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Few things encapsulate the American tendency to go big like its malls do. Key threads in the country's cultural fabric, here ...

It was once dubbed the largest shopping mall in the world, but now it stands empty, a hollow, sorry-looking husk of its former self. The South China Mall boasted more than seven million square feet of ...