Word: ghosts
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...Golden Resources' barren parquets are less the exception than the rule in China these days. Rampant overdevelopment of retail space and too-optimistic expectations about the spending power of the country's growing middle class have produced a plethora of gui gouwu zhongxin (ghost malls) in the nation's metropolises-megacenters like Golden Resources that are struggling to attract shops and consumers. Although retail sales throughout China have been growing at 12% a year and in 2006 totaled $800 billion, during China's recent construction boom far more retail space has been added than the market can absorb. More than...
...NICKNAME, THE GALLOPing Ghost, recalled comic-book superheroes--a fitting image for one of the greatest naval commanders of World War II. As the daring skipper of the U.S.S. Barb, Rear Admiral Eugene Fluckey led missions that even his jaded bosses called "epic": nighttime raids that downed a stunning 29 Japanese ships, among them an aircraft carrier, destroyer and cruiser. Credited with destroying more tonnage than any other skipper, Fluckey was awarded the Medal of Honor and four Navy Crosses...
...past, the state had relied on its popularity with directors like Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Richard Linklater and Ron Howard, while touting its professional film industry labor force, a growing number of sound stages and its geographic diversity. But in the last four years, 32 film projects - including Ghost Rider starring Nicolas Cage and Billy Bob Thornton's The Astronaut Farmer - that had initially expressed interest ended up choosing other locations. Adding insult to injury - an estimated $327 million in spending and 4,600 jobs - 12 of the films had Texas story lines, according to the state's film commisison...
...Street View" has sent techies scrambling to browse through the miles and miles of street-level photos now available through Google Maps. But while such blogs as BoingBoing.net and Mashable.com have made something of a joke out of the many humorous (a man apparently caught mid-sneeze), bizarre (the ghost of E.T.?) and lewd (a woman's underwear poking out of her low-riding jeans) images captured by the web giant, privacy concerns have led many watchdog groups to quickly retort that Street View is no laughing matter...
WHIZ KIDS EVER SINCE Adolescent heroes continue to spy, detect and decipher with methods both expected (a basic set of binoculars in the '96 movie Harriet the Spy) and unearthly (an invisible ghost that manipulates text in the '90s TV series Ghostwriter...