Word: norms
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...Senator from Minnesota. On his final Al Franken Show, he announced that he is running to reclaim the seat that Sen. Paul Wellstone lost when he, his wife and daughter were killed in a plane crash two weeks before the 2002 election, and which was won by Republican Norm Coleman. The New York City-born Franken, whose parents moved to the Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park when he was four, has long honed his campaign slogan against Coleman: "I'm the New York Jew who actually grew up in Minnesota...
...Temperatures Depending on greenhouse-gas emissions, global temperatures will rise between 1.1?C and 6.4?C by 2100. If carbon levels double from the pre-industrial norm-something many experts say is a lock-the IPCC believes the mercury will rise by about 3?C, accompanied by longer and more intense heat waves...
...often lost their identities in marriage and motherhood. Moms and dads can be unique, creative individuals after they have kids. It's being a unique, creative individual through your kids that's disturbing. Pierce whatever body part you want, having a kid is not alternative: it's been the norm since we stopped reproducing by division. And while toddlers may love punk rock, they crave routine and predictability...
Depending on greenhouse-gas emissions, global temperatures will probably rise between about 2?F and 12?F by 2100. If carbon levels double from the preindustrial norm--which many experts deem very likely--the IPCC predicts a warming of about 5?F as well as longer and more intense heat waves...
...from the beginning.Instead, Mailer opens the novel in a mode that borders on the farcical, with his narrator focusing on such topics as incest and monorchidism (speaketh the Oxford English Dictionary: “The condition of having only one testis, or only one descended testis”). Thanks, Norm!It’s a mildly amusing and halfway-clever diversion in a book full of them. Did you know that a young Adolf Hitler had his “pip-squeak of an anus kept as immaculate as an opal, small and glistening?” Or that evil...