Word: leape
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...Atlantis is to thunder off the launch pad early in the evening of Wednesday, February 7, carrying the newest segment of the International Space Station, a U.S. laboratory module named Destiny. NASA managers, rarely stolid when it comes to shuttle launches, have taken to describing Destiny as a "quantum leap" in the orbiting outpost's mission and capacity. From Cape Canaveral, Brad Liston examines this latest development in the $100 billion science saga...
Andrew-Jaja and senior Arthur Fergusson led the Crimson in the field. Andrew-Jaja won the triple jump with a personal best 14.53-meter leap and cleared the 2.01-meter bar to earn second in the high jump. Fergusson placed just behind his teammate in the triple jump and placed second in the long jump. Junior Aaron Snead finished tied for third in the pole vault...
Pennsylvania, which took the leap around the same time as California, is often cited as the model of well-designed deregulation; 550,000 customers, or some 10% of the state's total, have switched to one of the many new suppliers. Competition works: Pennsylvanians have saved $3 billion on their electric bills...
...planning to hit the Karen hard. The noose was tightening. The rebels did not want to be killed by the Burmese but did not know whether to trust the Thais. With coaxing from the elders, the boys decided to try. The slow walk to Thailand, however, was a long leap of faith...
...time, all seasons must come and go, and this period is no different. The ice will thaw and the snow will melt, and a short week from now, the new term will be upon us. Then the waters of this great river will be free to run and leap again. In time, a new guard of fresh faces will lounge upon its banks, underneath its bright crimson boughs, and bask by its shimmering sheets...