11.   Leaf drop is normal on Southern magnolias.

12.   Nevertheless, officials at the Morgan center said, attendance was absolutely normal on Monday morning, according to Pat McGovern, a spokeswoman for the Postal Service.

13.   Things did seem close to normal on Saturday.

14.   This is the time when grown-ups in blue plastic helmets look perfectly normal on crowded city streets.

15.   Things appear deceptively normal on the way into town.

16.   What is normal on the campaign trail is not proper in official settings in which verbal recognition of authority is both good manners and essential governmental glue.

17.   While service was normal on most of the railroad, the threat of a strike and the specter of being stranded in the city kept people away in droves.

18.   While everything appeared normal on the surface, silt was filling in the lake from the bottom up.

19.   CART medical officials found G forces were almost twice as high as normal on the high-banked track.

20.   Despite growing apprehension about an Israeli offensive, the streets of Gaza City appeared normal on Thursday morning, filled with honking taxis and donkey-drawn carts.