The Irish betting site Paddy Power lists two former St. Louis prelates as papal possibilities: Cardinal Tim Dolan of New York (25 to 1 odds) and Cardinal Raymond Burke of Rome (33 to 1 odds). . .WashU senior Jaime Rosenthal sought prices for a hip replacement at 100 hospitals for her summer research project on health care costs and was the basis of the JAMA Internal Medicine paper.  Costs ranged from $11k-$125k.. .Due in June: rapper Nelly and thrush Nelly Furtado’s collaboration on Nelly & Nelly on an album, “M.O.  His recent single, “Hey, Porche” debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. . .Fusion is the name of the upcoming news/lifestyle cable network being launched later this year and targeting 20 million Hispanics in five states.  The creators: ABC and Universal. . .News to use:  An article in the latest issue of the Missouri Conservationist describes the “fascinating” pirate perch, a small fish that reproduces using a unique method called “transbranchioral spawning.”  The female noses the releases her eggs into her gill chamber, and then forces them out, through her mouth, deep into root masses on a creek bottom.  Along comes the male, who fertilizes them in the same way.  Though mostly found in the Bootheel, biologists Danny Brown and Sarah Peper stumbled on a few of them recently in Jeff County’s Isle du Bois creek.

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