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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1998
Page
12
Children in bathrobes angel wings and Burger King crowns process to a stable as the Christmas Story is read. Don DuPee plays the organ with Katie Taylor on harp for Greensleeves and Angels We Have Heard on High, amid cedar, magnolia and poinsettias in the near full church.
Advent decor in Aiken features poinsettias and mistletoe with notes on care and history. Poinsettias originated with Franciscan priests near Taxco, Mexico, later sent to Greenville by Joe Poinsett. Mistletoe, a hemiparasite native to North America, carries long standing customs of peace and kissing etiquette.
The Center for Media and Public Affairs reports Monica Lewinsky dominated evening news in 1996, with ABC NBC and CBS airing 1,502 Lewinsky stories through December 15, totaling about 43 hours. The Iraq inspection standoff was a distant second with 502 stories.
Apple Computer Inc. shipped 50,000 iMac units in November, capturing 7.1 percent of all PCs and 8.2 percent of dollar value, per PC Data Inc. The jelly bean shaped desktop with built in monitor surpassed the Compaq Presario 5050 to lead the United States market, aided by its simple setup and strong price. Apple’s rebound follows Steve Jobs return as CEO and mark of rising retail share to about 10 percent.
A Johns Hopkins APL led NEAR spacecraft lost contact for 27 hours and its plan to orbit asteroid Eros next month is postponed to later in 1999 or early 2000. Ground teams rerouted data and hope to salvage the mission after the safe mode reboot and engine firings.
Kirsti Larsen, 46, was imprisoned for two days in Fredrikstad after refusing to change her son Gesher’s name, despite Norway’s strict name laws. The child remains Gesher, meaning bridge in Hebrew, while appeals failed and questions linger about precedent.
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