And some stars die spectacularly in a supernova explosion, leaving remnants like that.

But the small stuff, what you might call the user interface, is done spectacularly badly.

In the educational domain, the number of pupils enrolled in primary education, and later in secondary education, increased spectacularly in the years following independence.

Narrator Though they work in a wide open office space spectacularly set under San Francisco's Oakland Bay Bridge, the team built their own little cubicles to fully experience the problems.

Pension, investment, and hedge funds have taken the lead in this revolution. In all developed economies, profits have leaped spectacularly in the past 25 years, by between 8 and 10 of GDP.

Vaudeville may be a French specialty, like bread, cheese, and wine, but it does not strengthen the dignity and credibility of an already spectacularly unpopular presidency. Hollande wanted to be a normal president.

Migration offers many opportunities to the migrants themselves, to the countries that receive younger workforce and also notably in the form of remittance payments, which have grown spectacularly in recent years to their countries of origin.

By many measures, global inequality has been reduced significantly over the past three decades, implying that capitalism has succeeded spectacularly. Capitalism has perhaps eroded rents that workers in advanced countries enjoy by virtue of where they were born.

French companies do spectacularly well in the global market place. At home, meanwhile, small, distinctively French businesses cheese makers, patisseries, or restaurateurs get hammered by heavy taxes and social welfare costs while supermarkets flourish selling products from Asia.

Another thing all these molecules are telling us that, apparently, bioluminescence has evolved at least 40 times, maybe as many as 50 separate times in evolutionary history, which is a clear indication of how spectacularly important this trait is for survival.

And, in truth, the public is right while there is a somewhat scientific basis for these models, they can go spectacularly wrong. Sometimes we need to turn off autopilot and think for ourselves, and when a crisis occurs, use our best human intellect.

But the spectacularly muddle headed argument nowadays that too much austerity is killing Europe is not surprising. Commentators are consumed by politics, flailing away at any available target, while the anti austerity masses apparently believe that there are easy cyclical solutions to tough structural problems.

That message still resonates today, though it was spectacularly wrong. For example, the authors of The Limits to Growth predicted that before 2013, the world would have run out of aluminum, copper, gold, lead, mercury, molybdenum, natural gas, oil, silver, tin, tungsten, and zinc.

But most countries that are unburdened by such a threat have, quietly or spectacularly, rallied to the liberal order over the past decades. Asian countries such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Indonesia have done so without being hampered by their supposed Asian values.

And it happened again, even more spectacularly, in the last half million years when our own ancestors became cultural creatures, they came together around a hearth or a campfire, they divided labor, they began painting their bodies, they spoke their own dialects, and eventually they worshiped their own gods.

In an interview, she stated her only wish to fly to Mars, even with a one way ticket. It was an implicit wish for a spectacular form of suicide, for a spectacularly prosaic reason the loss, experienced by thousands of Russian women of her generation, of her life s existential foundation.

At Germany s insistence, the ECB will supervise only the eurozone s 130 or so biggest banks. That will leave the smaller Ländesbanks (state owned regional banks), many of which made spectacularly bad lending decisions in the bubble years, and Sparkassen (smaller savings banks) in the hands of local politicians and Germany s pliable financial supervisor.

His selection of Sarah Palin, a charismatic but spectacularly unqualified candidate, as his running mate, is just the most glaring of many examples of the real McCain. His bravery in combat attests to his patriotism, courage, and toughness, but his judgment has been found sorely lacking time and time again over his career.

Corruption is widespread, and PDP politicians have been unable to deliver the prosperity and improved social services that Nigerians looked forward to following the return of democracy. Indeed, the PDP has been able to retain power only by rigging successive elections, most spectacularly in 2007, when the outgoing Obasanjo foisted Yar Adua on the party hierarchy.

Raising funds by taxing negative externalities reduces distortions rather than creating them. Though such taxes are spectacularly unpopular perhaps because individuals refuse to admit that the externalities they themselves create are significant I regard them as an important direction for future policy (and I intend to suggest other ideas along these lines in future columns).

This debate in the General Assembly on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has spectacularly highlighted the attachment of each and every member of the international community to the values enshrined in the Declaration. And yet, examples of violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms are rife.

But only a foaming polemicist would deny that there is also a case for hiking rates sooner, as long as the Fed doesn t throw random noise into the market by continuing to send spectacularly mixed signals about its beliefs and objectives. After all, the US economy is at or near full employment, and domestic demand is growing solidly.

The second view proved to be spectacularly wrong. Within 24 hours of Lehman s failure, the US authorities were scrambling to prevent asset fire sales, a run on money market mutual funds, the collapse of other investment banks (such as Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs), and even the demise of large, integrated, global banks (such as Citigroup).

But Spain had a surplus and a low debt ratio before the crisis, and it, too, is in depression. What is needed is not structural reform within Greece and Spain so much as structural reform of the eurozone s design and a fundamental rethinking of the policy frameworks that have resulted in the monetary union s spectacularly bad performance.

Capitalist economies have been spectacularly efficient at enabling growing consumption of private goods, at least over the long run. When it comes to public goods such as education, the environment, health care, and equal opportunity the record is not quite as impressive, and the political obstacles to improvement have seemed to grow as capitalist economies have matured.

Finally, innovative strategies are needed to align development finance with national development goals, transforming the multilateral system operationally so that it works more effectively with stakeholders on the ground. One model is the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, which has succeeded spectacularly in reducing levels of chlorofluorocarbons, highlighting the continued potential of inclusive multilateralism.

The biggest risk is that the growing disconnect between the perception of national companies and the reality of Europeanization may lead to spectacularly ill judged policies. It is high time for business leaders to be more candid about where their real constituencies lie, and for national politicians to recognize that they can no longer wield control over the giants of today s European business.

When fiscal consolidation turns on a predetermined debt ratio to be achieved at a predetermined point in the future, the primary surpluses needed to hit those targets are such that the effect on the private sector undermines the assumed growth rates and thus derails the planned fiscal path. Indeed, this is precisely why previous fiscal consolidation plans for Greece missed their targets so spectacularly.

We are trying to extrapolate the past experience of a small fraction of the world population that we have chosen to examine because they made a lot of money. Of course, if one looks at many different investment strategies and many different countries, one can find something that performed spectacularly in the past, even if there is no strategy that can be expected to do so well in the future.

More surprising was the success of the launch, which makes North Korea the tenth member of the world s Space Club (the ninth member was Iran, which successfully launched its Safir rocket in 2008). The Unha 3, a three stage rocket weighing 92 tons, follows the Unha 2, which failed spectacularly in 2009, so the evident progress that North Korea has made in its missile technology in such a short period has shocked governments around the world.