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Feb 2001Average number of brand-name items requested per shopping trip by a U.S. child between the ages of four and twelve: 14
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James U. McNeal, McNeal & Kids (College Station, Tex.)

Sep 1999Amount that Florida governor Jeb Bush's wife spent on a 5-day shopping trip to Paris last June: $19,000
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Office of the Governor (Tallahassee, Fla.)

Jan 1999Value of each 20,000-yen government-issued “shopping voucher” to be received this year by 35 million Japanese: $165
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Embassy of Japan

Dec 1998Donation received last July by a Los Angeles soup kitchen in order to provide shopping carts for the homeless: $10,000
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Los Angeles Catholic Worker (Los Angeles)

November 23, 2005Violent shopping incidents occurred in Hamilton Township, New Jersey; Elkton, Maryland; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Orlando, Florida; and Sunrise, Florida, where a 72-year-old woman was trampled.
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WTOPNews.com

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NBC10.com

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The Miami Herald

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Reuters

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KYW.com

April 13, 2005 Hungary was planning to let prostitutes solicit in shopping malls.
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Daily Times

March 30, 2004It was reported that the U.S. government's main laboratory for mad-cow testing, which is located in an Iowa strip mall, is not secure enough to store dangerous pathogens.
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Reuters

November 29, 2003A Wal-Mart shopper in Orange City, Florida, was trampled and knocked unconscious during a stampede at a Wal-Mart Supercenter; the stampede occurred at the 6 a.m. opening of a big sale. The victim, who was first in line, was found clutching a DVD player.
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Daytona Beach News-Journal, New York Times

November 27, 2003Advanced Digital Solutions announced that it has developed a system to use subdermal implants to make credit-card payments using radio frequency identification, or RFID. Privacy advocates were not amused: "If we establish a robust credit-card network based on RFID chips implanted under the skin," said one, "we are also creating the infrastructure for potential government surveillance."
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New Scientist

October 14, 2003A deer invaded a clothing store in Linden, New Jersey,
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New York Times

October 16, 2001A new survey found that 52 percent of American women prefer shopping to sex; 93 percent of men prefer sex.
September 4, 2001Former president Bill Clinton went bikini shopping in Rio de Janeiro.
May 29, 2001A Chicago judge decided not to send a woman to jail for wire fraud because she claimed to be a shopping addict.
May 22, 2001The Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot observed that “only a revenge-seeking fool could believe that eliminations and missile fire, the demolition of neighborhoods, the killing of soldiers and civilians and the destruction of homes could restore personal calm and security.” A Palestinian suicide bomber killed ten Israelis and wounded 100 others at a shopping mall; Israel responded with F-16 air strikes.
May 22, 2001 Police in Saudi Arabia gave seven teenage boys 15 lashes each for leering at women at shopping malls; the offenses included slipping girls phone numbers, whistling, talking to them, even winking.
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