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Sun-Journal – Many savvy homeowners are making smarter home improvement decisions – choosing projects that yield the highest return on NewsUSA) – Soft candle glow, crackling fire logs and garlands of twinkling lights brighten homes during the holidays. While more here

Slate – High on the list of idiotic commonplace expressions is the old maxim that “it is better to light a candle than to curse the neither of these absurd symbols having the least thing to do with Palestine two millenniums past) is celebrating the making more here

Courier-Post – In modern times, the lighting of a Hanukkah candle each night is a reminder of that miracle and how joy can increase in life The other nights she plans rituals around a theme such as reading, making latkes (potato pancakes) or taking part in charity more here

McDowell News – There were booths to showcase candle making, archery, puppetry, shield making, dancing, dragon arts and stained glass. No one could bypass the aromas coming from the sweet foods booth with its pumpkin pie squares, pecan cookies and apple crepes more here

Rocky Mountain News – Auralia’s father says he’s making $100,000 a year on his MySpace profile and he’s living in low-income housing on a dead-end I accepted a candle and found some stillness inside me from which to offer a prayer. She will be missed. A chorus of voices more here

Egypt Today – For Tanveer Islam, 22, Ramadan in Pakistan doesn t hold a candle to the nation s obsession: cricket. After tarawih Today, India boasts about 170 million Muslims, making it the second-largest concentration of Muslims in the world, while more here

Winona Daily News – Glenna Krzyzanowski, 22, lights a candle Sunday night during a 24-hour “season’s of peace” vigil for peace in Iraq at Windom Lutheran Campus Center, wearing a trapper hat and lighting tiki torches. What could be more Christian than peace-making more here