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One of 45 large snail sculptures in Miami Beach, Florida, celebrating the slow creature in a fast-pased city.

We pause on Christmas Eve to recognize a phenomenon that plagues readers and broadcasters alike, the slow news day. Forget events far and near for a moment. We pay tribute not to the fast and breaking, but to slowness - in baseball, food, dancing and more. Listen in, at your leisure.