Much of US Celebrates Cold Christmas
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Jessica Gregory looks to go snow surfing at Cole Park on Corpus Christi Bay, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2004. A rare blanket of snow greeted residents of South Texas on Christmas morning.
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Millions of revellers were celebrating the first night of the holiday last night.
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Families of cancer patients may feel that regardless of medical opinion, the patient can will themselves to make it through Christmas.
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Millions of Britons are heading off on Christmas trips on Thursday, some to enjoy festive delights in the UK while others escape to warmer climes.
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(Nationwide) Dec. 25, 2004 - Americans already at their Christmas destinations are thankful to be through the holiday weather. It&#39;s caused problems nationwide, as bitter cold, snow and ice are creating travel
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Less than half of British children between the ages of seven and 11 are aware that Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus, according to a BBC poll.
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The average household will spend close to $1,000 on Christmas and the other gift-giving holidays this winter, according to some estimates.
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There&#39;s a reason that smiling Salvation Army bell-ringer looks a little stiff this Christmas season, and it&#39;s not the cold weather.
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CHRISTMAS IN THE DESERT: There is no snow, though it hailed briefly in parts of Iraq last week and the temperature has dipped below freezing in recent days.
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BEIJING, Dec. 25 -- While everyone is busy celebrating Christmas, retailers are the busiest: making reductions and doing promotions, because they know Santa Claus will bring them a fortune too.
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Thousands of pilgrims and a new Palestinian leadership are celebrating Christmas in the town of Jesus&#39;s birth with prayers for peace after the death of Yasser Arafat.
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When families and friends get together for the holidays this year, many more of them will use a digital camera to record those memories.
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For a lot of consumers, especially come December, the line appears to be blurring between giving and receiving.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank  - Hundreds of millions around the world prepared Friday to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, a Christmas festival of religious joy for many and commercial excess for others, against a backdrop of continuing global security
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By DAVID BAUDER NEW YORK - There's a Yule duel brewing this Christmas day. Not one, but two separate versions of &quot;The Yule Log,&quot; one of television's oddest yet most heartwarming holiday habits, will beckon families as they open their gifts.
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Retailers are trying to nudge procrastinators into stores with reminders that it's the last full weekend for Christmas shopping. Only 46% of shoppers say they've finished buying gifts, vs. 52% this time last year, when there were severe snowstorms in many parts of the nation.
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Balmy temperatures more fit for the likes of early September did not dampen the arrival of the Christmas spirit Sunday evening as evidenced by smiling faces and voices raised to Have Yourself a Blessed Little ...