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But hesitantly, reluctantly, inevitably people are inching toward more normal lives, groping for wisdom and perspective.
What results on the page is a celebration of immaturity, a rant against the normal, a comic screed against dogma, conventional wisdom, doctrinaire or institutional thinking.
Ned (Devon Werkheiser), an Everykid who favors plaid shirts unbuttoned over T-shirts, is the most normal of the bunch, dispensing school-survival wisdom jotted in a composition book.
This assessment of the global security environment is pretty normal thinking in keeping with the very broad conventional wisdom within the defense community.
Conventional medical wisdom has held that lowering blood pressure to normal levels was all that mattered in preventing complications.
He could share his words of wisdom now with the House of Lords (a normal destination for a retired chief of defence staff) - and the rest of us.
That's why Stephen S. Hall's article on wisdom may be the best medicine for easing the normal burdens of aging.
In short order, most New Yorkers could begin resuming normal life, which for many included a favorite pastime: debating the wisdom of their leaders.
It is normal that patients submitted to a hysteroscopy, septoplasty or removal of wisdom teeth can be bleeding for a few days.
Conventional wisdom about two-level factorial experiments, which is deeply rooted on normal response models, does not apply to binomial models.
