Voices travel up from the ground floor in a smokestack effect and ricochet around the preserved glazed-white brick walls. (The "new" library prefers buzz over the code of silence of the old library.) How different from the older sections of the library where, for instance, one reading room has restored its carved plaster ceiling reproducing Michelangelo's Laurentian Library in Florence.

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The 17-meter swimming pool is inside on the 24th floor but has an infinity-pool effect, as it sidles up to a glass exterior wall.

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Since cesium binds to the sediment on the ocean floor, the radiation has likely had the biggest effect on bottom-dwelling fish and other animals though the consequences still aren't clear, said Tatsuo Aono, a specialist at Japan's National Institute of Radiological Sciences.

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"In effect, a vote to invoke cloture is a vote to kill tobacco, " Bryan said during floor debate on the nuclear waste bill.

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