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What's more, even if Abdulmutallab had succeeded in blowing up Northwest Flight 253, he would have killed only one-tenth as many people as died on 9/11. Yes, using the word only is ghoulish when you're talking about hundreds of lives. But after Sept. 11, George W. Bush warned about terrorists killing "hundreds of thousands of innocent people" in "a day of horror like none we have ever known." The conventional wisdom was that the next terrorist attack would not merely equal 9/11 but be worse. (See a special report on where the accused 9/11 plotters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Amid the Hysteria, a Look at What al-Qaeda Can't Do | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

...part of a burgeoning Boston Halloween tradition and head over to Faneuil Hall to watch the “Howl-O-Ween” Pet Parade. Pets will be costumed in their very best ghoulish get-up, promising a devilish dog and fur-eaky feline festival.  10 a.m.-6 p.m, Saturday, October 31, West End between Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market Building...

Author: By MARIETTA M COBURN, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Get Out! | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

Edwards, John •mistress of, with child of, is moving into the neighborhood of, to the dismay of wife of, who nonetheless insists to Larry King that "everything seems to be going pretty smoothly at my house" and even smiles through the ghoulish host's questions about her cancer ("You're stage four, though, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 8/21/2009 | See Source »

Rival MySpace has a similar policy blocking account access but has fewer restrictions on profile-viewing. (This inspired an entrepreneur to create MyDeathSpace.com, which started out aggregating profiles of the deceased and has since morphed into a ghoulish tabloid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Manage Your Online Life When You're Dead | 8/18/2009 | See Source »

...museum-worthy art - including Thawan's own - from all over the world, Black House, tel: (66-8) 9767 4444, is also a shrine to the artist's collection of animal skins and bones. Dismissing the myths surrounding his bizarre collection - thought by many to be mysterious - if not ghoulish, the controversial 70-year-old, who professes to be nonreligious, maintains that "they mean nothing. They are for study, to help me with anatomy, form and function." Is Black House the flipside of the virtuous White Temple, or is that reading too much into their close proximity? Thawan is noncommittal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dark and the Light Side of Thai Art | 5/14/2009 | See Source »

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