Word: fakeness
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Clearly scientists need to be better trained, and on this score things are improving. The L.A. sheriff's office runs forensics courses for detectives that include fake murder scenes staged at a Residence Inn. The University of Tennessee in Knoxville maintains a politely named Anthropological Research Facility, a body farm where dozens of human remains lie in various states of decay in open fields to help forensic scientists better understand decomposition...
...Harvard Students for Israel Clarifies Stance” in The Crimson, Oct. 20, 2000 which chronicled HSI’s open invitation to SAS to change its policy. This time SAS’s excuse is that the proposed idea would be “completely social, fake and uncomfortable.” If a “completely social” event with HSI is necessarily “fake” (whatever that means), isn’t that all the more reason to get past the first and move on to the second, which might be more...
...think you’re funny, joking like that? Your name probably isn’t even Ryan. You’ve probably been lying all along.” In desperation, Lannon produced his Harvard ID, and when she scoffed that it was probably fake, he finally matched it up with his driver’s license, but that...
...gotta love that "as if." You see, what Lowell and his peers know is that our homes are built out of hope and anxiety. Are we warm? Are we loving? If not, can we fake it with a few houseplants? Our homes are where our personalities and imaginations are nakedly on display, and we continually suspect they are lacking. And judging by the number of hideous paneled rec rooms being redone on TLC, Discovery, HGTV, BBC America, DIY Network and beyond, we just may be right...
...would have been completely social, fake and uncomfortable,” said SAS President Leen M. Al-Alami ’04. “We did not feel [the barbecue] would be an appropriate forum...