Semo.net Weblog » 2006 » March http://blog.semo.net Southeast Missouri's Online Community Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:07:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Spring break at Wal-Mart http://blog.semo.net/2006/03/27/spring-break-at-wal-mart/ http://blog.semo.net/2006/03/27/spring-break-at-wal-mart/#comments Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:00:34 +0000 Semo.net Management http://blog.semo.net/wordpress/?p=157 Skyler Bartels spent three days of his Spring Break at Wal-Mart. Really living there. Eating, sleeping, checking out the DVDs, never leaving. The plan was to spend his entire spring break there. Under the radar.

Some kids go to Cancun. Skyler Bartels, a Drake University sophomore from Harvard, Neb., went to the garden and patio department. Read More

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The new bill � featuring shades of orange, yellow and red � joined colorized versions of the $20 bill and the $50 bill as the Bureau of Engraving and Printing attempts to stay ahead of counterfeiters and ever-more sophisticated copying machines.

The Federal Reserve on Thursday began shipping the first of 800 million of the new $10 bills to commercial banks. In the next few days, those bills will start showing up in cash registers around the country.

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