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...Christmas Eve the crew got busy. Settling Apollo 8 into orbit around the moon was a high-wire maneuver that involved turning the ship backward and firing its powerful service propulsion engine for precisely four and a half minutes - an eternity in a business in which barely a breath from a thruster is enough to set a ship spinning off course. The engine burn was designed to slow the spacecraft down just enough to ease it into a lunar orbit without losing so much altitude that it crashed into the moon instead. Orbital mechanics also demanded that the maneuver occur...
...room rates are being pared down by as much as 25%. According to event managers in Mumbai and New Delhi, many Christmas and New Year's bashes at leading hotels have either been cancelled or scaled down. "We've seen 30% to 40% cancellations for New Year's eve in our Goa property," says Anjali M. Chatterjee of Bharat Hotels, who run the Lalit Goa Resort, "Usually there's a spike in bookings for December 23 onwards, but at the moment, things are pretty flat...
...lots of goodies (plus, the hotel has feather beds!). The "Stay Til Next Year" package comes with a personal shopper - complete with a $250 gift card to H&M, $100 gift card to Sephora and a consultation with a make-up artist - two tickets to the New Year's Eve party at the hotel's restaurant, Aspen, champagne and a special dessert in-room, plus room service breakfast on New Year's Day. The rate is $900 for two for two nights...
...here's a challenge. Start a new tradition in the New Year: a regular Sunday-night Scrabble smackdown; a spring clothing drive; a rule that every time Mom or Dad swears, they put a dollar in the charity box that gets distributed on New Year's Eve. At their best, traditions make us better; at the very least, they remind us how far we've come and how lucky...
...Reliberation of Somalia. Somalis greeted it with a shred of hope, even though the move was mostly symbolic. The Islamist campaign is now being run by another group, al-Shabaab, which has made a steady comeback since Ethiopian troops pushed them from the capital, Mogadishu, on Christmas Eve two years ago. (See the top 10 news stories...