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New Englanders are no strangers to the power of public shaming, as Hester Prynne's scarlet letter attests. So perhaps it was a matter of time before a couple of New Englanders harnessed the Internet as a kind of public stocks for those without the willpower to achieve personal goals. (Full article: 794 words)
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