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Mr. Aink, employee at Noack Bronze-casting foundry, is treating the surface of a branch sculpture, which was molded from the beech tree "Suntel Buche", which was located in Bochum, Germany. 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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Herrmann Noack Jr., manager of Noack Bronze-casting foundry, is seen here on April 26, 2012. The Berlin-based Noack is arguably the most important bronze-casting foundry in Germany. (Daniel Pilar/Special to The Washington Times)

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Friedrich Lehmann and Manfred Handte, employees at Noack Bronze-casting foundry, pour molten bronze into a mold. 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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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks May 8, 2012, during a joint press conference with Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna in New Delhi. (Associated Press)

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President Obama speaks at the State University of New York's Nano-Tech complex in Albany, N.Y., on Tuesday, May 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Daily Gazette, Patrick Dodson)

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, speaks at Lansing Community College in Lansing, Mich., on Tuesday, May 8, 2012. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, speaks at a town-hall-style meeting in Euclid, Ohio, on Monday, May 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

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Former presidential candidate and North Carolina Sen. John Edwards (center) leaves a federal courthouse in Greensboro, N.C., on May 7, 2012. Edwards is accused of conspiring to secretly obtain more than $900,000 from two wealthy supporters to hide his extramarital affair with Rielle Hunter and her pregnancy. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** Yemeni residents, who fled nearly eight months of fighting between the army and Islamists, return home in Zinjibar, Yemen, on Jan. 14, 2012. (Associated Press)

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Sen. Richard G. Lugar, Indiana Republican, is video-recorded by cellphone on Monday, May 7, 2012, during a visit to a waste-water treatment center in West Lafayette, Ind. (Associated Press/Journal & Courier)

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Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, the front-running Democratic candidate in the recall election targeting Republican Gov. Scott Walker, holds a news conference in the state Capitol on Thursday, April 19, 2012, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

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Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (center) is greeted by supporters as she arrives for the ceremonial opening of a branch office of her National League for Democracy party on Tuesday, May 8, 2012, in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)