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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/381-20090708_dailyedit_01.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|406Soldiers of the Afghan National Army (ANA) leave their base at dawn on a pick-up truck in Kelagay, Baghlan province of northern Afghanistan, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The province's only ANA battalion started an operation to search for pro-Taliban fighters in the Qandahari Valley with the assistance the Ohio National Guard and the Hungarian Army. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/84-20090708_dailyedit_02.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marines sleep in their fighting holes inside a compound where they stayed for the night, in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province, Wednesday July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/763-20090708_dailyedit_03.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|356U.S. Marines from 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, RCT 2nd Battalion 8th Marines Echo Co. sleep together in an empty school that the Marines took over on July 8, 2009 in Mian Poshteh, Afghanistan . The Marines are part of Operation Khanjari which was launched to take areas in the Southern Helmand Province that Taliban fighters are using as a resupply route and to help the local Afghan population prepare for the upcoming presidential elections. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/333-20090708_dailyedit_04.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416Bravo Company commander Cpt. Drew Schoenmaker of the U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marines shaves his face and head inside a compound where they stayed for the night, in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/242-20090708_dailyedit_05.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marines run out to assist after a helicopter dropped an emergency water resupply outside a compound where they stayed for the night, in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/110-20090708_dailyedit_06.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416The tattoo of a U.S. Marine from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marine, is seen through a hole on the back of his uniform shirt, as he stands guard at a compound in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/145-20090708_dailyedit_07.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|397An Afghan police officers is seen during a search operation for pro-Taliban fighters in Kuk Cenar, in Baghlan province, northern Afghanistan, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/662-20090708_dailyedit_08.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|404U.S. Marines from the 2nd MEB, 1st Battalion 5th Marines watch as a helicopter drops an emergency water resupply outside a compound where they stayed for the night, in the Nawa district of Afghanistan's Helmand province, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/09/12/786-Panda_03.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525WASHINGTON - JULY 09: Giant panda Tai Shan checks out his birthday cake at the National Zoo July 9, 2009 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/863-20090708_dailyedit_09.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|381A child wears a mask as a precaution against swine flu outside a hospital in Buenos Aires, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/454-20090708_dailyedit_10.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|427High-rise residential buildings are reflected in a poster in Hong Kong Wednesday, July 8, 2009. Hong Kong Financial Secretary John Tsang has said the economy will most likely improve in the second half of the year, after a record contraction in the previous three months, as demands for exports have improved. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/698-20090708_dailyedit_11.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525A young Turk holds a poster made of a photo of the recent killings in Urumqi, the capital of China's Uighur region, during a protest near the Chinese embassy in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. Several hundred Turks denounced the violence in China's Xinjian region that has left over 150 people dead.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/132-20090708_dailyedit_12.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416Zhang Xiangying, a Han Chinese patient, who was injured during ethnic clashes recuperates at People's Hospital in Urumqi, western China's Xinjiang province, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. Ethnic clashes have paralyzed Urumqi over the past several days, with minority Uighur and Han Chinese mobs roaming the streets and attacking each other. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/359-20090708_dailyedit_13.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525Chinese security forces get into formation on the People's Square in Urumqi, western China's Xinjiang province, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. China flooded the capital of western Xinjiang province with security forces Wednesday, and President Hu Jintao cut short a visit to the G8 summit as Beijing tries to stem a tide of ethnic clashes in the wake of a riot that left at least 156 dead. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/143-20090708_dailyedit_14.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|405Heavily armed Chinese police officers patrol in a Uighur neighborhood a day after Han Chinese mobs attacked it in Urumqi, China, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. Sobbing Muslim women scuffled with riot police, and Chinese men wielding steel pipes and meat cleavers rampaged through the streets as ethnic tensions worsened in China's oil-rich Xinjiang territory, prompting the president to cut short a summit trip abroad Wednesday.(AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/440-20090708_dailyedit_15.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|413Demonstrators make the V sign front of a placard during a gathering to protest against the disputed re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad front of the City Hall of Paris , France, Wednesday July 8, 2009. Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe voiced his for support 23-year-old French university teaching assistant Clotilde Reiss, who was arrested at Tehran airport in Iran on July 1 on spying charges. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/957-20090708_dailyedit_16.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|344Fog is seen in the valleys between the peaks of the Erzgebirge mountains, as the sun rises near Koenigstein, Germany, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/448-20090708_dailyedit_17.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525Revelers are chased by Cebada Gago's ranch fighting bulls on the second day of the running of the bulls during the San Fermin festival in Pamplona, northern Spain, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The fiestas 'Los San Fermines' held since 1591, attracts tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year for nine days of revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/107-20090708_dailyedit_18.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|440Revelers run on Estafeta Street during the second run of the Cebada Gago fighting bulls at the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The second day of the running of the bulls in Pamplona has left three people slightly injured. Hospital spokesman Fernando Boneta says the victims were injured in the leg or head. He says there was an unconfirmed report of a fourth runner having been poked with a bull's horn. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/206-20090708_dailyedit_19.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525Revelers are chased by a Cebada Gago fighting bull, on the second day, at the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The second day of the running of the bulls in Pamplona has left three people slightly injured. Hospital spokesman Fernando Boneta says the victims were injured in the leg or head. He says there was an unconfirmed report of a fourth runner having been poked with a bull's horn. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/476-20090708_dailyedit_20.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525Two revellers, seen, during the beginning of the second run of the Cebada Gago fighting bulls at the San Fermin festival, in Pamplona, northern Spain, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The second day of the running of the bulls in Pamplona has left three people slightly injured. Hospital spokesman Fernando Boneta says the victims were injured in the leg or head. He says there was an unconfirmed report of a fourth runner having been poked with a bull's horn. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/701-20090708_dailyedit_21.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|454One Spanish 'banderillero ' puts barbed darts into a fighting bull during the bullfight at San Fermin Fiestas in Pamplona, northern Spain, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The fiestas 'Los San Fermines' held since 1591, attracts tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year for nine days of revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/539-20090708_dailyedit_22.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525Spanish matador Francisco Marco is tossed by a Cebada Gago fighting bull during a bullfight at the San Fermin Fiestas in Pamplona, northern Spain, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The fiestas 'Los San Fermines' held since 1591, attracts tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year for nine days of revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/716-20090708_dailyedit_23.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525A horse of the '' picador '' is tossed by one of Cebada Gago fighting bulls during the bullfight at San Fermin Fiestas in Pamplona, northern Spain, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The fiestas 'Los San Fermines' held since 1591, attracts tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year for nine days of revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/520-20090708_dailyedit_24.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|395Spanish matador Sergio Aguilar performs during a bullfight at San Fermin Fiestas in Pamplona, northern Spain, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The fiestas 'Los San Fermines' held since 1591, attracts tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year for nine days of revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/83-20090708_dailyedit_25.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|408People walk down San Nicolas Street early in the morning after the bull run, during the San Fermin Fiestas in Pamplona, northern Spain, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The fiestas 'Los San Fermines' held since 1591, attracts tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year for nine days of revelry, morning bull-runs and afternoon bullfights. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/798-20090708_dailyedit_26.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416England's Paul Collingwood hits a ball from Australia's Nathan Hauritz during the first day of the first test in Cardiff, Wales, Wednesday July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Tom Hevezi)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/639-20090708_dailyedit_27.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|493Australia's Mitchell Johnson, left, reacts after taking the wicket of England's captain Andrew Strauss caught by Michael Clarke for 30 on the first day of the first cricket test match between England and Australia in Cardiff, Wales, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/407-20090708_dailyedit_28.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416A Russian Mi-26 helicopter transports the new giant catamaran Alinghi 5, built for the 33rd America's Cup by Swiss defender team Alinghi, from its shipyard in Villeneuve to the Geneva Lake, western Switzerland, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. After losing a court case against American challenger BMW Oracle Racing, Switzerland-based Alinghi set them up to race the 33rd America's Cup in 90-foot multihulls in February 2010. (AP Photo/Keystone/Jean-Christophe Bott)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/924-20090708_dailyedit_29.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416A Russian Mi-26 helicopter transports the new giant catamaran Alinghi 5, built for the 33rd America's Cup by Swiss defender team Alinghi, from its shipyard in Villeneuve to the Geneva Lake in Le Bouveret, western Switzerland, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. After losing a court case against American challenger BMW Oracle Racing, Switzerland-based Alinghi set them up to race the 33rd America's Cup in 90-foot multihulls in February 2010. (AP Photo/Keystone/Dominic Favre)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/309-20090708_dailyedit_30.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|499Mikhail Ignatiev of Russia, foreground left, Mark Cavendish of Britain, wearing the best sprinter's green jersey, and American Tyler Farrar, far right, lead the sprint of the pack during the fifth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 196.5 kilometers (122 miles) with start in Le Cap d'Agde and finish in Perpignan, southern France, Wednesday July 8, 2009. Ignatiev took second place, Cavendish third place and Farrar fourth place. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/267-20090708_dailyedit_31.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|415American seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong drinks while riding in the pack during the fifth stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 196.5 kilometers (122 miles) with start in Le Cap d'Agde and finish in Perpignan, southern France, Wednesday July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Bas Czerwinski)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/537-20090708_dailyedit_32.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416Gilda Bautista, 44, holds a banner during a road blockade organized by supporters of Honduras' ousted president Manuel Zelaya on the outskirts of Tegucigalpa, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. Roberto Micheletti, who took over following the June 28 coup that toppled Zelaya and has resisted international pressure to reinstate him, applauded the announcement that Costa Rican President Oscar Arias has agreed to mediate efforts to end the standoff. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/684-20090708_dailyedit_33.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|427Marie Lourdes Pierre, a patient with HIV/AIDS, receives a glass at her house in Blanchard, central Haiti. Haitian infection rates dropped from 6.2 percent to 3.1 percent among expectant mothers in the last 15 years. Researchers recently switched to a new methodology that tests all adults, which puts Haiti's official rate at 2.2 percent, according to UNAIDS.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/500-20090708_dailyedit_34.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|388An Indonesian electoral volunteer hands an unmarked ballot to a voter Wednesday, July 8, 2009, in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia. Indonesians voted Wednesday in their country's second direct presidential election, and early ballot counts showed the incumbent would likely win a single-round victory on the back of recent economic and political stability. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/978-20090708_dailyedit_35.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525Muslims carry the body of Abdullah Bukhari, the Shahi Imam, or Royal Cleric, of the 17th-century Jama Mosque, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. According to a local news agency, Bukhari died in New Delhi Wednesday. He was 87. (AP Photo/Mustafa Quraishi)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/59-20090708_dailyedit_36.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|403A Kashmiri protester carries a tin sheet to shield himself from tear gas shells and stones coming from the side of policemen during a protest against the death of a man they say was abducted by security forces in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/250-20090708_dailyedit_37.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|367A policeman fires a tear gas shell towards Kashmiris protesting the death of a man they say was abducted by security forces in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/648-20090708_dailyedit_38.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|339An unnamed baby elephant calf explores alongside his mother Thura the elephant barn at the Hagenbeck Zoo on July 8, 2009 in Hamburg, Germany. The female calf was born on Saturday July 04 with a weight of 90 kilos as the fifth calf of Mother elefant Thura and the twelfth Indian elephant of the Hamburg Hagenbeck zoo. (Photo by Martin Rose/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/959-20090708_dailyedit_39.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525Lions rest in an enclosure at the Nehru zoological park in Hyderabad, India, Wednesday, July 8, 2009.(AP Photo/Mahesh Kumar A.)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/762-20090708_dailyedit_40.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525A tiger feeds in the Serengeti Park Hodenhagen, northern Germany, on Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The park took over eight tigers which were in a bad condition from a circus in Portugal in Oct. 2008. Now the big cats were shown to the public the first time.(AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/480-20090708_dailyedit_41.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525A seal pup eats a herring at the seal station in Friedrichskoog at the North Sea, northern Germany, on Wednesday, July 8, 2009. A total of 69 abandoned young common seals (Phoca vitulina) grow up here until they will be reintroduced to their natural habitat in August. (AP Photo/Heribert Proepper)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/384-20090708_dailyedit_42.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|433Two goats stand on a flooded street in Mumbai, India on Wednesday, July 8, 2009. This year's monsoon season has an added peril for Mumbai's century-old sewers. On July 24, the rain may combine with the highest tide in 27 years, backing up drains in a city that's largely built on reclaimed land. The combination will test a half-completed program to widen drains and install pumps started in 2007 after floods killed more then 700 people. Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg NewsStore |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/359-20090708_dailyedit_43.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416Boys play on a flooded street in Mumbai, India on Wednesday, July 8, 2009. This year's monsoon season has an added peril for Mumbai's century-old sewers. On July 24, the rain may combine with the highest tide in 27 years, backing up drains in a city that's largely built on reclaimed land. The combination will test a half-completed program to widen drains and install pumps started in 2007 after floods killed more then 700 people. Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg NewsStore |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/185-20090708_dailyedit_44.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|402Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and children rally in the religious neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. They protested against the municipality of Jerusalem that had recently opened a parking garage near the Old City on the Jewish Sabbath. Signs in Hebrew call to save Jerusalem from destruction. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/720-20090708_dailyedit_45.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416In this picture provided by the environmental group Greenpeace, Greenpeace climbers rappel down the face of Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, S.D. on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 to unfurl a banner that challenges President Obama to show leadership on global warming. Obama is at the G8 meeting in Italy to discuss the global warming crisis with other world leaders. A federal prosecutor says a dozen people were taken into custody on Wednesday after the incident. (AP Photo/Greenpeace, Kate Davison)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/552-20090708_dailyedit_46.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|445Activists, one wearing a mask of Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, strip during a demonstration to highlight the issue of global warming on the first day of the G8 (Group of Eight) Summit in L'Aquila, at the Spanish Steps, in Rome, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Salvatore Laporta)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/509-20090708_dailyedit_47.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and his first lady Michelle Obama, right, arrive in Pratica di Mare military airport on the outskirts of Rome, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. Obama is in Italy to attend the G8 (Group of Eight) summit in L'Aquila from July 8 to July 10. (AP Photo/Mauro Scrobogna, LaPresse)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/797-20090708_dailyedit_48.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|438Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, center, is seen as he arrives at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The leaders of the Group of Eight nations, united in their desire to work together to fight the worst economic crisis since the Depression, are discussing Wednesday how to coordinate their exit strategies once their economies are stable. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/544-20090708_dailyedit_49.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|454President Barack Obama, left, jokes with French Prime Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, seated, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, before the start of G8 meetings, Wednesday, July 8, 2009, in L'Aquila, Italy. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/87-20090708_dailyedit_50.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|412French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, center, and Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi arrive for a family photo at the G-8 Summit Wednesday, July 8, 2009, in L'Aquila, Italy. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/546-20090708_dailyedit_51.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525From left, Margarita Zavala, wife of Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Michelle Obama, Filippa Reinfeldt, wife of Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, Italian Equal Opportunities MInister Mara Carfagna and Juliana Olabintan Nwanze, wife of International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) president Kanayo Nwanze, are seen during a visit at the Capitoline Museums in Rome, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The wives of leaders attending the G8 (Group of Eight) Summit in L'Aquila visited the Capitoline Museums and on Thursday will travel to the quake-hit areas in Abruzzo. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/951-20090708_dailyedit_52.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|486President Barack Obama (2R) and Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel share a joke with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as they arrive at the G8 Summit on July 8, 2009 in L'Aquila, Italy. World leaders attending the G8 summit are expected to discuss tackling world hunger and the global reduction of greenhouse gases. (Photo by Stefan Rousseau-pool/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/628-20090708_dailyedit_53.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525From left, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi look at a hostess removing cards indicating positions for a G8 group photo in L'Aquila, Italy, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The leaders of the Group of Eight nations, united in their desire to work together to fight the worst economic crisis since the Depression, are discussing Wednesday how to coordinate their exit strategies once their economies are stable. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/415-20090708_dailyedit_54.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|367U.S. President Barack Obama, left, shares a word with French President Nicolas Sarkozy as they attend a round table meeting of G8 leaders at the G8 summit in L'Aquila, Italy on Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The leaders of the Group of Eight nations, united in their desire to work together to fight the worst economic crisis since the Depression, are discussing Wednesday how to coordinate their exit strategies once their economies are stable. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/918-20090708_dailyedit_55.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|473President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, attends a round-table discussion with the leaders of the other G8 group of nations during their summit on July 8, 2009 in L'Aquila, Italy. The talks are being held close to the site of a devastating earthquake in April of this year. The leaders are set to discuss: climate change, global security, the global recession amongst various other international issues. (Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/102-20090708_dailyedit_56.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|514President Barack Obama and Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, right, with an unidentified official, tour earthquake damage on the sidelines of the G8 Summit in L'Aquila, Italy, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/276-20090708_dailyedit_57.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|419A North Korean soldier looks at the South Korean side through a pair of binoculars at the border village of Panmunjom, which separates the two Koreas since the Korean War, South Korea, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The United States is open to talks on the possibility of South Korea developing ballistic missiles capable of striking all of North Korea, a South Korean Defense Ministry official said Tuesday.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/868-20090708_dailyedit_58.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|430A Buddhist monk looks on from behind a Buddhist flag at the Island Temple in Kogalla, outskirts of Galle in Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/301-20090708_dailyedit_59.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416An internally displaced woman looks on while taking refuge at a school in Mardan, about 130 km (80 miles) northwest of Pakistan's capital Islamabad, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. Over two million people have been displaced by the fighting in Swat Valley, Buner and other areas and more than 230,000 of them are living in refugee camps, according to international agencies. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/797-20090708_dailyedit_60.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525Pakistani internally displaced people queue for food distribution as others take away supplies from the United Nations World Food Program in Mardan, about 130 km (80 miles) northwest of Pakistan's capital Islamabad, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. Over two million people have been displaced by the fighting in Swat Valley, Buner and other areas and more than 230,000 of them are living in refugee camps, according to international agencies. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/627-20090708_dailyedit_61.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|385A Palestinian demonstrator attempts to cut barbed wire during a protest at the construction site of Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Nilin, near Ramallah, Wednesday, July 8, 2009. Israel says the barrier is necessary for security while Palestinians call it a land grab. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/391-20090708_dailyedit_62.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|374A U.S. military color guard prepares to march into a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first two American combat casualties of the Vitenam War at The Wall on the National Mall July 8, 2009 in Washington, DC. The first two of more than 58,000 names that appear on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, U.S. Army Master Sgt. Chester Ovnand and Maj. Dale Buis died on July 8, 1959 when their residential compound was attacked by North Vietnamese communists in Bien Hoa, north of what is now Ho Chi Minh City. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/938-20090708_dailyedit_63.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416War veterans (L-R) Capt. Nathaniel Ward IV, AFL-CIO Union Veterans Council members Greg Woodshed and Gordon Pavy and former Wentworth Military Academy Commandant Maj. Sam Ratcliffe pose in front of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, or The Wall, during a ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first American combat casualities of the Vietnam War on the National Mall July 8, 2009 in Washington, DC. The first two names that appear on the memorial, U.S. Army Master Sgt. Chester Ovnand and Maj. Dale Buis died on July 8, 1959 when their residential compound was attacked by North Vietnamese communists in Bien Hoa, north of what is now Ho Chi Minh City. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/250-20090708_dailyedit_64.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|416The coffin of Maj Sean Birchall arrives at Guards Chapel for his funeral on July 8, 2009 in London, England. Maj Sean Birchall of 1st Battalion Welsh Guards died on June 19, 2009 while on patrol near Lashkar Gah in central Helmand province, Afghanistan. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/673-20090708_dailyedit_65.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|231Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen (4th-R) salutes as a U.S. Army carry team transports the transfer case of U.S. Army Specialist Isaac L. Johnson during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base July 8, 2009 in Dover, Delaware. Johnson, who was from Columbus, Georgia was killed in Afghanistan earlier this week. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/108-20090708_dailyedit_66.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|406Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen (C) salutes as a U.S. Army carry team transports the transfer case of Private First Class Nicholas Gideon during a dignified transfer at Dover Air Force Base July 8, 2009 in Dover Deleware. Gideon who was from Murrieta, Ca. was in killed in Afghanistan earlier this week. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/810-20090708_dailyedit_67.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|484Drivers and a dog sit in traffic during the afternoon commute July 8, 2009 in New York City. High gas prices and a struggling economy have helped to slightly ease rush hour commuting with the first two-year decline in nationwide traffic congestion since the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University began studying the issue in 1982. The average motorist spent 1.3 fewer hours in traffic in 2007 than in 2005. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Store |
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/269-20090708_dailyedit_69.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525This photo supplied by SeaWorld San Diego, shows a Caribbean flamingo chick, which hatched on Monday, July 6,2009, nuzzled by its parent at SeaWorld in San Diego, on Tuesday, July 7, 2009. Caribbean flamingos typically weigh 4 ounces at hatch, but grow quickly, gaining as much as 20 percent of their body weight daily. They begin to stand and walk at 3 to 4 days. Flamingo chicks have a gray cottony appearance after hatching and begin to gradually turn pink when approximately 3 months old. The chick will obtain full color in about three years.(AP Photo/ Bob Couey , SeaWorld San Diego)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/683-20090708_dailyedit_70.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|449This image made using a one-hour exposure by the light of a full moon shows an antique windmill, right, dwarfed by a wind turbine during the early morning hours of Wednesday, July 8, 2009 south of Lamar, Colo. The stars passing through the wind turbine make up the Big Dipper. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/376-20090708_dailyedit_71.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|494South Windsor firefighters watch as a fire consumes the home belonging to Richard Shenkman and his ex-wife, Nancy Tyler in South Windsor, Conn., Tuesday, July 7,2009. Police say Shenkman kidnapped Tyler Tuesday morning and held her hostage at the South Windsor home during what turned out to be a 13-hour standoff with authorities. Shenkman set the house on fire and surrendered at about midnight while the house was engulfed in flames. (AP Photo/Journal Inquirer, Jim Michaud)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/873-20090708_dailyedit_72.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525Officials clear the scene of a head-on crash that occured after a freeway chase on I-70 in Columbus, Ohio, Tuesday, July 7, 2009. Authorities say a man linked by DNA to series of rapes in Los Angeles was shot by police in Ohio after the freeway chase that ended with a head-on crash. The suspect was killed, but Franklin County Coroner Dr. Jan Gorniak said Wednesday it was unclear whether 35-year-old Abram Bynum died from his gunshot wounds or from injuries from the collision with a tanker truck (AP Photo/The Dispatch, Craig Holman)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/452-20090708_dailyedit_73.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|525NASA engineers test the feasibility of what may become the Alternate Astronaut Escape System for the planned Orion spacecraft by launching a specially designed rocket on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 from the Wallop Island Flight Facility located on Wallops Island, Va. The NASA Constellation Program is developing the astronaut escape system for its Orion spacecraft, which is designed to carry humans to the International Space Station by 2015 and to the lunar surface by 2020. (AP Photo/Gary C. Knapp)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/145-20090708_dailyedit_74.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|482Blake Davis, 7, of Culver, Ind., drops his clubs after playing in the annual Garbage Open Wednesday July 8, 2009 at the Eberhart-Petro Golf Course in Mishawaka, Ind. The Open allows kids under 18 to play a round of free golf on this municipal course. (AP Photo/South Bend Tribune, Jim Rider)
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http://media.charlotteobserver.com/smedia/2009/07/08/21/39-20090708_dailyedit_68.standalone.prod_affiliate.138.jpg|451Local residents and hikers look on as a brush fire burns in the Mulholland Pass area of Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 8, 2009. The Getty Center art complex in Los Angeles is evacuating staff and visitors because of a nearby brush fire. Nearby Mount St. Mary's College also is being evacuated as a precaution. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)
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