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...number of competitors has increased, so too has interest in watching their increasingly intricate steps and athletic stunts. "When you watch it, it's really something that is incredibly mind-boggling, and you can't quite picture how they do that," says Bleu, 17, who performed most of his own tricks for Jump In! Kelsy Moe, 22, became the female champion last year for moves such as the "double under frog" and "triple under," in which she performs handstands and jumps while twirling the rope around her body up to three times before her feet finally hit the ground...
...sheared off the entire front and replaced it with a huge, bright, vivid screen-that touchscreen Jobs got so excited about a few paragraphs ago. When you need to dial, it shows you a keypad; when you need other buttons, the screen serves them up. When you want to watch a video, the buttons disappear. Suddenly, the interface isn't fixed and rigid, it's fluid and molten. Software replaces hardware...
It’s wonderful to have lots of friends. But to watch as they all pair off and become unhappily married, comfortably miserable together, or happily divorced while you remain perpetually single...
...deciding whether to watch an episode of Grey’s Anatomy or study for a chemistry midterm, a Harvard student might express the tradeoff in terms of “opportunity costs.” The same student who failed to calculate his “opportunity costs” properly might comfort himself when failing that midterm the next day by remembering that he has a “comparative advantage” in lots of other subjects...
...failure; rockets are still spewing out of Gaza. Because of Sharon, Israel is also less secure on its northern front. Already burned by an 18-year occupation of Lebanon, Sharon would probably have refrained from Olmert's blundering all-out attack last summer. But it was on Sharon's watch that Hizballah built up its defenses and smuggled missiles from Iran and Syria. Sharon might not recognize the country he left behind when he suffered his stroke a year ago, but many Israelis are coming around to the belief that Sharon's decisions have weakened their country's security...