Annika Sorenstam's career has run almost entirely parallel with that of U.S. golfing legend Tiger Woods, and comparisons between the two aren't without basis.
Mr Carter hopes to enter a second century of composition with unlimited horizons, an achievement almost without parallel in the history of 20th and 21st-century art.
Venezuela's government has stopped issuing import permits, nor is it providing dollars at the official exchange rate for imports from Colombia (a dollar costs almost three times more on the parallel market).
Interesting also that in - often, when the Republican and Democratic debates are closer together in time, many people say, gosh, it's almost like we're living in a parallel universe here.