Word: silver
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...others are making a habit of it, and have helped it to become an intense international sport with its own world cup held every other year. Nearly 40 teams participated in the world competition held last July in Toronto, with a Belgian team placing first, USA taking the silver, and Australia nabbing the bronze. At the national level, some 850 athletes competed at the USA Jump Rope championships in Orlando last June. While some entrants excel in speed - the current world record is 190 hops in 30 seconds - others are known for their freestyle routines, which incorporate gymnastics and choreography...
...years since he founded Apple (with Stephen Wozniak), and 10 since he returned there after having been fired. In that decade Apple's stock has gone up more than 1,000%. Neither age nor success (nor cancer surgery in 2004) have significantly mellowed him, though some of the silver in his beard is creeping into his hair. All technologists believe their products are better than other people's, or at least they say they do, but Jobs believes it a little more than most...
...thudding Hulk; for every Shrek, a wildly off-orbit Treasure Planet. They also fret that with so many seen-it-before films clogging the May-June release schedule, sequel fatigue may set in. Pandya suggests this could hurt the June 15 opening of Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, a follow-up to the 2005 film Fantastic Four...
...give it credibility in the Western world? Isolation of this rogue nation with sanctions is the only way to proceed, until its leadership is either changed or willing to stop its nuclear program, the avowed objective of which is to destroy Israel and dominate the Middle East. Nelson Marans Silver Spring, Maryland...
Giving someone a shiny silver frame used to be a good way to avoid hunting down a real present. Not anymore. Thanks to the falling price of liquid-crystal display (LCD) screens and the fact that everybody has a digital camera, electronic-photo frames are popular gifts this year, ones that could earn you points with loved ones...