Word: fakeness
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JAILED. NOELLE BUSH, 24, daughter of Florida Governor Jeb Bush; for two days; for violating the terms of a court-mandated drug-treatment program; in Tallahassee. Bush, who was found with a prescription drug in her possession, was arrested in January for trying to use a fake prescription for the antianxiety drug Xanax...
People now know that this crisis was years in the making. Stocks kept climbing because executives kept finding creative new ways to hide the truth and fake a profit, to pretend they were investing money rather than just spending it. The revelations make for some dark magic now. When $2 billion disappears from Xerox's revenues, $4 billion from WorldCom's, it makes people feel poorer even if they personally lost nothing. The markets now look as if they could manage their third straight year of losses, for the first time since World War II, even though the economy grew...
...result? According to a report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the fake surgery worked just as well as the real one. Two years later, 35% of the patients said they felt less pain and were better able to get around--whether they were operated on or not. In some instances, sham patients outperformed real ones. In other words, the surgery worked no better than--and sometimes not as well as--a placebo...
...community service were assigned as sole punishment by a Thai court to a man who confessed to beating his wife to death with a golf club 1,500 people bought tickets to a Janet Reno nightclub fund-raiser for her Florida campaign for governor, where she broke through a fake brick wall and shouted, "It's Reno time...
...China, there's no need to wait. Middle Kingdom readers are eagerly slapping down $1.80 for Harry Potter and Leopard Walk up to Dragon, a 198-page book that claims to be the series' fifth installment. If the tortured title isn't clue enough: the book's a fake, written in Mandarin by an anonymous Chinese author, though its cover bears Rowling's name. Police are threatening to fine booksellers who stock it, but the People's Literature Publishing House, Harry's official Mandarin translator, seems powerless to protect its copyright. An official box set of the first three Potter...