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...kitten-in-a-basket novelties made from dog fur. "I have personally bought these little cat figurines in virtually every country in the E.U.," he says. In Austria, Stevenson adds, some health shops advertise catskin rugs and blankets as a natural remedy for rheumatoid arthritis: "This is totally bogus nonsense." The massive trade in the fur of "companion animals" is a growing issue among animal-rights campaigners. After dogs and cats have been inhumanely killed, they say, the fur is aggressively marketed around the world. Pelts are sold at fur auctions, made into consumer goods and then distributed further...
...suspicion of printing some 30,000 fake €50 and €100 bills that were ready for distribution. The largest bust since the advent of the euro took place in October in Italy, where finance police north of Naples seized nearly €1 million worth of bogus €50 notes ready for distribution and a staggering €13.5 million more in mid-production...
...really this pathetic? Has it gotten so bad that we need the party animals over at the Undergraduate Council to start funding room parties on campus? It’s bad enough that everyone knows the best way to get drunk for free is to start a bogus organization (Arnold Cultural Society?) and buy beer with the council funding, but at least you had to go through the necessary motions of creating a group and not just saying “hey, I want to drink and, uh, eat chips?...
...Bush Boomlet ? Slate's lead story Thursday: "Dan Gross on Bush's Bogus Boom...
...decades, a varying number of NOCs (the exact figure is classified) have been installed abroad in big multinational corporations, small companies or bogus academic posts. The more genteel rules of traditional espionage do not apply to NOCs. When the Soviets caught a diplomat doing spy work during the cold war, they roughed him up a little and sent him home. Unmasked NOCs, on the other hand, have met with much harsher fates: CIA officer Hugh Redmond was caught in Shanghai in 1951 posing as an employee of a British import-export company and spent 19 years in a Chinese prison...