Last year, I traveled undercover to southern China and saw smog enshrouding a landscape of factories and, more shockingly, hundreds of factory workers wearing cheap, trendy clothes.

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Perhaps even more shockingly, she sometimes gets alcohol from adults.

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More shockingly, the panel found adequate evidence to conclude that "many opinions were actually written by the invisible hands of drug manufacturers and experts merely obliged by putting their signatures".

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Even more shockingly, there was relatively little difference in responses between the youngest cohort and the oldest: 83% of 18-24 year olds supported the ban, while 89% of those 60 or older did so.

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Not shockingly, PayPal will more than likely continue to grow in 2013 as more people jump on the bandwagon every day in an effort to combat safety and privacy concerns that remain at the forefront of online shopping.

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Also making the annual list, which is collated from the opinions of more than 290 Hollywood executives, is Shockingly Evil and Vile by Michael Werwie, about the life of serial killer Ted Bundy.

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Shockingly, 7% of participants have more than 80% of their 401(k) assets invested in employer shares.

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Shockingly, this has made the Polish economy more resilient than the economies of countries that embraced tight money and austerity.

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And shockingly, Obama surrogate Ed Rendell took to national television to tell America that Hillary would have been more effective in achieving successful health care reform than Obama.

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