Word: gap
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have occurred to me before we got there, but upon walking into the clothing store in Central Square last Friday, the gravity of the situation hit me: we were not welcome customers, in a serious way. I was wearing a corduroy jacket over a Henley tee, boat shoes, and Gap jeans with one leg rolled up to avoid getting it caught in my touring bicycle’s gears. I was there to purchase an extra-long t-shirt and jeans with legs so big I could have ridden my bicycle through just one of them. Even though we kept...
...Internet governance is not the summit's only issue. For many poor countries the biggest question is how to help narrow the ?digital gap? between rich countries and poor ones. According to the International Telecommunication Union, the 15 percent of the world population that lives in the industrialized world enjoy five times better access to fixed-line and mobile phone services, nine times better access to Internet services, and own 13 times more personal computers than the 85 percent living in poor and middle-ranking countries. The Geneva meeting set a goal of bringing half the world's population online...
...Despite the gap between rich and poor countries, the developing world has nonetheless seen a boom in access to some technologies over the past decade. In Africa, mobile phone subscriptions has risen from 15 million in 2000 to more than 80 million in 2004. Mobile phone coverage now extends from the continent's capitals to remote towns in such war-ravaged countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo. But access to the Internet lags far behind. According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development, just 3.1% of Africans have access to the Internet, and less than...
...trials, he says, did not have the more serious melancholic depression that doctors invariably treat with drugs but a milder form more likely to resolve spontaneously or from non-drug therapies. A view common among doctors is that if antidepressant trials looked exclusively at people with melancholic depression, the gap in efficacy between the drug and a placebo would widen...
...paid off, as Wilson tallied her second goal of the game, deflecting junior defender Lindsay Weaver’s shot from the point for a power-play goal that brought the Crimson to within 4-2. With its renewed intensity, Harvard earned numerous other opportunities to further close the gap, including a shot by Wilson that went right in front of the net, missing a goal—and a hat trick—by inches. But the Crimson’s comeback bid was not done. After pulling Boe with just over a minute to play, senior Jennifer Raimondi...