Word: parallelling
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Seasoned defense lawyers know the value of the small gesture. And the large. Anticipating the guilty verdict returned by the jury two weeks ago, Windham built a parallel argument that White was not guilty by reason of insanity. If the jury agrees, White will be locked up in a hospital instead of being imprisoned...
...firm convictions that they willingly put into practice. Both had experienced marital problems; both gave generously of their scarce free time to volunteer work. What separated them -- what kept them apart until it fused them in violence -- was a profound disagreement, a glitch in the moral geography that permits parallel lives not only to meet but to explode...
...eastern Bosnia. Worst of all, there is a widespread fear that the U.S. will be pulled into deeper involvement in the Bosnian bloodbath. Serbs, or Muslims eager for American intervention, might shoot down a cargo plane, triggering a military response. One U.S. congressional staff member also draws a parallel to air drops of supplies to Iraqi Kurds in 1991; they proved ineffective, and the U.S. and allies had to send in ground troops to succor the Kurds. Clinton stoutly insists that the operation will be strictly temporary and that "it would be a great mistake to read this . . . as some...
...angry and impotent. The mother (Brigitte Rouan) is vague and forgetful, unhealthily doting on her younger child Olivier. Olivier's elder sister Nadine (Marina Golovine) thinks entirely too much about extraterrestrials. When Olivier, wearing his red cap, disappears while taking food to his grandmother's house (the fairy-tale parallel is obvious), grief becomes his family's excuse to surrender to their separate pathologies...
...this measure, complexity works, at least roughly. Computer simulations of ( life, the best-known application of the theory, create onscreen worlds of cyber-creatures that evolve in ways that eerily parallel real life. Biophysicist Stuart Kauffman of the Santa Fe Institute says confidently, "Biological evolution proceeds at the boundary between order and chaos. If there is too much order, the system becomes frozen and cannot change. But if there is too much chaos, the system retains no memory of what went on before...