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...questioned in a 1999 study by the Centers for Disease Control said they had consumed alcohol in the preceding month. Boomer parents ought not to be too shocked. They whooped it up considerably more in their youths, according to National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism records that document how, across every age group, we've become an ever more sober society over the past two decades. In 1979, nearly 50% of 12- to 17- year-olds reported that they drank at some time in the previous month; now that figure is barely 20%. For kids...
Among the facts lawyers want Judge Matsch to consider are witness reports that resurrect nagging questions about whether a larger conspiracy led to the April 1995 bombing that took 168 lives. One of the documents, for instance, summarizes a call received by the FBI from Morris John Kuper Jr., who told investigators to check out activities in a parking lot a block away from the Murrah Federal Building about an hour before it was blown apart. Kuper later testified that he had seen a man resembling McVeigh walking with a dark-haired, muscular companion--a description that matches those...
Wang Shen is a printer in China's capital, and his business is inking just about any document you want, legitimate or otherwise. But even Wang was taken aback when a man in a baseball cap strolled into his narrow, back-room shop, plonked $80 on the table and asked him to forge a pilot's license. Two days later, it was ready, expertly laminated and adorned with a pair of red seals. "It looked very real," says the 34-year-old printer. "The man came back and told me no one could tell the difference...
...China, practically every step in life requires documentation, preferably in triplicate, which is unsurprising in the land that invented both paper and the world's first bureaucracy. Now that obsession has become a market: ingenious entrepreneurs are turning China's reverence for official scraps of paper into a bustling counterfeit business. The document trade is busiest in the cities, where millions of migrants need laminated proof to help achieve their outsized aspirations. After stepping off the train, the first thing most newcomers pick up is a phony ID that enables them to safely reside in boomtowns like Shanghai and Shenzhen...
...Shenzhen branch of the Southeast Asia Certificate Co., Liu Xingyun offers a panoply of marriage certificates, drivers' licenses and even a document certifying that the bearer has had her fallopian tubes snipped. The most popular pieces of paper are college diplomas. Last year, census-takers found 600,000 people nationwide who said they had used spurious university degrees. "No one has time to go to school anymore," says a 21-year-old impatiently waiting for a steel engraving machine to roll out an accounting degree from Peking University. "I know I'm good at math, so I might as well...