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Miley Cyrus Cancels Friday Show Due To Strep Throat

Singer rescheduled Omaha concert for October 13. By Gil Kaufman Miley Cyrus Photo: Kevin Mazur/ WireImage It’s been a rough week for the girls.

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Miley Cyrus Cancels Friday Show Due To Strep Throat

American vice: mapping the 7 deadly sins

We're gluttons for infographics, and a team at Kansas State just served up a feast: maps of sin created by plotting per-capita stats on things like theft (envy) and STDs (lust).

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American vice: mapping the 7 deadly sins

The War Against Census Takers

The coroner of Clay County, Kansas has confirmed that the word “FED” was scrawled on the dead body of census worker and teacher Bill Sparkman, who was found asphyxiated earlier this month. Here is a video of various popular television news show hosts and elected officials—well, Glenn Beck and Michele Bachmann (R-MN)—explaining that the census was part of a plot to round up patriotic Americans and place them in internment camps. Also included: a fun amateur short-film in which a young man in fatigues aims an assault rifle at a census taker.

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The War Against Census Takers

Gossip Girl: Sparks Will Fly

Those sparks are courtesy of Georgina Sparks, who made her triumphant return last night to lay low the once mighty Blair Waldorf. As all the kids start at college, the power is all out of whack, with some unlikely victors. Who ever thought that Queen Bee Blair wouldn’t be able to get the Kansas transplants and NYU freshmen under her spell in no time flat?

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Newlywed couple escapes after man holding them hostage falls asleep

Authorities say the man who held two newlyweds hostage in their Kansas home fell asleep and the couple escaped unharmed. Topeka Police Capt. Jerry Stanley said Saturday that authorities then stormed the house, where they confronted the man

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How the internet makes a local crime a federal one

A small-town Kansas cop e-mailed naked pictures of himself to a woman he pulled over for drunk driving, offering a sexual relationship in exchange for helping her avoid the charges. A local problem became a federal case after investigators found that his e-mail servers were located in other states.

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How the internet makes a local crime a federal one

Protesters: Adam Lambert is a "Rebel Against God"

It’s both incomprehensible and incredibly depressing that people like this exist. But at last night’s American Idol concert in Kansas City, awful, close-minded members of the Westboro Baptist Church stood outside and protested the mere existence of Adam Lambert.

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Dogfighters get creative as spotlight on Vick case fades

When pro quarterback Michael Vick pleaded guilty to bankrolling a dogfighting operation in 2007, there was a spike in reports of dogfighting in the United States. But when the headlines faded, the blood sport grew stronger and went even more underground, with thugs taking inventive precautions to keep police at bay, animal cruelty experts say. “They know it's just not smart to have large crowds anymore, so we've seen fights where you've got the two handlers, a referee and Web cams everywhere broadcasting the fight on the Internet,” said Mark Kumpf, an investigator based in Ohio who directs the National Animal Control Association.

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First all-electric commercial delivery trucks unveiled In DC

Yesterday in Washington, D.C., Coca-Coca Enterprises, AT&T, Frito-Lay,Staples, Pacific Gas & Electric and Kansas City Power & Light each took delivery of an all-electric truck from Smith Electric Vehicles yesterday on the National Mall at a press event showcasing the new technology. But is this ceremonial delivery of vehicles a glimpse of the future of transport or merely a PR stunt

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First all-electric commercial delivery trucks unveiled In DC

It’s Not a Crippling Recession. It’s a Learning Experience!

It’s a good thing this epic recession is an opportunity to “reset” our culture, as Kurt Andersen tells us, or slough off the chains of corporatism, as per Douglas Rushkoff . Otherwise it would really suck for all the unemployed people. We haven’t read Andersen’s new book, called Reset , but we got a preview in his essay for Time a few months ago arguing that the economic mess that has one in eight Americans behind on their mortgage payments or in foreclosure is actually a good thing because it could herald a “rediscovery of the common good.” Rushkoff makes a similar, if larger, argument in Life, Inc

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It’s Not a Crippling Recession. It’s a Learning Experience!