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Back up. O.K., stop. A little more. O.K., now turn the wheel. More. More. Too much! Sorry, sir, was that your car? If you've ever driven in a city, you know the agony of parallel parking in a tight space. But your suffering may soon end. Toyota has invented a car that parallel parks itself. This new version of the Prius, Toyota's hybrid gas-electric automobile, has an optional self-parking feature, which combines a rear-mounted camera, power steering and special software that automatically guides the car backward into its curbside destination. With Intelligent Parking Assist...
...preference in admissions to students from low-income backgrounds, and aims to recruit high-performing students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds by sending search letters, visiting high schools and paying for admitted students’ campus visits. But while the admissions office supports a Minority Recruitment Program, it has no parallel program for low-income recruitment...
...Washington that the current transition program is not working. The escalating security crisis in Iraq has prompted the Pentagon to pursue a strategy of "Iraqification," deploying more and more Iraqis against the insurgency. But for "Iraqification" to have any impact, it will have to be accompanied by a parallel political transition: Iraqis are a less likely to risk their lives defending an occupation authority than they would be to fight for a new Iraqi government...
Presser has channeled that very idea into the foundations of “Ivory Tower,” which promises to be a fictional but essentially parallel version of Harvard University...
...record--a drink composed of vodka, Campari and sweet vermouth, but the waitress at this rather expensive New York City hotel bar has never heard of it. Meanwhile, a man in a large and loudly beeping truck is trying--over the course of five deafening minutes--to parallel park in the spot right next to Amis' sidewalk table. Amis, 54, observes the scene coolly, a small, neat man, the picture of amused British resignation. If nothing else, he can take satisfaction in the fact that the whole scene, a cosmic conjunction of petty annoyances, is quintessentially Amis-esque...