New Year’s News
Tax credit for a baby born Dec. 31, 2012: $1,000
Tax credit for a baby born the next day, or later, under the new tax schedule: $500
Birth years of twins Beckett and Freya Humenny, born nearly six hours apart in Minnesota on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day: 2011 and 2012
Year bandleader Guy Lombardo first played “Auld Lang Syne” on New Year’s Eve, sealing its association with the holiday: 1929
Year a group of civic-minded Southern Californians conceived the annual Tournament of Roses New Year’s Day parade: 1890
Cost for reserved seating along the parade route this year: $55 to $90
Amount users of the iPhone Gympact app earn or pay every time they keep or break their New Year’s resolution to work out at a gym: $5
Typical cost for two impersonal MAM pacifiers: $5.99
Cost for two MAM pacifiers personalized with baby’s name: $19.95
Cost for one cashmere blend baby long johns, available in pink and blue, from Red Envelope: $89.95
Percent of private schools in 1989–90 that were conservative Christian: 11
Percent in 2009–10: 15
Sources: 20SomethingFinance.com, TheFW.com, Infoplease.com, TournamentofRoses.com, SharpSeating.com, Computer Weekly, TIME.com, Amazon.com, MAMBabyPersonalized.com, RedEnvelope.com, CAPENet.org
