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New Year's Partiers, Preachers Clash in 'Sin City'

By Steve FriessJan 1st 2010 – 1:58PM
Steve Friess

Steve Friess

LAS VEGAS (Dec. 31) -- The blonde pulled up her shirt to expose her breasts, the male couple French-kissed with reckless abandon and the gang of friends from the University of Vermont posed for pictures holding up yard-long drinks and brandishing obscene hand gestures. All standard fare for New Year's Eve here, to be...

Partygoers Celebrate New Year in Times Square

Jan 1st 2010 – 6:27AM
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NEW YORK (Jan. 1) -- For all those reflecting glumly on the last 10 years of terror attacks, war and recession, Gail Guay has some advice: "Don't look back." The 50-year-old Guay, from Raymond, N.H., was among the hundreds of thousands of revelers who rang in 2010 in a chilly Times Square as the famous Waterford crystal...

Revelers Around the World Ring in 2010

Dec 31st 2009 – 11:17AM
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AP

PARIS (Dec. 31) - Paris jazzed up the Eiffel Tower with a multicolored, disco-style light display as the world basked in New Year's festivities with hopes that 2010 and beyond will bring more peace and prosperity. From fireworks over Sydney's famous bridge to balloons sent aloft in Tokyo, revelers across the globe at...

'Blue Moon' to Shine on New Year's Eve Revelers

Dec 29th 2009 – 4:48PM
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LOS ANGELES (Dec. 29) – Once in a blue moon there is one on New Year's Eve. Revelers ringing in 2010 will be treated to a so-called blue moon. According to popular definition, a blue moon is the second full moon in a month. But don't expect it to be blue – the name has nothing to do with the color of our...

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