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A mead bumper sticker is indicative of the renewed popularity of the ancient brew. The biggest hurdle has been overcoming the centuries-old misconception that something made from honey has to be sweet. (Associated Press)

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Owner Ben Starr mixes up a batch of mead at his company, Starrlight Mead, in Pittsboro, N.C. Mead, the drink of medieval verse, is making a comeback. But it isn't just the honey wine of tales. There are fruit-flavored meads, called melomels, and there are methyglyns made with spices. (Associated Press)

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Abby Winer and her grandmother Marilyn Winer sit in the sun Tuesday at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., while they wait for Abby's father, John Winer, flying in from JFK Airport in New York. (Associated Press/The Palm Beach Post)

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A skier tries to climb down from a stalled chairlift at Sugarloaf ski resort in Carrabassett Valley, Maine, on Tuesday after a lift failed on the state's tallest ski mountain, about 120 miles north of Portland. (Associated Press)

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An air passenger sleeps on a luggage conveyor belt at John F. Kennedy International Airport. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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The day after a major snowstorm moved through the region, Hunter Duncan, age 12, gets a pull from his father's dogs, Salvo and Avon. Hunter used a boogie board to sled on the beach at 2nd Street on the Virginia Beach oceanfront. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, L. Todd Spencer)

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The day after a major snowstorm moved through the region, Hunter Duncan, age 12, gets a pull from his father's dogs, Salvo and Avon. Hunter used a boogie board to sled on the beach at 2nd Street on the Virginia Beach oceanfront. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, L. Todd Spencer)

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Commuter Robin Damas clutches her tea as her train arrives during a snowstorm in Andover, Mass. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

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An air passenger sleeps on a luggage conveyor belt at John F. Kennedy International Airport. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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"The Monster," a gravel truck the Zetas converted into a steel-clad tank but the Gulf Cartel destroyed, sits outside Ciudad Mier.

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A tourist from Ecuador has his photo taken by a companion in front of the "Rocky" statue, a character made famous in the "Rocky" movies, in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art during a snowstorm (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

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Unidentified tourists from Finland run up the so-called "Rocky Steps", made famous in the original "Rocky" movie, in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art during a blowing snowstorm. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma)

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A snow plow clears snow off Broadway in front of the Winter Garden theater in Times Square. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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In this undated photo released by the Toledo Museum of Art, "Nereid Sweetmeat Stand" is shown. The Ohio museum is returning to Germany the 18th-century porcelain centerpiece believed to have been stolen from a castle where it was hidden by a museum during World War II. The Toledo Museum of Art and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010 that "Nereid Sweetmeat Stand" will go back to the Dresden Museum. Customs officials say the German museum was loaned the piece in 1920 by the family who owned it. (AP Photo/Toledo Museum of Art) NO SALES

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ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS People walk along Broad Street during a winter storm on Sunday in Philadelphia, where flights were canceled.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Pilot Mark Shelton carefully lowers two desert bighorn sheep to the ground at Elephant Mountain Wildlife Management near Alpine, Texas.

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A member of the Seehunde Berlin, or Berlin Seals, swimming club takes a dip in the frozen Orankesee lake in Berlin on Saturday, Dec. 25, 2010. Every Christmas, the club arranges a holiday swimming session in the lake. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

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A tourist hangs on a ribbon with messages wishing for reunification of the two Koreas at a barbed-wire fence at the at the Imjingak Pavilion near the border village of Panmunjom in Paju, South Korea, on Friday, Dec. 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

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The contemporary home has walls of glass that bring the outdoors in. It has 4,800 square feet of living space, plus an additional 2,000 square feet of patios, terraces and walkways around the home.