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...Earth: There are animals, of course, walking improbably on their hind legs, but it's humans who elicit the held breath at the 132nd Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus. In a computer-generated age, there's an odd thrill in seeing a real person do the undoable, like leap through a ring of flaming knives blindfolded. And the cheeky audience-participation antics of David Larible, above, make clowns seem almost hip. Almost...
Despite that bias, Hanson said, it is still possible for law and economics theory to be used to reach progressive conclusions, in the same way as it is possible for fish to occasionally leap out of water and appear...
...logic of the current cease-fire effort, prescribed by the Tenet and Mitchell reports, is to bring the parties quickly back to the negotiating table they abandoned last January. But if Arafat and Ehud Barak couldn't reach a final Israeli-Palestinian agreement, it takes a leap of the imagination to visualize an Arafat-Sharon deal. And yet without one, there's little chance that any truce emerging in the coming days will amount to much more than a time...
McLoon made an even larger leap in the 15k freestyle “skate,” moving up 11 spots from 31st last year to 20th...
...suggests that humans are not rational in this way, that many factors motivate us to do things aside from self-interest, and that there are other things to life besides satisfaction of our desires. Ultimately, belief in the individualism and materialism of Economic Man is a value orientation, a leap of faith...