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March, 2006
Capital HillThe U.S. Senate voted 57 to 42 in October to reject an amendment to a bill that would have raised the minimum hourly wage from $5.15 to $6.25. It has been a decade since the Senate last raised the minimum wage; over the same period, senators' own annual salaries have increased by $28,000.Nectar of the GodThe Catholic Church spent $1,100 advertising for new priests on beer coasters in U.K. bars last summer.Spam FuturesAn online study that tracked 38 stocks touted in junk e-mails found...
