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bee highly parallel if performance is to keep increasing. Perhaps that will inspire some radically new approaches to speech understanding that will supplant the methods we’re developing now.Passage 2The Atlantic Alliance Needs TendingThe . and Europe. These days, they bicker almost like a couple whose long marriage is in danger of unravelling. The litany of misunderstandings and mutual resentment seems to be growing. From the death penalty to steel tariffs, from the IsraeliPalestinian conflict to military spending, there is an abyss between American and European positions on innumerable issues.Each side feels the other isn’t shouldering enough of the burdens facing both. The Europeans see an unbending posture, from the Bush Administration’s protecting inefficient . steel panies to its threats to take out Iraq’s Saddam Hussein—alone, if necessary. . policymakers, for their part, are losing patience with Europeans’ inability to get serious about defence spending. The war in Afghanistan has brought home the reality that much of Euro