Word: parallel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Optimists argue that Russia is used to a sick President. It endured the lingering of Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov. Mitterrand's France is cited as a hopeful parallel. But this argument is flawed, says Sergei Blagovolin, director general of ORT, the largest TV company in Russia, and a member of the President's advisory council: "France was not on the very edge of a crisis...
Deprived of a stimulating environment, a child's brain suffers. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, for example, have found that children who don't play much or are rarely touched develop brains 20% to 30% smaller than normal for their age. Laboratory animals provide another provocative parallel. Not only do young rats reared in toy-strewn cages exhibit more complex behavior than rats confined to sterile, uninteresting boxes, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have found, but the brains of these rats contain as many as 25% more synapses per neuron. Rich experiences, in other words...
...brief intersession. Kevin was charged with the 1:15 group lesson for Skill 8 last Friday at the Ludlow, Vt. ski site. I was one of two members of the group, the other being a somewhat mute 13 year-old who, like myself, was supposedly proficient in parallel turning and sought to bridge the chasm between the intermediate blue squares and the advanced black diamonds...
...college. It was a preview of the graduation of Ennis just weeks later. In fact, before last week's murder, Cosby was pushing to have the character played by Doug E. Doug on his new show go to work at a center for disadvantaged youth, a role that would parallel work done by Ennis. Said Cosby: "I love him. I trust him with my life, with my wife's life, with his own life...
Part of what makes him so enigmatic is the nature of his intellect. Wander the Microsoft grounds, press the Bill button in conversation and hear it described in computer terms: he has "incredible processing power" and "unlimited bandwidth," an agility at "parallel processing" and "multitasking." Watch him at his desk, and you see what they mean. He works on two computers, one with four frames that sequence data streaming in from the Internet, the other handling the hundreds of E-mail messages and memos that extend his mind into a network. He can be so rigorous as he processes data...