Daily Planet 12-19

• The Sun Online | Time's up for bank clocks

  Insiders say the timepieces are being taken down so the public cannot complain about how long they have had to queue.

• Washington Times | Books | Why they think of aliens

  Ms. Clancy, a postdoctoral fellow in psychology at Harvard, states quite clearly early on that it is not her aim to prove that these people were abducted -- to the contrary, she does not believe these abductions ever took place -- but that we can learn why these people believe that they have been.

• TBO.com (AP) | Santas Go on Rampage in New Zealand City

  Alex Dyer, a spokesman for the group, said Santarchy was a worldwide movement designed to protest the commercialization of Christmas.