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McDonald's is importing small amounts of lean beef for use in its restaurants in the United States.
Nike pulled a print ad for their Air Dri-Goat shoes because readers found it offensive to the disabled.
A Nike shoe advertisement uses imagery from a terrorist bombing.
Mondex is planning to replace money with biochips embedded in people's heads and hands.
Subway sandwich store tray liners used in Germany depicted a fat Statue of Liberty.
The current flu vaccine shortage is attributable to a lawsuit handled by Vice-Presidential candidate John Edwards.
Cell phone users must register their numbers with the national "Do Not Call" directory to prevent their cell phone numbers from being released to telemarketers.
A new Pepsi can design omits the words "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance.
Tips recommended by Andy Rooney will reduce the amount of telemarketing phone calls and junk mail you receive.
Sophia Stewart won a large judgement in her copyright infringement suit over authorship of the film The Matrix.
The Wall Street Journal ran an article about 18 factory managers executed by the Chinese government for producing flawed refrigerators.
E-mail criticizes Target Corporation's banning of the Salvation Army and sale of vibrators at its stores.
E-mail compares the salaries of top executives of several large charitable organizations.
The Department of Homeland Security is secretly putting restrictions on what customers can remove from safe deposit boxes in case of "national disaster."
NBC is refusing to promote Jamie Foxx's upcoming television special.
AOL is proposing to tax businesses to send spam to their customers.
E-mail warns about Congress' allowing Internet providers to abandon the concept of network neutrality.
Petition addresses environmental issues associated with the Pascua-Lama mining operation in Chile.
A Texas Roadhouse manager requested compensation for business lost due to the fatal shooting of two police officers.
Radio stations declined to air the Diamond Rio song "In God We Still Trust" because of its subject matter.
Al Gore's residence uses considerably more energy than the average American home.
Hershey's is shutting down its U.S. operations and moving to Mexico.
The U.S. Treasury has been minting the "Amero," a coin to be used by an economic union of the USA, Canada, and Mexico.
Singer Lee Greenwood cancelled a Denver concert appearance at the last minute over a pay dispute.
Dunkin' Donuts refused to contribute to the reward offered for the killer of a police officer murdered on its premises.
The 2008 U.S. economic downturn resulted from Democratic control of Congress in 2007.
E-mail urges consumers to redeem gift cards issued by companies that have recently filed for bankruptcy.
Best Buy charges a 15% restock fee on returns of some non-defective merchandise.
E-mail lists large retail chains that plan to close by the end of 2008.
E-mail reproduces a 1999 newspaper article warning about potential troubles with Fannie Mae.
Receipt of special "closed" signs by Bank of America signals that U.S. banks will soon be shut down by the government for one week.
The first three digits of a bar code indicate a product's country of origin.
E-mail provides statistics about the size of the Wal-Mart chain of general merchandise retail stores.
Business owner chooses to lay off employees whose vehicles sported Obama bumper stickers.
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