1. Securing universal health care coverage for Americans was a decades-long quest that eluded Sen. Edward Kennedy. In the wake of his death, however, several key Democrats on Wednesday saw a chance to break what’s become this year’s stalemate by invoking his legacy and last wishes...

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who worked with Kennedy to expand children’s health coverage and who’s broken with his own party on stem-cell research issues, similarly recalled recently how he thought Kennedy would’ve handled the health care impasse.

“The first thing he would have done would have been to call me and say, ‘Let’s work this out, and we would work it out so that the best of both worlds would work,” Hatch said.

- In Kennedy’s death, some see hope on health care, McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo.com, August 26, 2009.

2. Alice Springs, Australia - An ice rink isn't the first thing that springs to mind when you think of the sweltering, dusty heart of Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, Australia, but more fool you, for that’s exactly what will be in the middle of the desert over Christmas.

Even though half of my family live in Australia, I’ve never quite got my head around the idea of a hot Christmas.

No amount of white sandy beaches can compete with that glorious anticipation of a sparkly dusting of snow on Christmas morning.

(Let’s gloss over the fact that the last time we had a white Christmas I was as old as my shoe size).

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