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The hoax about a boy carried off in a weather balloon shows what happens to some parents when the fame and cash of "reality" TV beckon.

Much of the nation's attention was riveted last week by news coverage of the flying-saucer-shaped balloon soaring high above the Colorado landscape. The family of Falcon Heene, 6, told authorities the boy might be aboard the wayward aircraft.

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