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Jeudi 28 mars 2013 4 28 / 03 / Mars / 2013 17:08 Lassé de voir défiler les "faux clients", une boutique australienne a décidé de sanctionner les flâneurs d'une amende de 4 euros... Se balader dans un magasin, observer et repartir les mains vides: le lèche-vitrine récréatif reste une activité très répandue voire relativement banale. Or, de l'autre côté de la planète, l'habitude agace les commerçants et porte même un nom: le "showrooming"... Moins innocent qu'il en a l'air, le client de type "showrooming" vient en repérage visiter la collection pour ensuite réaliser ses achats sur internet. Un commerce australien a décidé d'en finir avec la pratique en infligeant aux personnes concernées une "amende" de 4 euros...
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On 20 October 1998, the Zhiqiang Shoe Factory in Harbin, China sent out a press release stating that they were officially halting production of a curious variety of footwear known as “lotus shoes.” This announcement may appear pedestrian to Western eyes, but in a way it was a symbolic epitaph for a bizarre custom which had been in practice in parts of China for about a thousand years: a process known as foot binding . Until the mid-twentieth century, a girl born into an affluent family in China was almost certain to be taken aside sometime in her first few years to begin a process of sculpting her feet into tiny, pointed “lotus” feet.
Bound By Tradition
Even though I am living in the biggest country in the world, most of the time it feels like I’m living in the smallest. I have nothing but fondness for Kazan and all of its people, but sometimes at the end of a long day, I start to feel crowded. Buses brimming with students, men with mustaches and tattooed fingers, and old fat ladies wrapped in fur lumber down narrow streets behind masses of Ladas and old Ford models. Everyone is in a rush to get to where they should have been an hour ago, and no one is getting anywhere. In addition to this physical crowdedness, getting used to a social “crowding” that I have never experienced before has been even more exciting, overwhelming, and sometimes frustrating. In my experience thus far, Russians are much more straightforward than Americans.
Personal Space Bubble, or Lack Thereof
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Eighth Place In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys. Seventh Place

