Word: hoaxes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disorders, and their marriage has been strained. But it was false: Spencer made the whole thing up to see whether his friend was leaking stories to the News of the World. Sure enough, the next day's front page carried the story, and Spencer came forward to reveal the hoax. Editor Piers Morgan said the paper's 13 million readers would be "baffled" and "insulted" by his actions...
...virus. The message about the so-called Good Times virus spawned thousands, if not millions, of copies of itself, through the transmission vector of the humans thatread it. The message itself was the virus, but instead of infecting computers, it infected minds. So the most clever thing about this hoax is that it was (at least partially) self-fulfilling. Derrick E. Bass...
...legislature has used the state-wide vote as a pretext for eliminating rent control," Dowds said. "It's a hoax and a sham...
...more likely to be taken by friends, loved ones, parents, than by strangers. And yet, as the search for Michael and Alex Smith continued, it required too complex a calculation to suspend pity and suspect a plot. Even when wormy doubts poked through -- Could this possibly all be a hoax? -- millions watched Susan Smith's sorrowful pleas and put suspicions aside...
...approved the Thanksgiving cut, it was stopped after five days by a state appeals court. John Campbell, Pacific's combative president, shrugs off legal entanglements that have tied up virtually all the firm's old-growth stands since then. Campbell dismisses concern over spotted-owl habitat as "a hoax" and thinks research will show that the murrelet's old-growth needs are exaggerated. But he is proud of an industry award for a model project, done with the state, for rehabilitating erosion damage caused by the firm's logging at Shaw Creek...