41.   Now, according to U.N. statistics, Iran leads the world in seizures of opium and its derivatives.

42.   Once we led the world, perhaps still do, in the degree to which we denied death.

43.   Once again, we lead the world in autos and semiconductors.

44.   Second, US companies have led the world in reorganising their work practices.

45.   South Africa, which once led the world in executions, has abolished the death penalty by unanimous vote of its new Constitutional Court.

46.   That ticking was the heartbeat of a great American industry, one that led the world in quality and has now vanished.

47.   The city that leads the world took on a weird neutron-bomb quality.

48.   The debate has taken on more urgency recently in Florida, which leads the world in shark attacks.

49.   The French lead the world in unique protests and labor actions.

50.   The leaders also carefully avoided the question of which nation should lead the world out of an economic slowdown.