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Doting pet owners have long pampered their critters with gourmet food, fine bedding and even massages. A growing number are now dressing them up in pet costumes for Halloween trick-or-treating and pet parades. Pet stores and online costume retailers--several of which have formidable animal sections--are seeing a surge this year in requests for such costumes as Superman, Giddyup Cowgirl, Top Dog Tuxedo, '60s Hippie and Hell's Angels Biker. Why the new market? Explains Shari Maxwell, owner of the online AnniesCostumes.com whose pet business doubled in the past year: "Now when parents go out to dress...
Within 48 hours, the man and the boy would stand accused of one of the most terrifying murder rampages in the country's history, one that had led the White House to contemplate opening up military bases so children could go trick-or-treating in safety and that had induced otherwise rational residents to scurry in a zigzag formation across bland suburban parking lots. In three weeks, the case elicited 138,000 tip-line calls, seven times the number the Unabomber case yielded over 18 years. The 14 shots took 10 lives, though the tally may still not be complete...
Dressed as energy-inefficient Ford vehicles, members of Harvard’s Sierra Student Coalition (SSC) went door to door in various Houses and Yard dorms Wednesday evening, seeking through preemptive “reverse trick-or-treating” to raise student awareness of alternative energy options and persuade Ford to make these options available in their most popular cars and trucks...
...Sixteen trick-or-treaters, motoring through campus in groups of two, gave students bags of candy in exchange for their signatures on postcards to Ford asking that the company implement the national Sierra Club’s “Freedom Option Package,” a two-page proposal suggesting that manufacturers offer cars equipped with certain technologies designed to increase fuel efficiency...
...champion in a brutal FM-sponsored competition among Harvard’s finest game show, spelling bee and geography bee contestants. One of the fringe benefits of Bee stardom (apart from national TV and FM appearances) is that Fayanju’s cartographic expertise makes for a mean party trick...