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I’ve been trying to write this diary for a couple of weeks now, looking for a way to wish all our Dreamland listeners and website fans a merry Christmas. But I just can?t get in the right mood this year. For me, Osama bin Laden is the Grinch who stole Christmas.

Every time I hear a new Homeland Security warning, I decide maybe I?d better not make that trip to the mall. But there’s more to it than that: I find that the colorful Christmas sale brochures and loud television ads really turn me off this year. I think it’s because I’ve been seeing so many scenes of Afghan life on the tube and they’ve brought home to me how very little so much of the world has. They’ve especially reminded me how hard life is for so many of the world’s women.
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Feeling like a Grinch this year because of 911? Anne sure did, but then she discovered a reason to be happy. Read her diary and find out how she did it.

To read Anne’s Diary,click here.

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Listeners have complained to us that when they listened to Dreamland on the archives, the show would stop after 30 to 45 minutes. We’ve discovered the glitch and corrected it, so now you’ll be able to hear the entire show. Click on the “Listen Now” tab at the top right of our masthead to listen to Dreamland.

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The reason Santa?s reindeer can fly has been explained in down-to-earth terms by Dr. Ian Edwards, head of education at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, Scotland. He?s hallucinating on fly-agaric mushrooms.

Dr. Edwards says the story of the flying reindeer spread south to central Europe from Lapland in the 19th century. It originated with the Sami people of Lapland, who have one of the oldest indigenous cultures in the world.
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