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Hotels are under construction in December 2011 at the Rosa Khutor ski resort in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, near the Black Sea resort of Sochi, site of the 2014 Winter Olympics. (AP Photo/Igor Yakuninm)
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Tea Party Patriots co-founder Jenny Beth Martin disputes any pundit or press claims that the tea party movement is dead or irrelevant. (Image from Jenny Beth Martin)
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The American Gaming Association's annual report released Wednesday noted casino revenues are up 3 percent nationwide. Non-Indian casinos or other legal gambling halls took in $35.6 billion last year. (Associated Press)
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"I always complained that everything he painted was very dark, black and white," said Vassa Olson, Alexander Zhdanov's stepdaughter who now lives in Alexandria. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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"We must rebuild our nation. We cannot let our hard heads get in the way of hard hats." - Rep. Nick J. Rahall II of West Virginia, the top Democrat on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.
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President Obama walks across the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Tuesday, May 8, 2012, after a day trip to Albany, N.Y. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Lays' caviar-flavored potato chips are popular in Moscow, where they are competing with a Soviet-era snack of stale bread slathered in oil and baked to a crisp. (Associated Press)
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Nabisco introduced Oreos and cream-filled wafers in China in 2006, then created the country's top-selling cookie by making it smaller and less sweet and by adding new flavors such as green tea. (Associated Press)
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President Obama walks May 8, 2012, across the South Lawn of the White House after a day trip to Albany, N.Y. (Associated Press)
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A Syrian street vendor sits outside Damascus Castle in the old section of Damascus, Syria. Historic mosques, churches and markets have been smashed by shelling and looters have stolen artifacts from excavations and museums.
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In this book cover image released by Perigee, "Chic on a Shoestring: Simple to Sew Vintage Style Accessories," by Mary Jane Baxter, is shown. Beautiful and inexpensive accessories abound if you know how to transform the everyday into the chic. (AP Photo/Perigee)
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"Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking," written by former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold, won a James Beard Award for Cookbook of the Year. (Associated Press)
