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...pumpkins, waiting to be turned into something delicious by a touch of nutmeg and a hot oven. Except that the mist comes from dry ice stuck in a grinning skull, the whisper in the trees from nylon ghosts hung in the boughs, and the pumpkin, made of bilious orange plastic, has a gizmo inside that groans "Whoooooooo ..." as you walk past. Halloween is upon us again...
...looks fairly traditional on the outside, but it will be dramatically different on the inside. The twin-engine, twin-aisle plane will be the first commercial aircraft with large sections such as the fuselage made of composite materials like plastic and fiber glass, not aluminum. Composites, which are widely used in military planes, are lighter (a vital consideration in any commercial plane) and not vulnerable to dangerous corrosion or cracking. Boeing claims the plane will be 20% more fuel efficient than comparable current models like the Airbus 330-200 or Boeing's 20-year-old 767--a bottom-line factor...
...Beautiful Holidays, Penang Marketed to Europeans through the Internet, Beautiful Holidays (beautiful-holidays.com) is a tour company providing plastic-surgery packages in conjunction with the Loh Guan Lye Centre, a 25-year-old private hospital in Penang. The most popularly requested operations: liposuction and tummy tucks. "Our customers enjoy the anonymity," says Marloes Giezenaar, Beautiful Holidays' managing director. "They fly in, recuperate around the pool, and fly out again without anyone noticing they've been under the knife." The company can also arrange postsurgery tours of Penang...
Radiohead are hardly new kids on the block, so perhaps my obsession needs some explanation. Firstly, I was a late convert; for years I steered clear of them, repulsed by what sounded like endless whiney songs about plastic and supermarkets. “Too long under fluorescent lights,” I thought. “Needs to get out, get laid and stop moping...
...grabs a fuzzy, black sweater from Express. “I’m actually wearing that tonight,” Thebaud says, snapping it up. Neill jokes, “When you’re 21, you can turn over a new leaf—called plastic hangers...