National Features

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    Perez Hilton: Exposed!

    Can a "crazy, flamboyant dork" from Miami find happiness as a Hollywood mudslinger?

    By Francisco Alvarado
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    Chip Off the Old Rock

    Songwriter Justin Townes Earle has struggled with addiction--just like his proud papa.

    By Michael McCall
  • Phoenix New Times
    "Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy"

    Have they become the magic words when a state wants to terminate parental rights?

    By Megan Irwin
  • SF Weekly
    Out of the Woodwork

    Union carpenters describe a little slice of Jim Crow smack dab in the middle of America's most PC city.

    By Lauren Smiley

114. "Charging $1,000 for a casket -- talk about taking advantage of the grieving," said owner Paul Kinsella. What is his company?
a) www.afterlifetelegrams.com, a service that directs a client's message to a loved one to a terminally ill volunteer "messenger" who memorizes it and promises to attempt to deliver it in the afterlife.

b) The Crematorium Emporium, which offers creative disposal of loved ones, including feeding remains to Mississippi catfish.

c) The nonprofit Missouri Association for the Grieving, a newly created watchdog group to oversee the funeral industry.

d) The Casket Basket, a new cut-rate coffin company that celebrated the opening of its headquarters in the downtown St. Louis loft district with a ribbon cutting by Mayor Francis Slay.

115. Emanuel Fleming of Cahokia, Illinois, got an appendage stuck in the coin return of a pay phone. Paramedics had to cut the phone from its moorings and take it, with Fleming attached, to the hospital, where doctors were able to disengage his:
a) Tongue.

b) Thumb.

c) Right middle finger.

d) Penis.

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