Word: normalization
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...time the sun rose one hour late on Sunday morning, everything was back to normal in dreary, static Harvard. The costumes came off, the football players returned to practice across the river, the musicians retreated to rehearsal and I strolled back to The Crimson. We all seem to return to the comfortable...
...textbooks are revised, patriotic events staged and legions of counselors marshaled, high schools are also managing an intense need to return to what might feel normal. In New York, the High School for Leadership & Public Service, a magnet school two blocks from the World Trade Center, was forced to evacuate and wedge itself into cramped quarters at another school, three miles away. The teachers lacked books, even chalk. But principal Ada Dolch is determined to get back to basics or "kids will discuss this for the rest of their lives instead of doing math." That doesn't mean the tragedy...
...difference from my mail. I get an equal amount of mail from boys. I think if the character is kidlike enough, and in this case sort of naughty in a lot of innocent ways, boys like that. I think kids like to read about other kids who are normal, who make mistakes and get in trouble and blurt things out. And of course they love humor, so that's just almost too easy sometimes...
...Kandahar itself, there is still evidence of normal life. Children play and fill water buckets from hand pumps?the city has no electricity or running water?and adults engage in the latest pastime: tracking high-flying jets through binoculars. Market prices are unchanged, largely because so many people have fled. But residents are frightened and angry, and much of their scorn is reserved for the Taliban and for its Arab allies in Afghanistan, former mujahedin who have come to fight a jihad. "We have become hostages of the Arabs," says Nek Mohammad, a driver. Several of the Kandaharis I spoke...
...Vision Thing: "If we can use target identification technology to fight tumors effectively, cancer will become a chronic disease essentially like diabetes, allowing patients to live out their normal lifespan...