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Supermarkets It all began with a Piggly Wiggly in Memphis, Tenn., in 1916. Clarence Saunders conceived and patented the idea of customers' walking though aisles of goods instead of asking a clerk behind the counter for everything. From there it was a straight leap to Costco...
...growing, and so did his determination to make the best of a difficult situation. Yi still preferred watching cartoons to NBA games, but by the time he joined Guangdong's professional Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) team last year, he was an astonishing 6 ft. 11 in.--and he could leap and touch a spot more than 11 ft. 6 in. off the ground. (The basketball rim is 10 feet high.) As Yi mastered new skills--the midrange jumper, the baby hook, the reverse slam--he attracted the attention of Adidas. Eager to loosen Nike's hold on Chinese basketball...
...given the honor of opening the BBC Proms in London with a nationally televised concert. A few days later, he played on Good Morning America, and as a result, his Tchaikovsky and Mendelssohn album made No. 1 on Amazon.com's "Movers and Shakers" list for the biggest leap in sales. Hearing Lang Lang on disc is gratifying, but you have to see him - even in the most fiendishly difficult passages he hardly even looks at the keyboard, his eyes searching out orchestra members to visibly join in the joy or pain of making music, or looking roof-wards...
...Space Case London architect David Adjaye is ready to make his leap across the Atlantic...
...professor of religious history at Yale. But fast-growing churches in the Third World and evangelicals are unlikely to follow this path. Some Protestants, he says, take their cue from evolving "cultural standards," others from set ideas about Scripture and tradition. For the Anglicans, it will take a considerable leap of faith to bridge the divide. --Reported by Simon Crittle/Concord, N.H., and Marguerite Michaels/Minneapolis