Word: confusionism
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Vendors selling popcorn and soft drinks moved through the crowd of journalists and diplomats gathered in the tiny border town of Busia, Kenya, about 235 miles northwest of Nairobi. The throng was there to greet the first convoy of cars and buses carrying nearly 300 Americans, Europeans and Asians who...
AIDS victims and people associated with them experience widespread discrimination, some of it heartless, some of it phobic. In New York City, Dr. Joseph Sonnabend was served with an eviction notice by the co-op board in the building where he practiced. "I treated people with AIDS," he explained. "People...
Shortly after Ronald Reagan cleared up the confusion about his skin cancer last week, several reporters laced into White House Spokesman Larry Speakes for being less than candid the week before, when he declined to say whether a biopsy had been performed. "You pulled an iron curtain down on the...
Until last year, Keillor wrote almost the entire show, parody songs, phony commercials and all. Now Writer Howard Mohr pitches in on the Raw Bits and the Minnesota Language Systems ads, which peddle cassettes that teach visitors to answer "You bet" for approval, and "That's different" for confusion or...
China is the world's biggest exporter of fake goods, from pirated DVDs to knock-off Birkin bags. Add truffles to the list. To the naked eye, the Chinese black truffle, or Tuber indicum, looks virtually indistinguishable from its much vaunted European cousin, Tuber melanosporum, a gastronomic delicacy that perks...