Word: parallelling
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...member of an entirely new species whom its discoverers named Homo floresiensis. This species, say the scientists, probably branched off from Homo erectus, the commonly accepted ancestor of Homo sapiens. The news meant that the two different human species H. sapiens and H. floresiensis had been living parallel lives on earth at the same time. (The existence of H. sapiens dates back 250,000 years.) The story made headlines worldwide?TIME covered it last November, and National Geographic ran a lengthy feature in its April 2005 edition...
...used to eliminate partitioned common rooms and over-filled suites, not to add further strain to Harvards academics. As the administration looks to enlarge the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), it should allow these new faculty to teach smaller classes, rather than enlarging the student body in parallel...
...sorry history from an anti-Saddam, pro-U.S. viewpoint and ends in April 2003 with its Kurdish hero exulting as coalition soldiers march into Baghdad. (One critic called the film "insufficiently anti-American.") There was also a British documentary, Adam Curtis' The Power of Nightmares, which traces the parallel inception and growth of Islamic fundamentalism and American neoconservatism, and diagnoses dire consequences from both. The film played like Fahrenheit 9/11, only cooler and way smarter. But it was shown out of competition, thus ineligible for a palm of any color. Cool is the temperature of the standard Cannes film...
...living naked rather than wearing a prison uniform, and smearing their excrement on their cell walls. Dunn has returned to Ulster as a prison officer in the Maze, drawn by good money and hopes of finally settling down with his Protestant girlfriend. The two characters never meet, but their parallel lives converge when the antagonism within the Maze, and the political stakes outside, start to rise. The political and religious jangle of Belfast in 1979 is the backdrop for a vivid tale of lives filled with booze, cigarettes, bad food and murderous gossip. But the real meat of This Human...
...Avoid the sections of the river that run parallel to the noisy, traffic-clogged autobahn, and stick instead with havens like the flat, unpaved trail that skirts the northern edge of Dillingen, a factory town of roughly 18,000 in Germany's southwest. Despite the proximity of urban development (Munich is just a 45-minute drive away), the area is rich in wildlife. Look out for hungry ducks and other fowl dive-bombing a river teeming with fish, plus the occasional huntsman, struggling to get an overexcited dog to heel...