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...Ghost, a sweet, metaphysical love story that reaped $218 million in the U.S. and $500 million globally, these obsessed producers have loaded the pipeline full of movies about robust spirits. No fewer than a dozen afterlife films will be released this year, ranging from the silly (Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey) to the serious (The Rapture). The subject has inspired TV movies as well, including Hi Honey, I'm Dead and The Haunted...
...With the advent of sophisticated color copiers, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is nervous about high-tech counterfeiting. Last year alone, officials seized $66 million in bogus money. To foil would-be counterfeiters, the bureau is gearing up to print new bills, the first major change in U.S. paper currency since...
...physically hurt, still there was damage done. Scientists worldwide briefly believed the bogus "findings" and altered their views accordingly or wasted time trying to follow the false lead in their labs. Then there is the inevitable damage from the exposure of the lie: millions of people, reading of the scandal, must have felt their deepest cynicism confirmed. If a Nobel laureate in science could sink to the moral level of Milli Vanilli or a White House spin doctor, then maybe the deconstructionists are right and there is no truth anywhere, only self-interest masked as objective fact...
...Derek Goodwin's first novel, Just Killing Time, was sent to publishers adorned with endorsements by John le Carre and Joseph Wambaugh. Simon & Schuster was willing to pay $920,000 for the thriller but found out the blurbs had been faked and withdrew its offer. Goodwin insists the bogus testimonials are the work of an unidentified enemy...
SPECIAL REPORT: A dangerous bogus church aims for the mainstream...