So we confiscate granny's shampoo at the airport because the half-empty container could hold 3.5 ounces of liquid.

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The hayfeverishly fresh scent of Rema's shampoo was filling the air and through that brashness I squinted at this woman, and at that small dog, acknowledging to myself only that something was extraordinarily wrong.

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Some FlyerTalk members advocate practices designed not to breeze through a checkpoint, but to specifically expose the TSA's hypocrisy: tricks like carrying frozen shampoo and using the most obscure forms of valid ID.

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Wash your hair with a moisturizing shampoo when you feel you need it, whether that's daily or weekly.

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The revenues of Boston Consulting Group's marketing business (everything from naming a new shampoo to allocating marketing budgets) are growing three times faster than traditional consulting.

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Jack Horner's reading ability is so poor that he says he bought shampoo for dogs instead of people recently.

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It's particularly brutal for tech (as opposed to, say, shampoo) companies, which at best can usually hope to set the pace for only about generation until they settle into a comfortable middle class.

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