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By tbt* staff report
Published April 13, 2005
So where did it come from? The woman who says she bit into a human finger while eating chili at a Wendy's restaurant has a history of filing lawsuits. Wendy's says all its employees and suppliers have all their fingers.
Picking a pope The conclave of 117 cardinal-electors will begin Monday (4/18) to select the next pope. They will meet in private in the Sistine Chapel, and it could take several days of balloting.
Fluffy in the crosshairs The fur is flying as Wisconsin considers a proposal making it legal to shoot wild cats. It's already legal in South Dakota and Minnesota.
Stolen data Close to 310,000 people may have had their personal profiles stolen from a LexisNexis database in the United States. That's 10 times more than the 32,000 the company reported last month.
Paying more for drugs Wholesale prices for name-brand drugs jumped an average 7.1 percent in 2004, the largest hike in five years and more than twice the general rate of inflation, a study says.