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...body can use? A cup of milk supplies 270 mg, while a 500-mg tablet of calcium carbonate provides just 200 mg. "The pharmaceutical industry is selling products on the basis of calcium content alone," says Dr. Robert Heaney of Omaha's Creighton University. "Sometimes that is sheer fraud...
...Technically, what I committed was fraud or felony,” she says. “They’re holding children accountable for the mistakes of their parents...
...SENTENCED. Kim Woo Choong, 69, founder and former chairman of Daewoo who built the small textile exporter into South Korea's second-largest conglomerate, then fled the country in 1999 as it collapsed under an estimated $80 billion in debt; to 10 years in jail for embezzlement and fraud; in Seoul. Kim, who returned to the country to stand trial last year, was also ordered to forfeit more than $22 billion-a sum far exceeding his net worth. He will not begin serving his sentence for 12 months because of heart problems. Kim's lawyers say they plan to appeal...
...realized he wanted to pursue a career in medicine that he decided on Harvard. The M.D.-to-be was not without his share of the normal worries that accompany any first-year at Harvard.“I feared going to Harvard because I thought I was a fraud and they would find out,” he says. “I figured I knew myself better than they did.”But freshman year roommate George H. Bouchard remembers Leder as “a sophisticated Washington...
...World's Leading Company." Why limit ourselves to energy? Enron was fast-paced, inventive, exciting; we epitomized the New Economy, able to innovate virtually overnight. Unfortunately, in life, our strengths can become our weaknesses. Just as the dark side of charisma is narcissism, the dark side of innovation is fraud. Enron fell victim to both. Our finance, accounting and legal departments pushed the use of off-balance-sheet vehicles over the line that separates creative transactions from fraudulent ones. Our corporate culture became narcissistic; we were focused on our image, not our customers or our products. The most alarming revelation...