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		<title>How Stores Trick You Into Spending More</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Strain</dc:creator>
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		<title>A Nation of Shopaholics?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an image that the US has become an nation of shopaholics driven primarily by consumerism. Lee Eisenberg, the author of Shoptimism, believes that this is not truly the case. He sees that the average person still retains some of the frugality on which the US was founded and believes that most people that [...]]]></description>
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