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... per capita. In 2005 it was back up to #6. The leader in both time periods is San Juan, PR, with New Orleans, Gary, and Pine Bluff, AR, all making appearances on the leaderboards. It's important to note that politicians, police officials, and others have manipulated the "reporting areas" in the past to skew the stats -- deflecting blame or inflating crimes in order to agitate for more ...

... an MPG "race" this summer in Wisconsin, where saving the earth took a back-seat to red-blooded American competitive instinct. "It was surprising how pumped-up people got. As the day went on, there was a leaderboard of who was getting the best mileage at the time. And I think when it got up to about 150, people were just, 'How can it get any better than this?' So obviously there's a huge ...