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...Salem, Mass., this Halloween season, your chances of encountering a psychic are up - and the odds that that he or she has a felony record are down. That, for those of you who were too drowned in multimedia Harry Potter to notice, is the news from the real town where some estimate every tenth person is a witch...
...June, the Salem town council eased its rules on fortune tellers - or, to be more specific, those locals who are engaged in "the telling of fortunes, forecasting of futures, or reading the past, by means of any occult, psychic power, faculty, force, clairvoyance, cartomancy, psychometry, phrenology, spirits, tea leaves, tarot cards, scrying, coins, sticks, dice, coffee grounds, crystal gazing or other such reading, or through mediumship, seership, prophecy, augury, astrology, palmistry, necromancy, mind-reading, telepathy or other craft, art, science, talisman, charm, potion, magnetism, magnetized article or substance, or by any such similar thing...
...Salem may have been where witches were once tried and executed by puritans, but - thanks to the magic of branding - it has since become a mecca for witches and others involved in the occult arts, as well as for tourists. Around a hundred thousand tourists descend on the town every Halloween season...
...going to make news because it's a foreign woman who was kidnapped, but the reality is that it's a daily occurrence - not weekly, not monthly - for local nationals," says a Kabul-based businesswoman who asks to remain anonymous due to security fears. "Everyone who works in this town will have it happen one way or another, be it a kidnapping, a threat of kidnapping or a holdup," she adds, saying that in the past month there have been two kidnappings on her street, despite a police presence. "Security in this town is a joke. The Taliban are talked...
...success. "These are the people who are driving Afghanistan's economy: the entrepreneurs, the business owners. Once they are under attack, what hope does Afghanistan have?" Local entrepreneur Nasrullah Rahmati was assaulted by a kidnapping gang last year while driving with his brother in an affluent part of town. They both managed to escape but his brother was wounded, and the would-be kidnappers made off with $3,000 in cash. Rahmati reported the incident to the police, but nothing came of their investigation. "My every moment is at risk," says Rahmati. "I hate it, to carry weapons...