We were a couple of days shy of the first official Sunday of the holiday season. I called everyone around my mother’s bed. Gathered around her bed we sang every Christmas song we knew; it was as if my dying mother had become everyone’s mother.
Picking out the right gifts, the frustration over delivery delays or the hit to the wallet, shopping for holiday gifts can be stressful. What’s the point of it all? Social scientific research reveals, the costs and benefits of gift-giving aren’t what they seem.
The International Handball Federation will no longer require women to compete in bikini bottoms. The move comes after Norwegian players staged a protest by wearing shorts to a championship match and called for a change to the dress code.
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