US Shoppers Flock to Stores Searching for Bargains The holiday shopping blitz is on. U.S. retailers opened their doors to accommodate crowds of shoppers looking for deals. One woman paid $97 for each of these four flat-screen televisions. I saved $61

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The Internet can be a scary place these days, especially because of cyber-bullying. Its difficult to open a newspaper these days and not see a story about this. Its a really nasty and growing problem. Cyber-bullies are real cowards. They hide behind

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MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Now for a story most of us can probably relate to. You buy something online, and then you change your mind. So what to do - keep it, regift, send it back? Well, Americans had interesting things to say about their return habit

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By Carol Pearson Washington 11 September 2007 People the world over are buying more processed and packaged foods, sometimes with unwanted side effects: foods high in salt, sugar and fat. But a supermarket chain based in the northeastern U.S. state of

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By Jerilyn Watson Broadcast: July 10, 2003 This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Education Report. About twenty-one-thousand young people in seventeen American states do not attend classes

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- A record 247 million U.S. shoppers visited stores and websites over Thanksgiving weekend, up from 226 million last year, according to an industry survey released on Sunday. Total spending reached an estimated 59.1 bill

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