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Christmas

A Hollywood Christmas Carol
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CRISPR Kringle

From a letter sent in January by a young girl living in Cumberland, Rhode Island. Dear Cumberland Police Department, I took a sample of a cookie and carrots that I…

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Essential Miracle Workers
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From a letter sent in August by the chairman of the Fraternal Order of Real Bearded Santas to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Greetings from our nation’s front…

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Christmas in Prison
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Greeting the holidays in an age of mass incarceration

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Christmas in Prison
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Greeting the holidays in an age of mass incarceration

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Backsides and Apologies

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Recollections of My Christmas Tree
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One thing is for certain — I wouldn’t want to be a Christmas tree

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Captain Wilfrid Ewart’s “Two Christmas Mornings of the Great War” (1920)
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Accounts of the legendary frontline ceasefires on Christmas Day between British and German soldiers

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The war on Christmas
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Christmas at the Rothschilds’
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Success, longing, and the aberrations of privilege

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Christmas–apples
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