Word: fakeness
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When asked about how he took on his persona of a (fake) expert in every subject, Hodgman referred to his experience as a literary agent in New York City...
Airplane workers demonstrated at 22 European airports on Oct. 5 to call travelers' attention to their grueling shifts, which they say are hazardous to passenger safety. Backed by the European Cockpit Association, which represents some 38,000 pilots and crew members, protesters handed out some 100,000 fake boarding passes containing warnings about fatigue and arguments against the current E.U. laws, which hold that flight personnel can stay airborne for up to 14 hr. per day and 11 hr. 45 min. overnight. A 2003 study found that the risk of accidents for pilots who had been working...
...Harvard was not the only elite institution to fall victim to the forgery. According to the RIA release, fake diplomas for the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics—a prestigious Moscow-based public research university—have also been discovered, selling at a rate of 300,000 rubles...
...from being a problem exclusive to Russia, diploma forgery is a crime of international scope—thousands of fake documents are annually discovered in countries like Britain, the United States, and Ukraine, according to Alexei Shyshko, deputy head of the Department...
...could spot a fake a mile away,” she said in a 2002 interview with The Crimson about diploma forgery. Danz could not be reached for comment Saturday...