Word: fakeness
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...same security issues facing all the other U.S. airports. The screening process for passengers (handled by two private security firms at Denver and supervised by the TSA) is cumbersome, arbitrary and questionably efficient. (In a TSA study of 32 airports, not including Denver, nearly one-quarter of all fake weapons carried by undercover TSA agents were not detected.) The fact that most checked luggage is still not being screened for explosives remains a glaring lapse, and there's a raging dispute over the machines the TSA has selected for the job. Plus, as the LAX shooting...
...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...
...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...
...same security issues facing all the other U.S. airports. The screening process for passengers (handled by two private security firms at Denver and supervised by the TSA) is cumbersome, arbitrary and questionably efficient. (In a TSA study of 32 airports, not including Denver, nearly one-quarter of all fake weapons carried by undercover TSA agents were not detected.) The fact that most checked luggage is still not being screened for explosives remains a glaring lapse, and there's a raging dispute over the machines the TSA has selected for the job. Plus, as the LAX shooting...
...dystopic Japan we've become familiar with, both in recent films like Ichii the Killer and Battle Royale and in novels by Ryu Murakami and David Mitchell. In the Koganecho back-alley brothels and sleazy bars, Kazuki and his pals pass the time doing cocaine and working on their fake tans. When Kazuki becomes a passive participant in the gang-rape of a young girl, his father insists he resume classes at the prestigious Hosei Academy. (The rape is a side issue. Dad has made a large donation to the school and wants to get his money's worth.) Kazuki...