For those in the race to win the high score on mobile games, they'll have to hope consumers are willing to wait.

CNN: The Game's the Thing?

Scott Testa spent a good part of 2011 and 2012 visiting universities and high schools in Zhenghou, China on behalf of China Hope Project.

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The recent designation of 15 priority security zones in high-crime areas of France, commencing in September, seems based more on hope than reason.

ECONOMIST: French politics

Political watchers here hope Jindal's high profile and a special legislative session next year focused on ethics will begin that process.

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Those looking for a pronouncement from on high that recession has finally gripped the U.S. economy got the best they could hope for Friday.

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Bannister's try early in the second half briefly gave Quins hope, but Calderwood's try and Wells' dismissal, for a high shot on youngster Darrell Goulding, put Wigan in total control.

BBC: Wigan 25-6 Harlequins

This seems unlikely: firms that hope to survive have no choice but to hold on to their Treasuries, their most high-yielding assets at present.

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The alliance's hope of surviving the Kosovo crisis with head held high will depend, among other things, on securing an outcome which salvages some of the values it is built on.

ECONOMIST: Defining NATO��s aims

Many southern families have invested a lot of money and hope in educating their children to a high level, and are loth to encourage them to seek jobs on building sites or in factories in the north.

ECONOMIST: Why Italy��s southerners stay put