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    Manish Swarup - AP
    In this Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013 photo, Hindu holy men of the Juna Akhara sect take refuge in a tent following sudden rain during a ritual that is believed to rid them of all ties in this life and dedicate themselves to serving God as a "Naga" or naked holy men, at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna River during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India, The significance of nakedness is that they will not have any worldly ties to material belongings, even something as simple as clothes. This ritual that transforms selected holy men to Naga can only be done at the Kumbh festival. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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    Manish Swarup - AP
    Hindu holy men of the Juna Akhara sect participate in a ritual that is believed to rid them of all ties in this life and dedicate themselves to serving God as a "Naga" or naked holy men, at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna River during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. The significance of nakedness is that they will not have any worldly ties to material belongings, even something as simple as clothes. This ritual that transforms selected holy men to Naga can only be done at the Kumbh festival. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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    Manish Swarup - AP
    A Hindu holy man of the Juna Akhara sect takes part in a ritual that is believed to rid participants of all ties in this life and dedicate themselves to serving God as a "Naga" or naked holy men, at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna River during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. The significance of nakedness is that they will not have any worldly ties to material belongings, even something as simple as clothes. This ritual that transforms selected holy men to Naga can only be done at the Kumbh festival. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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    Military personnel search for bodies after a Zambia Postal Service bus collided with a truck near the town of Chifamba about 100 Kilometers (60 Miles) north of Lusaka, Zambia, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. The accident one of the worst in the nations history killed at least 51 on the spot after it crashed into a semi truck. (AP Photo/Salim Dawood)
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    Efrem Lukatsky - AP
    Ukrainian lawmakers talks in the parliament session hall in Kiev, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. The severed hand and 'No' on a poster is supposed to symbolize opposition's call to stop corruption in parliament. Opposition lawmakers block the work of the Ukrainian parliament in a sign of protest against corruption. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
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    A demonstrator holds a computer keyboard during a demonstration in Tunis, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. The Islamist party dominating Tunisia's ruling coalition on Thursday rejected its own prime minister's decision to form a non-partisan technocratic government to try to appease critics, signaling that the political crisis brought on by the assassination of a prominent leftist politician is far from over. (AP Photo)
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    Amine Landoulsi - AP
    A relative of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid cries over his coffin at his parents' home near Tunis, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. The Islamist party dominating Tunisia's ruling coalition on Thursday rejected its own prime minister's decision to form a non-partisan technocratic government to try to appease critics, signaling that the political crisis brought on by the assassination of Belaid, a prominent leftist politician, is far from over. (AP Photo/Amine Landoulsi)
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    Daniel Ochoa De Olza - AP
    People are seen holding banners reading 'NO' through the smoke made by beekeepers as they take part in a protest called by the Union of Small Farmers and Stockbreeders against cuts in the agricultural sector, near the European Union headquarters in Madrid, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013.(AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
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    Miguel Angel Morenatti - AP
    Nico Rosberg of Germany and Mercedes GP drives during a test at the Jerez racetrack in southern Spain, Thursday Feb. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Miguel Angel Morenatti)
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    Lee Jin-man - AP
    Shirtless South Korean Marines and their U.S. counterparts from 3-Marine Expeditionary Force 1st Battalion from Kaneho Bay, Hawaii, run on a snow covered field during their Feb. 4-22 joint military winter exercise in Pyeongchang, east of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. More than 400 marines from the two countries participated in the joint winter exercise held for the first time in South Koreas. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)
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    Vadim Ghirda - AP
    Zen, a Shar Pei puppy, is carried by her owner on a chilly day in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
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    J. Scott Applewhite - AP
    Outgoing Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the Pentagon's role in responding to the attack last year on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where the ambassador and three other Americans were killed. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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    Manuel Balce Ceneta - AP
    President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. The president Barack Obama said he hopes they maintain the morning's bipartisan spirit a little longer. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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    Abdullah al-Yassin - AP
    In this Thursday, Feb. 6, 2013 photo, a Syrian woman stands amid the ruins of her house which was destroyed in an airstrike by government warplanes a few days earlier, killing 11 members of her family, in the neighborhood of Ansari, Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Abdullah al-Yassin)
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    Jerome Delay - AP
    A Malian woman waits at a checkpoint on the banks of the Niger river outside Gao, northern Mali, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. French troops began to withdraw from Timbuktu Thursday after securing the fabled city as they ramped up their mission in another northern Mali city, searching for Islamic extremists who may be mixing among the local population. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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    Jerome Delay - AP
    A Malian donkey sports a skull chain as it walks in Gao, northern Mali, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. French troops began to withdraw from Timbuktu Thursday after securing the fabled city as they ramped up their mission in another northern Mali city, searching for Islamic extremists who may be mixing among the local population. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
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    Kevin Warn - AP
    Police respond in Riverside, Calif., early Thursday morning, Feb. 7, 2013, after one officer was killed and another critically wounded in a shootout with a murder suspect. Police were searching for former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner, who is the main suspect in the weekend killings of a couple whose bodies were found in Irvine, and who has threatened to kill police. Investigators believe Dorner is responsible for two separate overnight shootings about 60 miles east of Los Angeles in Riverside County. Dorner was fired from the LAPD in 2008 for making false statements. (AP Photo/Kevin Warn)
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    Nick Ut - AP
    RE-TRANSMITTED FOR ALTERNATE CROP-Los Angeles Police Department officers investigate the site of a shooting Thursday Feb. 7, 2013 in Corona, Calif. Christopher Dorner is suspected of this shooting of two LAPD officers who were sent to Corona to protect someone Dorner threatened in a rambling online manifesto. Thousands of police officers throughout Southern California and Nevada hunted Thursday for Dorner, a former Los Angeles officer who was angry over his firing and began a deadly shooting rampage that he warned in an online posting would target those on the force who wronged him(AP Photo/Nick Ut)
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    Manish Swarup - AP
    Indian devotees dry their cloths after a dip at Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati River as others arrive during the Maha Kumbh festival in Allahabad, India Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. Millions of Hindu pilgrims are attending the Maha Kumbh festival, which is one of the world's largest religious gatherings that lasts 55 days and falls every 12 years. During the festival pilgrims bathe in the holy Ganges River in a ritual they believe can wash away their sins. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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    Manish Swarup - AP
    An Indian Hindu devotee dries her clothes after taking a dip in Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, Yamuna and mythical Saraswati River, during the Maha Kumbh festival, in Allahabad, India, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. Millions of Hindu pilgrims are attending the Maha Kumbh festival, which is one of the world's largest religious gatherings that lasts 55 days and falls every 12 years. During the festival pilgrims bathe in the holy Ganges River in a ritual they believe can wash away their sins. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
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    Mukhtar Khan - AP
    Kashmiri laborers pull tourists on sleds in Gulmarg, some 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Srinagar, India, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. Gulmarg, which means meadow of flowers, was transformed into a resort by the British nearly a century ago. Located at (9,000 feet) 2,745 meters above sea level, it gets one to one and a half meters (3-5 feet) of snow in the winter. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan)
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    Aaron Borton - AP
    Crawford County, Ind., Sheriff Tim Wilkerson, left, and Deputy Debra Young, back to camera. comfort Rose Turben, center, as they stand in front of a mobile home where five of Turben's family members died in a mobile home fire Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013 in Sulpher, Ind. Wilkerson said it took firefighters two hours to extinguish the fire that gutted the home, according to the The Courier Journal. (AP Photo/The Courier Journal, Aaron Borton)
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    Vincent Yu - AP
    In this Jan. 25, 2013 photo, 77-year-old Yeung Ying Biu sits inside his 1.5 square meter (16 square feet) cage, which he calls home, in Hong Kong. For many of the richest people in Hong Kong, one of Asia's wealthiest cities, home is a mansion with an expansive view from the heights of Victoria Peak. For some of the poorest, home is a metal cage. Some 100,000 people in the former British colony live in what's known as inadequate housing, according to the Society for Community Organization, a social welfare group. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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    Vincent Yu - AP
    In this Jan. 25, 2013 photo, 62-year-old Cheng Man Wai lays in his cage, measuring 1.5 square meters (16 square feet), which he calls home, in Hong Kong. For many of the richest people in Hong Kong, one of Asia's wealthiest cities, home is a mansion with an expansive view from the heights of Victoria Peak. For some of the poorest, home is a metal cage. Some 100,000 people in the former British colony live in what's known as inadequate housing, according to the Society for Community Organization, a social welfare group. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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    Boris Roessler - AP
    President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Mario Draghi laughs during the press conference at the ECB headquarter after a council meeting in Frankfurt Germany,Thursday Feb. 7, 2013. The European Central Bank says it is keeping its benchmark rate at a record low 0.75 percent despite pressure from hard-pressed businesses for a cut. Even though the economy of the 17 European Union countries that use the euro is in recession, there have been positive recent signals from forward-looking surveys, which likely played a large factor in the bank's decision. (AP Photo/dpa, Boris Roessler)
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    Fernando Vergara - AP
    In this Feb. 5, 2013 photo, Anaplastologist Hernan Baron displays a prosthetic eye at his studio in Bogota, Colombia. Baron has been making silicone prosthetic body parts for over 15 years for patients with disfigurements and specializes in the reconstruction of ears, noses, eyes and hands. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
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    J. Scott Applewhite - AP
    CIA Director nominee John Brennan, flanked by security, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, to testify at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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    Felipe Dana - AP
    In this photo taken Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, samba dancer Diana Prado looks in a makeup mirror as applies makeup before the start of a carnival parade at central station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Prado made her Carnival debut at age 19, after auditioning for a spot with the Sao Clemente, one of 13 top-tier schools that will compete for the annual titles at the Sambadrome this weekend. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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    Felipe Dana - AP
    In this photo taken Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, samba dancer Diana Prado, right, is with her costume as she prepares for a carnival parade at central station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Though samba dancers, or "passistas," as they're known in Portuguese, are unquestionably the star attractions of the world's most iconic Carnival celebrations, they're not on the payroll of the samba school they represent. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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    Felipe Dana - AP
    In this photo taken Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, samba dancer Diana Prado performs during a carnival parade at central station in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Prado spends her daylight hours working as a supervisor at a call center. At night, she is a samba dancer, or "passista," as they're known in Portuguese. Prado made her Carnival debut at age 19, after auditioning for a spot with the Sao Clemente, one of 13 top-tier schools that will compete for the annual titles at the Sambadrome this weekend. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
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    Geert Vanden Wijngaert - AP
    British Prime Minister David Cameron, right, is watched by the media as he arrives for an EU Budget summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. European Union leaders braced for all-night negotiations in Brussels to try and strike a deal on EU spending for the next seven years, after the summit start was delayed by hours. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
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    Alessandro Trovati - AP
    Italy's Dominik Paris speeds down the course during training for the men's downhill, at the Alpine skiing world championships in Schladming, Austria, Thursday, Feb.7, 2013. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)
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    Chris Lee - AP
    St. Louis Blues center David Backes is tripped up by Detroit Red Wings center Tomas Tatar (21) during the third period of their NHL hockey game, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, in St. Louis. The Red Wings won 5-1. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chris Lee) EDWARDSVILLE INTELLIGENCER OUT; THE ALTON TELEGRAPH OUT
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    Julio Cortez - AP
    New Jersey Devils left wing Patrik Elias, left, of the Czech Republic, eyes the puck before linesman Ryan Galloway (82) dropped it on the ice during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Tampa Bay Lightning, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013, in Newark, N.J. The Devils won 4-2. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
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    Richard Drew - AP
    Models are schooled on the runway before the Tadashi Shoji Fall 2013 collection is modeled during Fashion Week in New York, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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    Richard Drew - AP
    A model has a tattoo stating "We're all mad here" on her inner arm as the Tadashi Shoji Fall 2013 collection is modeled during Fashion Week in New York, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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    Kathy Willens - AP
    A model walks the runway at the presentation of the Kenneth Cole Fall 2013 fashion collection during Fashion Week in New York, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
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    Gerry Broome - AP
    Duke's Quinn Cook (2) blocks a shot by North Carolina State's Tyler Lewis during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Durham, N.C., Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. Duke won 98-85. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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    John Dixon - AP
    Illinois' Tyler Griffey (42) is hoisted onto his teammates' shoulders after hitting the winning basket, giving Illinois a 74-72 win over No. 1-ranked in an NCAA college basketball game at Assembly Hall in Champaign, Ill., on Thursday Feb. 7, 2013.(AP Photo/John Dixon)
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    Charles Krupa - AP
    Boston Celtics forward Paul Pierce (34) celebrates a 3-pointer as guard Leandro Barbosa (12) reacts and Los Angeles Lakers forward Antawn Jamison (4) walks away during the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game in Boston, Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. Pierce scored 24 points as the Celtics won 116-95. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
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    Gerry Broome - AP
    Duke's Quinn Cook, right, drives to the basket as North Carolina State's C.J. Leslie, center, defends during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in Durham, N.C., Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. Duke won 98-85. Duke's Amile Jefferson watches at left. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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    Winslow Townson - AP
    North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell is congratulated by Boston College coach Erik Johnson after recording her 900th career win, in North Carolina's 80-52 win over Boston College in an NCAA college basketball game in Boston on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
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