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...rustle from the trees as they shed their leaves in nature's annual striptease and, everywhere you look, ripe, corrugated 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...
...weeks after she was taken into custody for shooting pictures outside a prison in the Iranian capital, and officials claimed she suffered a stroke. But after protests by Reporters Without Borders and the Canadian government, they admitted Kazemi died of a hemorrhage caused by a severe blow to the skull...
...year to convert his tradition-tempered stylishness into modern star power through a series of spectacularly successful film and TV roles. Sipping cranberry juice in a Tokyo caf? before a performance, dressed in a silk summer jacket and jeans accessorized with a Beastie Boys cap and an oversize black-skull ring, he explains his crossover appeal with a mischievous analogy: "The original Kabuki actors had a real punk attitude. It was the rock music of the Edo period...
Today there are a variety of intergenerational programs. Some of the newer Elderhostel programs offer a chance for adventure as well as bonding time. Wearing their skull-and-crossbones T shirts as they sailed, Al Hermann, 78, and his grandson Cameron Portratz, 13, spent a week in June aboard the schooner Zodiac. The hearty crew of 11 grandparents and 11 kids learned about the inner workings of the boat while sailing in the azure waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington. "Cameron and I polished brass, swabbed the decks, worked in the galley and helped raise sails," says Hermann...
...interior of Bom Jesus is folkish and crudely executed compared with its European prototypes, but the big draw is St. Francis' body, exhibited every 10 years and long held to be miraculously immune from decay. Judging by his partially exposed skull and missing parts, he may have finally succumbed, however. The next showing is scheduled for November...