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Police fire rubber bullets at protesters outside the meeting hall of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. More than two dozen senior officials from key economies will try Saturday to agree on whether to send a political signal that a new global trade deal can, at last, be completed this year as the World Economic Forum gradually comes to a close. (AP Photo/KEYSTONE/Jean-Christophe Bott)

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From left, Tunisia's Central Bank Governor Mustapha Kamel Nabli, Tunisia's Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Yassine Brahim and Minister of Communication Technology Sami Zaoui participate in a media conference regarding recent events in Tunisia at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

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FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2008 file photo, a projected image of the Comcast logo is seen at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Comcast, the nation's largest cable TV company, says it will complete its takeover of NBC Universal at just before midnight Eastern time, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. The deal will give Comcast Corp. 51 percent of the fourth-ranked broadcaster NBC, a bevy of cable channels and the Universal Pictures movie studio. It caps a yearlong regulatory review that resulted in conditions meant to keep it from stifling the growth of online video services such as Netflix and Hulu. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

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Trader David O'Day talks on his mobile phone as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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**FILE** Shoppers browse Nov. 26 at an electronics store in Albuquerque, N.M. The economy gained strength at the end of last year as Americans spent at the fastest pace in four years and U.S. companies sold more overseas. The growth is boosting hopes for a stronger 2011. The Commerce Department reported Friday that growth rose to an annual rate of 3.2 percent in the October-December quarter. (Associated Press)

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Former South African President Nelson Mandela is wheeled out on a stretcher, as he leaves the Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Mr. Mandela was discharged to begin home-based care, after spending two-and-a-half days in hospital for treatment for a respiratory infection. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

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A man uses his mobile phone near the sign advertising Samsung Electronics Co's HD TV screen at a subway station in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Jan. 28, 2011. Samsung Electronics said net profit rose 13 percent in the fourth quarter of 2010 amid higher sales of semiconductors and smartphones as the technology giant rounded out a record year for profits and revenue. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)

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** FILE ** The AT&T logo is displayed on the side of a corporate office in Springfield, Ill., in July 2010. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File)

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Lenovo Group Chief Executive Officer Yang Yuanqing, left, shakes hands with NEC President Nobuhiro Endo during a joint press conference in Tokyo Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. NEC and China's Lenovo said Thursday they will join forces to create the largest personal computer business in Japan. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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Sony Computer Entertainment President and CEO Kazuo Hirai shows a new PlayStation Portable "NGP" at PlayStation Meeting 2011 in Tokyo Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. Sony says the upgraded version of its PlayStation Portable machine will go on sale late this year. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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The new PlayStation Portable "NGP" is displayed at PlayStation Meeting 2011 in Tokyo Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. Sony says an upgraded version of its PlayStation Portable machine will go on sale late this year. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

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FILE - In this file photo made Jan. 9, 2010, the Qualcomm logo is seen at an exhibit at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Qualcomm Inc., releases quarterly financial earnings Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011, after the market close. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)

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Shoppers walk by a logo of LG Electronics at a local electronic department store in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2011. LG Electronics has reported its first quarterly loss in nearly two years amid continued weakness in its mobile phone business. LG Electronics said Wednesday that it lost 256.4 billion won ($229.4 million) in the three months that ended Dec. 31. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

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In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 21, 2011, a sales representative shows a Blackberry with the Verizon logo in Hialeah, Fla. Verizon said Tyesday, Jan. 25, it attracted more than half a million smart-phone subscribers in the last quarter, showing strength even before it starts selling the iPhone in February.(AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

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This product image provided by the Grocery Manufacturers Association shows new "Nutrition Keys" labels, lower left, as they would appear on a box of cereal. The Grocery Manufacturers Association and the Food Marketing Institute on Monday, Jan. 24, 2011 announced the industry's voluntary new labels, which will list calories, saturated fat, sodium and sugars per serving. (AP Photo/Grocery Manufacturers Association) NO SALES

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Supermarket workers weigh pork for a customer in Beijing. Clenbuterol stubbornly continues to pop up laced into animal feed by farmers impatient to get their meat to market and turn a profit. (Associated Press)

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Pulte Homes is building 241 town homes and 57 single-family homes on 6,500- to 7,500-square-foot sites at East Gate in Chantilly. The town homes have 2,049 to 2,711 finished square feet, with base prices from $338,990 to $412,900.

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Bill Newell, special agent in charge of the ATF Phoenix, speaks Tuesday behind a cache of seized weapons in Phoenix. A grand jury indicted more than 30 persons on firearms charges for participating in a ring that bought hundreds of guns that were to be smuggled into Mexico for use by a drug cartel. (Associated Press)

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"Put simply, our fiscal problem is a health care problem," says House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan, Wisconsin Republican. (Associated Press)