Word: calmest
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...open window, a dirty towel suspended over his chest. His nurse says the boy is quiet when he's alone and never cries out in pain. "He just wants to go outside Iraq to get treatment," she says. "And he just wants to see his sisters." In the calmest of times, it would be difficult to treat a boy in Ali's condition in Iraq, but the current chaos has made it impossible for aid organizations to get medicine to hospitals. Ali's doctor says the boy is in danger of dying within weeks. It's hard to imagine something...
...living cell bustles with molecular activity. Lilliputian protein motors ferry goods and services. Enzymes curl and unfurl. Even on its calmest days, the DNA double-helix twists, unwinds and wiggles like a loopy spring...