Word: fakeness
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Excuse me, but did Alice Park just recommend fake butter as a healthy alternative? If a food is healthy, it does not need to claim that it is and does not need to have nutrients added to it. The real solution lies in eating natural, organic foods--not the food industry's latest experiments. Travis McKinney, AMESBURY, MASS...
...Chinese fans were shocked and saddened to hear about the seriousness of Yao's injury. "I thought it was fake when I first heard about it. I can't believe he has such bad luck!" says Ma Cheng, a 28-year-old who plays basketball with colleagues every day at the Dongdan Sports Center in central Beijing. (Watch TIME's video "A Free Lesson with Kobe Bryant...
There's just one catch: all of the above treatments are as fake as a two-dollar coin. They're just a few examples of the more than 100 products being sold online that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently identified as fraudulently claiming to offer some kind of defense against the new H1N1 virus. Since May 1, the FDA has sent dozens of letters to peddlers of sham H1N1 products - part of the agency's stepped-up anti-fake campaign that has agents sweeping the Internet for hoaxes and shutting down scammers. "This is a great example...
...H1N1, we all have an interest in making sure that quack products are exposed, lest they allow the virus to spread more easily. "That's why the FDA has put out an aggressive strategy," says Saben. "These products pose a significant threat to public health." The products might be fake - but the H1N1 virus is very real...
...which sell for $50 to $60. A Banarasi silk weaver, Abdul Basit Ansari, 37, has been working for the past 20 years weaving these garments, which come from the holy city of Varanasi. "The industry is facing lots of difficulties," he says. "This is primarily because the sale of fake Banarasi saris made in power looms has been picking up and also because of the sale of cheap imports from China. The government is not stopping this, and our trade is suffering...