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Inside the center, a large glass-fronted cage in the main building's vestibule displays 10 young crab-eating macaques Macaca Fascicularis--the most common species at the center--playing triple leapfrog and swinging on a network of pipes...

Author: By Martha A. Bridegam, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Monkeying Around At The New England Primate Center | 10/14/1987 | See Source »

...powerful 14-member central executive committee. Naturally, speculation intensified that Lee was being groomed to succeed his father, who has ruled Singapore since 1959 and says he will step down at age 65. Before the younger Lee could head the government, however, he would have to leapfrog First Deputy Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong, 45, who boasts a strong party following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singapore the Son Keeps Rising | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...destinies of the two states sometimes worked in counterpoint, almost seemed to leapfrog each other. In the 1970s, for example, Massachusetts appeared to be threadbare and obsolete, a ghost town of the Industrial Revolution, its people shivering through the winters of the oil shortage. Texas boomed with energy--the kind it pumped out of the Permian Basin and the kind that came from its adrenal glands. Now it is Texas that is chastened and Massachusetts that seems, for the moment, to belong to the future. Two reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two States | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

...reported, "every one of the sites examined is leaking, without exception; and every one is out of compliance with currently applicable regulations." Wastes placed in them from other failed sites may soon have to be picked up and moved once again. The result is a bleak game of chemical leapfrog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A Problem That Cannot Be Buried | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...research are emerging. For example, computers of a speed and complexity almost unimaginable today will be essential to direct a missile-killing system. Even before so- called fifth-generation computers are ready, the Innovative Science and Technology Office, part of the Star Wars effort, is attempting to leapfrog to sixth-generation computers powered by light beams rather than electricity. Such computers, says IST Physicist Dwight Duston, "will be much smaller, much lighter, faster and almost immune from natural and man-made radiation." Some of those features would make a sixth-generation computer valuable in commercial uses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wagons Hitched to Star Wars: NATO allies consider participating | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

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