Meanwhile, Juliet Marine Systems recently unveiled GHOST, the world's first super-cavitating watercraft, which is a combination between an aircraft and boat.

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But the old edge-of-the-world feel can be conjured up with a drive past the ghost town ruins of former mines scattered along the pass.

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On the other side of the world, Filipino children spend the evening telling each other ghost stories and pulling pranks on their neighbors.

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Last week an Indian woman wolfed down 51 "ghost chilies, " -- the world's spiciest -- in two minutes and smeared the seeds on her eyes for an entry into the Guinness World Records.

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The standard defence against this position is that Apple is a supernatural company that will just keep redefining the world with outrageously brilliant product and that the ghost of Steve Jobs will keep the firm on the righteous path.

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There, making himself comfortable, he would ask the ghost to explain his or her problems and then encourage it to leave for the spirit world.

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And if the publication of Leary's archive speeds that process up by exorcising a ghost that still haunts LSD research, then the New York Public Library will have done the world a service.

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Barrie created a figure not unlike himself, a ghost child who, in constant flight from adult responsibility and loss, takes up residence in the world of his own imagination.

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Meanwhile, rumors continue to circulate about a radically new iPad from Apple -- the world's leading consumer electronics company that has never and will never attend CES and whose ghost hung heavily over Las Vegas this week.

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