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...Three months ago, a Nevada woman named Anna Ayala claimed to have found a severed finger in a bowl of chili she ordered at a Wendy's restaurant in San Jose, Calif. The fast-food chain became the butt of every late-night comedian's jokes, and its CEO, Jack Schuessler, faced an embarrassing lawsuit and more than $15 million in lost business, thanks to the unwelcome publicity. Then things took an even more bizarre twist. Authorities in San Jose turned their attention to Ayala, alleging that she fabricated the story and that the finger belonged to an associate...
...reporter resigned last month from USA Today after it was discovered that he had lifted quotes from another paper. You also had the Jack Kelley scandal last year, and the New York Times had Jayson Blair. There are other examples. Have journalistic ethics slipped, and what specifically...
...unfortunate that the industry used these findings to exploit women and not help them,” Jack E. Henningfield wrote with his colleagues at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine...
FOUND. BEAT GENERATION, a long-forgotten play by American counterculture icon Jack Kerouac; by his agent; while going through old files in a New Jersey warehouse. Kerouac, whose semi-autobiographical stories featured his enlightenment-seeking, hard-drinking literary buddies Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady, wrote the three-act play in 1957, the same year his epic novel On the Road was printed, but it was never performed or published. Best Life magazine, which will carry an excerpt from Beat Generation in its July issue, describes it as "a day in the drink- and drug-hazed life of [Kerouac...
...Tehran's confidence on the nuclear front is based less on its widespread domestic support on the issue than on the international balance of forces that will dictate how the crisis plays out. A top delegation of European leaders, including Britain's foreign secretary Jack Straw and EU security chief Javier Solana, are expected to meet Iranian negotiators in Geneva on Wednesday, anxious to walk Tehran back from resuming uranium enrichment activities. Those are allowed under the rules of the Non-Proliferation Treaty, but the EU-3 (Britain, France and Germany), like the U.S. and Israel, suspect that Iran...