A-levels, these have focused more on hoop-jumping and box-ticking than on actual education.
DiYists believe in the primacy of self: the autonomous, assertive, nose-ring-wearing, disco-jumping self.
Xu's trick: a genetic quirk called a transposon--a so-called jumping gene--that his team stole from the genome of the cabbage looper moth.
Those who seek "merit-based" naturalization -- jumping ahead of the queue -- would get points for "civic involvement" if they had engaged in a significant amount of community service.
If Mr Obama really were the miracle-working, aisle-jumping, consensus-seeking new breed of politician his spin-doctors make him out to be, you would expect to see the evidence in these eight years.
Sao Paulo, Brazil (CNN) -- In the heart of Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, the Little Peruvian Corner turns out spicy lomo saltado -- or jumping sirloin -- for a fast-growing immigrant population.
It's meant to stop so-called "gun jumping"--trading on information not yet publicly available.
It concludes at Paleohora - a small town that has preserved its laid-back character, despite being the jumping-off point for popular Elafonisi Beach on Crete's southwestern tip.
His comrade-in-charms, Stephen Colbert, is also jumping in with a tongue-in-cheek counter-rally -- a March to Keep Fear Alive.
Knievel rose to fame in the late 1960s and 1970s as an obstacle-jumping motorcycle daredevil who ignored odds -- and often paid the price.
Any minor shift in outlook -- including a little vicarious creek jumping -- can make a dismal picture less dispiriting.
"It would be absurd - three 50-year-old geezers jumping around the stage, " he said.
Racers follow the stream -- jumping off small cliffs and through waterfalls -- and a final rock face at the base creates one of the last challenges, requiring concentration and crab-walking to climb down.
Now again, I know that queue-jumping happens everywhere, and the ice-cream girl might have just been having an off day, and that none of these incidents prove a thing, but it did get me thinking.
His teams cross-reference the different viruses jumping over into humans - what he calls the viral chatter.
The digital athletes in NBA Jam performed such hoops-time high jinx as jumping from the half-court line, doing flips in the air and lighting the basket on fire as they dunked the ball.
And it is rumoured to have made multi-million-dollar counter-offers to keep especially valuable personnel from jumping to Facebook or elsewhere.
For them, the formal ski area effectively serves as a jumping-off point, a gateway to vast tracts of challenging off-piste terrain studded with cliff drops, creamy powder stashes, edge-of-your-seat steeps and wide, rolling slopes.
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If you are collecting capitals stop off at Brisbane, but most continue to tropical Cairns, a jumping-off point for cruising the Great Barrier Reef, the coral-jewelled necklace that makes the most stunning adornment to this coast.
During the summer many people were rescued after getting cut off by the tide and activities such as coasteering - swimming, jumping and scrabbling around sections of coastlines - saw Brixham Coastguard called out to a variety of incidents.
On Thursday, the Maple Leafs allowed five straight goals in a 7-4 loss to the New York Islanders after jumping out 3-1.
Cruise lines and cruise-oriented travel companies are also jumping on board with pink-slip reassurance plans.
Traditional book-industry players and tech companies are jumping on the digital self-publishing bandwagon.
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And although jumping is dangerous - falls and broken bones are common - crossing the forest floor is more dangerous still.
Numerous self-inflicted crises loom, but cliff-jumping as the clock strikes midnight January 1 2013 is not one of them.
Like Stewart, Winfrey will be jumping from heavily-trafficked broadcast stations to a previously little-watched Discovery channel.
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Separately, Banc of America Securities moved EMC (nyse: EMC - news - people ) into the top slot of its tech picks, one spot ahead of IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ), jumping on the current valuation following a 19% drop in the data storage company's share price since March.
After months of continued improvement, Spanish bond markets deteriorated as well, with the yield on 10-years jumping dramatically to 5.44%, hitting its highest levels since mid-December.
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Let me -- it's a woman's turn, so -- all right, how about -- she's jumping up and down right here.
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More critically, when another friend recently took a one-week safari through "Lost, " he could clearly distinguish its shark-jumping moment, whereas those of us who had watched live were suckered in, fond memories of the past overshadowing the tainted present.
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