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Santa's Mail cancelled
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Santa Claus, also known as Patrick Farmer, at Santa Claus House in North Pole, Alaska, holds letters from children sent this year that the U.S. Postal Service says they will no longer deliver. Citing privacy concerns, postal officials say generically addressed letters to "Santa Claus, North Pole" will no longer be forwarded to volunteers in the Alaska town, as has been done for years.
Senator: Postal Service to allow volunteers in Alaska town to write 'Dear Santa' responses
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - North Pole elves have good reason to celebrate again, thanks to a decision by the U.S. Postal Service to resume a Santa Claus letter program that's thrilled children from around the world for decades.
CP ONLINE | 20/11/2009 9:42 PM | 1
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Authorities say man who fastened lizards to chest caught at Los Angeles airport customs
LOS ANGELES - Federal officials say they arrested a man who strapped 15 live lizards to his chest to get through customs at Los Angeles International Airport.
CP ONLINE | 20/11/2009 9:40 PM | 0 -
Overweight students at university in US told to take fitness class or risk diplomas
PHILADELPHIA - A university's requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts.
CP ONLINE | 20/11/2009 6:48 PM | 0 -
Tourism website includes Toronto museum addition on ugly buildings list
TORONTO - A tourism website has put an addition to the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto on its second annual list of the "World's Top 10 Ugly Buildings."
CP ONLINE | 20/11/2009 6:08 PM | 0 -
Hugs, not harassment: Facebook groups slam day of violence against redheads
TORONTO - Have no fear, redheads - it appears this Nov. 20, you were more likely to be hugged than harassed, consoled rather than kicked.
CP ONLINE | 20/11/2009 5:00 PM | 0 -
Florence museum: lost Galileo relics, a tooth and 2 of astronomer's fingers, found again
ROME - Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.
CP ONLINE | 20/11/2009 4:34 PM | 0
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