Word: tranquilizing
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Wednesday was just a bad day all around, a day almost perfectly orchestrated to shove us back into a crouch. Congress, which is incapable of speaking with one voice in tranquil times, could not have mixed its messages more thoroughly if it had tried. The letter to Daschle, mailed on Oct. 8 and, like the NBC envelope, postmarked Trenton, had been opened Monday morning in a suite full of people. By Tuesday evening, even as 1,400 Senate staff members stood in long lines to get their noses swabbed, scientists at Fort Detrick, Md., the army's bioterror research base...
...weekday mornings Kery Wilkie Nunez does her Falun Gong exercises with two or three commuters next to the Dunn Loring metro station in the Virginia suburbs of Washington. The buzz from the nearby highway and the bustle of the rushing crowds aren't a problem. "You become peaceful and tranquil inside," says Nunez. It's different for the three or four doctors who do their exercises from 5:30 to 7:30 a.m. near the library of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. All they hear are birds chirping. Steven Reani does his exercises in the early morning...
...weekday mornings Kery Wilkie Nunez does her Falun Gong exercises with two or three commuters next to a subway station outside Washington. The buzz from the nearby highway and the bustle of the rushing crowds don't phase her. "You become peaceful and tranquil inside," says NuNez. Steven Reani does his exercises early morning near a deserted shopping mall in the capital, except on weekends when he, along with dozens of other practitioners, heads to the vast green lawn of the city's Mall...
...impeachment vote is carried - and all indications are that it will be - the chances are that he'll be removed from office sometime in August. But right now, few are seeing Megawati as the answer to Indonesia's continuing economic and ethnic turmoil. Which means that as messy or tranquil as Wahid's ouster may be, it's unlikely to usher in an era of calm...
...game, getting "constant feedback" from the development team. But despite the high-tech aspects of his calling, he is inspired most when "surrounded by nature." Every morning the composer, who lives in Tokyo, walks along the river Tama with his dog Pao, musing on new ideas: "I feel a tranquil environment is necessary so that one can feel the slightest stirring of emotions...