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This undated handout photo shows a creature called a pygmy tarsier, ...
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(Reuters) - This undated handout photo shows a creature called a pygmy tarsier, believed for the eight decades to have been extinct. One of the world's smallest and rarest primates, it was rediscovered in Indonesia by Texas A and M University professor Sharon Gursky-Doyen in August. (Texas A and M University/Sharon Gursky-Doyen/Handout/Reuters)
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In this image released by ABC, ABC correspondent Diane Sawyer ...
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(AP) - In this image released by ABC, ABC correspondent Diane Sawyer sits with former call girl Ashley Dupre, left, whose tryst with former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, led to his resignation, during an interview, Nov. 13, 2008, in New York. The interview will air, Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, on ABC's '20/20,' at 10:00 p.m. EDT. (AP Photo/ABC, Heidi Gutman)
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A Nautilus swims in the Underwater World Singapore's new showcase ...
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(AP) - A Nautilus swims in the Underwater World Singapore's new showcase known as The Masters of Disguise, a collaboration of intelligent marine life form found in the deep seas. The Nautilus is the only member of the Cephalopod class to have a fully developed shell which encases its entire body. (AP Photo/ Wong Maye-E)
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In this Nov. 6, 2008 file photo, Protegee carries her niece, ...
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(AP) - In this Nov. 6, 2008 file photo, Protegee carries her niece, Reponse, left, as she looks for her parents in the village Kiwanja, 90 kms north of Goma, eastern Congo. When photographed on Nov. 6, Protegee was in a crowd of thousands in the town of Kiwanja, having walked for three days by herself after being separated from her mother as they fled on foot from her town about 12 miles (20 kilometers) away. Protegee finally found her mother, Esperance Nirakagori, in Kiwanja at a makeshift refugee camp six days after they were separated. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
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Ice carver Mikhail Fedotov from Russia works on his sculpture ...
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(AP) - Ice carver Mikhail Fedotov from Russia works on his sculpture 'Bremen's Town Musicians' in Bremen, northern Germany, Sunday, Nov. 16, 2008. Some 40 artists will carve 28 figures of Grimm's fairy tales. The ice sculpture festival opens its doors for the public on Nov. 22, 2008 and runs until Jan. 25, 2009.(AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach)
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Swans swim in a small lock after council workers rounded up ...
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(Reuters) - Swans swim in a small lock after council workers rounded up them from Hamburg's inner city lake Alster November 17, 2008. Every year the swans are collected from waterways around the northern German city of Hamburg and taken to winter quarters where they are fed and cared for until the spring. REUTERS/Christian Charisius (GERMANY)
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In this Nov. 12, 2008 photo, the sign in front of a Seven Eleven ...
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(AP) - In this Nov. 12, 2008 photo, the sign in front of a Seven Eleven store in Independence, Mo. shows the price of one gallon of unleaded regular gasoline to be $1.69.9. Wholesale prices plunged a record amount in October as energy prices fell by the largest amount in 22 years. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
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Hebrew University archaeologist Ehud Netzer poses beside a sarcophagus, ...
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(Reuters) - Hebrew University archaeologist Ehud Netzer poses beside a sarcophagus, one of three found where Herod's fortress palace once stood, in Jerusalem November 19, 2008. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
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PDSA veterinary nurse Jennie Keen with Tinks, a 13-year-old ...
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(Reuters) - PDSA veterinary nurse Jennie Keen with Tinks, a 13-year-old cat from Gillingham. His current weight of 9.8kg makes him around 96 percent overweight. (Handout/Reuters)
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In this 2006 photo released Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008 by the ...
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(AP) - In this 2006 photo released Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008 by the New Zealand Science Media Centre shown is a yellow-eyed penguin. Australian and New Zealand researchers studying one of the world's rare and endangered penguins have uncovered a previously unknown penguin species that disappeared about 500 years ago. The newly found 'Waitaha' penguin became extinct after Polynesian settlement of New Zealand but before A.D. 1500, researchers from Australia's University of Adelaide, New Zealand's University of Otago and Canterbury Museum, reported Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. The find came as the team was investigating changes in the endangered New Zealand yellow-eyed penguin population since human settlement of New Zealand around A.D. 1200-1300.(AP Photo/New Zealand Science Media Centre,Sanne Boessenkool, HO)
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Protegee locks the door of her hut before leaving the east Congo ...
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(AP) - Protegee locks the door of her hut before leaving the east Congo village of Kiseguru, some 20 kms from Kiwanja, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, after being reunited with her mother for a second time following their separation earlier this month. Protegee, her niece Reponse and her mother Esperance Nirakagori, elected to return to Kiwanja fearing a new wave of fighting. UNICEF says hundreds of children have been separated from their families since fighting flared in eastern Congo in August, and that more than 1,600 children in the province were seeking their parents last week. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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A picture taken in 2003 shows the 45.52 carat blue Hope Diamond ...
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(AFP/File) - A picture taken in 2003 shows the 45.52 carat blue Hope Diamond at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, DC. French experts said they had proof that the Hope Diamond, a star exhibit in Washington's Smithsonian Institution, is a legendary gem once owned by King Louis XIV that was looted in the French Revolution.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)
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In this image released by the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona on ...
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(AP) - In this image released by the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008, a patient's collapsed lung, at right, is seen prior to a windpipe transplant which used tissue grown from the patient's own stem cells. European doctors have performed a windpipe transplant with tissue grown from the patient's own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs. (AP Photo/Hospital Clinic of Barcelona, HO)
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Map locating hijacted Saudi super tanker. An Indian warship ...
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(AFP) - Map locating hijacted Saudi super tanker. An Indian warship opened fire at a Somali pirate "mother ship", the navy said Wednesday, as bandits demanded a ransom for a Saudi super-tanker seized in the most daring sea raid yet.(AFP)
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Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls, an American pop girl ...
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(AP) - Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls, an American pop girl group, poses for photographs during the launch of the groups' lingerie range 'Shhh... by Robin Antin' at a lingerie shop in Marble Arch, central London Tuesday Nov. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Yui Mok/PA Wire)
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This poster which was prepared and released by the Holloway ...
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(AP) - This poster which was prepared and released by the Holloway family after their daughter Natalee went missing is seen in this image originally made available by the Holloway family Friday, June 3, 2005. Investigators in Aruba are pursuing new evidence in Holloway's disappearance. (AP Photo/Holloway Family)
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American pop girl group Pussycat Dolls pose for photographs ...
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(AP) - American pop girl group Pussycat Dolls pose for photographs during the launch of their lingerie range 'Shhh... by Robin Antin' at a lingerie shop in Marble Arch, central London Tuesday Nov. 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Yui Mok/PA Wire)
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US president-elect Barack Obama, seen here on November 02, 2008, ...
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(AFP/File) - US president-elect Barack Obama, seen here on November 02, 2008, vowed to strengthen Washington's ties with its allies in a message read out Tuesday at a NATO Parliamentary Assembly meeting in Spain.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)
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Dancing Down to Final Three(E! Online) ...
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(E! Online) - Dancing Down to Final Three(E! Online)
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Characters perform on stage at "The Simpsons" Panel ...
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(AFP/Getty Images/File) - Characters perform on stage at "The Simpsons" Panel during the 2008 Comic Con in San Diego, California, July 2008. "Meh", a word which indicates a lack of interest or enthusiasm, became the latest addition to the Collins English Dictionary.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Michael Buckner)
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Eri Yoshida, seen here, a 16-year-old schoolgirl with a mean ...
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(AFP) - Eri Yoshida, seen here, a 16-year-old schoolgirl with a mean knuckleball has been selected as the first woman ever to play alongside the men in Japanese professional baseball.(AFP)
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Deer crossing : Reindeers cross a snowy road near Torvinen in ...
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(AFP) - Deer crossing : Reindeers cross a snowy road near Torvinen in Lapland, early in the morning. (AFP/Olivier Morin)
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Juhi, a tiger cub named after a fragrant white flower native ...
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(AP) - Juhi, a tiger cub named after a fragrant white flower native to India, is seen at the zoo in Nagpur, India, on Nov. 13, 2008. Veterinarians carried out a rare blood transfusion late Sunday, Nov. 15, 2008 on the wild tiger in a bid to save the abandoned 7-month-old cub that had been attacked and beaten by angry villagers in central India, officials said Monday. (AP Photo)
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Glow of the fires : With the temperatures hovering around 90 ...
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(AFP) - Glow of the fires : With the temperatures hovering around 90 degrees Farenheit, a girl runs along the shore in Santa Monica, California. The orange color of the light is due to the wildfires near Los Angeles. (AFP/Gabriel Bouys)
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Fiery jump : Sri Lanka Police Special Task Force (STF) commandos ...
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(AFP) - Fiery jump : Sri Lanka Police Special Task Force (STF) commandos perform during a parade in Katukurunda, some 43 kms south of Colombo. (AFP/Ishara S. Kodikara)
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Human remains are seen in a grave, near Eulau in Germany in ...
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(Reuters) - Human remains are seen in a grave, near Eulau in Germany in this undated handout photograph received in London on November 17, 2008. The 4,600-year-old grave in Germany containing the remains of two adults and their children provides the earliest evidence of a nuclear family, researchers said on Monday. REUTERS/Wolfgang Haak/Handout (GERMANY). NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS.
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President-elect Barack Obama smiles during his meeting with ...
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(AP) - President-elect Barack Obama smiles during his meeting with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., not shown, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008, at Obama's transition office in downtown Chicago. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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Juhi, a tiger cub named after a fragrant white flower native ...
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(AP) - Juhi, a tiger cub named after a fragrant white flower native to India, is attended to by veterinarians at the zoo in Nagpur, India, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. Veterinarians carried out a rare blood transfusion late Sunday on the wild tiger in a bid to save the abandoned 7-month-old cub that had been attacked and beaten by angry villagers in central India, officials said Monday. (AP Photo)
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This photo provided by Val Verde, Texas, County Sheriff's Office ...
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(AP) - This photo provided by Val Verde, Texas, County Sheriff's Office shows one-time NFL cheerleader and reality TV bride-to-be Mary Delgado who is out of jail after being arrested in a Del Rio, Texas, bar, Sunday, Nov 16, 2008. Delgado, who accepted a televised proposal from 'The Bachelor,' or professional bass fisherman Byron Velvick, in 2004, was arrested in Del Rio early Sunday after refusing to leave a local bar. She was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, public intoxication, and resisting arrest and released about an hour later. (AP Photo/Val Verde County Sheriff's Office)
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Barack Obama Draws a Crowd...on 60 Minutes(E! Online) ...
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(E! Online) - Barack Obama Draws a Crowd...on 60 Minutes(E! Online)
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