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Ryan Seacrest, producer and host of "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve" on ABC, gets ready for the big bash on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, in New York. (Dan Hallman/Invision/AP Images)

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Fireworks explode above Sydney Harbor during New Year's celebrations in Sydney on Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith)

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** FILE ** The New York Police Department assigned thousands of extra patrols to Times Square last year on New Year’s Eve to control the crowd and watch for any signs of trouble. (Associated Press)

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The Pajama Men (comedians Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez) offer an extremely informal way to ring in the new year with their Mammoth Pajama Party, Monday night at the Woolly Mammoth Theatre.

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Dick Clark, who did the first “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” special on ABC in 1972, died at age 82 in April. Fergie and Jenny McCarthy will be hosts of a two-hour tribute to Clark that will air on New Year’s Eve. (Associated Press)

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Indian-born conductor Zubin Mehta (right) hugs Werner Hink, first violinist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, during the traditional New Year's concert at Vienna's Musikverein on Monday, Jan. 1, 2007. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)

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**FILE** Worshippers pack the compound of Sensoji temple on Jan. 1, 2012, to pray in the hope of receiving a New Year's blessing in the Asakusa district in Tokyo. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this Jan. 1, 2012 file photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed Monday, Jan. 2, 2012 in Tokyo by the Korea News Service, North Korea's new leader Kim Jong Un, left, applauds with military personnel as he inspects Seoul Ryu Kyong Su 105 Guards Tank Division of the Korean People's Army at an undisclosed location in North Korea to congratulate servicepersons on New Year's day. Kim Jong Un's first inspection visit without his father Kim Jong Il was a well-documented New Year's Day trip to the tank unit with symbolic ties to his family and his nation's history. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service, File) JAPAN OUT UNTIL 14 DAYS AFTER THE DAY OF TRANSMISSION

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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin wishes Russians a happy New Year during an interview in his residence of Novo-Ogaryovo, outside Moscow, in Russia, Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, pool)

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TIES THAT BIND: North Korea's "supreme leader," Kim Jong-un, speaks with a soldier on New Year's Day during his inspection of a tank division to congratulate members of the Korean People's Army. (Korean Central News Agency via Associated Press)

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"People will be analyzing public appearances, rosters, who was standing next to whom, who was suddenly absent, who suddenly disappears," says Andrei Lankov, a North Korea specialist at Seoul's Kookmin University of the world's interest in the North's new leader, Kim Jong-un, seen inspecting the New Year's Day spread at a military post. (Korean Central News Agency via Associated Press)

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People at the Seoul Station on Jan. 2, 2012, watch a TV screen showing South Korean President Lee Myung-bak delivering a New Year's speech to the nation. (Associated Press)

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IME EXPOSURE WITH LIGHT PAINTING - In this Saturday, Dec. 31, 2011 photo, Chinese use lights to draw a 2012 sign at a bund as they celebrate New Year in Shanghai, China. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

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Filipinos watch a fireworks and water fountain display as they welcome the New Year at Manila's Rizal Park, Philippines on Sunday Jan. 1, 2012. More than 200 people have been injured by illegal firecrackers and celebratory gunfire in the Philippines despite a government scare campaign against reckless New Year revelries, officials recently said. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)