Word: restful
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...trip visited the State Department, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Department of Energy. Wherever the officials went, they got a different reading on Carter's intentions. They reported home that the U.S. "apparently has no clear or positive policy ready, either for Mexico or the rest of Spanish-speaking America." Indeed, some aides thought Carter's final decisions on several major matters might actually have to be made during the 4½-hour flight to Mexico City. Nonetheless, the broad outlines of what he will seek are known...
...Astonishing as these effects seem, they have all been verified. In designing nuclear accelerators, for example, scientists must take into account the fact that subatomic particles whipped to speeds approaching the velocity of light will appear to increase in mass. Furthermore, particles called muons, which at rest exist for only very short spans of time before decaying into other particles, are found to live far longer at high velocities...
...first test-tube baby in Britain last July 25, little Louise Brown's scientific godfathers, Gynecologist Patrick Steptoe and Physiologist Robert Edwards, were sharply criticized by some American colleagues for failing to reveal all the details of their pioneering work. Last week Steptoe put the critics to rest. At a meeting in San Francisco of the American Fertility Society, the British researcher delivered an hour-long lecture on the birth of Baby Brown and other hitherto unpublicized facets of the British pair's research. The talk had a dramatic effect. Rising to their feet, the 1,200 doctors...
...Inman Collection scares those who think that the sale of valuable materials is a poor precedent for the University to set. What is worse, however, is that the University planners have literally forced the Peabody's board into the position of selling one collection to save the rest...
After 200 years, I figured the Crimson was probably in some rest home for aged hues. Undaunted, I started my search on 14 Plympton Street--home of the present Harvard Crimson. No luck...