Word: unwind
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Mesa, a weekly event for members of RAZA, Harvard's Latino/Mexican-American student group, starts at 6 p.m., but undergraduates looking for a chance to unwind and have dinner with friends after a long week kept trickling in well past...
...After the nurses gently unwind the temporary loose gauze twined around her head, neck and chest, the woman is anesthetized, a breathing tube is placed in her mouth, and her temperature and blood pressure are monitored. While surgeon Alain Polynice finds her blood pressure to be within normal bounds, he notes that her temperature is slightly lower than desired, calls engineering to ask that the room temperature be raised. Then he places a bubbled heat blanket between her legs...
...once he and she take their first apprehensive steps into the room, a strange thing happens. As they see people dancing and starting to unwind and they begin to notice it. After they have a drink, he's pretty sure he sees it. And when they step outside to get some air and look back at the dance floor, they both realize it: the formality is still there, but the heaviness is gone; people are simply having...
...away the confetti and the champagne before you're packing up and heading back to school, a measly two weeks after leaving Harvard. Were we to have finals before winter break, we could have three weeks--at a minimum--of uninterrupted and stress-free vacation, enough days to unwind from finals, spend the requisite time with family and--if you have the incentive and the cash--go away somewhere and still return to school refreshed. The way our schedule exists, it is difficult to really relax during vacation and highly unlikely that students return to school rejuvenated...
...exhibit one hallmark of the scientific age: theological minimalism. Confident claims about the afterlife are rare, and notions of God are often vague. The ecospiritualists may pay homage to Gaia or indulge in tribal drumming rituals, but for many, Gaia is simply a metaphor, and drumming a way to unwind. Even ancient religions, as rendered by their excavators, lose some theological bite. The Asatru Webmaster admits his beloved Thor is just a symbol...