Word: paralleling
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Strewn across the terraced slopes that climb the valley were torn strips of Arabic training manuals, bits of a Chinese-Arabic dictionary, some shreds of clothing, a set of parallel exercise bars and a shooting target printed by the National Rifle Association. Trees blown from the earth lay with their roots twisted into clumps like charred driftwood. Bomb craters 50 ft. across and 20 ft. deep were filled with rubble and crossbeams. That the caves still existed was a wonder. They had been bombarded for days. Yet clearly anybody who had taken refuge inside the caves would have survived...
...what was probably the last of his Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan, located just above the caves. The area is a picture of devastation. Strewn across the terraced slopes that climb a tight valley are torn strips of Arabic training manuals, some shreds of clothing, a set of parallel exercise bars and a shooting target printed by the National Rifle Association. Trees blown from the earth lie with their roots twisted into clumps like charred driftwood. Bomb craters 50 feet across and 20 feet deep are filled with rubble and cross beams. "I think yesterday he was around there...
...Running parallel to the anti-war effort during the 1960s and 70s was Pop Art, which, like the Fluxus group, adopted everyday images. However, for Pop artists, these images became art for art’s sake. While Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol replicated images of consumer culture, rock and roll’s rebellion turned inwards toward the self. Studio 54’s house band, the Velvet Underground, took introspection to its apex, while No Wave bands would perform audienceless in the New York streets as firm proponents of music for music’s sake...
When asked about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Jordan drew a parallel to his own struggles...
Courtney is in some ways most worried about families that have the most to be thankful for, those in which one member escaped the Sept. 11 attack and has been living in a parallel universe ever since. "It's impossible to explain to anyone who wasn't there," says Michael Serio, a freshman at Pace University in lower Manhattan whose dorm room shook when the planes crashed three blocks away. An aspiring doctor, he ran to the scene and spent the next 36 hours helping the rescue workers, setting up IVs for dehydrated fire fighters and hauling away debris...