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Faber-Castell employee Wolfgang Mattner is measuring a pencil to controll the production quality (the cutter blades cutting of the several pencils from wood plates quickly wearout), taken in the Faber-Castell pencil manufactory in the city of Stein near Nuremberg on Thursday, May 3, 2012. Faber-Castell is one of the world's largest manufacturers of pens, pencils, other office supplies and art supplies, as well as high-end writing instruments and luxury leather goods. Faber-Castell is know for its "Perfect Pencil", an ordinary lead pencil enclosed in a beautiful silver case that includes a sharpener and can be reused as each pencil wears down. Christian Burkert/Special to The Washington Times.

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Exterior view of the pencil lead factory of Faber-Castell in the city of Stein near Nuremberg on Wednesday, May 2, 2012. The German company Faber-Castell is one of the world's largest manufacturers of pens, pencils, other office supplies and art supplies, as well as high-end writing instruments and luxury leather goods. Faber-Castell is know for its "Perfect Pencil", an ordinary lead pencil enclosed in a beautiful silver case that includes a sharpener and can be reused as each pencil wears down. Christian Burkert/Special to The Washington Times.

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Wilfried Schwabe, tool mechanic or CNC operator, mounting bottom plates for watches in a CNC machine / lathe in the small parts production facility at the former trainstation of the small town Glashutte, taken on Thursday, May 26, 2012. Today the former train station is the central office and the production site for small parts for the movements for watches of watchmaker Nomos Glashutte housed. Nomos is one of only a few watchmakers worldwide with the designation of manufactory. Christian Burkert/Special to The Washington Times.

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Oliver Seewald (left) and Nevzat Guney, employees at Noack Bronze-casting foundry, filling sand into a wheelbarrow, which is used for a mold for a bronze. Thursday, April 26, 2012. Noack is arguably the most important bronze-casting foundry in Germany, based in Berlin. Daniel Pilar/Special to The Washington Times

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Nevzat Guney, employee at Noack Bronze-casting foundry since 33 years, modeling the form of a raven, designed by Ari van Selm, into sand. Thursday, April 26, 2012. Noack is arguably the most important bronze-casting foundry in Germany, based in Berlin. Daniel Pilar/Special to The Washington Times

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Manfred Koch, Oliver Seewald and Nevzat Guney (from left), employee at Noack Bronze-casting foundry, is preparing a mold to cast a bronze. Thursday, April 26, 2012. Noack is arguably the most important bronze-casting foundry in Germany, based in Berlin. Daniel Pilar/Special to The Washington Times

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Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" depicted the sometimes darker side of childhood. (AP Photo/HarperCollins)

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Faber-Castell employee Wolfgang Mattner checks production quality by measuring a pencil that came off the line at the factory in Stein, near Nuremberg. Faber-Castell makes pens, pencils and other office and art supplies, as well as high-end writing instruments and luxury leather goods. (Christian Burkert/Special to The Washington Times)

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Faber-Castell employee Wolfgang Mattner checks production quality by measuring a pencil that came off the line at the factory in Stein, near Nuremberg. Faber-Castell makes pens, pencils and other office and art supplies, as well as high-end writing instruments and luxury leather goods. (Christian Burkert/Special to The Washington Times)

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A city employee carries a bag of cocaine to an incinerator at a police base in Lima, Peru, a small part of the more than 4 tons of drugs seized in March and April - including cocaine, marijuana and heroin - that were burned there. Increased drug trafficking in Peru has been driven, in part, by the success of a U.S.-backed operation last decade that pushed operations out of Colombia into its neighbor to the south. Now, the U.S. is helping the Peruvian government fight the same battles. (Associated Press)

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Gregg Allman said his "My Cross to Bear" memoir represents his most honest and open discussion of his life. He talks in-depth about his rocky relationships, including his spur of-the-moment flight to Las Vegas for his marriage to Cher. (Associated Press)