Word: scams
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...Debate on Clean Energy While Michael Grunwald's cover story on the emerging ethanol industry was both chilling and truthful, it's damaging to demonize the global effort to develop clean fuels as "myth," "scam" and "hype" [April 7]. It is no myth that thousands of scientists and their teams are working feverishly to create biofuels from nonfood plants grown on land unsuitable for food production. The science is still young. We could not have landed on the moon without first launching a primitive plane at Kitty Hawk. But we will succeed. Mark Beyer, Detroit...
...outstanding grades, and joined the elite Ivy Club. However, Hogue had already done time in jail—in fact, had deferred his acceptance for a year because of it—and had falsified his SATs and high school grades. Princeton had been taken in by a huge scam. Samuels artfully blends firsthand accounts, multiple documents, and personal observation to reveal that Hogue is not your average identity thief. While Hogue is a man who is deeply disturbed, compelled to lie and steal from anyone he could possibly rip off, Samuels carefully peels back the superficial labels of liar...
...conference in New York City, he enters the apartment he owns (but rarely visits) to find two strangers living there. Illegal immigrants Tarek (Haaz Sleiman, “24”) and his girlfriend Zainab (Danai Gurira) discover that they’ve been renting the place from a scam artist. They agree to leave, but Vale, feeling sympathetic, invites them to stay. The interactions between Vale and his guests possess both the awkwardness and the warmth that such a situation would invite. As a result, the middle part of the film is the most nuanced and engrossing portion. Though...
While Michael Grunwald's article on the emerging ethanol industry was both chilling and truthful, it's damaging to demonize the global effort to develop clean fuels as "myth," "scam" and "hype" [April 7]. It is no myth that thousands of scientists and their teams are working feverishly to create biofuels such as ethanol, biodiesel and biobutanol from nonfood plants grown on land unsuitable for food production. We could not have landed on the moon without first launching at Kitty Hawk. We're getting better at this every day. Mark Beyer, DETROIT...
...horror stories." But encouraging families to donate the organs of their recently deceased after this week's terrible revelations is no easy task. "For the next month or two it's going to be extremely hard to get a family to donate because they think it's some big scam," says Shroff. "That's the wider damage this type of story does...