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The Dutch agricultural pavilion is devoted to the host country's traditional foliage and latest trends. (Associated Press)

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The Dutch agricultural pavilion is devoted to the host country's traditional foliage and latest trends. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Office workers leave the headquarters of Sony Corp. in Tokyo Tuesday, April 10, 2012. Faced with mounting losses, Sony Corp. said Thursday April 12, 2012, it will slash 10,000 jobs, or about 6 percent of its global workforce, and turn around its money-losing TV business over the next two years. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

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Specialist Robert Tuccillo (center) works with traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, April 9, 2012. Stocks opened sharply higher on Wednesday, a day after their worst loss of the year. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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Rick Santorum turns to his wife, Karen, on Tuesday after announcing in Gettysburg, Pa., that he is suspending his run for president. Front-runner Mitt Romney said in Delaware that he will now start seriously pondering a list of vice-presidential prospects. (Associated Press)

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Former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania embraces his wife, Karen, after announcing Tuesday that he is suspending his GOP candidacy for president. He cited the priority of a seriously ill child in his large family as a key reason for dropping out before the April 24 Pennsylvania primary. (Associated Press)

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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign stop at R.C. Fabricators on Tuesday in Wilmington, Del., where he met with a group of female business owners. R.C. Fabricators designs and erects structural steel. (Associated Press)

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Gasoline prices are shown at a local gas station in Miami, Wednesday, April 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

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Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum announces April 10, 2012, he is suspending his candidacy in Gettysburg, Pa. (Associated Press)

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Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, surrounded by his family, announces on Tuesday, April 10, 2012, in Gettysburg, Pa., that he is suspending his GOP presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

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This image made from the website therealgeorgezimmerman.com shows writings by George Zimmerman, who is at the center of an investigation over the shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Craig Sonner, attorney for Zimmerman, confirmed April 10, 2012, the authenticity of the website that allows supporters to raise money for Zimmerman. (Associated Press)

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Employees leave the headquarters of Sony Corp. in Tokyo on Tuesday, April 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke speaks at the 2012 Financial Markets Conference sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta at the Stone Mountain Evergreen Convention Center outside Atlanta on Monday, April 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal & Constitution, Phil Skinner)

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Nail care products are displayed at a beauty supply shop in San Francisco on Monday, April 9, 2012. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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Facebook is spending $1 billion to buy Instagram, a photo-sharing app in use on an iPhone. It is paying cash and stock for the company and hiring its dozen or so employees. (Associated Press)

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Caroline Cunningham, president of the Trust for the National Mall, and Donald Stastny, an architect advising the group, look over two of the competing proposals for redesigning three areas of the Mall. A winner for each site is to be chosen in May. (Associated Press)

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Trader Luigi Muccitelli (left) and specialist Jennifer Klesaris work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, April 9, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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Companies trip over themselves to make their brands household names. But only a few brands become so engrained in the lexicon that they’re synonymous with the products themselves. From left to right are: a Jan. 20, 2011, file photo showing boxes of Kleenex tissues, a Kimberly Clark brand; Bayer aspirin tablets photographed May 25, 2004; Johnson & Johnson Band-Aid products shown Jan. 24, 2011; and a March 7, 2012, file photo shows the new iPad. (AP Photo)