Word: tranquility
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...Guinea and flanked by the Coral Sea to the east and the Arafura Sea to the west. Scattered across the Strait like stepping stones are 138 islands, only 17 of which are inhabited. This region, many of whose 8,000 Australian residents follow traditional indigenous lifestyles, seems a tranquil tropical idyll. But for professional border-watchers - officials of the Australian Customs Service, Federal Police, Quarantine and Inspection Service, Navy and Immigration department - it is the front line in the struggle to keep Australia economically sound, environmentally clean and safe from unwanted pests - and guests. The number of boat people...
Descending en masse from their hamlet, the Cornellians transform the tranquil arena into an emotional tinderbox. They slip fish—hidden underneath their clothes—past security guards. When Cornell scores, the fans hoist the putrid trout onto the playing surface, then serenade the Crimson faithful with a rendition of “Far Above Cayuga’s Waters...
...white ruff and sable-hued clothes. There's a possibility that the subject of A Lady in a Fur Wrap (late 1570s) may be Jerónima de las Cuevas, the mother of El Greco's only son, Jorge Manuel (they never married). Her face is painted with tranquil smoothness, but her lynx fur is created by strokes dragged energetically from the wet paint of the gray wrap into the depthless background. Unlike many contemporaries, he never painted himself. Our only clue to El Greco's appearance may lie in The Adoration of the Shepherds (ca. 1612-1614), which...
...tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan saw its last major war in 1865, when Bhutanese troops wielded rhinoceros-skin shields in a skirmish with the British Army. Since then the mountain nation has been so tranquil that a few years back King Jigme Singye Wangchuck ordered the dismantling of the country's sole traffic light, saying it was superfluous on such peaceful roads...
...remain on their turf. The reason they killed 17 Italian carabinieri at Nasiriya on Wednesday was not because they believed the Italians are integral to the coalition's combat capability; it was to send a message that the U.S. and its allies are not safe even in the supposedly tranquil Shiite south of Iraq - and that message appears to have had an instant effect on the intentions of other U.S. allies, with Japan postponing its plans to deploy troops to Iraq in December, and South Korea capping its own commitment at less than a third of the number requested...