Word: leapingly
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...such patients may be greater than researchers first thought. In a November 2008 study, a team of scientists used a new positron emission tomography (PET) brain-imaging technique developed by Drs. William Klunk and Chester Mathis of the University of Pittsburgh to image the brains of live patients - a leap forward in a field that long had to rely on postmortem analyses of brain tissue to confirm diagnoses after the fact - and showed that some 21% of patients with physical signs of dementia suffered no outward symptoms of cognitive impairment. (See how to prevent illness...
...story team.) With the speed of Road Runner, the karma of Wile E. Coyote and, this time, the romantic obsession of Pepé Le Pew, Scrat is a walking, stalking lexicon of characters created by the immortal Chuck Jones. Blue Sky, the Ice Age studio, should take an artistic leap and consider a feature-length, nonverbal Scrat feature...
...weak economy is forcing many places to scale back their Independence Day plans. Have you seen fewer requests for shows? Absolutely not. This is a Saturday Fourth of July; that has not occurred since 1998, as the last Saturday was leap year. Historically, Saturday Fourths of July are Katie-bar-the-door, sold-out, booked solid...
...Walkman wasn't a giant leap forward in engineering: magnetic cassette technology had been around since 1963, when the Netherlands-based electronics firm Philips first created it for use by secretaries and journalists. Sony, who by that point had become experts in bringing well-designed, miniaturized electronics to market (they debuted their first transistor radio in 1955), made a series of moderately successful portable cassette recorders. But the introduction of pre-recorded music tapes in the late 1960s opened a whole new market. People still chose to listen to vinyl records over cassettes at home, but the compact size...
...novel point in time, publishing needs to start on a new page. Only the young can fully accept that—to those who are entering the industry for the first time, it’s a new page no matter what. Publishers should be forced to make this leap of blind faith into an uncertain technological world, because that faith, the creed of words, is so important...