The video, which features BBC broadcaster Richard Bacon, shows the dancers interrupting a fake news report before forming a giant snowflake by lying on the ground.

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But Ms. Vick failed to foresee that the system would automatically report the fake employees to a state payroll-tax agency as if they were new hires at an actual company.

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He spoke on the same day that CBS announced he will deliver at on-air apology Sunday for a "60 Minutes" report on drug trafficking that was based on a documentary uncovered as fake.

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Two landmark studies last year in the New England Journal of Medicine found that a similar spine procedure (vertebroplasty) was no better than a fake operation--raising serious questions over whether the pain relief patients report from kyphoplasty is nothing more than an expensive placebo effect.

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