But you can create a parallel world where it isn't, if you really try.
Computers routinely operate in a parallel world as they pull up web pages, run email and create documents simultaneously.
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Geomon has created an alternate, parallel world populated by so-called Espers.
In pursuit of a chance to see his mother again by accessing an alternate dimension, Oliver is pulled into the politics and struggles of a parallel world, and into an unwise beef with the eponymous white witch.
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"He appears to have drifted into a parallel world where he picked and chose elements to build himself a new identity, " said Jean-Pierre Filiu, a professor in the Middle East department at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.
The prize will be awarded at a special event in Geneva, Switzerland, parallel to the World Summit for the Information Society, on December 11.
Since Beinisch's professional godfather, retired Supreme Court president Aharon Barak, enacted his "judicial revolution" in the 1990s, Israel's judicial system has been without parallel in the Western world.
When I compare this to traditional talent management and review processes, I see yet another parallel to the product development world.
Italy will be hosting the 2011 IMO World Maritime Day Parallel Event with celebrations in Rome on October 13 and 14, 2011.
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Far beyond just offering a few mutual funds to suit religious investors, they and stand-alone Muslim banks are creating instruments that parallel many of the Western world's financial products, from consumer loans to insurance to bonds.
Now the Market Rules The parallel development, in the business world, is the rise of consumer power.
While Japan and South Korea are co-operating over travel, security and other arrangements, this still looks like two World Cups running in parallel, rather than a unified tournament.
Hence the parallel emergence of shamanism throughout the prehistoric world.
The talks would run in parallel with a new round planned by the World Trade Organisation.
These funding mechanisms will take into consideration the work done in this field so far by others and will align its functioning with other initiatives by the World Bank and EC, providing parallel co-financing and further enhancing the innovation potential of the programme.
Announced last September just after the summer games, the new parallel event is known as the IPC Athletics Marathon World Cup and is another example of a post-Paralympic legacy.
Regulations are key to the successful version of this future because parallel fights are brewing between other critical aspects of our world.
He praised Mr Bush's recent announcement of a major US financial contribution to the battle against Aids in the developing world, and called on the European Union to make a parallel effort.
Some of you may possibly remember an April 2008 Time magazine cover feature that drew a direct parallel between the current battle against climate change and U.S. involvement in World War II against Nazi Germany and Japan.
Prominent economists have drawn an eerie parallel between today's events and those of the early 1930s when, as the world limped in the aftermath of the 1929 Wall Street crash, a banking crisis in Europe took the world economy into another downward spiral and led to an explosion of extremist politics that, ultimately, set the pathway to World War II.
It is important for the educational system to make parallel changes in order to fulfill its mission in society, namely the preparation of students for the world beyond the classroom.
Ho and Wong had thought that the parallel to leaving a physical room would be well-received, but in this data-driven world, people want at least a little bit of history to remind them of what has been.
For one management professor, the parallel is so striking that he teaches executives a whole series of lessons they can learn from the theatrical world -- whether mimicking actors, directors or writers.
As for the Iraqi parallel, not even the Russians pretend that Mr Saakashvili has ever been a threat to his neighbours and to the world.
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