It was long known that modern humans overlapped with Neanderthals in Europe, apparently for more than 10, 000 years.

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Koch's years as mayor overlapped with another leader who understood that communication wasn't just how you explained governing communication was governing.

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Barbour was one of 600 UK-based buyers who showed at Pitti this season, which overlapped with the biannual menswear shows in London.

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Five years of experience dealing with the government followed when he took a job at the Radio Authority and the contract ran out but overlapped with his new position.

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There are photographs of objects and places, children's scribblings, typing overlapped with typing until it becomes illegible, and -- in a finale controversial among critics -- a flip-book of a falling man.

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Scott, who was working on his own novel based on her mental illness, "Tender is the Night, " was livid that she had covered similar territory in her book, and insisted that Scribner cut large portions of the novel that overlapped with what he was working on.

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The drawn-out and ugly political demise of Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister, meant that Mr Brown's visit got less attention in Israel than it perhaps deserved, though at least he avoided a clash with Barack Obama (unlike his visit to America earlier this year, when he overlapped with the Pope).

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He did it persisting on my almost absent flesh that tasted of milk, cookies, cereal, with a desperation of his own that overlapped mine without his realizing it.

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