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Death Be Not Proud (At a Discount)

By Sarah Levy, Newser User

Posted Apr 12, 2007 4:47 PM CDT

(Newser) – What does it say about us, Mark Morford asks, that wandering the aisles at Costco in Palm Desert, CA, we come upon not only drums of olive oil and eighty-packs of frozen cream puffs, but over there, right next to the tires and the lawn... Read full story »

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