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FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2009, photo, Canadian National Ski Cross team member Nik Zoricic of Toronto, Ontario, poses for a photo following a media event at Cypress Mountain, in North Vancouver, British Columbia. Lawyers for the family of Nik Zoricic say they have settled issues with the International Ski Federation over the Canadian racer's 2012 death in a skicross World Cup event. Toronto legal firm Dandon Recht says the sport's governing body will pay CAN$250,000 ($225,000) over five years to the Nik Zoricic Foundation, which works to improve skier safety.The settlement was announced Monday, March 10, 2014, the anniversary of 29-year-old Zoricic's fatal crash at Grindelwald, Switzerland. He sustained head injuries when landing wide right off a final jump into safety nets. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward, File)
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A passenger holds his passport and boarding pass after he checked in his luggage at a Malaysia Airlines check-in counter at Capital International Airport in Beijing, Monday, March 10, 2014. Almost three days after the plane with 239 people on board vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, no debris has been spotted in Southeast Asian waters, hampering efforts to begin the investigation into how the plane disappeared. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)
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The Miracle Cross, or Ground Zero Cross, was found by construction worker Frank Silecchia, who told the "Today" show that the cross comforted him. (Wikipedia)
