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What The World Eats For A Better, Luckier 2012

In Japan, the colorful New Year's meal is packaged in special, lacquered boxes. R. CREATION/amanaimages/Corbis hide caption

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What The World Eats For A Better, Luckier 2012

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.

You Better Watch Out, You Better Not Cry

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You Better Watch Out, You Better Not Cry

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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