Word: normalization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...spotlight. She's smart, too, likes social studies best, and especially learning about different cultures in far-off lands. Crouched on a mat in a refugee camp on Sri Lanka's east coast, flicking the pages of a schoolbook, pencil by her side, she looks like a normal kid. And then you spot it: Jeevatharsini has no left arm. Through the hole in her dress where her upper arm should join her shoulder, a stump is just visible, the skin slightly puckered where the surgeon has stretched it back across the bone to stitch it together...
...looked at first like a random bunch of data points, a sprinkling of outliers beyond the curve of normal human experience. But when you stepped back, a pattern emerged. What these personal turns had in common was the apprehension that, well, we're all connected. Everything leans on something, is propped up by something--is both dependent and depended...
...lines that you don't pass, you pass them all the time in Israel," Keret explains. "When you're 18, you're taken into the army, you kick doors down, you beat people, shoot people. Then you go home and people say now you are going to lead a normal life. But the moment your girlfriend doesn't want to open the door, well, it's not like you've never been in that situation before...
...fire” trick that made the antiquated “NBA Jams” video game such a classic) finds the bottom of the net. I’ve even resorted to listening to online radio broadcasts inside WiFi cafés in Buenos Aires, frightening other (normal) patrons with random fist-pumps or involuntary gasps at plays like Ron Lewis’ three-pointer to send Ohio St. and Xavier into overtime.Throughout this year’s NCAA Tournament, I’ve felt entirely cut off from sports’ most original and passionate event...
...destruction of New Orleans did. Dismissing a scientist's temperature chart is one thing. Dismissing the death of a major American city is something else entirely. What's more, the heat is only continuing to rise. This past year was the hottest on record in the U.S. The deceptively normal average temperature this winter masked record-breaking highs in December and record-breaking lows in February. That's the sign not of a planet keeping an even strain but of one thrashing through the alternating chills and night sweats of a serious illness...