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Light the Tree...
Ring in the holidays with memories of a crackling, warm fire...that burned the Canadian city of Halifax to the ground. In 1917, friendly Bostonians aided our neighbor to the north with that pesky blaze, and since then, the kindly folks of Nova Scotia donate the Christmas tree at Boston Common. Come for the lighting, stay for the embarrassment of Canadians everywhere...
...some nearby parks; they listened to lectures about pollution, river quality and storm water, played games and painted a colorful canvas mural. The groups didn't mingle much at first; a few self-conscious attempts to break the ice came unstuck. Four Holy Spirit boys sulked under a tree, offended that some Muslim girls had laughed at their Asian names. Some Malek Fahd girls were embarrassed by the physical intimacy between Christian boys and girls. In their hijabs and long-sleeved shirts, the Muslim girls must be feeling the heat. "No sir, I'm used to it," says a beaming...
...militant; his father convinced him never to join the fighting. But Ma-ae's village, hidden amid fruit trees and rubber plantations near Thailand's border with Malaysia, is what the Thai military terms a "red zone" of insurgent activity. Soldiers patrolling the area were recently injured by a bomb rigged in the branches of a tree. "The moment you enter my village, all eyes are upon you," says Ma-ae. His father, a well-known local official, angered militants by negotiating the release of state employees being held hostage by a mob protesting the arrest of a suspected insurgent...
...children with food allergies found that childhood allergies have a significant impact on family activities and lifestyles. Heidi Pasternak, a part-time tutor in Lexington, Massachusetts, had to quit her full-time teaching job because she couldn't find a milk-free daycare for her son Lucas (peanuts, tree nuts, milk, egg, sesame, shellfish, fish, barley). "The choices of things we've done as a family are severely limited," Pasternak says. "We only went to food-free places when he was a toddler. No Chuck E. Cheese. When I see an ice cream truck I have to walk the other...