Word: soaks
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...Break time. I soak my toes in the warm water to try and restore some warmth and semblance of feeling. The whole day I have chatted with the other extras. We discuss the terrorist attacks, our jobs and schools, movies and a wide range of other topics. There is even another Harvard student, a fellow Matherite. My only regret is that the extras were all normal and intelligent; there is no one to make light of in this diary...
...That?s if Dr. John K. Webb of the University of New South Wales in Sydney and his team have it right. The team was looking into deep space at the way gas clouds soak up light from quasars and found patterns of absorption that the team couldn?t explain in any other way but the most shocking: the "fine structure constant," also known as "alpha," may not be so constant after all. In other words, the laws of physics may not be as fixed in stone as we might think...
...greenhouse gas emissions required by the year 2012 from 5.2 percent below 1990 levels to 1.8 percent below 1990 levels, and has incorporated a number of the negotiating positions previously advanced by the Clinton administration, such as crediting nations for maintaining large forests to serve as "carbon sinks" to soak up the offending gas. (And all this in response not to pressure from Washington, which had removed itself from the debate by rejecting Kyoto out of hand, but to the demands of other industrialized countries such as Japan and Canada...
...usually in the dining room and bedrooms). Wear a separate pair of slippers in the bathroom (forgetting to change back and walking around in lavatory shoes is a horrifying faux pas). In the anteroom of bathing rooms, disrobe and wash vigorously under the showers. Only when spotless can you soak...
...stay in Hosokute at a wooden inn, last rebuilt in 1880. Swallows nest inside the doorway, as they have for generations. The floor flexes under our feet as we step gingerly across knotholes and gaps in the boards. But the plumbing is modern: warmed and soothed by a soak in the deep, hot bath, we eat dinner wearing long, cotton yukata gowns and sitting on the floor at low, lacquered tables. The innkeeper produces a feast of baked river fish and mountain-grown vegetables, which we wash down with cold beer and warm sake...