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Pakistani women light candles and pray at the site of a shooting that killed Salman Taseer, governor of Pakistan's Punjab province, in Islamabad, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. Mr. Taseer was killed on Tuesday by his bodyguard commando, who reportedly was enraged by Mr. Taseer's opposition to laws decreeing death for insulting Islam. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)
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Red taillights of slow and stopped traffic glow on northbound Interstate 5 near Castaic, Calif., after heavy snow closed the major north-south several miles north of this point Sunday, Jan. 2 2011. (AP Photo/Mike Meadows)
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Washington Redskins running back Ryan Torain (46) is stopped by New York Giants safety Antrel Rolle (left) and Giants safety Kenny Phillips (21) during the second half of an NFL football game on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011, in Landover, Md. The Giants defeated the Redskins, 17-14, but were eliminated from the playoffs with a Green Bay Packers victory over the Chicago Bears. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Zsa Zsa Gabor responds to a question during a press conference at her home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles on April 13, 1992. A representative for the actress said Sunday Jan. 2, 2011, that she is back in a Los Angeles hospital to have part of her leg amputated. (AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian/file)
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Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani pauses during a meeting with the Pakistani National Disaster Management Authority, in Islamabad on Saturday, Dec. 18, 2010. Pakistan's U.S.-allied ruling party scrambled Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, to keep its fragile coalition government in power after a party quit the coalition. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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BMW's driver Stephane Peterhansel and co-driver Jean-Paul Cottret, both of France, compete Sunday in the car category during the first stage of the 2011 Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally between Victoria and Cordoba, Argentina. (Associated Press)
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Hummer's driver Robby Gordon and co-driver Andy Grider, both of the United States, compete Sunday during the first stage of the 2011 Argentina-Chile Dakar Rally between Victoria and Cordoba, Argentina. (Associated Press)
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An unidentified rescue worker walks past debris after a tornado tore through Cincinnati, Ark., early in the morning on Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. A tornado fueled by an unusually warm winter air sliced through parts of the South and Midwest early on New Year's Eve, killing six people, injuring several others and knocking out power to thousands of homes and businesses. (AP Photo/April L. Brown)
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FILE - In this Jan. 17, 2010 file photo, people walk down a street amid earthquake rubble in Port-au-Prince, haiti. In 2010 crisis has piled upon crisis in Haiti. More than 230,000 are believed to have died in the quake, and more than a million remain homeless. A cholera epidemic broke out in the fall, and in its midst a dysfunctional election was held, its results still unclear.(AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
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A wallaby stands on a large round hay bail trapped by rising flood waters outside the town of Dalby in Queensland, Australia Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. Days of torrential downpours have left parts of central and southern Queensland state inundated, flooding thousands of homes and businesses, cutting off roads and forcing the entire populations of two towns to evacuate. (AP Photo/Anthony Skerman)
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The station for the Cincinnati, Ark., volunteer fire department was destroyed shortly after 6 a.m. Friday, Dec. 31, 2010, when an apparent tornado swept across the rural, unincorporated community that's west of Fayetteville, Ark. Three people died when a nearby home and barn were destroyed by the storm. (AP Photo/Washington County Enterprise-Leader, Northwest Arkansas Times, Rod Russell)
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This undated handout photo provided by the National Nuclear Safety Administration shows a container loaded onto a plane, in Sevastopol, Ukraine. In a secret operation to secure nuclear material, the United States has helped Ukraine send to Russia enough uranium to build two atomic bombs. (AP Photo/National Nuclear Safety Administration)
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North Carolina safety Deunta Williams (27) is helped onto a cart to be taken off the field after hurting his lower right leg tackling Tennessee tight end Luke Stocker in the first quarter of the Music City Bowl NCAA college football game on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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KEY EVENTS: A looter in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, fends off rivals a week after the Jan. 12 earthquake in that impoverished country. (Associated Press)
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A man, wielding a broken bottle, defends himself and an item he looted in downtown Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010 after an earthquake shook Haiti. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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An aerial photo shows the Gulf of Mexico more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is seen burning on April 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)
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President Obama picks up a "tar ball" from the beach in Port Fourchon, La., in May after the largest oil spill in U.S. history in the Gulf of Mexico. (Associated Press)
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Rev. Dr. Louis D. Jones eulogizes Chicago firefighter Corey Ankum during Dec. 30 funeral services in Chicago. Ankum was one of two firefighters killed last week when a roof collapsed after a fire. (Associated Press)
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An emotional Chicago Mayor Richard Daley talks about firefighter Corey Ankum during Dec. 30 funeral services in Chicago. Ankum, the wife of Daley's longtime assistant Demeka Ankum, was one of two firefighters killed last week when a roof collapsed after a fire. (Associated Press)
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Demeka Ankum (left), the widow of Chicago firefighter Corey Ankum, is comforted by her boss, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley on Dec. 30 after her husband's funeral in Chicago. Ankum was one of two firefighters killed last week when a roof collapsed after a fire. (Associated Press)
