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There is also a more nefarious possibility: label fraud, something the industry's umbrella group, Cashmere & Camel Hair Manufacturers Institute, takes very seriously. Karl Spilhaus, the group's president, approaches the task of uncovering ersatz cashmere as soberly as an old-master specialist does in debunking fake Rembrandts. He has brought suit against stores for selling products labeled "100% cashmere" that he claims are in fact mere blends...
...games when it comes to Yale’s dogged lameness. Much has been made of late of the peculiar case of a Harvard School of Public Health lecturer who seemed to think it was all right to represent himself as a Ph.D. after purchasing an ersatz degree from an online Argentinean institution that required neither classes nor tests for “graduation.” That incident, as regrettable as it was, involved only one bad apple in the sumptuous bushels of Harvard’s faculties. How much greater, then, is the threat posed by the innumerable...
Fatties, take note: the Z-Carb, made by boutique chocolatier HVC Lizard Chocolate in Norwalk, Conn., is part of the bulging cornucopia of ersatz sweets that is helping change the way millions of Americans snack. Catering to adherents of the high-protein, low-carbohydrate Atkins diet, foodmakers are filling out the $40 billion diet industry with alternative versions of their favorite sins, from marshmallows and margarita mix to biscotti and beer. And thanks to increasingly successful formulations of sugar substitutes, many members of this new generation of munchie killers are downright delicious. "They've come to my rescue," says Dallas...
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...using cell phones, the novelty and convenience of these gadgets have given way to frustration over patchy service and dropped calls. The need to improve network coverage in hard-to-zone locales has led to thousands of remarkably symmetrical pines, palms and cacti; fake chimneys and air-conditioning huts; ersatz silos and water towers home to no liquid or grain. One company raised the roof of a McDonald's to conceal some antennas. Another stashed wireless gear inside signs for BP stations and Red Roof Inns. The camouflage unit of Valmont Industries, based in Omaha, Neb., received a request...