiate handing back the strategic high ground to Syria, but the Israelis say, the final handover would have to be a prize at the end of cementing a peace treaty and normal relations between Jerusalem and Damascus. In return, what Syria wants has to come from the U.S.: American troops to guarantee demilitarization of the Golan, and acceptance by the Western community of nations...