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A woman walks by bags of uncollected trash and discarded Christmas trees on New York's Upper West Side on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) ** FILE **
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Pope Benedict XVI, framed by a Christmas tree, delivers his blessing from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square following an Epiphany Mass at the Vatican on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. Benedict XVI is stunned by the wave of violence and intolerance toward Christians around the world, Italy's top churchman said Thursday at Epiphany services. "Together with the Holy Father, Benedict XVI, we are stunned in the face of religious intolerance and so much violence, and we are asking ourselves, in sorrow: Why?'' said Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, president of Italy's bishops conference in an Epiphany homily in Genoa. Benedict told pilgrims and tourists he was offering heartfelt greeting and wishes to "the brothers and sisters of the Eastern churches who tomorrow will celebrate Holy Christmas.'' (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)
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In this photo suplied by Naankuse Wildlife Sanctuary, Brad Pitt, front second from right, and Angelina Jolie, front fifth from right, with their children and owners and staff of the Naankuse Wildlife Sanctuary where Pitt and Jolie spent Christmas with their six children. Jolie and Pitt are donating $2 million to the Nambian sanctuary in the name of their daughter Shiloh, who was born in that country. (AP Photo/Naankuse)
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Edwin Burgess, 7, snowboards near Mordecai Historic Park in Raleigh, N.C. A winter storm that started Christmas Day blanketed much of the state with snow. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Ted Richardson)
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A rare Christmas Day snowfall creates a veritable winter wonderland along a roadway in Raleigh, N.C., on Sunday morning, Dec. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)
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Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Fouad Twal carries a statuette of the baby Jesus during the midnight Mass marking the beginning of Christmas Day at the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Fadi Arouri, Pool)
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**FILE** Pope Benedict XVI blesses the faithful during his annual "Urbi et Orbi" ("to the City and to the World") message at the Vatican on Christmas 2010. (Associated Press)
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ChurchAds.net U.S. and British faith and pro-life groups have sponsored thousands of Christmas billboards featuring "Mary's blessed ultrasound."
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Children naughty and nice still write and mail letters to Santa, but a growing number of them send their Christmas wish lists via e-mail, Twitter and Facebook.
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** FILE ** Security lines grow at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport during the 2010 Christmas season. (Associated Press)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS President Obama waves from Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., on Wednesday before departing for his Christmas vacation in Hawaii.
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Students from Brooklyn's P.S. 105 wear Santa hats while on a field trip to view Christmas window displays at Macy's and other Manhattan department stores on Friday, Dec. 17, 2010, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
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People walk past a street vendor selling Christmas decorations in downtown Baghdad, Iraq, on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2010. Church officials in Iraq say they have canceled some Christmas festivities in two northern cities over fears of insurgent attacks. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
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Colter Schoer, 10, of Denver shows some Christmas spirit with a Santa hat as he waits in a long line for a security check. (Associated Press)
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Pope Benedict XVI, framed by Christmas decorations, delivers his Angelus prayer from his studio window overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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Associated Press photographs Sen. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, was the target Wednesday of a verbal jab by the Senate majority leader regarding the lame-duck session impinging on the Christmas season.
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Protesters throw Molotov cocktails in Athens on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010, as hundreds of demonstrators clashed with riot police across the center city, smashing cars and sending Christmas shoppers fleeing during a massive labor protest against the crisis-hit government's austerity measures. (AP Photo/Alkis Konstantinidis)
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President Barack Obama with his family, from left, Sasha Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, obscured and Malia Obama, greet performers and Andrea Bocelli, right, during the Annual Christmas in Washington presentation at the National Building Museum in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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The first family, from left, Sasha Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, President Barack Obama, and Malia Obama, applaud during the Annual Christmas in Washington presentation, at the National Building Museum in Washington, Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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Annie Lennox performs Dec. 12 during the Annual Christmas in Washington presentation at the National Building Museum in Washington. (Associated Press)
