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... called Magic Leap, seeking the ultimate in augmented reality. Isn’t that effectively a contradiction in terms? Reality is simply reality? STEPHENSON: We all spend a significant amount of our days now looking at pixels. I look at photographs of my work environment from only a few years ago, and I...

... exponentially in the 21st century, Egypt remained a relic of the past. In an effort to advance a stalled state, these individuals organized one revolutionary leap. The problem, however, is that they tried to leap without the full support of the country behind them. Many consider this prematurity a source...

... Western finance for a significant amount of time. Because the West is more unattractive, it's a big opportunity for Russia to take a big leap forward.” Russia's attempts at boosting economic integration with those countries— including a newly formed customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan—should help...

... military program, has taken another leap forward under Trump, whose administration has dropped drones at the rate of one every day or two, more than five times as frequently as Obama, according to a March report by the Council on Foreign Relations. Hard power has come at the expense of soft power...

...]. But if you look at the world of science and the world of women professionals generally, it is about the social aspects. Women do very well academically; they do very well at middle management, but I think they just can’t be seen to make that leap into the higher level. The main reason is that the social...

..., B.C.: University of California Press, 2002). Centre of International Relations, University of 20. Godwin, “Pla’s Leap into the 21st Cen­ British Columbia, Working Paper No. 38, August tury"; see also William S. Murray III and Robert 2003...

... the Communist era, were to leap over generations of technology and embrace cellphones and debit cards, then digital IDs and internet-enabled services. After years of neglect under Soviet rule, the lack of infrastructure became an opportunity to start afresh: “We just skipped certain things . . . everyone...

... nor proletarians nor capitalists, and Urga, the capital, made Moscow look like the set of Blade Runner. It was a land of nomads and lamas, where serfdom was still practiced. Yet the roughly 647,000 inhabitants of this sprawling country were about to take a leap into the 20th century, and, courtesy...

... though I suggested strongly that they focus exclusively on the Ethan Allen brand, our agreement included Markor’s development of a parallel label. We agreed to leave Ethan Allen as traditionally American while Markor would develop more modern, more Chinese designs. But they weren’t ready to leap into any...

... for this achievement is the young motorbike-riding generation born after the American War ended. A fair number have gone in one leap—as did half of Duyen’s classmates in the Banking Academy—from village penury to millionaire luxury. As Duyen makes constant micro adjustments to preserve the crucial inches of space...

... in this hyper-changing world. We must free our minds from the prisons of the past and look at problems from different angles, combine old ideas in new ways, develop connections across disciplines, recognize new relationships, see new patterns, think in paradoxes, get rid of inhibitions, take intellectual leaps...

... of neglect by Tunisia’s rulers has led to a state of perennial despair. But pass a prison on the edge of town, and a jarring mix of neon hues leap from its outer wall. During the 2011 uprising against former President Zine El-Abdine Ben Ali, prisoners rioted, and much of the wall was destroyed in fighting...

... their na­ and he went through the typical personal tions to leap onto the world stage as great nuclearistic sequence from fear and awe of powers— of gaining global respect while the weapons to passionate embrace of their evoking in others terror and awe. The reac­ power. He planned for a later...

... throughout Latin America and Africa, sometimes at several points lower than OECD’s country risk premiums. The Export-Import Bank of China generally offers lower interest rates than the U.S. Ex-Im Bank, prompting nations that are too high risk for more conventional lenders to leap at offerings far below...

... treat into the past. was a 60-year-old native of Buner who re­ Spearheading the great leap backward appeared in his homeland after many years’ were two groups of mullahs, both with absence to proclaim that he had been visited Wahhabi associations, both linked to the by Syed Ahmad the Martyr...

... holding the line on prices. In February, Argentina’s official statistics agency INDEC gave an estimate of 3.7 percent inflation for the final quarter of 2013 (an annual rate in excess of 15 percent)—a drastic leap from the agency’s previous calculations, which had caused IMF to censure Argentina in 2013...

... of urbanization (4.8 percent annually) is among the highest in the world, an admission of defeat for a country whose plains, dunes, and caravan trails have supported so many nomadic communities for millennia. He underlines his point when a capitaine fingerling leaps into his pirogue. It flaps amongst...

...; the groceries stores had only a few sorry tins of food. Oh my, I thought, my brow furrowing, this is where I’ll be spending the next two or three years of my life. How utterly depressing. How do these folks cope? Then I looked over at Al. He was grinning broadly, his eyes wide with wonder as they leaped...

... and their broad impact on growing cycles and crop production. Eventually, the wealthy, agriculturally-more advanced, prosperous, or at least more fortunate nations may need to leap to the aid of the less fortunate—perhaps in the form of emergency banks into which farmers and governments pay a portion...