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Lifestyles for rent

Cassandra Smith spends $800 a month renting designer handbags and leases a luxury condo in downtown Miami.

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Fri Jul 03, 2009

Ottawa Citizen

The recipe for great sex: orgasm optional, research finds

Put away your vacuum pump, heavy-duty auto booster cables and edible latex Brad Pitt face mask-and-abs combo.

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Related Topix: Human Sexuality

Textually.org

Twitter followers 'can be bought'

Twitter users who lack an audience for their messages can now buy followers. The BBC reports.

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The Dispatch

Colorado company offers banana coffins

Published: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 1:57 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, July 3, 2009 at 1:57 p.m. Casket makers catering to natural burials have offered biodegradable coffins made of such materials as recycled newspapers or cardboard.

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Related Topix: Montrose, CO

Insurance Journal West

Missouri DOI Returns Nearly $6M to Consumers in First Half of 2009

Consumers who filed complaints with the Missouri Department of Insurance received $5.9 million from insurance companies during the first half of 2009, the department has reported.

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Related Topix: Missouri, Missouri Government

Adweek

Trade Groups Craft Web Ad Guidelines

NEW YORK Internet advertising could look and feel a whole lot different in 2010.

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

Stafford County Sun

Virginia slogan named one of top tourism campaigns of all time

Virginia is for Lovers, the official state tourism slogan for Virginia, was recently named one of the top 10 tourism marketing campaigns of all time.

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Related Topix: Journalism

Raw Story

Amid outcry, Wash Post cancels paid policy dinners

Amid an outcry from its own newsroom, The Washington Post on Thursday canceled plans to host events offering lobbyists access to US government officials, members of Congress and Post reporters.

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Related Topix: Journalism

KEPR 19

Web retailers, states tussle over tax rules

In a big break for online shoppers, Web retailers generally don't have to charge sales taxes in states where they lack a store or some other physical presence.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Small Business, Personal Finance, Internet, Science / Technology, Asheville Metro, Asheville, NC

PhillyBurbs.com

Circle City Classic names new executive director

Sports marketing executive Marc Williams has been named executive director of the Circle City Classic, the annual football game in Indianapolis between two historically black colleges.Williams, a native of Florham Park, N.J., was CEO of Williams Communications LLC, a company he began in 2006.

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Related Topix: Florham Park, NJ, George Mason University

Guardian Unlimited

Foster Farms to reduce contracted growers in La. - AP

Foster Farms to reduce contracted growers in La. FARMERVILLE, La. A A A' A California-based poultry company that recently took over a closed Louisiana processing plant with assistance from the state says it will not extend contracts to all of the plant's former growers.

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Related Topix: Farmerville, LA, Agriculture, Science

CW2 Colorado KWGN-TV

Advertisers pledge to self-police standards about Internet privacy

Companies that track consumer behavior online for advertising purposes are vowing to make their practices more transparent and to give people a way to decline being shadowed.

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Related Topix: Privacy

Wed Jul 01, 2009

Miami Herald

Butler named AP vice president, newspaper markets

Kate Lee Butler, a business development director for sales and marketing at The Associated Press, has been promoted to vice president of newspaper markets.

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DarkVision Hardware

HP debuts first workstation with six-core AMD Istanbul

HP has introduced the xw9400, the first workstation to adopt the AMD Opteron 2400 six-core "Istanbul" processor.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, CPU

WUSA9

Alice.com Grasps The Woes Of Buying Toilet Paper

If shopping for household essentials like toilet paper and soap isn't your favorite activity, a new Web site might eliminate the task -- while saving you cash.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Internet, Madison Metro

KARE 11 TV

General Mills 4th-quarter profit almost doubles

General Mills Inc. said Wednesday that its fiscal fourth-quarter profit almost doubled as consumers stuck with its well-known brands such as Cheerios cereal and Yoplait yogurt.

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Related Topix: General Mills, Agriculture, Food, Golden Valley, MN

Fox Charlotte

Sexual Innuendo in New Burger King Ad

A Burger King ad running in Singapore is turning heads and even making some gag.

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Related Topix: Restaurant Management, Human Sexuality

The New Braunfels Herald

Kennedy Center offers help to strapped arts groups

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts announced plans Tuesday to expand its crisis consulting for arts organizations that are struggling to survive the recession, an effort championed by first lady Michelle Obama and congressional leaders.

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Related Topix: Michelle Obama, Kalamazoo, MI, Kalamazoo Metro

Tue Jun 30, 2009

ClipSyndicate

VIDEO: Direct Farm Marketing

IT 'S A VEGETABLE SEASON IN NORTH DAKOTA AND WE 'VE GOT A SPECIAL GUESTS ARE THOMAS IN NATO AND HE 'S NOT GOING TO SAY TOO MUCH BUT SUE BALCOLM IS THE LOCAL FOOD MARKETING SPECIALIST WITH THE NORTH DAKOTA PARTNER AGRICULTURE AND SHE 'S GOT A LOT TO TELL US TODAY INCLUDING THE LOCAL FOODS INITIATIVE THAT % HESITATION IS IS FULL SWING AS WELL ...

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Related Topix: North Dakota, Agriculture, Science, Home Gardening, Home, Video

Jalopnik

Hyundai Assurance Gas Lock: Buy A New Car, Get One Year Of $1.49 Gas [Ad Watch]

Hyundai will continue their successful value escalation strategy in the car sales wars, now offering to lock down a year of gas at $1.49 per gallon for a year for buyers of new vehicles purchased between now and August 31st.

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Related Topix: Hyundai Elantra, Hyundai, Auto Dealers, Chrysler, Autos

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