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No. 290: "Fighting Crime ... With Science!"

According to the Cambridge, Mass., Police Department, the list includes Mexican-Americans, Pakistanis, Indians, and Cajuns. List of what?

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Thursday's Question (No. 289)--"No Problem":

Quoted in the Wichita Eagle, Kansas Gov. Bill Graves said, "This is a terrible, tragic, embarrassing solution to a problem that did not exist." What is?

"The new state law requiring public school teachers to use quotation-marks-with-hands gestures whenever they use the words 'evolution,' 'Darwin,' or '20th century' in class."--Andrew Milner (Alex Pascover had a similar answer.)

"The forced annexation of Kansas City, Mo., to avoid geographical confusion. But it's not a problem, since nobody knows anything about geography anymore anyway."--Mac Thomason

"Warren Beatty's threat to run for president. Imagine 14 months of that excruciating white-guy rap! Al's and Bill's and W's fund-raising excesses don't seem so bad anymore, do they?"--Scott Baisch (similarly, Jay D. Majors and Sean Fitzpatrick)

"The decision by the Kansas Board of Education to define pi as 3.0. The resulting increase in computational speed is expected to raise the state's average SAT score by approximately 0.1415926."--Sean Fitzpatrick (similarly, Jonathan E. Snow)

"MAXIM."--Colleen Werthmann

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Chris Kelly writes for Politically Incorrect With Bill Maher. Regular "News Quiz" host Randy Cohen will return on Aug. 30.