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...dealing with a swarm of killer bees, don't attempt to outsmart them. If you leap into a nearby swamp to escape them, they'll be waiting for you when you come up for air. This time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help! Quicksand! | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...fashion typical of the year she has had, Gyorffy went above and beyond what was needed. Her NCAA record-tying 1.97 leap virtually assured her of a spot on the team. Subsequent exchanges with the coaching staff in Hungary confirmed the news, and Gyorffy was ecstatic...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Junior Jumper Gyorffy Sydney-Bound | 4/11/2000 | See Source »

...activism seem so foreign to some students? Why does reading the newspaper not make us concretely angry? Why are discussion of social ideas over dinner more likely to end with invocation of Foucault than a concrete commitment to improving health care? Safe in the university, we are free to leap selectively between concepts, to stay in an intellectual airspace. The long, repetitive, quotidian ground in between--fighting the bill for three years through Congress, reforming welfare one family at a time--is not territory we need venture into...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Passing Through | 4/11/2000 | See Source »

Miller also won the long jump (5.50 meters) and the triple jump (11.46 meters). Shanklin's leap of 5.35meters gave the Crimson a one-two finish in the long jump, while Kathryn Ousley placed third in the triple jump...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Track Edge Out Competition, M. Track Third | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

...even right that we may never understand it. But what is the evidence for your position? You've criticized scientists for having faith--a dirty word in the scientific lexicon--that our era of explosive progress will continue unabated. Isn't it at least as much a leap to think that the progress will abruptly end--particularly since the trajectory of discoveries so far suggests just the opposite, that supposedly unanswerable questions eventually do get answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will There Be Anything Left To Discover? | 4/10/2000 | See Source »

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