Word: fakeness
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PROCTER & GAMBLE Most urban Chinese homes stock affordable P&G products. Its Olay and Rejoice are the best-selling facial cream and shampoo. The company, which made an estimated $1.8 billion in revenue last year in China, was hurt by fake P&G products in the 1990s. But it has since worked with the government to crack down on knock-offs...
...Democrats and Republicans look at voting rights issues from different perspectives. To most Republicans, the problem is vote integrity - preventing voter fraud from stealing elections. Republicans point to a long history of Democratic political machines in big cities using fake voter registrations and other deceptions. Favorite examples are dead people and springer spaniels finding their way onto voter registration sheets. Some of the allegations, though not all of them, are true. And since the Democrats have been conducting huge voter registration drives this year, the G.O.P. is suspicious...
...Retro ladylike fashions are ruling the runways, and Twiggy's doe eyes of the '60s haven't been left behind: false eyelashes, currently offered by cosmetics companies like MAC, Shu Uemura and Sephora, are back. Once considered too gaudy for all but show girls and drag queens, fake lashes were a fashion faux pas in the '80s and '90s. But after Jennifer Lopez showed up at the 2001 Oscars wearing red-fox-fur lashes, the idea began to come back into vogue. "Makeup artists have been using false lashes for fashion shows and on celebrities for the past few years...
...Asia?Pakistan, Iran, Indonesia, Malaysia?it has cut off its converts from their own heritage, history and culture and made them revere the civilization of their conquerors. He certainly gathers a fair amount of evidence to support his case: in Pakistan, for example, he observes that people invented fake genealogies tracing themselves back to Arab ancestors. By uprooting them from their own cultures, Naipaul argues, Islam has created a neurosis among Asia's Muslims, leaving them vulnerable to extremism and political instability. But as the writer Ian Buruma pointed out in a 1998 review of Beyond Belief, Naipaul may have...
...cast ballots in their country's first ever elections last weekend. But the vote was thrown into uncertainty when all 15 opponents of President Hamid Karzai (who is widely expected to win) declared it a "preplanned fraud." They charged that the polling was marred by circulation of 100,000 fake ballots, that some polling places were shut down when the tally turned against Karzai, and that the indelible ink mark put on voters' fingers to prevent multiple votes wore off too easily. "These elections were illegal," said candidate Ahmed Shah Ahmedzai. "And so is any government elected by this vote...