Word: ghosts
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...taboo topic", says Una Reilly, chairman of the Belfast Titanic Society, during a tour of the TSP site. "There was almost a sense of shame that it had been built here." But Reilly, whose great-grandfather worked as a cabinetmaker on the Titanic, is convinced that this ghost from Belfast's past is the perfect vehicle for the city's future. "The Titanic was at the cutting edge of technology when she was built. That's the kind of innovation Belfast should be striving for today...
...year-old in 1994, as a tough kid who witnessed a mob-related suicide in The Client opposite Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones. That mature, soulful performance was, sadly, the peak of actor Brad Renfro's career. Though he went on to roles in Sleepers and Ghost World, he was battling drug addiction and in 2006 spent 10 days in jail for drunk driving and attempted heroin possession. His death is under investigation...
Kenya's second-largest city, however, is hardly a ghost town. Locals bustle about pastel-colored shops crammed along sandy avenues, as brightly painted taxis cruised under palm trees in the sticky heat. But foreign faces are nowhere to be seen. On the northern tip of another of Mombasa's deserted beaches, Masai tribesmen with glittering bracelets draped on their arms unsuccessfully tried to hawk their jewelry to the rare visitor passing by. Curio sellers bemoaned their lack of customers. "We regret that we ever had elections," says Joseph Mutie, stretched out under racks of kaleidoscopic cloths billowing...
When Captain Nicholas M. Cook arrived in the Dora neighborhood of southern Baghdad in May, the place was like a ghost town. Nearly 50% of the homes were abandoned and the residents that remained rarely ventured out. Only the crackle of gunfire pierced the streets. "Everyday it was like clockwork - 10 to 11:30 am gunfire would start. They would break for lunch and then start up again in the afternoon," says Cook, a West Point graduate from Lansing, Michigan who is on his second tour in Iraq...
...busiest border crossing - the plumped-up loonie did not bring such good humor. Windsor is one of the few urban centers in Canada - almost all of them in Ontario - where unemployment has risen since 2002. Gurmit Singh Bains drives his taxi along the riverside. "It's like a ghost town," he says. "The whole economy is down: hotels, restaurants, everything." The waterfront DaimlerChrysler Canada headquarters opened to much fanfare there in 2002, when the city's auto-manufacturing industry was red-hot. Today, the building's cavernous ground-floor retail space is almost empty. As the rising dollar made Canadian...