Word: normalization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...weather (the lead story of practically every local news broadcast) oppresses us even further, forcing us to remain indoors. The efforts expended during reading period do not compare to the workload of the average investment banker, but we are certainly expending more mental energy than we do on a normal basis. University Health Services attempts to assuage student discontent with seminars on stress management and healthy caffeine consumption. The dining halls take the opposite tack and try to pacify us with high-sugar junk food. Like the macaroni and cheese I tried to serve my cousin, neither proves effective...
...Researchers now think the versatile vitamin may help lower moderately elevated blood pressure. A small but well-controlled trial found that patients who take 500 mg of vitamin C daily for a month have a 9% drop in both systolic (upper) and diastolic (lower) readings. As for folks with normal blood pressure, the supplements don't alter a thing...
...second anthropological truth about Harvard students is that we are abnormally individualistic. "I" is the prevailing pronoun; "independent" is the most valued adjective; and "Personal Agenda" has become a proper noun. Believe it or not, at other normal colleges, people do not make lunch dates to see their friends; they just hang...
...criticism is generally so low that one cannot tell how good or bad any artist is, but in literature, at least, it is highly unlikely that any writer touted as a heavyweight in our era will make it to the ring in yours. Movies that once were judged by normal artistic criteria are now valued by the amount of money they make over a weekend. For your horrified amusement, see if you can dig up a print of something called Scream or The Blair Witch Project...
...this stage that things get a bit complicated. Though 20 of every 1,000 babies fail the two-step screen, most prove on further examination to be just fine. Is it worth worrying 17 families of perfectly normal children--not to mention asking them to spend several hundred dollars on advanced tests--to identify three infants with hearing loss? On the other hand, what if you are the parent of a child whose disability might otherwise not be detected...