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...PAPER, SHRED IT Stickley regularly dives into his clients' Dumpsters; he says even a Post-it note with a customer's name and phone number gives him enough to begin a scam. Employee names, positions and work schedules are invaluable to con artists...
...great water-cooler debates currently raging among intelligence-watchers is whether self-described spy Omar Nasiri is the real deal, or if his cloak-and-dagger tale of infiltrating al-Qaeda is an unverifiable get-rich-quick scam. According to his new book, Inside the Jihad: My Life With Al Qaeda, A Spy's Story, the Moroccan-born author (who uses Nasiri as a pseudonym) says he spent nearly seven years leading a dangerous double life as an informer for European intelligence services on the activities of his brothers-in-jihad, including vivid detail of combat and explosives training...
...museum to an all-day seminar on exports in Boston (which was over by the time the e-mail was sent). Or maybe it was the time-change announcement sent out at midnight. Whatever the reason, the Cabot “party” looked much more like a scam for a free $100 from the UC than a contribution to Harvard’s social scene. (The residents did not answer calls made to their listed room telephone number last night.)The UC party grant fund is a great asset to campus social life, and it is particularly valued...
There's no shortage of academic debate over the merging of neuroscience and marketing. The journal Nature Neuroscience, under the headline BRAIN SCAM?, editorialized that too many practitioners' claims remain unpublished in peer-reviewed journals. But the dearth of published results is largely the result of businesses' wanting to keep their findings secret. Brammer admits that the data deficit leads to "some scientists interpreting what we're doing skeptically...
There's no shortage of academic debate over the merging of neuroscience and marketing. The journal Nature Neuroscience, under the headline brain scam?, has editorialized that too many practitioners' claims remain unpublished in peer-reviewed journals. But the dearth of published results is largely the result of businesses wanting to keep their findings secret. Brammer admits that the data deficit leads to "some scientists interpreting what we're doing skeptically...