• "We're designed to work well in terms of the normal -- if there is a normal -- drilling mode, " he says.

    CNN: John D. Sutter

  • The experts stress that nighttime awakenings are perfectly normal -- much more normal, in fact, than the elusive solid eight hours people think they should be getting.

    CNN: How to solve 9 sleep problems

  • Dr. CIAVARELLA: My normal heart rate at cycling in normal conditions - flat roads, normal wind at 24 to 25 miles an hour - would be about 130, 120.

    NPR: Anti-Doping Agency Reviews Low-Oxygen Tents

  • In fact, after adjusting for the effect of the other beverages, 14% of the heavier 2-year-olds drank 1% milk compared to 9% of normal-weight youngsters, and 16% of the overweight or obese 4-year-olds drank the 2% milk compared to 13% of the normal-weight 4-year-olds.

    CNN: Drinking skim milk may not lower child obesity risk

  • The complaint also says that Fannie listed its exposure to higher-than-normal-risk Alt-A loans by nearly half.

    FORBES: SEC Sues 6 Ex-Freddie And Fannie Execs For Securities Fraud

  • This is a bigger-than-normal-blog deal because Hansson is a partner at a design outfit called 37signals, like Groupon based in Chicago and a creator and popularizer many of the tools used in Web 2.0 (Wired has a good story on them here.) Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is an investor and advisor.

    FORBES: Groupon IPO: Bad Love

  • There is a recognition that, with more than 100 days to absorb the shock of the SNP majority, the re-start of politics-as-normal post-summer requires a clearer strategy.

    BBC: What price the Union?

  • But shallow though today's world is, it is not just about the looks, it is about showing that scientists are just normal people - really, really clever normal people.

    BBC: Patrick Moore to Brian Cox - A history of TV science

  • Clinton has avoided reporters' questions in recent days about questionable Democratic fund-raising and his remarks -- nearly 10 minutes in a longer-than-normal stump speech -- were an attempt to respond to his critics in a controlled venue.

    CNN: AllPolitics - Money Troubles

  • Mr. JEREMY BROWN(ph): We've noticed a lot of mosquitoes around - some bigger than normal - but they flock to you within like three or four seconds of you being around.

    NPR: Unusual Breed of Mosquitoes Hits Dallas

  • All had been arrested in the preceding 24 hours or so, on charges ranging from theft to deception to criminal damage - a normal cross-section of offences, along with other "street crimes" for this court to deal with during more regular office hours.

    BBC: Curtain rises on late night justice

  • However, Takatoshi Ito of Tokyo University and Frederic Mishkin of Columbia University argue that whereas inflation-rate targets may be best in normal times, once an economy is suffering deflation there is a stronger case for a price-level target because it requires a compensating period of higher-than-normal inflation.

    ECONOMIST: Japan has hitched a ride on China's boom

  • This will give you an opportunity to convert money from your regular IRA to a Roth IRA while in a lower-than-normal federal and state income-tax bracket, says Mr. Baldwin.

    WSJ: Seven Resolutions to Get Your Finances in Shape

  • The White House party-crashing was the first I--or probably any normal non-Virginian--had heard of Michaele or Tareq Salahi since 2005.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • What -- to normal people at least -- might appear to be the stuff of nightmares, is actually a fully functioning animatronic hillbilly band for sale on eBay.

    ENGADGET: Alt-week 8.11.12: Robo-billies, quasicrystals and radioactive art

  • There is a 65 percent probability of an above-normal season and an overall 90 percent chance the season will be normal or above, the agency said.

    CNN: Few coast dwellers ready for a hurricane, poll shows

  • Hard to find any nail-biting about a cold winter propping up already higher-than-normal gas prices at Energen Corp (nyse: EGN - news - people ).

    FORBES: The Best Of The Best

  • Of course, this all looks and sounds really scary, but if a 1000 robot-obsessed Japanese scientists haven't been able to build any normal-looking androids this big that don't fall over and don't require a gigantic power backpack of batteries, it's tough to believe that three crafty Bulgarians will do it.

    ENGADGET: Prepare to be terminated: The Kibertron

  • The bid guaranteed a 6-hour service versus the normal 11-hour crossing and committed Attica to a 20% discount off the current ticket price.

    FORBES: Athens At The Crossroads

  • The games in Japan saw the introduction of wheelchair racing - although only in the normal day-to-day chairs rather than the space age machines used by the Paralympians of today.

    BBC: History of the Paralympics

  • When the third-round draw takes place on November 21, a total of 63 balls - as opposed to the normal 64 - will be included and the final team to be picked out will play at home to the wild-card entry.

    BBC: News | Football | FA Cup to have 'wild card' entry

  • The implication of this is that you could scan a person using some advanced form of the technology used to perform MRI scans, and transmit that scanned information somewhere else -- using normal electrical or sound signals -- where it would then be reassembled into an approximation of the original.

    CNN: Beam me up: Just how close are we to teleportation?

  • The new normal with respect to executive compensation appears to be very similar to the pre-recession normal.

    FORBES: Executive Compensation's New Normal: A Missed Opportunity

  • They say the expanded financial data would allow anti-terrorist agencies to better understand normal money-flow patterns so they can spot abnormal activity.

    FORBES: To Bolster National Security, Treasury Wants More Red Tape

  • Parts of north-west Scotland saw about 110% of normal April rainfall, while parts of south-east England saw less than 10% of normal.

    BBC: Heatwave sees warmest UK April for more than 100 years

  • It took a dozen visits for Warren Christopher, an American secretary of state, to persuade Mr Assad to sit face-to-face with him, instead of the normal neck-straining side-by-side.

    ECONOMIST: Hafez Assad

  • It appears to condemn parents who take youngsters trick-or-treating, saying it is a time when normal law-abiding people damage their "good neighbours" property and in some cases "bring on fear".

    BBC: Row over Halloween devil article

  • Most worryingly, farm growth is at a below 2% and a below-normal monsoon has been forecast.

    BBC: Is the India growth story over?

  • But it wasn't the normal-weight children who were drinking the most skim or 1% fat milk.

    CNN: Drinking skim milk may not lower child obesity risk

  • Yet increasingly, normal-sized garment bags are being deemed "oversized" and thus must be checked.

    FORBES: Fact and Comment

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