Giant Grinch Replaces Christmas Exhibit
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MONTE SERENO, Calif. - For six years, Alan and Bonnie Aerts transformed their Silicon Valley home into a Christmas cornucopia - complete with surfing Santa, nativity scene, giant candy canes flanking the driveway and a carol-singing chorus of life-sized mannequins.
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Shopping for Christmas presents at  the local mall and watching "It's a Wonderful Life" on  television are an integral part of this holiday season for most  Americans. But there is one tradition that seems to be slipping  away: A real tree.
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The Smithsonian&#39;s National Museum of Natural History plans to announce today the largest renovation in its nearly 95-year history, creating Ocean Hall, an unusual hybrid of public display and research.
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The Christmas market in  this medieval German town could be off a page in a children's  picture book.
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One of the world&#39;s most famous art museums, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, has undergone a major redesign by a Japanese architect.
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Santa shot at in Rio. Electric eels light up Japanese Christmas tree. Singapore elephants get festive gift of boots for jumbo pain.
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'Tis the day before Christmas and all through D.C.
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By DON BABWIN CHICAGO - A public Christmas festival is no place for the Christmas story, the city says.
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Drape black bunting over the holiday decorations. Carve an ice sculpture of a pinstriped Satan. The Evil Empire has struck again. The Yankees last night inched
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WELLINGTON, Ohio - An artist who was forced to remove his Nazi gingerbread men from the window of a hardware store has set up the display in an empty storefront in another town. "The Secret Lives of Gingerbread Men" depicts a small gathering at a Nazi rally.
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THE OLD Christmas carolâs âlittle townâ is now a city larger than Charleston, and itâsa depressing place. Four years ago, more than 91,000 tourists visited in a year to see Bethlehemâs religious
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LOS ANGELES  - "Tim Burton's The  Nightmare Before Christmas 3-D" changed it all.
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Toys &#39;R&#39; Us played the Grinch by firing an estimated hundreds of employees over the holiday in a desperate cost-cutting move at the embattled toy store, a newspaper report said Monday.
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HOUSTON - The father of three children went from playing Santa Claus to playing the Grinch after he determined his children were being naughty instead of nice, and taught them a lesson on by auctioning their presents on eBay.  And they'd better watch out - the tree may come down, too.
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âThe Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacularâ might bring a sneer to the world-weary, but also an unspoken sense of wonder that so many people could be making so many other people happy.
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KENMORE, Ohio - A northeast Ohio family hoping to see choirs perform holiday music on Christmas morning instead saw adult programming on the local public access television station.
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Symbols of Christmas line the echoing hallways and vast rooms of Sacred Heart Monastery in Cullman - dozens of Nativity scenes, wreaths and several Christmas trees.