Santa math via MIT estimates for Santa’s flight speed
MIT researchers calculate Santa would travel 650 miles per second and require 214200 reindeer to deliver 91.8 million homes in 31 hours across 24 time zones. This playful estimate accompanies two unrelated AP briefs about a Rhode Island woman stealing an airport shuttle and fleeing police, leaving a child unharmed.
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Uambridue
Mass
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
St. Nick's
Warwick
R.I
Michigan
Thomas Nye
Cherie Cushing
Cushing
Deaths Lee E Corley Couchton Mamie Cassels Foreman
Obituary notices list Lee E. Corley Couchton Mamie Cassels Foreman and Houston Lovelace in Aiken area. Notices provide birth and death details, surviving relatives, and services arrangements on page 9A.
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Lee E. Corley
Couchton
Mamie Cassels
Foreman
Aiken
Houston
Lovelace
Offices Closed For Christmas At The Aiken Standard
The Aiken Standard offices will be closed all day for Christmas Day. Circulation customer service for missed deliveries will be available 9 to 10 30 a m. Papers should be delivered by 9 a m. Deadlines for today’s issue were set early so staff could spend time with families. Normal hours resume Tuesday at 8 30 a m.
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The
Aiken Standard
Christmas Meaning Beyond Gift Shopping
The piece reflects on the true spirit of Christmas, contrasting shopping frenzies with peace and goodwill. It cites Pastor Jeff Smith commenting that the core is the incarnation, God becoming flesh to relay divine truth and to offer salvation through Jesus Christ.
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Jesus Christ
Jeff Smith
All
Merry Tifton Parable Celebrates Christmas Message
Rev. Michael Dyar presents Merry Tifton a parable drawn from The Millionaire about a wealthy benefactor and a series of gifts. The tale invites readers to seek the real meaning of Christmas beyond material gifts and to focus on the word of God as the season of celebration unfolds.
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James Kennedy
John Beresforth Tifton
Michael ‘Anthony
Mr. Tifton
Michael Anthony
Mae
Tifton
Shoppers Wait as Aiken Stores Face Christmas Eve Rush
Christina Jeffcoat and others waited in the Wal-Mart lot in Aiken on Christmas Eve. Retailers reported strong late shopping with Belk in Aiken Mall and Kmart showing gains, as last minute buyers filled checkout lines. Robe rt Gonzales and Frank O'Donnell cited solid sales versus the prior year amid crowded stores.
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Christina Jeffcoat
Mrs. Jeffcoat
Aiken Wal-Mart
al Cockrell
Ridge Spring
Aiken County
Robert Gonzales
Belk
Aiken Mall
Money Wos
Frank O'Donnell
Aiken
Kmart
South Carolina’s top 1995 stories include Susan Smith case
The year’s headlines center on Susan Smith, who drowned her two sons and faced a death-penalty trial, and Shannon Faulkner becoming the Citadel’s first female cadet. Also noted were a Senate expulsion, Republican-led reforms, a lethal injection execution, and the Hunley submarine rumor.
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South Carolina
Charleston
State Senate
House
Sylvester Adams
Associated Press
Susan Smith
Michael
Union County
Howard Wells
Shannon Faulkner
Citadel
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Dear Abby
Scott Weerristmas
Aesh
Earth
Adam
Bethlehem
Nazareth
Michael Dyar
South Africn Baptist Church
Christ
By Chasiti Kirkland
Alex
John D. Long Lake
Ms. Smith
State Women's Prison
Columbia
Ee Smith
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