The magistrate said the actions of Imraan Hosany were a "violation of human dignity" carried out "with a view to cater to morbid curiosity".

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As with Capote's classic, morbid curiosity is part of the reader-appeal.

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Hence, the Unabomber -- who killed three people and maimed and mutilated more than a score of others -- was treated with morbid curiosity by the press, as if he were a sideshow freak instead of a wicked, willful murderer who deserved to be put to death.

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But the annual New York Times Travel Show kicked off at the Javits Center this afternoon with trade day (for folks in the biz) and I was struck with a morbid curiosity about what, if any, uprising-besieged locales would be perkily marketed to the masses over the weekend.

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