Word: fakeness
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...casket had the words "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" inscribed on it, then of course it was a fake. The English language didn't even exist yet, so what's all the hullabaloo about? But seriously, I wish you had said more about the inscription - for example, which language it was in or what the actual words were, transcribed into our alphabet. Eila Kolu, KITEE, FINLAND...
...quality minutes towards the end,” Amaker said.McNally shot 4-of-8 from the field, providing good offense for a team struggling with it. Among his baskets was a tough drive and post-up basket in the first half, and then a lay-up after a pump fake and a nice runner in the lane in the second.“Oliver is a hard-working kid and he comes ready to play every day,” Lin said.—Staff writer Ted Kirby can be reached at tjkirby@fas.harvard.edu
...environmentalists the which-is-greener question, and most will side with the National Christmas Tree Association (NCTA), which represents live-tree growers. "Even if you use a fake tree for 10 years, when you throw it away, it's not biodegradable," says the NCTA's communications director, Rick Dungey. "It's always better to use a natural product over an artificial...
Then there's the stuff that artificial trees are made of. One ingredient in most fake firs is polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a plastic that is difficult to recycle. And while new artificial trees pose little threat to children's health, Mike Schade, the PVC-campaign coordinator for the activist group Center for Health, Environment and Justice, notes that older plastic trees tend to have higher levels of lead, a potent neurotoxin...
...exception than the rule--a practice known as rendition. Unfortunately, some of those snatched by CIA officers were innocent. German citizen Khaled el-Masri was one such victim. El-Masri was vacationing in Macedonia in December 2003 when authorities arrested him on wrongful suspicions that his passport was fake. A tragic case of mistaken identity then played out. El-Masri has the same name as an al-Qaeda operative being hunted at the time by CIA officials, and they took custody of el-Masri in Macedonia. Operatives from the agency beat and drugged el-Masri before whisking...