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Woman: I Found Fingertip in Applebee's Salad

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Louisiana woman is suing the Applebee’s (search) restaurant chain — a year after she allegedly found a human fingertip in her salad, echoing a similar but now-discredited claim against fast-food chain Wendy’s. May Deal Chambers Johnson (search) of Jefferson Parish, La., filed suit late Friday …

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Native Hawaiians Document Bloodlines

WASHINGTON – Bradford Lum is Irish, Dutch, German and Chinese, but it’s the three-eighths of Hawaiian blood running through his veins that matters to him most. That is why Lum and his mother, Lily, entered their names with the Native Hawaiian Registration Program, a database of people with documented proof …

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Canadian Amb.: Border Passport Plan a 'Damaging Change'

WASHINGTON – Canada’s ambassador predicted Monday that the United States would drop a controversial proposal that would require all travelers to show passports (search) in order to cross the long border between the neighboring nations. Discussions with the Bush administration, which introduced guidelines to crack down on potential terrorist travel …

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