Word: normality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...still children. No more domineering wives, emasculating women, and "Jewish mothers," all of whom are simply human beings with all their normal ambition and drive confined to the home. No more unequal partnerships that eventually doom love...
...national elections were announced. Therefore he prefers that they take an interest in other countries' elections. As for the continuation of martial law, Papadopoulos insists that "it is a mere shadow. But men are restrained by this mere shadow more than they would be by the whole normal legal structure...
...most German women prefer more traditional attitudes. In a recent poll of German women, 68% considered unmarried career girls to be not quite normal, while 82% regarded the care of husband and child as their primary goal in life. Though 40% of all married women in West Germany hold jobs outside the home, most of them would be appalled if their Ehemann did the dishes or dusted the shelves. Says one well-educated Hamburg housewife: "If I saw my husband running around the house with a dust cloth in his hand, I couldn't go to bed with...
...calcium in bones is not an inert, permanent part of their structure, like steel beams in a building. Rather, it is continuously being removed and replaced by the body's normal metabolic processes. So osteoporosis can result from too much calcium being removed too fast, too little being replaced too slowly, or both...
...secreted by the thyroid's tiny satellite glands, directs the removal of calcium from bone and its release into the blood. One of the thyroid's own hormones, thyrocalcitonin, controls the converse-the transfer of calcium from blood to bone. These two hormones balance each other in normal metabolism by an exquisitely delicate feedback mechanism. Too little calcium in the blood signals the parathyroids to take some out of the bones and put it into circulation; a sufficiency of calcium in the blood induces a stop order from the thyroid...