Among the alleged baits recently used to separate unwary investors from their funds: film deals, 19th-century railroad bonds, gold mines, iron mines, equipment leases, "medium-term notes, " greeting card manufacturing, a board game teaching investors how to get wealthy and even Mormon church financings.

FORBES: Fraud per capita

Small enough to fit in the bed of a large pickup truck, the Ferrator strips electrons from iron atoms to make ferrate--an unstable molecule that bonds to and neutralizes heavy metals, phosphates and bacteria.

FORBES: Entrepreneurs

With enduring bonds forged across decades, the democracies that emerged one by one from behind the Iron Curtain are now America's allies and partners, and today we jointly confront global challenges.

WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Proclamation -- World Freedom Day