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...True or False? The Vinland Map, seen since the 1950s as possible proof that Norse explorers reached North America before Christopher Columbus, has been branded a fake. British scientists analyzed the composition of the map's ink and discovered that it dates from the 1920s or later. However, the forger almost got away with it. A forthcoming academic paper reports that carbon-dating methods show that the parchment on which the map was drawn was made around 1434. But the map's defenders are holding fast. "If it is a forgery, then the forger was surely one of the most...
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...