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There's a reason Salem is such a big draw: 300 years ago, as everyone who has read "The Crucible" in high school knows, 19 men and women were hanged here in a five-month witch craze spanning the summer...
After three centuries, you would think the witch trials would have faded from memory. Yet Salem is still a powerful enough cultural landmark to bring 100,000 people here on Halloween. The town somehow has managed to turn a legacy that was once a curse--for many years after the trials, superstitious buyers shunned land in Danvers, the nearby town where the witch-hunt actually took place--into an annual economic shot...
...people come to Salem for nothing more than the spectacle of seeing so many other people in costume. But the history of the place feeds into the celebration here so intimately that the holiday banners hanging from lampposts in the center of town are decorated with the silhouettes of witches on broomsticks. Even during the off-season, Salem's Main Street is lined with witch-themed shops...
...those who look at this week's cover and sympathize with the plight of the unphotogenic, for those who could use a bit of pixel-magic themselves, or for those who wish to design their own coming-of-age (think: Clarisa The Teenage Witch), I present my own version of FM's weekly feature. "How to: acheive photographic perfection with Adobe Photoshop...
...Miami found that 26 adults given 15-min. back rubs twice a week for five weeks showed signs of less stress, were less depressed and performed better on math tests. "Something's working," says Marcia Kilgore, the founder of Bliss. "Or this is the biggest hoax since The Blair Witch Project...