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...continuous surgery?by a team of more than 50 specialists in Los Angeles?were required to separate two one-year-old Siamese twins conjoined at the head $30 billion was granted to Brazil by the International Monetary Fund, the agency's largest single loan ever $3.3 billion in additional bogus accounting was uncovered by WorldCom's internal auditors last week, bringing the total to $7.1 billion 44% is how much undergoing regular mammograms can reduce breast cancer deaths, according to a new study 7 is the number of studies reviewed by Danish analysts who claim they have found no evidence...
...good, except there is no scientific evidence to prove negative-ion machines do much more than part the credulous from their cash. A similar craze hit the U.S. some four decades ago, but in 1974 the country's Food and Drug Administration determined health claims surrounding the products were bogus and barred related advertisements as fraudulent. Japanese companies are treading carefully. "We say there are lots of negative ions in nature, and our products increase the number of negative ions," says Panasonic spokesman Akira Kodota. "That's it." Tokyo resident Jyuichi Kobayashi, 33, has begun to doubt the value...
...turbulent '70s. They flocked to stocks in the roaring 1990s, only to see $7.7 trillion of paper wealth incinerated. If the scandal and collapse at Enron had been isolated, the nation's deflated sense of opportunity might have been repaired by now. Instead, the lid has been lifted on bogus revenue-generating schemes throughout the energy and telecom industries; earnings deception on an even broader scale; and the frightening failure of accountants, stock analysts, board directors and regulators to protect the nation's retirement assets. "These people have all lost credibility and should be prosecuted," says Parry. "I've lost...
...loans led to Ebbers' ouster at the end of April (with a golden handshake worth $1.5 million a year for life). That's when Sidgmore took over and asked Cynthia Cooper, 37, vice president of internal audit, to take a close look at WorldCom's books. She found the bogus accounting and alerted WorldCom's board...
...Though there is often more teenage slang in these volumes than Jeff Spicoli's analysis of the Declaration of Independence at the end of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High"("So what Jefferson was saying was, 'Hey, you know, we left this England place because it was bogus'") adults, refreshingly, are the intended audience. Thus "U.S. History for Dummies" is able to quote a Richard Nixon Watergate tape in all its four-letter-word glory. If a high school textbook cited a sitting president telling his aides, "I don't give a shit what happens," parents would sue the school board...