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The New York Times reports on a new trend that seems to be sprouting up in the furniture business: Buy a new sofa and get a discount by "trading in" your old one, which is then donated to charity.
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My economic stimulus check will put Franz Kafka on my arm
4:30PM 5/19/2008
Sometime in the next couple of days, weeks, or whenever, my wife and I are going to receive a nice little chunk of change from our ol' buddy Dubya. Of course, it's our patriotic duty to use that money to stimulate the American economy...by buying things made in China, Japan, and Korea.Well, we're...
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