Word: echo
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...Years Ago in TIME Last week's suicide attacks on the Indonesian resort island of Bali were a horrible echo of the far more destructive BALI BOMBINGS of Oct. 12, 2002. The blasts, which killed 202 people, were the worst terrorist attack in the country's history; for the idyllic island, they were also a tragic loss of innocence...
...stumble upon a few freaky tricks, like cueing up "The Sporting Life" by the Decemberists on both iPods, and setting them half a beat apart. The tom-toms thundered after each other in synch, and the vocals sounded like they had a cool delay (or echo) effect. At another point, I played a stand-up routine by the late great Mitch Hedberg paired with random music...
...result is a kind of echo chamber in which good news can prevail over bad--even when there is a surfeit of evidence to the contrary. For example, a source tells TIME that four days after Katrina struck, Bush himself briefed his father and former President Clinton in a way that left too rosy an impression of the progress made. "It bore no resemblance to what was actually happening," said someone familiar with the presentation...
...space-shuttle contingency has been declared," the voice of Mission Control intoned in the arid argot of the space agency. It was an echo of the understated announcement 17 years ago, when the shuttle Challenger consumed itself in an awful fireball, and the stunned NASA narrator was left to declare, "Obviously a major malfunction...
...wearing an unusually heavy coat for summer when plainclothes cops chased him onto a train and revealed previously secret "shoot to kill" guidelines for dealing with suicide bombers. The incident occurred the day after four bombs went off almost simultaneously on Underground trains and a bus in a chilling echo of the blasts that killed 56 people two weeks ago. But this time only the detonators blew up. One theory is that the bombs came from the same batch of home-brewed explosive used on July 7, which can degrade quickly...