Word: hoaxing
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DIED. E.T. HALL, 77, archaeologist and leading archaeometrist who famously uncovered the Piltdown Man hoax; in Oxford, England. Using X-ray fluorescence, Hall showed that the Piltdown Man's skeleton--once thought to be evolution's "missing link"--had been stained to look fossilized and that the teeth of an orangutan had been filed to appear more human...
...Ikeda murders, another incendiary message appeared on Channel 2. The killer "did an impressive job," the anonymous writer said, adding that he had something even more shocking planned for June 26. Several Channel 2 devotees called the police. Now Japan can only hope that the message is a hoax and that the freewheeling bulletin board won't become Exhibit A again as officials struggle with an increasingly violent society...
...were kind of confused--we heard it was a hoax, so we didn't know what to think," said Jacquelyn A. Cronin '04. "It wasn't really a surprise when we found out this morning...
...seems to be a hoax, as I have heard nothing of the kind," Lewis wrote. "It also doesn't sound like the FDO's language...
...flying out to some picturesque site in the West and unilaterally declaring it a national monument with a sweep of his hand. "Environmental law has become an oxymoron. It just serves whatever angle the Democrats are pushing," complains James Buchal, a Portland lawyer and author of The Great Salmon Hoax. Property-rights advocates accuse the Administration of carrying out land grabs. A series of lawsuits has been filed challenging the designation of national monuments throughout the West, including the sequoia forest. And vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney has said a Bush Administration would review many of the monument declarations Clinton...