Word: ghosting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That still leaves plenty of claims that ring true to a computer program only to prove false upon human investigation. The growing practice of "ghost riders," for instance, involves people who claim to have sustained injuries while riding public transportation. In a three-year sting operation mounted by the New Jersey Insurance Department, 110 people tried to profit from 10 faked bus crashes. Every "crash" produced fraudulent claims of between...
...excavating the ancient Akkadian city of Shekhna in what is now Syria, Weiss and his colleagues determined that the urban center, once a thriving home for 10,000 people, was deserted for three centuries. One layer, which they dated to 2200 B.C., revealed the crumbling walls of a ghost town. It also provided some important clues about the weather. "Ancient soils bear a climatic signature," Weiss explains. "In a dry climate, you see very little earthworm activity and lots of loose silt, for example...
...BOTTOM LINE: Take bits from It's a Wonderful Life, All of Me, Topper and Ghost. Presto -- a bad popular movie...
Buried in this vat of feel-good glop are two piquant themes. One is a child's need to believe that invisible friends are real. Early on, when the four ghosts desert child Thomas and tell him, "Just be with your mommy and daddy," you can read the panic in his eyes; he is as bereft as Baby Jessica. The other theme is an adult's need to believe that our final worldly departure might come only after we have made peace with others and, thus, ourselves. That's worth a tear. Even a critic will cry for what might...
...main causes for the Maya's eventual downfall. In the centuries after 250 -- the start of what is called the Classic period of Maya civilization -- the skirmishes that were common among competing city-states escalated into full-fledged, vicious wars that turned the proud cities into ghost towns...