Field Guide to Shopping Carts

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[span id="article"][font face="Verdana,Sans-serif"][font color="black" size="2"][span id="article"][span id="intelliTXT"] LONDON (AP) - When it comes to wacky titles, a book on rogue shopping carts goes straight to the express lane for winners.[/p] "The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification" was named the winner Friday of the Bookseller/Diagram Prize for oddest book title.[/p] The book, written by Buffalo, N.Y.-based artist Julian Montague and published by Harry N. Abrams, offers a mock-scientific taxonomy of the varieties of lost shopping carts, from the simply discarded to the elaborately vandalized.
 [/p] Full Story:  [a href="vny!://apnews.myway.com/article/20070415/D8OGPH0G0.html"]vny!://apnews.myway.com/article/20070415/D8OGPH0G0.html[/a]
 [/p] Stray Shopping Cart Project:  [a href="vny!://www.strayshoppingcart.com/"]vny!://www.strayshoppingcart.com[/a]
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