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December 22, 2011, 12:21 PM

APTOPIX Daily Life Missouri Brittany Staten, left, of Durham, N.C., and Rachel Prestage, right, of Water Valley, Miss., spend some time with Santa and Mrs. Claus as the annual Army Exodus begins at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport Wednesday Dec. 21, 2011, in St. Louis. Thousands of soldiers training at Fort Leonard Wood swarmed the airport this morning as they headed home on their annual holiday leaves. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Robert Cohen) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT.
Vietnam Cellular Christmas In this Dec. 9, 2011 photo released by Westcom Electronics, a Christmas pine tree made of unusable cellphones is lit up in front of the electronic store in My Tho, Tien Giang province, Vietnam. The store is ringing in Christmas with the 15-foot tree made of more than 2,500 unusable cellphones. Store manager Nguyen Trai said 10 workers spent two weeks building the cellular Christmas tree. (AP Photo/Westcom Electronics)
AP Photo/Westcom Electronics
South Korea Christmas Some 1,000 volunteers clad in Santa Claus costumes gather to deliver gifts for the poor in downtown Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Dec. 16, 2011. Christmas is one of the biggest holidays in the country where over half of the population are Christians. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
AP Photo/Lee Jin-man
Elf On The Shelf Holiday Bestseller This photo provided by CCB&A, LLC, shows the Elf sitting on the Shelf. There is one hot item this holiday season that won't be resting under the Christmas tree. It will be on a shelf _ watching you. (AP Photo/CCA&B, LLC)
AP Photo/CCA&B, LLC
Christmas with Chimps Excited chimpanzees race to meet Santa during Christmas with the Chimps at Lion Country Safari in Loxahatchee, Fla., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011. The presents, which include stuffed animals, clothes and snacks, are provided and wrapped by ChimpanZoo volunteers. ChimpanZoo is a program developed by renowned chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall for the research, enrichment and education of captive chimpanzees. This is the the 27th annual Christmas with the Chimps at Lion Country. (AP Photo/The Palm Beach Post, Lannis Waters)
AP Photo/The Palm Beach Post, Lannis Waters
Senior Wish Beverly Bennis, 87, a resident of Brookdale Senior Living Center in suburban West Palm Beach, is greeted by a man dressed as Santa Claus before taking a ride in a Palm Beach Fire Rescue fire truck in West Palm Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011. Bennis had her wish fulfilled by Jeremy Bloom's Wish of a Lifetime, a non-profit organization that grants wishes to senior citizens across the U.S. She had fond childhood memories of riding on a fire truck in the Stow, Ohio, Christmas parade, where her father had helped to start the city's volunteer fire department, and he was a volunteer for 14 years. (AP Photo/Palm Beach Post, Richard Graulich)
AP Photo/Palm Beach Post, Richard Graulich
India Christmas An Indian man dressed as Santa Claus leads a procession of under privileged children under the care of various non-governmental organizations in Kolkata, India, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. The procession was held to demand basic human rights for all. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)
AP Photo/Bikas Das
India Christmas Indian men dressed as Santa Claus dance on a road during a religious procession ahead of Christmas in Amritsar, India, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. Christians make up about 2 percent of India's 1 billion-plus population. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
AP Photo/Altaf Qadri
APTOPIX India Christmas An Indian worker cleans a crucifix at a church ahead of Christmas in Hyderabad, India, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. Christians make up about 2 percent of India's 1 billion-plus population. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.
APTOPIX Pakistan Christmas Pakistani children enjoy jumping on a trampoline, placed in a Christian neighborhood in preparation for the upcoming Christmas holiday in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen
Packages Christmas Rush FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2011 file photo, FedEx employees sort packages at the FedEx hub at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles. FedEx shipped about 17 million packages on Dec. 12, the busiest day in company history, it said. That one-day volume was up 10 percent from last year’s busiest day, and doubled total shipments on an average night. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File
Jacob Lew, Levi Shemtov Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob Lew, center, is assisted by Rabbi Levi Shemtov, left, and Rabbi Abraham Shemtov, right, as they light the National Hanukkah Menorah during a ceremony on The Ellipse in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011 marking the first night of Hanukkah. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
Germany Hanukkah Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, right, and Rabbi Segal Shmoel, left, install a giant Hanukkah Menorah at the launch of the eight-day Jewish Festival of Lights, named Hanukkah, at the Pariser Platz square in front of the Brandenburg Gate in central Berlin, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
AP Photo/Markus Schreiber
APTOPIX Holiday Travel Holiday travelers, including Donald Occimio of Mesa, Ariz., dressed as Santa Claus, and his wife Diane check in with customer service agent Angelee Arciniega, right, for their Southwest Airlines flight at the Terminal 4 ticketing area at Sky Harbor International Airport, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011, in Phoenix. Thousands passed through the airport, many on their way home for Christmas. The Occimios were flying to Nashville and on to Alabama for the Christmas holiday. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Tom Tingle)
AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Tom Tingle
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