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A broken utility poll remains standing, left, as a deck of a home, right, juts out precariously over an area where a landslide occurred in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. City inspectors are at a Hollywood Hills home where the backyard crumbled, sending mud and debris down a slope, across a street and into the front yards of two other houses. A fire department spokesman says the Monday night slide took out power lines and buried one vehicle but did not reach the inside of the homes. No one was injured. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
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The logo of Paris Saint Germain soccer is displayed during a presentation at the Parc des Princes stadium in Paris, France, Monday, Dec. 30, 2016. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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A view of the town of Arnstein, Germany, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. German investigators say that six teenagers whose bodies were found at a garden house in Bavaria died of carbon monoxide poisoning. (Timm Schamberger/dpa via AP)
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In this Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017 photo, a truck overloaded with bags of charcoal travels to the capital of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where a majority of families use the fuel made in the countryside to cook every meal. The longstanding assertion that charcoal production is responsible for Haiti's denuded forests and must be eliminated to spur reforestation is "misguided," according to a recent World Bank report.(AP Photo/David McFadden)
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In this Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017 photo, Victor Moise poses with a cassia tree in one of the parcels his rural collective uses to grow fast-growing tree species for cooking fuel, in the mountains above of Les Cayes, Haiti. Members of Moise's collective harvest cassia and acacia trees while leaving the roots to regrow in rows intercropped with beans and yams. That helps hold topsoil that can be washed down steep slopes when only erosive food crops such as corn are grown. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
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In this Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2017 photo, a charcoal vendor is shown sells his wares in a central market in Les Cayes, Haiti. Some influential Haitian officials, such as Environment Minister Simon Desras, advocate creation of a regulated, orderly charcoal sector, with a network of “energy forests” planted to produce wood for charcoal and firewood and strengthened surveillance to protect zones where wood cutting is off-limits. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
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In this Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017 photo, piles of freshly-made charcoal sit in a parcel intercropped with banana trees and other plants, in the mountains above of Les Cayes, Haiti. For decades, authorities and development workers have denounced rural charcoal makers of stripping the nation's forests, sending topsoil to sea and helping make Haiti the poorest country in the Americas. The stigma is so great that few openly admit their involvement. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
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In this Monday, Jan. 23, 2017 photo, Jhonny Admeis scatters dirt on a smoldering earth kiln he and his neighbors made to make charcoal from fruit trees knocked down by Hurricane Matthew, in the outskirts of Les Cayes, Haiti. Hthe country has long had a reputation as an environmental wasteland, with numerous published reports asserting that the local charcoal industry has transformed the country into a moonscape of bedrock, with forest cover of only 2 to 4 percent. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
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In this Monday, Jan. 23, 2017 photo, Jean Ronsale takes a break from gathering charcoal made in an earth kiln with trees knocked down by Hurricane Matthew, in the outskirts of of Les Cayes, Haiti. For decades, authorities and development workers have denounced such rural charcoal makers for stripping the nation's forests, sending topsoil to sea and helping make Haiti the poorest country in the Americas. The stigma is so great that few openly admit their involvement. (AP Photo/David McFadden)
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The Trump administration says the press was kinder on President Obama's temporary ban on Iraqi immigrants versus President Trump's larger ban. (Associated Press)
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One of Chile's worst fire waves on record shows its vulnerability to terrorism. Forest fires intentionally set have resulted in over $200 million in damage and about a dozen deaths. Some investigators suspect anarchists and indigenous militants are to blame. (Associated Press)
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Stockton University biology students, from left, Francisca Ekekwe, Valkyrie Falciani and Danielle Ertz work with spores in sterilized tubes that will be studied for agriculture in low gravity at the International Space Station, in Galloway, N.J., Monday Jan. 30 2017. Their experiments using spores were chosen by the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) to go to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of Mission 11 of the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP). (Ben Fogletto/The Press of Atlantic City via AP)
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Dustin Hoffman as Raymond Babbitt in ‘Rain Man’ - Best Actor (1988)
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George C. Scott as Gen. George S. Patton Jr. in ‘Patton’ - Best Actor (1970)
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Jack Nicholson as Randle McMurphy in ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest’ - Best Actor (1975)
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Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin Dada in ‘The Last King of Scotland’ - Best Actor (2006)
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This Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, photo shows water in a wildlife area by Cullinan Ranch comes close to Highway 37 near American Canyon, Calif. California, under Gov. Jerry Brown, is a leader in fighting climate change. But climate experts say this winter's storms are underscoring how much work even California has yet to do to prepare for sea rise. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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In this Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, photo, a field remains flooded along Highway 37 near Novato, Calif. California, under Gov. Jerry Brown, is a leader in fighting climate change. But climate experts say this winter's storms are underscoring how much work even California has yet to do to prepare for sea rise. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
