Word: parallelisms
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...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...
...parallel between East Timor and Aceh isn't exact. East Timor, a former Portuguese colony, enjoyed a brief period of self-determination before it was invaded and absorbed by Indonesia in 1975. It never really cohered to the country under former President Suharto, who ordered the invasion. Aceh, in contrast?like the rest of post-independence Indonesia?had been part of the former Dutch East Indies, and has since been a major contributor to the national wealth by producing billions of dollars worth of liquefied natural...
...flags flying from electricity poles and crude roadblocks of felled trees outside the town?constructed to block military access?suggest that's no exaggeration. In such villages GAM is trying to set up the rudiments of a parallel administration. It is also stepping up military training in makeshift camps where GAM senior cadres?some trained in Libya, others former Indonesian soldiers?put village youths through their paces...
...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...