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To Shop or Not to Shop

By Lisa Peakes on Friday, November 24, 2000.

The day after Thanksgiving might mark the start of the Christmas shopping season, but not for an estimated 1 million people in the US. They celebrate "Buy Nothing Day" to express their views on consumer materialism.

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Centenarians

By Laura Knoy on Friday, November 24, 2000.

About seventy thousand Americans today are age 100 or older and they're the fastest growing age group in America. Laura talks with Dr. Thomas Perls, founder and director of the New England Centenarian Study and co-author of Living to 100: Lessons in Living to Your Potential at Any Age.

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