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  • Someone — anonymously — went into two Wal-Mart and paid more than $100,000 — moving everything off layaway. Meaning, gifts some customers were trying to buy, are now theirs.
  • Earlier this week, students pretended to be school officials and proclaimed classes canceled. The media didn't buy it. As a giant storm intensified days later, real administrators canceled classes.
  • During a Black Friday campaign, Cards Against Humanity offered online shoppers the opportunity to buy nothing for $5. The company was up front about the deal, and still raked in $71,000.
  • In these divisive times, CEO Howard Shultz is urging people to talk to one another. Starbucks is offering free coffee if you buy someone else a coffee. Think of it as subsidized conversation.
  • Four alleged mafia gangsters have been arrested for forcing shop owners to buy poinsettias for as much as $140 each. Owners who refused to partake in the "Christmas special" would have their shops vandalized.
  • Disney has recently been in talks with 21st Century Fox to buy large portions of the company, according to reports.
  • Prosecutors in Arkansas accused the former administrative assistant of using public money to buy personal items including a diamond ring, sequined throw pillows and a tuxedo for her dog.
  • Frank O'Rourke was surfing in Jacksonville Beach, Fla., when a shark bit his arm, leaving teeth marks. He made the best of a bloody situation, heading to the bar where folks kept buying him drinks.
  • Project Homekey buys up old motels and hotels and turns them into long-term housing for people experiencing homeless.
  • a writer for Popular Photography magazine, about a new photo system being developed jointly by Kodak, Canon, Minolta, Nikon, and Fuji. The Advanced Photo System, or APS, will provide a more foolproof means of taking good pictures. It includes a new type of film, packed in a light-proof cartridge, a smaller camera, and other high-tech features not available currently on even the most expensive 35-mm cameras. Photo labs will have to buy costly electronic processing equipment that can read information encoded on each roll of film.
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