Word: tabloid
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...victory of skeptical scientific inquiry over tabloid headlines. For 13 years people had been concocting increasingly bizarre explanations for those mysterious circles and lines pressed into the grain fields of southern England. Were they the landing sites of UFOs? No, the crop circles -- or at least some of them -- were the handiwork of a pair of elderly British landscape painters who engineered the elaborate hoax (with string and planks) "for a bit of a laugh...
...BOTH SELF-MADE MEN WHO BUILT THEIR empires on the ill-placed confidence of lenders and investors. One of the con men was a Pakistani banker who exercised influence from Washington to Beijing but was in fact running a financial supermarket for criminals. The other was a 300-lb. tabloid tycoon whose fatal plunge into the Atlantic was one of the most bizarre finales in business history. When their empires came crashing down in 1991, the debacles raised pointed questions about the laxity of financial regulations around the world...
...demise refuse to die down. Spanish investigators contend that Maxwell suffered a heart attack, but last week's revelations that $767 million mysteriously disappeared from a pair of Maxwell operations during the months leading up to his death have revived the speculation. There are three schools of tabloid-style musings...
...MAXWELL KILLED HIMSELF! One version holds that Maxwell took his life knowing the financial dam was about to burst. The Daily Express in London reports that Maxwell seemed agitated and depressed during his "last supper." A variation is that he was suffering from a fatal disease, supported in one tabloid by Spanish doctors...
...MAXWELL'S ALIVE! The Sun, a British tabloid, suggests that he might be hiding in South America while some other large chap rests in Jerusalem's Mount of Olives. The Guardian states, "The Spanish authorities have no evidence other than the word of his family that the body pulled from the sea . . . was that of Mr. Maxwell...