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Last month the New York restaurant Salon Mexico introduced a $45 burrito filled with truffles and filet mignon. . . . The founder of Paul Mitchell salon products recently launched a line of shampoos for dogs, joining Estee Lauder in the still-wide-open market for upscale pet hair-care products. . . . And at a New York legislative committee hearing in May, a Manhattan building owner revealed that he had paid former U.S. senator Alfonse D’Amato half a million dollars to make a single phone call on his behalf, to the chairman of the Metropolitan Transit Authority. The matter at issue was decided in favor of the building owner.
Least Competent Criminals
In a story about strange summer jobs, Norway’s VG newspaper reported that teenager Svein Tore Hauge works at Saerheim Plant Research following cattle around and catching their excrement before it can hit the ground. Because the waste is used for scientific study, it must be free of grass, dirt, foreign bacteria, etc.
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