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How a Young Girl's Death in 2000 Gave Birth to an Urban Legend
On July 1, in a tiny English village, eight-year-old Sarah Payne was playing with her brothers and sister in a country lane. Then she wasn’t. The media panic that followed is a case study in how urban legends are born and spread.
The Hangover News
The News of the World is dead and it died as it had lived, in fits of self-aggrandizing and sentimental pique.
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