Where the Jack-oâ-Lanterns Are Only the Beginning
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Devil costumes are top sellers this Halloween â for family pets, that is.
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In our current evening sky    we have one of the earliest soap-operalike stories, with two independent plots    becoming intertwined into one. Perhaps we could call it the celestial version    of &quot;All My Children.&quot;
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Gabe: This is a heads up for all our Omeganauts. I had originally told you all that the first round of the Omegathon would be Pac-Man. That game has actually been replaced with Jenga. Not the new Wii version of Jenga but actual wood blocks on a table Jenga. Sorry for the mix up.-Gabe out
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The end zone must be a very scary place, with skeletons and spikes, where dark, shadowy figures with painted faces lurk. It has been a black hole, all right
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By Kirsten Scharnberg, Chicago Tribune  Sep. 12--WAIANAE, Hawaii -- The home sits on property with a million-dollar view, but its plastic roof is held down by bungee cords, its only source of lighting is a few crude lanterns, its floor is covered with sand.
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SOAP LAKE, Wash. - If lava lamps required this much work of stoned kids in the 1960s, they'd never have become so popular.  A 50-foot-tall lamp that one day is expected to be a tourist attraction arrived in this central Washington community this week in pieces on four flatbed trailers.
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1. "The Grim Grotto" by Lemony Snicket
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By Tim Blangger, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  May 25--Some evening after dark, turn off all the lights in your house. After your eyes adjust to the darkness, look around.
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The City of Light harbors a city of darkness, a vast network of subterranean tunnels that once gave refuge to bandits, smugglers and saints, and cradles the bones of some 6 million Parisians. Today, this eerie maze is the haunt of living spirits, from youths looking for adventure to urban explorers carving out a new frontier.
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Woody Williams has the fewest victories of any Cardinals starter. But he, and not Matt Morris, will get the honor of starting their playoff opener.
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&quot;No cigarettes please,&quot; comes the request, &quot;as the smoke can interfere with our spirit photography.&quot; It is nearly midnight, a few days before Hallowe'en, in the self-styled most haunted city in Britain, and the ghost hunters are getting to work.
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Most people in the United States only think about where electricity comes from when the lights unexpectedly go out.
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It was an impossibly small space to begin something so grand.
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By John Ferak, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Jun. 4--YUTAN, Neb. -- Darkness fell. Doors closed. Lights went off.   The public library here became an attractive place for an unusual pattern of repeat break-ins.
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How many gilded fairy tales do you want? There was the Magnificent 7 in Atlanta in 1996 and the Fantastic 5 in Anaheim last summer. Was anyone really counting on dethroning the Romanians at an overseas Olympics?
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MONTGOMERY, NY - The leaves on the maples are approaching full color. Just like the hardwoods back in Maine. Pumpkins sit on front steps, although here, in the Hudson River Valley, they&#39;re called stoops.
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For purveyors of pumpkins, there's more to life than orange. While the standard gourd is the staple for jack 'o lanterns, pies and Thanksgiving tables, seed developers and growers have opened their minds to other colors of the rainbow when it comes to pumpkins.