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TIMES SQUARE, Manhattan (WABC) -- Now that Thanksgiving is behind us, the rituals for the winter holidays are returning. Among them, the New Year's Eve Wishing Wall in Times Square. The holiday ...

The New York Times' Connections word puzzle challenges players to group 16 words into four thematic categories. The December 23rd puzzle featured categories like action verbs and Greek mythology ...

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The challenge was to construct a square with area equal to that of a given circle. Within the confines of Euclidean geometry, only a ruler and compass may be used, and the solution must be exact.