Word: effecting
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...roar is so loud it bounces off the ceiling and the pool and enters directly into your eardrum, creating a reverberation effect down your body that jiggles you in your seat. The Aquatic Center in Sydney's Olympic Park is a state-of-the-art swimming venue, and the largely Australian crowd is having a grand time breaking it in. From the outside, the Center looks like a white winged creature sprouting from the ground. Inside, its steeply sloped seats pack in 17,500. It's wonderfully high-tech - the pool is especially deep and designed for minimum wakes...
...outfitters in downtown Smolensk or Gdansk. The winners in the fashion stakes were definitely, and hardly surprisingly, the Italians, who went for simple, classic style with a twist. Both men and women wore elegantly cut dark jackets over trousers or skirts in half a dozen bold colors. The ensemble effect was striking and bright while still looking classy...
Among the most sweeping of the changes is one requiring first-year students to live in university housing instead of Greek housing. The policy will take effect in 2002 when construction of new undergraduate housing is completed...
...Steely Dan/"Two Against Nature" Funny how the passage of 20 years can have absolutely no effect on these two characters, who step out of their little time capsule and remind us just how unlike anyone else they sounded in the first place. Steely Dan never pandered to the teenyboppers anyway, and if anything their jaundiced worldview sounds more apropos today, even as it has mellowed a bit. Tending a little more to the angular and funky than the hook-laden, Fagen and Becker flex their ever-awesome studio chops to stir things up both musically and lyrically, with...
...admission that the authorities lacked the evidence to convict should have served as an alarm bell to editors, but the rush to publish - and the implication by the guardians of the nation's security that the national interest had been imperiled - may have drowned those out. So the net effect of the initial reporting of the case throughout the national press was to create a separate media courtroom in which hooded accusers were free to damn Lee without fear, even, of rigorous cross-examination...