Word: norms
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...immense help” during his fellowship application process, editing and polishing drafts of Yao’s research proposal. “Everything he gets, he absolutely deserves, and the credit should all go to him,” Weitz said of Yao. “Norm is smart, conscientious, kind, and works very hard. You can’t ask for a better student.” In the future, Yao said he plans to wrap up his current research in biophysics and branch out into the field of atomic physics. He will pursue a doctoral degree...
...Incest and polyamory are two models of marriage that, in a vacuum, are as legitimate as monogamy and same-sex marriage, as both involve consenting adults but violate the reproductive norm of one man and one woman. Should incest and polyamory be permitted? No, as society has come to a consensus that they should not be. But this agreement is an arbitrary one, as is the current agreement that marriage should be between a man and a woman. Let us then recognize that a new agreement upon the definition of marriage as the union of two consenting, non-incestuous adults...
...most children grow up believing that their home, school, place in society, however comfy or mean, is the norm - what else have they to compare it with? A man-child as perceptive as Davies can find honor and poignancy in the domestic chores of those days: feeding the fire, scrubbing the stoop, washing clothes by hand. Accompanying the images is a liturgical choir, consecrating the drudgery or, at least, sanctifying the memory. "And on Christmas Eve, pork roasting in the oven, the parlor cleaned, with fruit along the sideboard: a pound of apples, tangerines in tissue paper, a bowl...
...Norm Coleman's victory is rooted...
...rooting of for Norm Coleman's victory is retracted...