Word: fakes
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...hand over the dog today," she says, as Miriam feeds ice cream to little Rexy. First denied their pets, the Jews of Budapest are soon commanded to leave behind all their possessions and report to the ghetto. Hearing rumors of round-ups from which no one returns, Esther buys fake papers that identify her as a village servant girl with an illegitimate daughter. She plans to flee the city, burning every personal identifier before she does. This includes, notably, the family Bible...
Instead she found that for the first time in her peripatetic life, she felt at home. Karla and Dale "didn't seem fake," she says. "Usually when I'd act up, my [other] foster parents would just send me away, but they didn't. They stuck in there with me." Even when Vonda's date wrecked Karla's brand-new Durango on prom night, Vonda remembers fondly that Karla was worried more about whether Vonda was hurt than about the car. In fact, for the first several months, things went so well that one evening Vonda sat Karla and Dale...
...scenario sees a group of teenage boys approach a group of girls at the beach. After some desultory conversation, the boys suggest an exchange of mobile-phone numbers. It's rare for a girl to say no, even if she doesn't like a guy. Better to give a fake number than make a scene. "I just kind of give it to anybody. I don't really think about it," says 15-year-old Kathleen. The boy's first text message might arrive the same night. And then the fun begins...
...Setting the Record Straight Picture this Our May 8 story on Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, the founders of Flickr, a photo-sharing website, incorrectly stated that the idea for Flickr came from an engineer who created an easy way to post pictures on the Web. The idea was entirely Butterfield...
...groups with names like the Spoilers play. Luchina has tried hard to make Gordon's look straight from the Highlands. Barmen wear kilts, a set of bagpipes adorns the bar, and the walls are covered with posters of haggis, Scottish flags, watercolors of Edinburgh Castle and the pub's fake Scottish crest. One of the most fun touches is a Lenin statue wearing a tartan beret...