Word: leapingly
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...basic point is that Christianity is right and Islam is wrong. Doesn't the one imply the other? Pretending that my religion is no better than your religion may make for fewer religious wars, but it seems contrary to the very idea of religion. For this, you take a leap of faith...
This is China's Great Leap Skyward. As an emergent Middle Kingdom increasingly struts its stuff on the international stage, Beijing seems to be backing up its claim to the mandate of heaven by going there. Of late, China has shown its global power by nudging North Korea into negotiations to end its nuclear-weapons program, attending a Group of Eight meeting of the world's capitalist powers and leading the developing world to demand more benefits from the World Trade Organization in September. Now comes a space effort designed to generate national pride and display the country's vigor...
...Scientists Meet Your story "Great Leap Skyward," on China's fledgling manned space program, reported that last year the U.S. refused to grant visas to some Chinese scientists invited to the World Space Congress in Houston [Sept. 29]. The U.S. government needs to be more open-minded and allow Chinese scientists to participate in professional conferences. As a science student, I think the research we do is for the advancement of all mankind, not for one particular country. Only through collaboration among all nations can we explore the areas that humans have never reached. Chan Sin Hang Hong Kong...
...have had somewhat less success in convincing perfect strangers to take the leap and say hello. Upon explaining this dilemma to my mom, she asked why I just didn’t take the initiative and say hi first. My first reaction to this most reasonable observation was to curse my mother and her damned logic in a tearful outburst, much as I did after she suggested my problems securing a date to the junior prom might be remedied by showering on a more regular basis. After collecting myself, though, I decided to do what I do with most...
DIED. JAY MORTON, 92, writer and artist for the Fleischer animation studios who, after deciding against using lightning as a metaphor for speed, coined Superman's famous cartoon introduction, "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound"; in Charlotte...