For a mom-and-pop store, maybe spicing it up with a little controversy will draw the crowds.

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People use Craigslist for any number of reasons: finding an apartment, spicing up their love lives, job hunting.

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Intrigued by some bamboo growing outside his office, he's tried adding bamboo leaves to a green tea and spicing it with ginger.

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In rural north Florida, they take green or immature peanuts and boil them until they are nice and mushy, sometimes spicing them up with Cajun or other seasonings.

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The original and basic point is that Johann Hari, one of the leading interview journalists in the British press, has been found spicing up the quotes that appear in his pieces.

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Talk about spicing up a corporate defense (pun intended)!

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