A: You aren't alone when it comes to lying or exaggerating on a résumé. According to national payroll provider Automatic Data Processing's 2009 Screening Index, 46% of employment, education and ...
In a Playboy interview in 1974, when postmodernist novelist John Barth was asked why he permitted himself so many liberties in his work, he replied simply: “I exaggerate for the sake of truth.” Being ...
Your News in Brief story “Fantasy reference list leads to the sack” (Nature 440, 728; 2006) reports on the dismissal of Hui Liu, assistant dean of the medical school at Tsinghua University in Beijing.