Spost advocates choosing a fairly round, smooth pumpkin and using some basic tools to bring your jack-o'-lantern to life.

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Dr. O'BROCHTA: The basic idea is that the kinds of changes that insect geneticists are trying to make in mosquitoes could actually help propel the use of these changes into nature and not slow them down.

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So we do our basic every year, which is spiders and Jell-O, because Jell-O is the ultimate Halloween food and we have it in our pantries.

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"The basic is that there was a group of about six back-country snowboards that came out today about two o'clock, " he said, adding that they had apparently triggered the snow slide.

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