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<b>DVD/BOOK</b> <i>State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America</i>

DVD/BOOK
State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America

September 5, 2008

America, the beautifully written

Summer 2008 will perhaps be best remembered for the “stay-cation” — the cheerily dreary phenomenon of simply staying put because of skyrocketing gasoline prices... More

<b>PHOTOS</b>Sexy stamens

PHOTOS
Sexy stamens

September 5, 2008

Botanical private parts

Flowers have become such a commercial cliché — 25 percent of all roses are sold on Valentine’s Day — that it’s easy to forget that every flower is really the private parts of a plant. Fortunately, Carl Linnaeus, the 18th-century polymath who... More

<b>VIDEO</b> How to Prevent Stock Shrinkage with Chuck Palahniuk

VIDEO
"How to Prevent Stock Shrinkage with Chuck Palahniuk"

September 5, 2008

Shoplifting, according to an article in a recent issue of The New Yorker, is a really big problem — $40-billion-a-year-in-losses big. To curb runaway stock shrinkage, stores are employing increasingly Big Brother–ish spyware; reading about it will render... More

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