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Via USA Today:

ATMs have become the new town squares, the place where Greeks gather and furiously debate politics and economics as they wait in line to withdraw a paltry limit of less than $70 a day.

The lines start at midnight so people can collect their daily 60-euro allotment as early in the new day as possible for fear banks might run out of cash if they wait.

As bad as things are in this debt-swollen nation, things could get worse if Greece fails to strike a deal with the European Union by Sunday on a bailout plan that averts bankruptcy and likely expulsion from the eurozone.

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