Word: equilibrium
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...over a thousand years ago, an assembly of all Iceland sat down to keep the peace. The obvious parallel pops up: many chieftains then, two chieftains now, striving for balance and order so the world does not run to ruin. It is a tradition in Iceland, this striving for equilibrium. The sagas, crazy as they got, almost always wound up with heroes mending relations after a series of bloody revenges...
Only in Grettir's Saga are the themes of equilibrium and balance absent. Grettir is a law unto himself. Taking on everyone alone, he finally chooses death over the safety of the world...
This reversal may be in its early stages now, as rents have picked up in places like the capital and South Florida. But we have a long way to go before we reach economic equilibrium in the hottest markets, leaving renters at least temporarily in a good position. Says Choe: "Right now, I love my rental." --With reporting by Sonja Steptoe/Los Angeles
During his time at Harvard, Gould developed an evolutionary theory known as “punctuated equilibrium,” which suggests that the process of evolution is broken up by short periods of relatively rapid change and is not slow and steady as once thought...
...only child pulled the wings off flies. His father saw it as a scientific inquiry into aerodynamic equilibrium. The adolescent Tony picked up older boys and brought them home. His mother loathed his homosexuality and eventually tried to eradicate it by having sex with him. Spooky stories abounded about Tony's strange disappearances, his attempts to hide himself (once in a school laundry chute), his bursts of exhibitionism. Although he had left numerous prep schools, he and his mother decided he was ready, with brief cramming, to enroll at Oxford. His father looked on from afar with contempt. Brooks...