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Social media a new way to market products

Sep. 7, 2009
CHICAGO | People around the world interact with Alecia Dantico all day. Usually, though, they don't know whether she's young or old, male or female. What her followers on Facebook and Twitter know is that's she's a friendly, sometimes sassy, blue-and-gold tin of Garrett Popcorn. That's the icon...
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler