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    SINGAPORE - FEBRUARY 07: A devotee has his body pierced with hooks before taking part in the Thaipusam procession at Sri Srinivasa Perumal Temple on February 7, 2012 in Singapore. Thaipusam is a Hindu festival celebrated on the full moon in the Tamil month of Thai. Devotees pray and make vows, when the prayers are answered they fulfill the vows by piercing parts of their body such as their cheeks, tongues, and backs before carrying a 'Kavadi' along a four kilometre route. (Photo by Chris McGrath/Getty Images)
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    SAN FRANCISCO, CA - FEBRUARY 07: Same-sex couple Frank Capley-Alfano (L) and Joe Capley-Alfano kiss as they celebrate outside of San Francisco City Hall on February 7, 2012 in San Francisco, California. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the voter-approved Proposition 8 measure violates the civil rights of gay men and lesbians. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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    A homeless man shelters from the cold under a blanket in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Greece's government and international creditors are working on the final draft of an agreement on budget and structural measures needed to free up a second aid package, a Greek official said. Photographer: Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg
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    Ben S. Bernanke, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, speaks during a Senate Budget Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Bernanke repeated that the job market is still far from healthy after signs of economic improvement over the past year, and he called on lawmakers to reduce the long-term budget deficit. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
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    Shree Bose, middle, has her picture taken with Bill Nye, "The Science Guy" as President Obama delivers remarks at the White House Science Fair in the East Room at the White House in Washington, D.C., February 7, 2012. Bose, a 17-year old senior at Fort Worth Country Day School in Fort Worth, Texas, right, took top honors at the 2011 Google Science Fair for her discovery of a way to improve ovarian cancer treatment for patients when they have built up a resistance to certain chemotherapy drugs. Her conclusions hold tremendous potential for the improvement of cancer chemotherapy treatment and for future research. (Mary F. Calvert/MCT)
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    Protestors chant slogans as they march during a 24-hour general strike in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Greece's government and international creditors are working on the final draft of an agreement on budget and structural measures needed to free up a second aid package, a Greek official said. Photographer: Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg
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    A transport ship makes its way through the ice on the Rhine-Herne canal in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Many canals and rivers in Germany are closed because of the ice. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
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    An elderly protestor, center, holds a giant Greek flag as he demonstrates outside the Greek Parliament building during a 24-hour general strike in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Greece's government and international creditors are working on the final draft of an agreement on budget and structural measures needed to free up a second aid package, a Greek official said. Photographer: Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg
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    Riot policemen clash with protesters trying to reach the entrance of the Greek Parliament building during a 24-hour general strike in Athens, Greece, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Greece's government and international creditors are working on the final draft of an agreement on budget and structural measures needed to free up a second aid package, a Greek official said. Photographer: Kostas Tsironis/Bloomberg
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    Jonathan Shils, a partner with McGuireWoods LLP, left, reads the mortgage papers for an unpurchased building, during an auction in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Bank of America Plaza, the tallest tower in the U.S. Southeast, was sold at a public auction today on the steps of the Fulton County Courthouse after landlord BentleyForbes missed mortgage payments. Photographer: Chris Rank/Bloomberg
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    Supporters of gay marriage react outside the James R. Browning United States Courthouse after a federal appeals court declared California's ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 in San Francisco. A federal appeals court on Tuesday declared California's same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitutional, putting the bitterly contested, voter-approved law on track for likely consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court. (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Lea Suzuki)
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    Children wait to shake hands with Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, at the end of a campaign rally in Loveland, Colo., Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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    France's President Nicolas Sarkozy takes a picture with a camera borrowed from a photographer as he visits a day care center in Lavaur, western France, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool)
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    Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney holds One-year-old Madison Busch during a campaign rally in Loveland, Colo., Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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    New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning holds up the Vince Lombardi Trophy during the team's NFL football Super Bowl parade in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. The Giants returned from their Super Bowl win to a celebration the likes that only New York can throw: a ticker-tape parade in the Canyon of Heroes on Broadway, where the city has honored stars for almost a century. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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    People skate on the frozen Keizersgracht canal in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Volunteers poured onto frozen rivers and lakes in the northern Netherlands on Tuesday to shovel away snow that is one of the major hurdles in the way of a grueling speedskating race called Elfstedentocht, or 11 Cities Tour being held for the first time in 15 years. (AP Photo/Margriet Faber)
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    New York Giants fans cheer during the team's NFL football Super Bowl parade in New York, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. The Giants returned from their Super Bowl win to a celebration the likes that only New York can throw: a ticker-tape parade in the Canyon of Heroes on Broadway, where the city has honored stars for almost a century. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)
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    Lampposts are covered in ice in the Adriatic coastal town of Senj, Croatia, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Europeans across the continent have been battling more than a week of extreme weather, with thousands still trapped by snow in remote, mountain villages in the Balkans; hundreds - most of them homeless - dead after temperatures hit as low as minus 33 Fahrenheit (minus 36 Celsius); and authorities now facing the prospect of flooding caused by melting snow. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
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    People are seen on boat in the flooded streets in the town of Svilengrad on Tuesday, Feb 7, 2012. Rescue operations are continuing in the southern village of Bisser which was completely flooded after a nearby dam collapsed. District governor Irena Uzunova said Tuesday that 58 residents have been evacuated, eight have been confirmed dead, and the whereabouts of an elderly couple remain unknown. (AP Photo)
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    Maldives police officers throw tear gas canisters during a clash with the military in Male, Maldives, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. The first democratically elected president Mohamed Nasheed of Maldives resigned Tuesday after police joined the protesters and then clashed with soldiers amid protests over his controversial arrest of a top judge. (AP Photo/Sinan Hussain)
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    A Hindu devotee carries a Kavadi offering cage while taking part in a procession during the Thaipusam festival at Batu Caves in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. The festival is rooted in Hindu legend and was brought from southern India by 19th century immigrants who came to the Malaysian peninsula to work in rubber estates and government offices. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)
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    A Maldives police officer, in blue, charges soldiers during a clash in Male, Maldives, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed presented his resignation in a nationally televised address Tuesday afternoon after police joined the protesters and then clashed with soldiers in the streets. (AP Photo/Sinan Hussain)
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    A Hindu devotee gets his cheek and tongue pierced with metal rods during the Thaipusam festival at Batu Caves in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. The festival is rooted in Hindu legend and was brought from southern India by 19th century immigrants who came to the Malaysian peninsula to work in rubber estates and government offices. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)
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    An Indian girl stands against a vermilion-covered wall at the Hanuman Mandir, or Monkey God Temple, in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. Wealthy devotees who often fast on Tuesdays and Saturdays will donate food during their visit to the temple. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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    Don Easton, a special investigator with Unified Investigations & Sciences, Inc., carries a melted gas can away in an evidence bag as he works, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, in the charred rubble of the home where Josh Powell and his two sons were killed Sunday, in Graham, Wash., Powell, the husband of missing Utah woman Susan Powell, died along with his children Sunday in Washington. An autopsy showed the children also suffered hatchet wounds to their necks. He was a person of interest in his wife's 2009 disappearance. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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    A Bahraini child adds her thumbprint to a banner in an area set up for children's art during an anti-government sit-in Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, in Muqsha, Bahrain. Anti-government protesters have stepped up rallies and protests in the run-up to the Feb. 14 first anniversary of Bahrain's pro-democracy uprising. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
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    Spanish Cyclist Alberto Contador of Spain gestures during a news conference in Pinto on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain, Tuesday Feb. 7, 2012. Alberto Contador was stripped of his 2010 Tour de France title and banned for two years after sport's highest court found the Spanish cyclist guilty of doping on Monday. The Court of Arbitration for Sport suspended the three-time Tour champion after rejecting his claim that his positive test for clenbuterol was caused by eating contaminated meat. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)
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    University students wave signs protesting Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear's budget cuts to the state's universities Tuesday Feb. 7, 2012, at the Capitol rotunda in Frankfort, Ky. (AP Photo/John Flavell)
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    Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, accompanied by his wife Callista, speaks in Dayton, Ohio, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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    Keck Enterprises truck driver Thomas Bolden, left, talks to Knoxville Fire Department Firefighter Mindy Myers after his 18-wheeler was struck by a CSX Corporation train Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012 in Knoxville, Tenn. Bolden, whose rig was hauling earthmoving equipment, was not injured in the accident. (AP Photo/Knoxville News Sentinel, J. Miles Cary)
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    Handguns seized by police lie, zip-tied into bundles, on the floor of the police armory, in Kingston, Jamaica, Tuesday Feb. 7, 2012. Roughly 2,000 seized guns were transported from the police armory to a cement factory and melted down by police and UN officials. (AP Photo/ David McFadden)
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    Armed soldiers maintain their blockade of the Bahian state legislature building, where up to 300 striking police officers and their families are holed up, in Salvador, Brazil, Tuesday Feb. 7, 2012. About one-third of Bahia's 30,000 police went on strike a week ago and murders in the capital's metropolitan area immediately spiked, reaching double normal rates before 2,000 troops were sent in Sunday to patrol the city in armored personnel carriers. The striking police officers are demanding pay raises and amnesty for what a judge ruled an illegal work stoppage. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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    A demonstrator holds up a banner that reads in Creole "War crimes do not prescribe" during a protest against Haiti's former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012. The appeals process for parties involved in the high-profile case against former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier has begun, Haiti's attorney general said Monday. The appeals process comes after a judge recommended that the former strongman knows as "Baby Doc" be tried for alleged financial crimes in a lesser court, and not for the human rights abuses associated with his brutal regime in the 1970s and 1980s. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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    LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 07: Tena Desae attends the World Premiere of 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel' at The Curzon Mayfair on February 7, 2012 in London, England. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)
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    LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 07: A plane passes the Full moon as it rises over Albert Bridge on February 7, 2012 in London, England. Albert Bridge is said to be one of the most romantic bridges in London, and will be the start point for the flotilla of boats that will make their way along the Thames as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebration. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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