Word: tranquility
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Hand is located in downtown Columbia near the statehouse, and the school's environs include tranquil blocks of sweeping antebellum porches and weeping wisteria. About half of Hand's 960 students, many of them well off and white, hail from these streets. The other half, many poor and black, live literally on the other side of the railroad tracks, some in crumbling shanties that didn't have running water until five years...
...traditional band to emerge in the last decade. With a powerful combination of talented performers and soothing music, Altan weaves a Celtic tapestry that embraces the listener with sublime serenity. This isn’t to say that Another Sky is soporific, far from it. Like musical Ritalin, its tranquil melodies and otherworldly arrangements have the power to calm and soothe the most troubled heart...
...that's it. One tranquil moment is all these works provide...
...five different points of view will emerge. And yet throughout much of their half-century history, Israelis have often treated politics as an unaffordable luxury in the face of external threats, turning at such moments to crisis coalitions uniting parties from opposite poles of the ideological spectrum. Even in tranquil times, the most consistent incubator of Israeli political leaders has been the military - the preeminent institution of national unity and security. This is the backdrop to Wednesday's inauguration of Ariel Sharon's national unity government, comprising not only his own Likud party and a number of smaller right-wing...
...Despite the sanctions, life goes on in tranquil Tripoli. There are a few restaurants, but they are extremely modest. The hotel waiter offered me whale for dinner. He meant fish, which is a staple given Libya's 800 mile coastline. Camel meat cooked in red tomato sauce is popular here, accompanied by white rice and potatoes. In a happy coincidence with the leader's chosen color, the Libyans drink green tea. But one of their great inheritances from the Italians is capuccino...