Syria's government was the first to report the attack through state media, offering photos and video footage of victims being treated in a hospital by doctors wearing blue paper masks.

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Nowadays, many look at it as a bunch of partiers in silly shirts and straw hats wearing gaudy paper flower leis and drinking overly sweet, superfluity rum drinks while trying not to burn down the backyard with torch fuel being spilled on the grill.

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He instructed Jillette to place a ring that he was wearing on a piece of paper and trace its outline with a pen.

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Wearing hard-hat, paper mask, and gloves I walked around Ground Zero with ministry students giving bottles of water, Red Bull, and chewing gum to first-responders working the pile.

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Children as young as five have been kicked out of school for possessing cough drops, or for wearing Halloween costumes that include paper swords and fake spikes, or for possessing rubber bands or toy guns.

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Six months ago Josh Stevens found himself being led through the streets of Chicago in a horse-drawn carriage, wearing nothing but a suit made of paper.

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Then, about 200 men walk the route wearing half- to full-metre-tall paper bishop hats, lit from within by candles and cut with intricate, stained glass window-like designs featuring Saint Nicholas.

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Participants also ward off evil during the festival by bathing in flower-scented water, wearing five-colour silk, hanging plants such as moxa and calamus over their doors, and pasting paper cut-outs in their windows.

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