Word: parallele
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...angle is also a change from Duncan's story. While Andi and Bruce's kindly social-services caseworker Bernie (Don Cheadle, who could have phoned this in but didn't) would like to keep the siblings together, they live in fear of being sent to separate foster homes. The parallel between the human strays and their canine counterparts is obvious but sweet...
...marvelous sonnets, but I don't read sonnets much." To Jack Levine, he is "a symbol of real, real bedrock Americanismo." Painter Robert Motherwell, formerly an art historian, says: "I would imagine that an impressionist would have looked at the pre-Raphaelites with astonishment, and I feel a parallel astonishment regarding the works of Wyeth." But they all look carefully at what Wyeth does, and agree that there is something uncanny, macabre and mysterious about...
Said Mottron: "The parallel between a male cognitive profile and an autistic cognitive profile is weak and is true only for a minority of tasks. The logical fuzziness and possible logical flaws of the Extreme Male Brain model result in the [scientific] community not following Baron-Cohen's work...
...While Hamas rockets pummel southern Israel and Israeli bombs decimate Gaza, a parallel war is being fought in virtual communities. On Dec. 27, two hours after Israel began its military operation, Joel Leyden created a Facebook group called "I Support the Israel Defense Forces in Preventing Terror Attacks from Gaza." Leyden, an American who served with the Israeli military, says he has since received dozens of death threats via his Facebook inbox. "People were not just saying 'I hope you die!' but also asking, 'How do you want to die?' " says Leyden, who uses Facebook to alert people about potential...
...toxic waste. Under the Superfund law enacted that year, polluters pay for the messes they make. Environmental lawyer E. Michael Thomas sees no reason lawmakers couldn't demand the same of financial polluters and force them to ante up some of the bank-bailout money. "This is a directly parallel policy judgment," he says. "It's beautiful in its simplicity, and it's also beautiful in its justice...