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What Time Is It Anyway?
An examination of different traditions shows that time is a matter of culture
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The event from which people begin counting time varies from one religious culture to another. But for purposes of business, commerce, international trade and making plans to meet a friend for a latte, the world has generally agreed to start new years on Jan. 1 and to recognize this particular New Year's Day as the beginning of the next millennium. This is all based on the Gregorian calendar, the standard by which most of the Western world now divides and counts years. There is, however, as Rabbi Eitan Julius of Congregation Sinai in Willow Glen so eloquently puts it, a "willy-nilliness to the whole thing."
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Presidential Christmas Ornament
L'Daisy Patch employee donates handmade ornament for White House tree.
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