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Associated Press photographs The Aurora gold mine in Orkney, South Africa, is deserted after the mine's previous owners went bankrupt, leaving it idle.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS A resident watches as movers, hired by the Chicago Housing Authority, remove another resident's belongings from the last high-rise of the Cabrini-Green public housing project on Tuesday in Chicago. Some residents were angered the CHA moved up the original deadline from January 2011.
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Debt Commission co-chairmen Erskine Bowles, left, and former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, speak during a meeting of the commission on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Conor McKay, commission staff member, brings out the Debt Commission report before a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Debt Commission co-chairmen Erskine Bowles, left, and former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, take part in a meeting of the commission on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Debt Commission co-chairmen Erskine Bowles, left center, and former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, take part in a meeting of the commission on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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Debt Commission co-chairmen Erskine Bowles, left, and former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson, right, talk with other members Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., and Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010, before a meeting of the commission .(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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** FILE ** In this Oct. 23, 2010, file photo, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange speaks during a news conference in London. (AP Photo/Lennart Preiss, File)
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Micah Borton, captain with the Morenci fire department directs volunteers and rescuers to various locations as the search for 9-year-old Andrew, 7-year-old Alexander and 5-year-old Tanner Skelton continues in Morenci, Mich. on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. Authorities "do not anticipate a positive outcome" in the search for three Michigan brothers who have been missing since their father's attempted suicide, a police chief said Tuesday. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Coates)
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This combo made with undated photos provided by The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children shows, from left, Alexander Skelton, 7 Andrew Skelton, 9, and Tanner Skelton. 5. An Amber Alert has been issued for three boys, who haven't been seen since Thursday when they were in their father's yard. John Skelton told police that he gave the boys to a female friend before attempting suicide, but authorities say they don't believe him. (AP Photo/National Center for Missing & Exploited Children)
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Chief Scott Damon, of Cambridge Township Fire Department organizes a search party at the Morenci fire department in Morency, Mich, for 9-year-old Andrew, 7-year-old Alexander and 5-year-old Tanner Skelton Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. Authorities "do not anticipate a positive outcome" in the search for three Michigan brothers who have been missing since their father's attempted suicide, a police chief said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Andre J. Jackson)
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Ryan Cantrell, a firefighter from the Blissfield Station 73, looks through heavy brush looks as the search for 9-year-old Andrew, 7-year-old Alexander and 5-year-old Tanner Skelton continues behind the Ramada Inn in Holiday City, Ohio on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. Authorities "do not anticipate a positive outcome" in the search for three Michigan brothers who have been missing since their father's attempted suicide, a police chief said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Andre J. Jackson)
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Volunteers and rescuers search for 9-year-old Andrew, 7-year-old Alexander and 5-year-old Tanner Skelton in Morenci, Mich. on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. Authorities "do not anticipate a positive outcome" in the search for three Michigan brothers who have been missing since their father's attempted suicide, a police chief said Tuesday. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Coates)
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Volunteers walk the Ohio Turnpike looking for clues as the search for 9-year-old Andrew, 7-year-old Alexander and 5-year-old Tanner Skelton continues in Holiday City, Ohio on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. Authorities "do not anticipate a positive outcome" in the search for three Michigan brothers who have been missing since their father's attempted suicide, a police chief said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Andre J. Jackson)
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Volunteers David Patterson, of Archbold, Ohio, left, and Matthew Poorman, of Swanton, Ohio, search a dumpster behind Hutches Towing as the search for 9-year-old Andrew, 7-year-old Alexander and 5-year-old Tanner Skelton continues in Holiday City, Ohio on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. Authorities "do not anticipate a positive outcome" in the search for three Michigan brothers who have been missing since their father's attempted suicide, a police chief said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Andre J. Jackson)
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Joel Hess, left, and Brandon Stewart, both from an ice rescue team for Cambridge Township Fire Dept. search for 9-year-old Andrew, 7-year-old Alexander and 5-year-old Tanner Skelton in a small pond in Morenci, Mich. on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. Authorities "do not anticipate a positive outcome" in the search for three Michigan brothers who have been missing since their father's attempted suicide, a police chief said Tuesday. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Coates)
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Kyle Pinard makes a last-minute accounting of how much money he has to spend as he waits in line with other shoppers at a Best Buy in Dartmouth, Mass., on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010. Americans' confidence rose to a five-month high in November amid more hopeful signs for the economy. (AP Photo/The Standard Times of New Bedford, Peter Pereira)
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In this photo taken Oct. 14, 2010, Jay Shafer, owner of Tumbleweed Tiny Houses, exits a tiny house he built for himself in Graton, Calif. In a country where most people want to live large, Shafer helps people live small. The California homebuilder has become a leader in a small but growing corner of the American housing market: the tiny house. Shafer, who lived in a 89-square foot house with his wife before his son was born last year, builds houses that are smaller than most people's living rooms. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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In this photo taken Oct. 14, 2010, Jay Shafer, owner of Tumbleweed Tiny Houses, reads a book in the loft of a small house he built for himself in Graton, Calif. In a country where most people want to live large, Shafer helps people live small. The California homebuilder has become a leader in a small but growing corner of the American housing market: the tiny house. Shafer, who lived in a 89-square foot house with his wife before his son was born last year, builds houses that are smaller than most people's living rooms. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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In this photo taken Oct. 14, 2010, Jay Shafer, owner of Tumbleweed Tiny Houses is seen on the front porch of a tiny house he built for himself in Graton, Calif. In a country where most people want to live large, Jay Shafer helps people live small. The California homebuilder has become a leader in a small but growing corner of the American housing market: the tiny house. Shafer, who lived in a 89-square foot house with his wife before his son was born last year, builds houses that are smaller than most people's living rooms. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
