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    A green and white ribbon, the school colors of Sandy Hook Elementary School is seen attached to a bus on the first day of school after the holiday break, in Newtown, Conn., Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Nearly three weeks after the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, students and teachers from the school will return to class Thursday in the neighboring town of Monroe. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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    A woman hugs a child before he boards a bus on the first day of classes after the holiday break, in Newtown, Conn., Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Children from Sandy Hook Elementary School will return to school Thursday in the neighboring town of Monroe. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
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    Guy Veneruso carries one of the 26 stars being installed on the roof of the Sandy Hook fire station Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, in Newtown, Conn. The stars were made and installed by a group of local contractors to honor the memory of the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting. Nearly three weeks after the shooting rampage, classes are set to start for the Sandy Hook students Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 at a repurposed school in the neighboring town of Monroe. (AP Photo/The News-Times, Brett Coomer)
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    Twin mothers Aimee, left, and Ashlee Nelson hold their newborn sons Donavyn Bratten, left, and Aiden Lee Alan Dilts at Summa Akron City Hospital on Monday, Dec. 31, 2012, in Akron, Ohio. The mothers, 19, gave birth about two hours apart. (AP Photo/Akron Beacon Journal, Michael Chritton) MANDATORY CREDIT
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    Karen Tyson drops off her Christmas tree for recycling at Myrtle Grove Middle School Wednesday Jan. 2, 2013 in Wilmington, N.C. A sign that the holidays are really over: It's time to recycle the Christmas tree. (AP Photo/The Star-News, Paul Stephen)
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    Joe Burkhead water skis into the beach area at the end of his loop on Tuesday afternoon Jan. 1, 2013 in his backyard lake in Reidland, Ky. Burkhead and his family and friends have been carrying on the January 1 skiing for 34 years; going out for the first time on January 1 1979. (AP Photo/The Paducah Sun, Allie Douglass)
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    Tim Nowakowski, 26, of Factoryville, Pa. a grounds crew worker at Keystone College, toses out rock salt to melt the ice and snow in the parking lot of the campus on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013 in LaPlume, Pa. (AP Photo / The Scranton Times-Tribune, Butch Comegys) WILKES BARRE TIMES-LEADER OUT; MANDATORY CREDIT
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    FILE – JANUARY 01, 2013: “America’s New Year Celebration” continued today with the 124th annual Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California. Launched on January 01, 1890 by members of Pasadena’s Valley Hunt Club, The Rose Parade comes alive with floats made of flowers, equestrians and marching bands. The 2013 theme was “Oh, The Places You’ll Go!”, let’s see where the Rose Parade has been! PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 01: Members of the Pasadena City College band perform at the 122nd Annual Tournament of Roses Parade presented by Honda on January 1, 2011 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
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    Kade Owen keeps a tight grip as he hangs on for an eight-second ride while his brother Hayden, makes the bucking action by raising and lowering their backyard bucking barrel in El Dorado, Ark. on Wednesday, January 2, 2012. The two brothers, along with friends Sawyer and Saxon Morgan, were honing their bucking skills while enjoying the last few days of their Christmas break. (AP Photo/The El Dorado News-Times, Michael Orrell)
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    Firefighters working from the roof of a carport use pike poles to pull loose siding and other debris in the early morning light Wednesday Jan. 2, 2013, as smoke billows from the two-story house on fire in Jersey County, Ill. Firefighters battled temperatures in the teens as well as the fire but no injuries were reported. (AP Photo/The Telegraph,John Badman ) THE NEWS-DEMOCRAT AND THE POST-DISPATCH OUT
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    Sixteen-year-old Emma Burke of Coeur d'Alene glides across a frozen Fernan Lake on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. (AP Photo/The Spokesman-Review, Kathy Plonka) COEUR D'ALENE PRESS OUT
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    "Serengeti Steve" from Reptile Experience in Ballwin, Mo., has a little fun with a lizard and a squeamish Alyson Varble, 11, of Godfrey, Ill., during a reptile show at the RiverBender Community Center in downtown Alton, Ill., Wednesday Jan. 2, 2013. "Serengeti Steve" was a top 50 contestant on the television show America's Got Talent and holds the Guinness World Record of 17 minutes and 17 seconds for holding a venomous live scorpion in his mouth. (AP Photo/The Telegraph, Johyn Badman) THE NEWS-DEMOCRAT AND THE POST-DISPATCH OUT
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    Alex Hackel, 16, of Newry, Maine, skis the rail at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston, Maine, on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Hackel, Garret Carver of Peru, Maine, and Tim Dubois of Windham, Maine, spent the day traveling around Lewiston and Auburn while scouting out places to shoot for their ski film "Act 1." (AP Photo/The Lewiston Sun-Journal, Daryn Slover)
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    Anne Easby-Smith, left, and Trace Robbins, right, who work for House Speaker John Boehner, help to prepare the Rayburn Room on Capitol Hill in Washington,Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, where members of the House of Representatives will pose for pictures at an oath of office ceremony with Boehner. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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    Bambi Brook of the Sanctuary for Animals walks camels Ted, left, and Azuri on William Lain Road in Westtown, N.Y., on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The camels returned from Radio City Music Hall, where they were performing in the Christmas Spectacular. (AP Photo/Times Herald-Record, Tom Bushey)
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    A pedestrian is framed by a statue while crossing Public Square in Wikes-Barre, Pa., Wednesday Jan. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/The Citizens' Voice,Mark Moran ) MANDATORY CREDIT
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    A Filipino trader blows a horn during the first day of trading at Philippine Stock Exchange at the financial district of Makati, south of Manila, Philippines on Wednesday Jan. 2, 2013. Stock markets in Asia registered relief Wednesday over the U.S. congressional vote to stop hundreds of billions of dollars in automatic tax increases and spending cuts that risked plunging the world's biggest economy into recession. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
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    Passengers travel in a wooden carriage car on the historic subway system, Line A, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The city government announced that the almost 100-year-old 'La Brugeoise' wooden carriages will be replaced in a short time by modern Chinese units. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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    Ukrainians walk on a frozen water reservoir in the Dnieper River outside Kiev, Ukraine, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The temperature in the Ukrainian capital was -2 degrees Celsius (28 Fahrenheit) on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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    Water flows through a snow covered Muddy Creek Falls on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012 at Swallow Falls State Park near Oakland, Md. Park officials had closed off the walkway nearest the water due to potential safety hazards. At 53 feet high, Muddy Creek Falls is the highest free-falling waterfall in the state of Maryland.(AP Photo/Cumberland Times-News, Steven Bittner)
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    Visitors look at an exhibit on display during the opening of "Art Experiment" exhibition at Garage Center for Contemporary Culture’s in Moscow's Gorky Park, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The exhibition is sponsored by the British Council. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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    Mikhail Metzel - AP
    Visitors look at an exhibit on display during the opening of "Art Experiment" exhibition at the Garage Center for Contemporary Cultures in Moscow's Gorky Park, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The exhibition is sponsored by the British Council. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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    Mikhail Metzel - AP
    Visitors move through a so-called "art fog" during the opening of the "Art Experiment" exhibition at the Garage Center for Contemporary Cultures in Moscow's Gorky Park, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The exhibition is sponsored by the British Council. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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    Mikhail Metzel - AP
    Visitors look at an exhibit on display during the opening of "Art Experiment" exhibition at the Garage Center for Contemporary Cultures in Moscow's Gorky Park, Russia, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The exhibition is sponsored by the British Council. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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    A male Eastern Bluebird perches on a wood rail near Kingfisher Lake Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013, in Owensboro, Ky. The Daviess County Audubon Society chapter conducted its annual bird count Tuesday. (AP Photo/The Messenger-Inquirer, Gary Emord-Netzley)
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    BRISTOL, ENGLAND - JANUARY 02: Keeper Pippa Green helps count some of the penguins as part of the annual stock take at Bristol Zoo on January 2, 2013 in Bristol, England. The annual animal 'census' is carried out at the start of each year and includes stocktaking more than 400 species; from tiny insects, fish and birds, to seals, gorillas and monkeys. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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    BRISTOL, ENGLAND - JANUARY 02: A meerkat watches as Sarah Hall (not pictured) counts them as part of the annual stock take at Bristol Zoo on January 2, 2013 in Bristol, England. The annual animal 'census' is carried out at the start of each year and includes stocktaking more than 400 species; from tiny insects, fish and birds, to seals, gorillas and monkeys. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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    BRISTOL, ENGLAND - JANUARY 02: Keeper Sarah Hall helps count some of the meerkats as part of the annual stock take at Bristol Zoo on January 2, 2013 in Bristol, England. The annual animal 'census' is carried out at the start of each year and includes stocktaking more than 400 species; from tiny insects, fish and birds, to seals, gorillas and monkeys. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)
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    Roland Weihrauch - AP
    A young snowy owl looks into the camera at the zoo in Krefeld, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The species is native to northern Eurasia and North America. (AP Photo/dpa, Roland Weihrauch)
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    Matthias Rietschel - AP
    A Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus) catches a fish in his compound at the zoo in Dresden, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/dapd, Matthias Rietschel)
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    Randal Horobik - AP
    Dusty Tuckness takes part Saturday, June 30, 2012 in the Cody/Yellowstone Xtreme Bulls event in Cody, Wyo. The Meeteetse, Wyo., native was honored for the third consecutive season as the Bullfighter of the Year at the Wrangler NFR in Las Vegas earlier this month. (AP Photo/Powell Tribune, Randal Horobik)
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    Patrick Semansky - AP
    Darcia Anthony, left, and Danielle Williams react after participating in a wedding ceremony at City Hall in Baltimore, Tuesday, Jan. 1, 2013. Same-sex couples in Maryland are now legally permitted to marry under a new law that went into effect after midnight on Tuesday. Maryland is the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line to approve same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
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    Altaf Qadri - AP
    Indians keep themselves warm around a fire on a cold morning in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Dense fog enveloped the city in the morning hours affecting road and rail traffic as well as operations at the International Airport, according to a local news agency. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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    Tsering Topgyal - AP
    Indian laborers warm themselves sitting around a bonfire in New Delhi, India Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Dense fog enveloped the city in the morning hours affecting road and rail traffic as well as operations at the International Airport, according to a local news agency. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)
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    Manish Swarup - AP
    Delhi municipal workers warm themselves around a bonfire, in New Delhi, India , Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Dense fog enveloped the city in the morning hours affecting road and rail traffic as well as operations at the International Airport, according to a local news agency. (AP Photo/ Manish Swarup)
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    Altaf Qadri - AP
    A construction worker keeps her child under a shawl as she sits outside her makeshift tent on a cold morning in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Dense fog enveloped the city in the morning hours affecting road and rail traffic as well as operations at the International Airport, according to a local news agency.(AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)
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    Channi Anand - AP
    A homeless child sits wrapped in a towel in his temporary home under a flyover in Jammu, India, Wednesday, Jan. 2,2013. Dense fog and severe cold wave is affecting road and rail traffic in northern India, according to local news news agency. (AP Photo/Channi Anand)
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    ISRAEL - JANUARY 2: (ISRAEL OUT) In this handout image supplied by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO), A general view of the border security fence along the Israel-Egypt border as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a ceremony to mark its completion on January 2, 2012 in Israel. The construction of the 4.7- meter-tall, 242-kilometer-long fence, built to prevent terrorist incursions, smugglers and illegal migrants took two years to complete and reportedly cost approximately NIS 1.6 billion. (Photo by Moshe Milner/GPO via Getty Images)
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    Ariel Schalit - AP
    FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012 file photo, African refugees sit on the ground behind a border fence after they attempted to cross illegally from Egypt into Israel as Israeli soldiers stand guard near the border with Egypt, in southern Israel. On Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said thousands of migrant Africans who sneaked into the Jewish state will be sent home. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, File)
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    EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND - JANUARY 02: Mourners offer garments at a service of remembrance for three Thai Buddhist Monks who died in a car crash on Christmas Eve, at Oakvale Funeral Home on January 2, 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Abbot Phramaha Pranom Thongphaiboon, 43, head of the Thai Buddhist community in Aberdeen, was killed in a car crash on Christmas Eve along with his colleagues Phramaha Kriangkrai Khamsamrong, 35, and Phramaha Chai Boonma, 36. The three men were travelling to the Dhammapadipa Temple in Edinburgh when they were involved in the head-on collision on the A68 near Pathhead, Midlothian. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
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    Hoshang Hashimi - AP
    An Afghan boy tries to hit ball with a stick during an Afghani game known as 'Top Danda' in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)
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    Musadeq Sadeq - AP
    Afghan women wait to receive food and non-food winter assistance donated by the United Nation's refugee agency (UNHCR) in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Around 440 Afghan returnees and the most vulnerable families who are at risk in the cold winter weather received winter relief assistance distributed by the United Nation's refugee agency. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
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    Dar Yasin - AP
    Indian women offer prayers for a gang rape victim at Mahatma Gandhi memorial in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. India's top court says it will decide whether to suspend lawmakers facing sexual assault charges as thousands of women gathered at the memorial to independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi to demand stronger protection for their safety. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin)
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    Emanuel Ekra - AP
    Mariame Kanfando, 10, with her father, wait outside the morgue in in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, Wednesday Jan. 2, 2013, in an attempt to get the bodies of her mother and two sisters killed in a stampede on new year's eve. Survivors of a stampede in Ivory Coast that killed 61 people, most of them children and teenagers, after a New Year's Eve fireworks display at a stadium said Wednesday that barricades stopped them from moving along a main boulevard, causing the crush of people. Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara ordered three days of national mourning and launched an investigation into to the causes of the tragedy but two survivors, in interviews with The Associated Press, indicated why so many died in what would normally be an open area, the Boulevard de la Republic. An estimated 50,000 people had gathered in Abidjan's Plateau district to watch the fireworks.(AP Photo/Emanuel Ekra)
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    Majdi Mohammed - AP
    Surrounded by Israeli border police Jewish settlers from the Esh Kodesh settlement outpost sit in a field in an attempt to prevent Palestinians from farming land in the northern West Bank, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Both the settlers and Palestinians living in the area claim ownership of the disputed land. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
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    Pakistani fruit vendors, wrap themselves with shawls during a foggy and cold morning, as they wait for customers on a roadside on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)
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    A.M. Ahad - AP
    Bangladeshi boatmen wait for passengers at the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/A.M. Ahad)
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    Ben Curtis - AP
    A Chadian soldier wearing reflective sunglasses observes the convoy ahead of him, as Chadian soldiers who are fighting in support of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, ride on the road leading to Damara, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad line the two-lane highway just outside of Damara, supporting government forces who want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital, and Gen. Jean Felix Akaga, who heads a 10-nation regional force, says the town is a "red line that the rebels cannot cross" or his forces will attack. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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    Ben Curtis - AP
    A Chadian soldier fighting in support of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, sits on a truck in a convoy of other Chadian soldiers near Damara, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. After troops under Bozize seized the capital in 2003 amid volleys of machine-gun and mortar fire, he dissolved the constitution and parliament, and now a decade later it is Bozize himself who could be ousted from power with rebels having seized more than half the country and made their way to the doorstep of the capital in less than a month. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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    Ben Curtis - AP
    Chadian soldiers who are fighting in support of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, sit in a truck full of rocket-propelled grenades on the road leading to Damara, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad line the two-lane highway just outside of Damara, supporting government forces who want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital, and Gen. Jean Felix Akaga, who heads a 10-nation regional force, says the town is a "red line that the rebels cannot cross" or his forces will attack. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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    Ben Curtis - AP
    Chadian soldiers who are fighting in support of Central African Republic president Francois Bozize, ride on a truck full of weapons in a convoy on the road leading to Damara, about 70km (44 miles) north of the capital Bangui, Central African Republic Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. More than 30 truckloads of troops from Chad line the two-lane highway just outside of Damara, supporting government forces who want to block a new rebel coalition from reaching the capital, and Gen. Jean Felix Akaga, who heads a 10-nation regional force, says the town is a "red line that the rebels cannot cross" or his forces will attack. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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    Mahesh Kumar A - AP
    Indian students shout slogans and burn an effigy representing the government during a protest demanding better protection for women after the suspicious death of a 23-year-old university student, in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The student was found dead in the house of another student from the same university. An autopsy report is being awaited, according to news reports. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
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    Mahesh Kumar A - AP
    An Indian student shouts slogans during a protest demanding better protection for women after the suspicious death of a 23-year-old student of Osmania University in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The female student was found dead in the house of another student from the same university. An autopsy report is being awaited, according to news reports. (AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
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    Rivo Andries - AP
    A Sri Lankan asylum seeker who was rescued from a troubled boat adrift trying to reach Australia looks out from a porthole of a rescue ship upon arrival at Teluk Bayur port in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Officials said they rescued 46 asylum seekers on Wednesday after their boat broke down while trying to reach Australia. (AP Photo/Rivo Andries)
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    Nasser Nasser - AP
    An Egyptian street vendor displays coconuts with a price tag in Arabic that reads, "5.5 Egyptian pounds," in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The Egyptian pound slipped further against the dollar on Monday, a downward plunge on the first two days of trading under a new system, as the president tried to assure a worried public that the crisis atmosphere will end soon. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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    Nasser Shiyoukhi - AP
    Greek Orthodox clergymen clean the Church of the Nativity, believed by many Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)
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    Adel Hana - AP
    Palestinian members of Hamas' special security unit participate in a graduation ceremony in Gaza City, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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    Adel Hana - AP
    Palestinian members of Hamas' special security unit demonstrate freeing hostages from a hijacked helicopter during a graduation ceremony in Gaza City, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
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    Mohammed Ballas - AP
    Israeli army soldiers rest prior to a military training exercise near the West Bank town of Tubas, in the Jordan valley, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Israel's army has ordered dozens of Palestinian Bedouins to leave their communities in a remote West Bank area while it conducts military exercises there. The military says the order is temporary, and that the Palestinians are living illegally in closed military zones. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)
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    Andoni Lubaki - AP
    Syrian rebels gather around a fire as they plan patrols in the Saif al-Dawlah neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The United Nations estimated Wednesday that more than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria's 21-month-old uprising against authoritarian rule, a toll one-third higher than what anti-regime activists had counted. The U.N. human rights chief called the toll "truly shocking." (AP Photo/Andoni Lubaki)
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    Anonyomous - AP
    This citizen journalism image taken from video provided by Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a wounded man being pulled from the site of a Syrian government airstrike on a gas station in the eastern Damascus suburb of Mleiha, Syria, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. Activists say dozens of people have been killed or wounded in an air raid on a gas station near the capital Damascus. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)
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    Andoni Lubaki - AP
    A Syrian rebel plays football in the Saif al-Dawlah neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The United Nations estimated Wednesday that more than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria's 21-month-old uprising against authoritarian rule, a toll one-third higher than what anti-regime activists had counted. The U.N. human rights chief called the toll "truly shocking." (AP Photo/Andoni Lubacki)
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    Chris Ratcliffe - Bloomberg
    The moon is seen illuminated above the reactor dome at the Sizewell B nuclear power station, operated by Electricite de France SA (EDF), in Sizewell, U.K., on Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. EDF operates eight U.K. atomic power stations and has proposed to add Areva reactors at its Hinkley Point and Sizewell sites. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
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    Shakil Adil - AP
    A Pakistani man rides a horse along the beach of Karachi, Pakistan as the sun sets, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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    j. Scott Applewhite - AP
    Dark skies are seen over the Capitol on New Year's Day in Washington, Jan. 1, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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    Orlin Wagner - AP
    Water drips from an icicle as snow melts in Lawrence, Kan., Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. The condition of the Kansas winter wheat crop has deteriorated in the wake of December's limited rain and snow. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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