Word: leapfrog
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...Saharan Africa has just one phone line for every 70 people, in contrast to almost one per person in the U.S. and Europe. But by using cell-phone technology, Africa hopes to leapfrog a stage in development, just as parts of Asia have done. In the past six years the number of mobile connections in Africa has jumped from 2 million to 35 million...
...industry where consumers have come to resent being promised so much yet receiving so little (WAP, anyone?) But Hutchison has decided the potential benefits, which could be vast, outweigh the risks, no matter how daunting. As a new entrant without any legacy network to upgrade, 3 is hoping to leapfrog the competition and establish an important early foothold in the telecom standard for the future?a future in which slower rivals are stuck with outmoded networks, just when consumer demand for high-speed wireless data service starts to sizzle...
...Harvard women’s swimming and diving team is going to leapfrog traditional Ivy powers Princeton and Brown, the record-setting performances turned in during last year’s Ivy Championships will need to be replicated on a larger scale...
...LEAPFROG LEAPSTART LEARNING TABLE It's not Elmo, but it's got the music and visual effects to wow any two-year-old--at least long enough to teach letters, numbers and songs. www.leapfrog.com...
...conundrum of Kim, who succeeded his father Kim Il Sung eight years ago as North Korea's absolute ruler, has flummoxed Washington for years. The xenophobic leader can veer from aggressive hostility to quiet bids to mend relations with the outside world, particularly if other nations help leapfrog his poverty-stricken people into the modern era. Like his father, when Kim has been most desperate for foreign aid, he has used the rattle of nukes to frighten the U.S. and its allies into buying...