We're trying to cross the chasm here between school math and the real world math.

So what's the problem, why has this chasm opened up, and what can we do to fix it?

They running forward with necks outstretched, their heads uplifted, their gaze returning not towards them, and their hearts a (gaping) void!

They running forward with necks outstretched, their heads uplifted, their gaze returning not towards them, and their hearts a (gaping) void!

And you know if you walk across a chasm, you end up making it worse than if you didn't start at all bigger disaster.

The walls were left with gaping holes, floorboards were ripped up, rubbish was strewn over the floor and graffiti was daubed on the walls.

So I'm sitting here looking at the next two decades of my life, this chasm of happiness that we're driving our proverbial convertible straight into.

And we realized that there was a giant chasm between the state of the art of technology in 2004 and where we needed it to be.

It should by now be abundantly clear to all of us that we cannot cross this chasm of development financing by taking a series of small steps.

In both Germany and South Korea, economic strength seems to have produced an illusion of policy independence that is opening a chasm between the two countries and their allies a chasm that revelations of US spying, on Merkel in particular, have deepened. Germany and South Korea, however, will gain little, and risk much, if they downgrade their alliance ties in favor of commercially motivated, if unofficial, neutrality.

However, there is little doubt that the Secretary General's proposal has sought to fill what he has described as a gaping hole in the United Nations institutional machinery .

Tweaking the law's clearly not good enough, and tort reform, which is a great idea, lowers your cost if you're a businessperson, but it's like a Band Aid on this gaping wound of distrust.

The problem of abandoning post conflict countries to struggle with their own fate has been aptly described by the Secretary General as a gaping hole in the United Nations institutional machinery (A 59 2005, para.

We appreciate the role of the United Nations organs and agencies in our post conflict recovery, but we wish that no gaping hole existed and that the United Nations were more involved in this phase.

These are just two of the very personal stories behind the shocking statistics reported by the United Nations Population Fund. The figures show the chasm that exists between rich and poor countries where motherhood is concerned.

A new declaration was badly needed when we began work on it one year ago. Today, it is crucial if we are to prevent an even greater chasm from dividing the world s haves and have nots.

So it's this here, this little gap that you have to close, as Jeffrey Moore calls it, Crossing the Chasm because, you see, the early majority will not try something until someone else has tried it first.

The global economic crisis not only hit the country hard, but, because of irresponsible electioneering, the previous government did not even try to fight it. Reckless populist promises left a gaping 16 of GDP budget deficit.

At Serious Play 2008, astrophysicist George Smoot shows stunning new images from deep space surveys, and prods us to ponder how the cosmos with its giant webs of dark matter and mysterious gaping voids got built this way.

Yet at this very point there is a gaping hole in the United Nations institutional machinery no part of the United Nations system effectively addresses the challenge of helping countries with the transition from war to lasting peace.

As a result, any member state can argue for its inalienable right under the NPT to pursue any stage of the nuclear fuel cycle. Although any such right extends only to activities for peaceful purposes, the loophole is gaping.

Thanks to America s gaping trade deficits, the biggest headache of every developing country finance minister nowadays is trying to keep his or her country s currency from going up too fast against the dollar. When was the last time that happened?

On one hand, public trust in government is at an all time low. On the other hand, Americans are deeply frustrated with gaping holes in health care, education, equality of opportunity, infrastructure, and environmental protection goods and services traditionally provided by government.

Without sanctions to police global imbalances, the French step forward will take us halfway across a yawning chasm. In mid air, with neither firm ground below nor enough momentum to make it to the other side, is not where the global economy should be.

When the Fund gets the big boys to complain by saying perfectly sensible things, it must be doing something right. True, the Fund has been notably soft on the United States of late, downplaying the continuing vulnerabilities posed by the gaping US current account and trade deficits.

Meanwhile, commodity prices will continue to rise, with oil exporters now constituting the largest contributors to America s gaping trade deficit. Maybe the real US strategy is to try to owe the commodity exporting countries so much money that they will feel dependent on making America happy!

Interestingly, both sides cite America s gaping trade deficit believe it or not, the US is soaking up two thirds of global excess saving to support their arguments. The true believers view the deficits as evidence that the world recognizes how special the US is and wants to buy in.

There are four components to an effective strategy for dealing with Iran s nuclear program real negotiations, rather than a leisurely meeting once every few weeks stiff sanctions on Iran, but without today s gaping loopholes a credible threat of military action and a face saving exit for the Iranian leadership.

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt claims that Shiites are always loyal to Iran, quot while King Abdullah of Jordan has coined the axiom about a rising Shiite crescent. This rise of the Shiites and the resulting Sunni Shia divide is alleged to be creating an ever widening chasm in the region.

This would be a pity for Europe and for Britain. It would underscore the depth of the chasm between leaders who are seeking to advance the cause of European political integration but are out of touch with their electorates, and the British, who do not like European political integration at all.

The most alarming implication of this mode of genetic selection, however, is that only the rich will be able to afford it. The gap between rich and poor, already a challenge to our ideas of social justice, will become a chasm that mere equality of opportunity will be powerless to bridge.

President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt claims that Shiites are always loyal to Iran, while King Abdullah of Jordan has coined the axiom about a rising Shiite crescent. This rise of the Shiites and the resulting Sunni Shia divide is alleged to be creating an ever widening chasm in the region.

There are four components to an effective strategy for dealing with nbsp Iran s nuclear program real negotiations, rather than a leisurely meeting once every few weeks stiff sanctions on Iran, but without today s gaping loopholes a credible threat of military action and a face saving exit for the Iranian leadership.

Without a significant increase in opportunities for political participation, including genuinely competitive elections, the chasm between a predominantly young population and a ruling elite with a narrow generational base will widen. Such continuing political inertia leaves an increasingly young Arab population prey to the appeal of extremist ideologies, while driving the best and brightest to seek their fortune elsewhere.

But social media can also be used effectively to demobilize people, by reducing the chasm between the psychology and power of political leadership and that of the masses. The emerging political class must improve its understanding of iCrowd politics, and learn to harness the power of tools like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs, apps, and text messages.

The Bush administration s habits of falsehood have undone its aggressive proclivities, leaving a gaping vacuum. The doctrine according to which great powers, many of them nuclear armed, try to stop lesser powers from acquiring nuclear weapons by force and threats of force a fiasco in Iraq, nuclear armed North Korea, and now Iran has reached a dead end.

With US workers remaining under intense pressure in terms of both job security and real wages, politicians have understandably been put on the spot. In response, they have fixated on the Chinese component of a long gaping trade deficit, charging that currency manipulation is the culprit to the long festering woes of the American middle class.

In 2011, the US faces a likely double dip in the housing market, high unemployment and weak job creation, a persistent credit crunch, gaping budgetary holes at the state and local level, and steeper borrowing costs as a result of the federal government s lack of fiscal consolidation. Moreover, credit growth on both sides of the Atlantic will be restrained, as many financial institutions in the US and Europe maintain a risk averse stance toward lending.

So the post industrial economy opened up a new chasm in the labor market, between those with stable, high paid, and fulfilling services jobs and those with fleeting, low paid, and unsatisfying jobs. Two factors determined the share of each type of job and thus the extent of inequality produced by the post industrial transition the education and skill level of the workforce, and the degree of institutionalization of labor markets in services (in addition to manufacturing).