Word: swaying
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...windows is home to the bassists and not the trumpet players, because they are outside practicing all the time. The lawns and small practice sheds here are constantly full of music. These high school kids are the next generation of orchestra musicians and vocalists, and they already realize the sway that music holds over them...
...floats invisibly through a world of fashion nightclubs and edgy Internet projects, where image and reality are indistinguishable. During her recovery in Rockford, she has met another Charlotte, the plain-looking teenage daughter of her former best friend. Young Charlotte, alienated from parents and friends, has come under the sway of two men: her uncle, a mentally unstable scholar of the Industrial Revolution, and an enigmatic high school teach whom she seduces. In following these idiosyncratic tales to their eerie convergence, Egan illuminates the difficulties of shaping an inner life in culture obsessed with surfaces...
That doesn't mean you should give up on your stomach muscles. Strong abdominals are good for you. They pull the pelvis up, which helps prevent pain by reducing the sway of the lower back. "Lower-back injury is one of the top problems in the country, and abdominal weakness is a huge contributing factor," says Miriam Nelson, an exercise physiologist at Tufts University in Boston. "We sit all day, and then if we go to the gym, most people focus on the biceps instead of the core muscles...
...July 29 election to the upper house of parliament. His Liberal Democratic Party needs to retain a majority of seats for Koizumi to remain in office. But unlike his predecessors?Japan has had nine Prime Ministers in the past 10 years?Koizumi isn't trying to sway the electorate with populist rhetoric. And they love him for telling it like...
...outer limits of the deep Web, even non-text media are beginning to sway to the algorithms and analytical software of Net technology. Scientists from the Norwegian company FAST are showcasing a search engine, at www.alltheweb.com, that can handle sound files, images and movies. Virage's technology for encoding, indexing and publishing streaming media like audio and video broadcasts is being used at www.westminsterlive.tv to link the text of proceedings in Britain's Houses of Parliament to Web broadcasts of them. And at www.speechbot.com, Compaq's experimental voice-recognition software is transcribing Web TV and radio programs automatically. "Online...