"We're designed to work well in terms of the normal -- if there is a normal -- drilling mode, " he says.
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.
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.
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.
The complaint also says that Fannie listed its exposure to higher-than-normal-risk Alt-A loans by nearly half.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The White House party-crashing was the first I--or probably any normal non-Virginian--had heard of Michaele or Tareq Salahi since 2005.
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.
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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.
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 ).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The new normal with respect to executive compensation appears to be very similar to the pre-recession normal.
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They say the expanded financial data would allow anti-terrorist agencies to better understand normal money-flow patterns so they can spot abnormal activity.
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Parts of north-west Scotland saw about 110% of normal April rainfall, while parts of south-east England saw less than 10% of normal.
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.
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".
Most worryingly, farm growth is at a below 2% and a below-normal monsoon has been forecast.
But it wasn't the normal-weight children who were drinking the most skim or 1% fat milk.
Yet increasingly, normal-sized garment bags are being deemed "oversized" and thus must be checked.
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