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Word: paralleling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wants to be tested. We would all like to get a driver's license without answering questions about right of way or showing that we can parallel park a car. Many future lawyers and doctors probably wish they could join their profession without taking an exam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Defense of Testing | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...most fervent pursuers had proclaimed his case the biggest thing since the Rosenbergs, but the historical parallel may in fact be closer to the Dreyfus case. Like the turn-of-the-century Jewish Frenchman falsely accused of treason in a blaze of anti-Semitism and finally vindicated after a spell in prison, the Taiwanese-American nuclear scientist is set to go free Monday after reaching a plea agreement with federal prosecutors. Unlike Dreyfus, of course, Wen Ho Lee isn't entirely innocent, but the government has been forced to concede that what he's guilty of is simply the negligent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Looks Like Eggs Ho Lee on Reno's Face | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

...wants to be tested. We would all like to get a driver's license without answering questions about rights of way or showing that we can parallel park a car. Many future lawyers and doctors probably wish they could join their profession without taking exams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIEWPOINT: In Defense of Testing | 9/3/2000 | See Source »

...Humans, working with the genome roadmap, evolve themselves - correcting nature's blunders, fixing a defect of vision here, a tendency toward diabetes there, until in the fullness of time a perfected human specimen walks the earth, while, simultaneously, 2) The robots, in their parallel universe, labor at their own evolution, building their own brains, refining their subtleties and abilities at the speed of light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robots: Will They Love Us? Will We Love Them? | 9/1/2000 | See Source »

...that's great. But truthfully the Jewish population in Connecticut is about 3 percent, and that's about parallel to what it is around the country. So once we get over this initial describing period, we'll be fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview: 'Religion Is Definitely a Personal Centerpiece of Our Lives' | 8/12/2000 | See Source »

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