Word: leapingly
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...Distance once helped dampen the effects of human wickedness, and weapons once had limited range. But evil has burst into a new dimension. The globalization, democratization and miniaturization of the instruments of destruction (nuclear weapons or their diabolical chemical-biological stepbrothers) mean a quantum leap in the delivery systems of evil. This levels the playing field - and the level field has fungus on it. Every tinhorn with a chemistry set becomes a potential world-historical force with more discretionary destructive power at hand than the great old monsters, from Caligula to Stalin, ever had. In the new dimension, micro-evil...
Understandably the U.S. has much to fear from proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, but the fear is reaching paranoid levels. Though actions of the Chinese government may not always be perceived as friendly, it is quite a leap to suggest that a regime which bullies its denizens is poised to threaten the U.S. Regardless of its heinous record in human rights, China is self-interested like all nations and probably favors economic development over ruinous war. Unlike North Korea, there has been no indication that the leaders in Beijing are outright mad in their approach to diplomacy. Though espionage...
...Across town, while Dan-ni-er sleeps the pregame afternoon away, the indoor and outdoor courts of the Lu Wan District Children's Athletic School echo with the clamor of wannabe Yao Mings. Teenage boys leap and shout and launch fadeaway threes, and a dozen girls who can't be older than seven dribble two balls at a time?perhaps the Olympians of 2020 and beyond. OUR DREAM IS TO BECOME A SHANGHAI SHARK, reads a banner strung on the fence, but it is out of date; the success of the Young Giant has trumped domestic glory. Now, says...
...capacity office chair, Criterion Plus, that is 5 in. wider than the 18-in. standard and sells for $1,500. Countless hours of watching people at work and noticing how much larger they had become, says product manager Ken Tameling, convinced Steelcase engineers that the seat of their ergonomic Leap chair should be set at 20 in. They engineered its backrest to produce greater resistance when heavy people lean back, as well as attached arms that move laterally. All this, says Tameling, has helped make sales of the $1,299 chair the fastest-growing of any chair Steelcase has ever...
...small step for Dartmouth’s Charles Harris, and one giant leap into the record books for Elliott Prasse-Freeman...