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These rugs let you take a walk on the wild side, literally
South Bend Tribune, IN - Jan 13, 2007
You literally, when you stand on a sheepskin rug, can feel the stress leaving." Much of the cowhide sold for rugs is imported from Brazil, the sheepskin ...

Checking out library's offerings is just a literal literary exercise
commercialappeal.com (subscription), TN - Jan 12, 2007
It doesn't take Nancy Freeman long to look over the scant new book selections at the Central Library. By Jody Callahan ...

Penney customers put on the dog - literally
Winston-Salem Journal (subscription), NC - Jan 12, 2007
AP. JC Penney Co. removed some fur-trimmed coats from its racks around Christmas after animal-rights activists objected that the fur came from wild dogs in ...

Work out bugs - literally
The Register-Guard, OR - Jan 12, 2007
By Molly Selvin. PASADENA, Calif. - For M. Evan Parker and Frank Campos, business is pretty lousey these days - and that's just fine. ...

Geetanjali Krishna: A really long journey, literally
Business Standard, India - Jan 12, 2007
Goa is a long way off from Assam, and not just in a literal sense. “It is so peaceful here, people are friendly and most tourists tip generously. ...

Democrats ‘Symbolic’ Vote: Allegorical Guts, Emblematic Action ...
Men's News Daily, CA - Jan 12, 2007
Oh sure, you’ll find them symbolically and figuratively, contained in fits of empty threatening rhetoric, but rarely if ever literally. ...

Sick, Literally, of Fighting in Iraq
Electronic Iraq - Jan 12, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO (IPS) - Susan Tileston hasn't seen her son, Levi Moddrelle, in more than two years. Levi served in the 101st Airborne Division in Afghanistan ...
HEALTH-US: Sick, Literally, of Fighting in Iraq Inter Press Service (subscription)
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The Spoof (satire)Gerodie Man Left Holding The Baby Quite Literally
The Spoof (satire), UK - Jan 11, 2007
A man in Newcastle was literally left holding the baby today when a strange sequence of events unfolded in Newcastle today. Geordie Decant was in McDonalds ...

Love, literally in the time of cholera
Downtown Express - Jan 11, 2007
Two little people in a crazy mixed-up world: Edward Norton and Naomi Watts travel to China’s cholera-ridden countryside and rekindle their love. ...

Analysis: Auto shows can literally be the home of smoke, mirrors
Lansing State Journal, MI - Jan 11, 2007
Auto shows, however, are quite literally the home of smoke and mirrors. The optimism washing over the huge exhibit floor at Detroit's Cobo Center is, ...