Word: normalization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...commentariat writing Clinton political obits and big donors so depressed, they were lined up to jump off that bridge to the 21st century. Her events felt flat and forced; the sound system wouldn't work well; the mike screeched back at her. Clinton's crowds each day, impressive by normal standards, could not rival Obama's immense events, so staffers were reduced to moving risers and limiting entry to create the appearance of overflow. Conservative fund raisers, meanwhile, were pondering in emails to one another whether to cut Clinton's name from their direct-mail appeals and paste in Obama...
...vaccine against cocaine, the heroin vaccine faces a tricky complication: It may interfere with other important treatments. If its protection extends to other opiates, for example, it would prevent patients from responding to medically necessary drugs like morphine. The same potential concern applies to nicotine vaccines that may block normal nerve transmissions involving nicotinic receptors in the brain, which play a role in muscle movement, Cohen says...
...gain valuable match experience heading into the second half of the season. Harvard started sophomores No. 3 Katherine O’Donnell and No. 4 Johanna Snyder, and freshmen No. 7 Alexandra Zindman, No. 9 Diana Wilson and No. 10 Bree Sterne in positions 1-5, respectively. Normal match format has nine flights instead of five. “It is great motivation for these five girls to kick off the rest of the season,” said assistant coach Christopher Smith, who coached the team in place of head coach Satinder Bajwa for the weekend...
...study published in this month’s issue of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, graduate student Samuel T. Moulton ’01 and Psychology Professor Stephen M. Kosslyn used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to assess whether individuals can have knowledge that does not come from normal perceptual processes. This focus on the brain sets their study apart from previous ESP research...
...Bhutto Zardari's college, students report that the new head of Pakistan's main opposition party behaves as a normal student, although, like Prince William, he often goes by an alias to disguise his lineage: Bilawal Lawalib, the last name a backward spelling of the first. Such ruses will fool no one now that his face has been splashed across the front pages of world newspapers. But as a celebrity, he has an extra protective tool. Although no student at St. Andrews ever summoned the courage to make the "royal run" at William for fear his guards were armed...