Word: toiling
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...down side streets. But, even along the main avenues, those familiar with the teeming pavements and traffic jams of Seoul, the South Korean capital, were surprised by the small number of people in the streets. The official explanation is that since the industrious North Koreans are exhorted to toil eight hours, study eight hours and sleep eight hours during the six-day work week, there is little time for idling...
...physicists who decided to use bacteria-eating viruses as a kind of genetic scalpel; the virtually forgotten work of Rockefeller Institute's Oswald Avery; the painstaking efforts of scientists to explain exactly how DNA and its kin, RNA (for ribonucleic acid), performed their magic; and finally the patient toil of Britain's Max Perutz, who unraveled the structure and precise workings of the blood's oxygen-carrying molecule that, in complexity of design, is to DNA what a skyscraper is to a town house...
...peasants in Moras En Valloire have little to look forward to but more work. The only respite from the toil comes with death--all the peasant's life he is little more than a tool, bobbing up and down the rows, pulling the weeds or picking the fruit. For me it was an adventure. albeit not always a very exciting one. For them it is the only life they have ever known--and the only life they will ever know...
...recall most vividly. Although they will probably spend their entire lives only working for others at the most menial of tasks, never quite getting ahead, they are cheerful. At the end of their lives, all that they will have to look back on will be a life of toil and a lot of warmth and friendship. But in their own way, the Garcias taught me a lot that Harvard never could...
When Travolta joins her in bed, he seems to be making love to a mirror image of himself. There is no erotic chemistry whatever, but the romantic trysts do reinforce the guiding spirit behind the movie. For those who toil in the never-never land of camp, heterosexuality is still the biggest joke...