Word: leapfrogs
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...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...
...hope of achieving prosperity for Korea." Not so long ago, U.S. President George W. Bush branded North Korea a member of the "Axis of Evil," along with Iraq and Iran. But the xenophobic Kim now seems increasingly frantic to mend relations with the outside world and leapfrog his poverty-stricken people into the modern era. After years of extreme isolationism, Kim is letting go of the ideology of Juche?Self-Reliance?and easing toward economic and political engagement. The zone could prove to be another of North Korea's grandiose white elephants, like the 105-story, pyramid-shaped Ryugyong Hotel...
...manufacture electrical goods such as air conditioners and stereos in Malaysia for sale domestically and overseas. It has struggled since its inception four years ago. Mokhtar may also be taking over another pair of gasping Mahathir favorites: the Entertainment-Village, through which local multimedia and film industries would "leapfrog into the digital age"; and Bio-valley, a still vague attempt to spark off a Malaysian biotechnology industry. Both E-village and Bio-valley are part of the Prime Minister's Multimedia Super Corridor, a hugely ambitious?and expensive?attempt to create an Asian Silicon Valley that is floundering...