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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS Statues from the film "The Mummy" are part of the Universal Studios park at Singapore's Sentosa Resort. A surge in theme-park construction across Asia has bred more commerce and entertainment options.

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** FILE ** Walt Disney cartoon characters perform with children during a celebration held for the start of construction work on the Shanghai Disneyland in eastern China.

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Televsion personality Tim Gunn poses with Smurf characters at the premiere of "The Smurfs" at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York on July 24, 2011. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this Friday, July 22, 2011, a citizen journalism image made on a mobile phone and provided by Shaam News Network, Syrian anti-regime protesters gather during a rally in al-Assy square in the western city of Hama, Syria. Note: The Associated Press is unable to independently verify the authenticity, content, location or date of this handout photo. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, File) (AP Photo/Shaam News Network, File)

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Wide receiver Santonio Holmes had 52 catches for 746 yards and six touchdowns last season for the New York Jets. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Graduates listen to the commencement address at Kalamazoo Central High School in Kalamazoo, Mich., in June 2011. (Associated Press)

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Jeret Peterson's defining moment came when he won the silver medal in the freestyle skiing aerials at the Vancouver Olympics.

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** FILE ** In this Oct. 22, 2005, file photo, filmmaker George Lucas poses in front of a Stormtrooper exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston, prior to the opening of "Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination." Britain's Supreme Court on Wednesday, July 27, 2011, delivered a mixed ruling in the epic battle between George Lucas' movie empire and a prop designer over the iconic stormtrooper helmets from the "Star Wars" films. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson, File)

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The Washington Redskins re-signed wide receiver Santana Moss to a three-year, $15 million deal Tuesday. (Associated Press)

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Associated Press Lawyer Hector Pineiro holds a photograph of a Kahr Arms handgun in Worcester, Mass., at the Aug. 15, 2002, announcement of a lawsuit against the gun maker in connection with the December 1999 fatal shooting of Danny Guzman. A settlement of the case was announced Tuesday.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS The entrance to Golders Green Crematorium in London is surrounded by media on Tuesday as mourners arrive for Amy Winehouse's funeral. She was found dead Saturday at her London home. She was 27.

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Mitch Winehouse (center), the father of British singer Amy Winehouse, is consoled as he arrives at Golders Green Crematorium in north London on July 26, 2011, for the singer's funeral. (Associated Press)

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In this screen shot provided by Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the film "True Grit" is shown as one of the titles available on the company's new video-streaming service. The world’s largest retailer on Tuesday, July 26, 2011, started streaming many movies the same day they come out on DVD, in a second bid for a share of popular movie rental and streaming website Netflix Inc.’s business and just two weeks after Netflix announced new price increases. (AP Photo/Wal-Mart Stores Inc.)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Abdulhakim Muhammad is escorted in to the Pulaski County Courthouse in Little Rock, Ark. Muhammad said he opened fire in a Little Rock recruiting station as retribution for the deaths of Muslims abroad.

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Carleen Ho pulls a Netflix movie out of her mail box in Palo Alto, Calif. Netflix provoked the ire of some of its 23 million subscribers by raising its prices by as much as 60 percent for those who want to rent DVDs by mail and watch video on the Internet. (Associated Press)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Georgia Tech running back Roddy Jones said, "The memories that we have from the Orange Bowl, that stuff is still there." The Yellow Jackets were forced to vacate their appearance because of an ineligible player.

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Japan's annual Fuji Rock Festival, seen here during the 2010 event, will be held this weekend. Organizers of the festival and various other events are forging ahead with plans this summer, despite the ongoing fallout from disasters that devastated the country in March. "The people need it," Fuji Rock founder Masa Hidaka said. (Christopher Johnson/Special to The Washington Times)