Word: laid-back
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...Similarly, Frusciante's brand new album, To Record Only Water for Ten Days, will confound anyone expecting a funk workout reminiscent of his day job. Like Coxon, Frusciante prefers to wind down on his own time, and in this case the results are 15 short, pretty and mostly laid-back pop songs...
...Despite the urgency of the slogans, Libyans are uniformly laid-back - something that took some getting used to for a native of crazy Cairo. I heard the words "Shwaya, shwaya" ("Slowly, slowly") at least 30 times on my first day, eventually convincing me that I had to be more patient to avoid offending them...
Never one to keep his opinions quiet, Venter did two stints in the brig for refusing to follow orders. When he returned to the U.S., his laid-back surfer-boy mentality was gone. He signed up at the University of California, San Diego, and emerged six years later with a Ph.D. in physiology and pharmacology. Within a few years, he landed at the National Institutes of Health, where he began trying to locate and decode a gene that governs production of a brain-cell protein. The work was agonizingly slow, and when he heard about a computerized machine that used...
Like many great ideas, it was conceived by someone without the good sense to know it was impossible. In mid-1999, the laid-back, 18-year-old Northeastern University dropout Shawn Fanning--nicknamed "Napster" for the nappy hair under his omnipresent baseball cap--holed up for days without sleep in his uncle's office, tapping out code for a music-swapping program. He didn't realize that the task was too hard, that people were too selfish to share, that big companies would shut him down. By the end of 2000, Napster had upended music's business model, survived...
...Powells and the Rices and the laid-back Bush crew, the angriest half of the Republican party does appear to be getting what it wants worst: social conservatives at key social-policy posts like AG and HHS. And if Bush wants to keep Americans and the media focused on other things - education, Medicare, tax cuts, the agenda of the possible - he'll have to keep Roe v. Wade on the back burner, and the best way to do that is to keep the Bible-thumpers happy...