Annual Christmas day is nearly coming. Christmas Day is a holiday celebrating the birth of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity.
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The trees of Christmas future may be safer from an insect pest that makes Ebenezer Scrooge's famous nightmare pale in comparison — killing millions of pine trees, according to an scheduled for the December 22 issue of Chemical & Engineering News, ACS' weekly newsmagazine.
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This year credit-crunched Brits plan to spend 27 per cent less on Christmas decorations than last year. The festive tree will be the first thing to suffer, as a third of people (32 per cent) say they plan to reduce the size of their Christmas fir. One in twelve (8 per cent) who traditionally put up decorations say that they won’t bother to put any up at all this year.
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Recycling your Christmas is made easy with Earth 911 (www.earth911.org). It calls not to trash that Christmas tree. Instead, Eart 911 says treecycle it.
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How about blowing out your Christmas tree lights with one magic Christmas ornaments, which happens to be the Santa Claus.
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The National Christmas Tree Association advises consumers that prices on farm-grown Christmas Trees, purchased at either a farm or retail lot, will not go up because of recent fuel cost increases, in spite of recent news reports to the contrary.
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Tate Britain has commissioned Sarah Lucas to create its Christmas tree for 2006, which is on display from 8 December 2006. Lucas has decorated a 20ft Nordman fir tree with sculptures that take the form of baby angels and fairies made from wire and stretched tights.
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Will parents put an iPod Nano or Head Nano Titanium tennis racket under the Christmas tree for their children this year? Will holiday revelers hang a Nano-Infinity stocking on their fireplace mantle for Santa Claus to fill? Just what does compel shoppers to either buy nanotechnology products, or avoid them because of real or imagined risks?
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