Word: fakeness
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...arrival of my myoelectric arm in the first week of February was more exciting than a new pair of shoes--but no more comfortable to wear. Just getting it on was painful: my stump was still incredibly tender. If my former right hand had floated lightly, the fake one moved like a dumbbell--fat, clunky and heavy. Its 2 1/2 lbs. were concentrated in the electronic hand--the place farthest from the half-forearm. I kept bumping it into things. I named it Ralph, after the clumsiest kid in my grade school...
Duque had been charged with two counts of assault and battery of a police officer, possession of marijuana, and possession of a fake ID. But last month, he was placed on pretrial probation, sparing him from criminal penalties...
...also avoid dealing with your orange acquaintances by fake-talking loudly on your cell phone. Repeat something inoffensive, like...
...murdered 340 innocent Lidice residents and razed [an error occurred while processing this directive] their village in retaliation for the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi. Noticing that the memorial, erected in 1962, was deserted, the advertising experts offered free publicity. A few months later, they returned with a fake online game, Total Burn-Out of Lidice (totalburnout.cz/eng), which first instructs players to earn points by killing Czechs and burning houses. A few clicks later, there's a revelation that the Lidice massacre was anything but a game. When the Lidice Memorial director, Milous Cervencl, first...
...current bash looks like an Oscar photo op. Brad and Reese, Tom Hanks and Will Ferrell, Sean Penn and Russell Crowe are clogging the red carpet, hoping that September in Canada is a harbinger of February in California. Warning to the stars: You may be upstaged by the fake-umentary Death of a President, which imagines George Bush's assassination, or have your party crashed by Sacha Baron Cohen's crazed Kazakh alter ego, Borat...