Word: unwinding
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...leaving religious life. "When people tell us they are about to leave, we always ask them not what they are departing from, but what they are leaving for." The former Sister Corita Kent, who taught in the art department of Immaculate Heart College, felt that she needed time to unwind. "I have put a lot of shows on the road," says Corita, who lives and works in Boston. "Now I have a quiet job to do with myself. Young people carry forward a great deal of visible energetic action. When that's done, you have something else...
...Time to Unwind...
...children, took his family to Chicago. "God, it was a jungle when we got there," he recalled. "The people lived like foreigners ?unfriendly, clannish. It was the closeness and the crammed-in living that got to me. The bars were the only places to get acquainted and to unwind. But the friendships never went far. Nobody would invite you up to his house. I didn't feel like I was human up there...
Unfortunately, the powerful N.Y.U. squad may not give Keller a chance to slowly unwind. "N.Y.U. is as powerful in fencing as Penn State is in football. We will have a very tough time." coach Marion said yesterday...
...elegant experiment reported last week in Nature. Once the two strains of virus had finished raiding the bacteria, the experimenters dissolved their protein sheaths, exposing their raw DNA molecules (Step 1 in diagram). Next, the scientists heated the dissimilar DNA molecules, causing each double helix to unwind and separate into one lighter and one heavier strand. Taking only the heavier strand from each virus, the researchers placed them in the same test tube, reheated them and then cooled them slowly, a process that causes two chemically complementary strands of DNA to combine in a double helix. But the two strands...