Word: parallele
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Shenzhen is Hong Kong's parallel universe: it has the energy of the megapolis across the border, the patented southern Chinese get-ahead ethos and a towering respect for the power of a buck. But thanks to loose laws, loose women and dirty officials, you can get anything you want: cheap labor, even cheaper Prada bags, pirated DVDs, ecstasy pills, one-night stands. (And people from across the border spent $846 million last year, 10% of Hong Kong's total retail trade.) But once inside this looking- glass world, nothing is quite the genuine article. The Louis Vuitton bags...
...Dodger owner Walter O'Malley was so impressed with Nagashima that he tried to buy his contract, but the Giants' aging founder Matsutaro Shoriki turned the offer down flat. The quality of Japanese baseball, once considered laughably bad, had advanced so much in the postwar years - in a striking parallel to the then-booming Japanese economy - that Shoriki was talking up an eventual Real World Series with the American champions. Although Nagashima was interested in the Dodger offer, duty to team and country would have to come first...
...Bernard Baumohl: It certainly reinforces the University of Michigan consumer sentiment numbers from last week. The major surveys are moving parallel to one another - and both are going down...
...Knowing, though, that there is Palestinian brutality, aggression and terrorism against Israelis, she searches for a place to fit them into her story: these parallel the plagues that God brings upon the Egyptians. In her narrative, these “reprehensible actions” have a moral: “there is an imbalance of power that Israel has the ability to remedy.” Does she mean that the Israeli government must provide its Palestinian attackers with better arms? May one only defend oneself against an equally strong enemy? Because it has better military capabilities, Asnes implies, Israel...
...slap a Happy Face on your cerebrum. It can also massage the lymph system, says Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. Lymph is the body's dirty dishwater; a network of lymphatic vessels and storage sacs crisscross over the entire body, in parallel with the blood supply, carrying a fluid composed of infection-fighting white blood cells and the waste products of cellular activity. Exercise in general activates the flow of lymph through the body, speeding up the filtering process; but yoga in particular promotes the draining of the lymph. Certain yoga poses...