The company has taken the toy industry by storm since 1997, when the first Build-A-Bear Workshop store opened in St.

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Fattened, flightless, farm-raised, store-bought turkeys bear little resemblance to their tough, feral cousins that tromp through the forests, prairies, and scrublands of every state in the US except for Alaska.

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The store signs in Messina, a town near the South African border with Zimbabwe, bear garish testimony to the boost that migrant traders give the local economy.

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Now beer store shelves are stocked with rye beers, and their all-too-easy puns (Bear Republic's Ryevalry comes out this fall), as this stalwart grain, makes a new tradition of its own.

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