Word: calm
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...interested in Indian politics or Indian problems. He said in his calm way, "India will go on." And that was unexpected, after the bad history of India, the invasions and the dispossessions, and after the rigors of the recent independence struggle. But it was in keeping with the mystical, almost Gandhian, idea of India he had laid out in 1949 in Mr. Sampath (in the United States, The Printer of Malgudi): the idea of an eternal India, ever healing, ever renewed. He had been too long away from India, he said. He was getting restless; he needed...
...computer that displays a virtual spoon. Different types of mental activity produce distinct signals in the brain, and the computer can discern, in a crude way, what's going on inside your head. To make the spoon bend, you have to relax. When the computer detects signals from a calm brain, the spoon begins to wilt...
...Much depends on the state of relations with Israeli when the succession takes place. If the situation is calm and settled by the time Arafat dies, Palestinian national institutions will continue to function. But if it had to happen in the current situation of tension and military confrontation, there would be the potential for a breakup of Palestinian national institutions and a very unpredictable situation...
...removed from office sometime in August. But right now, few are seeing Megawati as the answer to Indonesia's continuing economic and ethnic turmoil. Which means that as messy or tranquil as Wahid's ouster may be, it's unlikely to usher in an era of calm...
...showing the popular Hindu deity bounding great distances and carrying out extraordinary physical feats, is currently being screened on TV. "People in India often find it difficult to distinguish between fantasy and reality," he says. And the citizens of New Delhi might wonder how the secretary-general finds the calm for such measured thinking?with a howling, screeching, hairy, drooling, scratching Monkey Man on the loose...