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Thursday, December 29, 2011

The Salt

What The World Eats For A Better, Luckier 2012

In Japan, the colorful New Year's meal is packaged in special, lacquered boxes.

December 29, 2011 On New Year's Eve, don't open the front door in Denmark, look out for falling furniture in Italy and chew lightly when eating black-eyed peas in the South of the U.S.

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Friday, December 24, 2010

The Picture Show

You Better Watch Out, You Better Not Cry

Santa holds crying babies.

December 24, 2010 If "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" wasn't sung so cheerfully, the lyrics might be interpreted as kind of creepy: "He sees you when you're sleeping." That's what some of the kids in these photos must have been thinking about that bearded man in red.

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