Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...press has openly alleged that followers of Applewhite were driven to insanity; subtly, it has pushed a message of intolerance toward obscure faiths of all stripes. In an editorial last Saturday titled "Gateway to Madness," The New York Times called Applewhite's beliefs "ad hoc mumbo jumbo" and his believers "wounded, foolish followers...
...scene is a Manhattan skyscraper. a computer guy named Rob Glaser is standing at a PC. A projector beams a jumbo image of his screen across an auditorium. As reporters gather to watch, the demo begins. Glaser clicks on an icon and, through a miracle of high-speed compression and decompression, a Counting Crows music video streams from a computer in Seattle onto the screen in New York. It's live video, transmitted over the Internet, and even people using plain old phone lines and standard modems can have it. I thought of those first frames of Neil Armstrong...
Ever since TWA Flight 800 exploded in midair on July 17, investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and the FBI have been scrambling to determine what caused the Boeing 747 jumbo jet to plunge into the Atlantic, killing all 230 people on board. From the beginning, the theories--a missile, an exploding fuel tank, a mechanical failure or possibly even a meteorite strike--seemed almost as confusing as the jumbled pieces of the plane. And then a set of tantalizing clues emerged. Investigators discovered that several pieces of recovered wreckage bore minute traces of chemical explosives. That evidence provided...
...evidence, the focus of the NTSB investigation has returned to mechanical failure and the possibility that a spark, despite built-in safeguards, may have somehow caused the center fuel tank to explode. Again, the problem is evidence: there is none. Computer modeling--or the simulated explosion of a retired jumbo jet--may be required to buttress the theory...
...responsible for introducing crack cocaine to the ghetto. This idea is, of course, a hardy perennial among conspiracy theorists, who blame every plague that afflicts the black community on racist government plots. But this time it is not so easy to write off the talk as paranoid mumbo jumbo for two reasons: it springs, for once, from a credible source and is being spread via a new black lane on the information superhighway...