Word: leape
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Give music companies an excuse to reissue something from the catalog, and they leap forward like umbrella salesmen in a rainstorm. The industry has gone two decades without a new technology to replace the CD (which replaced the cassette, which replaced the LP, which replaced the 78--each successive format presenting an opportunity to sell the public something it already owned), and now it's under threat from a bunch of 22-year-old hackers. These days, if the companies are going to make an opportunistic buck, they've got to reach a little further than they...
...Ashley Power. A retired teacher, Close first went online six months ago at her daughter's urging. Now the Columbus, Ohio, widow spends three hours a day auctioning paper dolls on eBay, researching health facts for her Chihuahua and sending e-mail. Why didn't she make the leap sooner? "It was intimidating," she says. "But now I'm trying to get all my senior women friends online...
...unpleasant a job that Genmar has a hard time getting workers to do it. Pyramid built a few test hulls for Genmar, but Kirila's system wasn't refined enough for Jacobs' engineers. "They were 90% there, and we needed 100%," says Jacobs. "So it represented a multimillion-dollar leap of faith...
...ever since Potrykus and his chief collaborator, Peter Beyer of the University of Freiburg in Germany, announced their achievement--their golden grain has illuminated an increasingly polarized public debate. At issue is the question of what genetically engineered crops represent. Are they, as their proponents argue, a technological leap forward that will bestow incalculable benefits on the world and its people? Or do they represent a perilous step down a slippery slope that will lead to ecological and agricultural ruin? Is genetic engineering just a more efficient way to do the business of conventional crossbreeding? Or does the ability...
...still having difficulty taking a leap of faith, I've put together a few reasons (outside the stories themselves) to consider...