Word: fakeness
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...sophistication of their high-tech border controls, claiming they would be sure to snare any known unsavory characters at the port of entry. Those boasts withered last week, however, in the face of revelations that Dumont slipped undetected in and out of the country four times on a fake French passport, while also being on an international wanted list. The possibility of such infiltration has added credence to the single explicit threat made against Japan by a purportedly al-Qaeda-affiliated group last November for Tokyo's decision to deploy 550 troops to southern Iraq...
...developing countries, counterfeiters tend to target common prescription drugs, including the antibiotic amoxicillin and the painkiller acetaminophen. Many knockoffs are easy to spot because of their amateurish packaging. WHO investigators recently found a fake antimalaria drug circulating in Cambodia called Brainy, a nonexistent brand. Counterfeiters apparently planned to fool unsophisticated buyers by printing the packaging in the Thai language-Thai products are respected in Cambodia. Other fakes, however, come in packages that are nearly indistinguishable from the real products. "Even if there is a new security feature, such as a hologram, the counterfeiters can reproduce...
...down 38 underground producers and sellers between January and September of 2003. That's up from the 226 cases and 9 wholesalers busted in the whole of 2002. Pfizer recently signed an agreement with the city of Shanghai calling for cooperation between industry and government in the fight against fake drugs, the first such agreement ever, says John Theriault, head of the pharmaceutical giant's global security division...
...investigators, industry executives and government agents complain there are still not enough resources to contain drug pirates and that light penalties for those convicted of counterfeiting are no deterrent. Recently, the owner of a Beijing-based company arrested for selling fake Viagra and exporting it to the U.S. was sentenced to one year in prison and a $12,000 fine. "The [Chinese] government talks of reform, but we need more," says the QBPC's Simone. "Seize and fine isn't enough." A consumer who buys a fake Swiss watch might lose a little time. Someone buying a fake drug might...
...throw off those calculations. Do you hit the easiest point, Pas de Calais, only 27 miles from Dover, where Rommel and his men sat waiting? Allied bombers kept shelling the Calais area as though softening it for an invasion, even building dummy landing craft in southeastern England, rubber tanks, fake warehouses and barracks. In Operation Fortitude, Lieut. General George Patton commanded a fake Army group, sending fake messages about the phony invasion to come. It all made so much more sense than doing what no invaders had managed in centuries: crossing the 100 miles to the Normandy beaches and plunging...