Word: normalization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...some ways it seems that life continues as usual, and I'm trying to feel strength from the routine, but the truth is, life hasn't been normal at all. When the rioting started, I thought I'd better stock up on food and formula in case we need to go down to the bomb shelters. I went to buy diapers today, and they were almost completely sold out - I guess everyone thought the same thing. I bought diapers that were two sizes too big. Better to have them around, just in case...
Just Looking chronicles the sexual and emotional awakening of Lenny, a Jewish boy from the Bronx , in the summer of 1955. Living with his mother and new stepfather, Lenny is pre-occupied by all the normal concerns of adolescence, including-surprise, suprise-sex. Whether it's two forks joined together on his dining room table or a needle on a record player, everything Lenny sees fuels his desire to see two people "do it". But when Lenny' parents catch him spying on them in their bedroom one night, they decide that he should spend the summer with his Aunt Norma...
Roundworms that have longer than normal life spans have been kicking around in genetics laboratories for more than 20 years, first made by severely inbreeding families of worms and by exposing worms to harmful chemicals that cause mutations...
...results were striking: While putting insulin receptors back in muscle and intestinal cells had only a small effect on longevity, replacing the receptors in the nervous system restored the worms' normal life span...
...Oprah debate, the debate format in which Bill Clinton in 1992 ushered in eight years of talk-show politics. And how ironic, in a debate where professional journalists otherwise faded into the background. In St. Louis, a group of midwesterners, having been judged by popular opinion to be more normal than anyone else in America (and I assure you, as a native of Michigan, that this is not true), were selected to ask the questions...