German newspaper says hoaxed by pro-smoking crusader
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A Hamburg newspaper that reported last  week on a computer company manager who said he fired three  non-smokers because they had threatened disruptions after  asking for a smoke-free environment said on Monday the story  was a hoax.
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Germany may outlaw smoking in cars because it is a health hazard and a safety risk, the government's commissioner for substance abuse Sabine Baetzing said.
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KenSilverstein says he lied, deceived and fabricated to get the story.
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Plus: Was Einstein a plagiarist? [News.com Extra]
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ZURICH, Switzerland - Some people will do anything to appear in the papers. But few have the audacity of a man in Switzerland, who conned one of the country's biggest media companies into publishing a two-page ad he created of himself posing semi-naked beside a bottle of Gucci perfume.
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Troubling news for cash-strapped Lotharios, particularly in Germany.
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privately run and not affiliated with the Transportation Security Administration â-ffers news (such as the Nazi salute allegedly flipped
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A tobacco firm says allegations it covered up evidence of the harmful effects of passive smoking are false and inaccurate.
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Rumors about another press release purveyor are flying off the presses.
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DENVER - A man who boasted to reporters around the world that his Web site allowed strangers to turn his outdoor Christmas lights off and on admitted Monday it was an elaborate hoax designed, he said, to spread holiday cheer.
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The image of a smoker who speaks through an artificial voice box, was scary enough to prompt thousands of New Yorkers to quit cigarettes last year.
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The BBC News website looks at the long terror campaign waged by Germany's  most notorious urban guerrilla group.
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NEW YORK - A fake story about singer R. Kelly circulated on the Internet and attributed to The Associated Press was picked up by The Miami Herald and then sent by the Knight-Ridder/Tribune wire to newspapers across the country.
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A public-health article published online by THE LANCET suggests that Philip Morris, one of the world&#39;s leading tobacco manufacturers, was covertly involved in scientific research into the health effects of tobacco 30 years ago, and conducted research into
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DENVER, COLO. - A Colorado man who garnered widespread media attention after claiming he had created a website that would allow net users to turn his outdoor Christmas lights off and on from their home desktops has admitted it was a hoax.
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The pro-Western challenger in Ukraine&#39;s presidential election alleged that there had been blatant falsification in yesterday&#39;s run-off election.
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THE GLOBE&#39;S Oct. 13 editorial (&quot;Unguarded on Gaza&quot;) about comments by Ariel Sharon&#39;s adviser, Dov Weisglass, drastically misrepresented his interview with the Israeli daily Haaretz.