Word: leape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wish him to write a very long, nonfiction essay about the experience, to be required reading later in the course. (It would begin "Thunk! The brick felt heavy against my skull.") As soon as you sense danger, hurl the brick in the sock through a nearby window and leap out that window to make your escape. It is always best to wear rubber-soled running shoes to your Expos conferences. It's actually best to wear running shoes everywhere...
...winds as they press past slower moving gases, just as the eruptions of volcanoes on Earth are produced by the pressures created by motions of its great crustal plates rubbing against each other. By learning to track these winds, the researchers believe they can take a giant leap forward in the science of forecasting solar weather...
...cleared his desk, he was asked how he would like to be remembered. De Klerk reached higher than usual: "As a leader who prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths and who made a quantum leap that fundamentally changed our country for the better and brought justice to all South Africans." Fair enough...
...close-up human from digital scratch. But that day is surely coming. Computer graphics--CG, in industry shorthand--have already been used to create loosely rendered virtual stunt people suitable for brief action sequences. The buzz has it that James Cameron's forthcoming Titanic will represent a leap forward with its use of CG extras, detailed down to the misty breath they exhale in the cold night air, although one source who has seen completed footage from the film says the overall effect is less impressive as a visual than as a because-they-can declaration. Why not, when...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: In what may require the biggest leap of faith so far this year, Cambodian leader Hun Sen is asking members of parliament who fled his bloody coup to return and endorse his choice for a new co-prime minister. The offer comes just weeks after Hun Sen took power from former co-prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh in a bloody action in which 40 of Ranariddh's supporters were killed in custody, according to the U.N. Human Rights Center. For Hun Sen, the push is a move to legitimize his government in the face of his violent...