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  • APTOPIX South Korea Body Painting Festival

    Models worn bodies arts by John Vargas from the United States, right, and Jinny Houle from Canada during the 2008 World Body Painting Festival in Daegu, South Korea, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

  • Back To School

    Three freshmen at Drew University in Madison, N.J., Dan Clement, from left, Eugene Shim and Melissa Stutzbach, walk past a mannequin welcoming students to a lingerie store in Madison, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Madison town officials invited all Drew University freshmen to tour the town with stops at shops and free lunch. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)

  • Brazil Hair Fashion Show

    Brazil's Cesar Cielo Filho, gold medal winner of the men's 50-meter swimming freestyle at the Beijing 2008 Olympics Games, displays a creation by hair stylist Carlos Carrasco, during the Hair Fashion Show in Sao Paulo, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

  • People Michael Phelps

    In this image released by Disney, Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps waves to the crowd, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008, during a parade at the Magic Kingdom in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Phelps, who took home a record-breaking eight gold medals from the Beijing Games, rode through the Magic Kingdom with Mickey Mouse on Friday as part of the "America's Homecoming Parade" at the park. (AP Photo/Disney, David Roark)

  • Spain Flower Parade

    Revelers stand in a float decorated with flowers during the battle of flowers' parade in Laredo, northern Spain, on Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the battle of flowers' parade there. (AP Photo/Juan Manuel Serrano)

  • APTOPIX Peru Magic Circuit Water

    People look at one of the fountains of The Magic Circuit of Water in Lima, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. The Magic Circuit of Water in the Reserve Park, accepted by Guinness Record as the biggest fountains complex of the world, is a complex of thirteen fountains that combine movement, lights of several colors, sounds and Peruvian images. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)

  • Peru Magic Circuit Water

    People stand at one of the fountains of The Magic Circuit of Water in Lima, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. The Magic Circuit of Water in the Reserve Park, accepted by Guinness Record as the biggest fountains complex of the world, is a complex of thirteen fountains that combine movement, lights of several colors, sounds and Peruvian images. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)

  • China Paralympics

    Chinese performers practice a number in the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, ahead of the Paralympic competition, in Beijing , China, Friday, Aug.29, 2008. The Paralympic Beijing games are due to start on September 6th.(AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)

  • China Paralympics

    Disabled Chinese journalist Jin Jing, who will cover the Paralympic competition, makes her way out of the Olympic Green in Beijing , China, Friday, Aug.29, 2008. The Paralympic Beijing games are due to start on September 6th.(AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)

  • APTOPIX Republican Convention

    Hundreds of balloons are carried past the podium of the Republican National Convention at the Xcel Center in St. Paul, Minn., Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. More than 100,000 balloons will drop on delegates Thursday night after Sen. John McCain's acceptance speech. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

  • Republican Convention

    A projected image of a waving American flag is used as the Republican National Committee unveils their national convention lectern and podium at the Xcel Center in St. Paul, Minn Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. The 30 feet by 50 feet HD screen is made of 360 segments and can project video, photography, and graphics. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

  • APTIOPIX Obama 2008

    Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, and his vice presidential running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., laugh as they order ice cream at the Windmill Ice Cream Shop in Aliquippa, Pa., on Friday, Aug. 29, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

  • McCain 2008

    Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, and his wife, Cindy, leave the store "Buckeye Corner" after purchasing Ohio State paraphernalia in Columbus, Ohio Friday afternoon, Aug. 29, 2008 during a stop on his campaign bus tour across Ohio. McCain announced his vice presidential running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in Dayton, Ohio Friday. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

  • Slow Food Nation

    Benina Burroughs of Merced, Calif., looks over a display of cherry tomatoes by Farmers with ALBA from Salinas, Calif., at a farmer's market during Slow Food Nation in San Francisco, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. The four day celebration of food goes through Sunday. Slow Food has grown into a cause advocating fair trade, sustainable farming practices and celebrating traditional foods. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

  • Colombia Fake Euros

    Counterfeit 500 euros bills seized during a police operation are displayed for the media in Bogota, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Colombian police say they raided the basement of a house and found 11.2 million in counterfeit euros meant for Europe.(AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

  • APTOPIX Philippines Muslim Rebels

    A Filipino Muslim girl walks as others pray for peace in southern Mindanao provinces during a prayer rally outside a mosque in suburban Taguig, south of Manila on Friday Aug. 29, 2008. Aid workers stepped up food assistance to hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians in the southern Philippines as fighting eased after troops overran 18 Muslim rebel camps in a 10-day offensive. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

  • APTOPIX MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINIANS

    Members of the U.S. based Free Gaza group who arrived in Gaza in two boats on Saturday, and two Palestinian women, one in a wheel chair, raise their hands waiting to be permitted by Israeli soldiers to approach the Erez Crossing between the northern Gaza Strip and Israel, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. A human rights group says two boats have departed for Cyprus from Gaza, carrying dozens of international activists who defied Israel's blockade of the coastal strip. The activists sailed into Gaza on Saturday Aug. 23, 2008 to protest Israel's blockade, imposed after the anti-Israel Hamas movement took control there last year. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

  • APTOPIX MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINAINS DAILY LIFE

    Ultra-Orthodox Jews walk through a Palestinian market next to Damascus Gate in Jerusalem's Old City, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

  • Thailand Political Unrest

    Riot police scuffle with demonstrators outside the United Nations Building in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Thai police muscled into crowds of anti-government protesters occupying the prime minister's office compound Friday to deliver a court order demanding they leave, sparking scuffles that left several people with minor injuries. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

  • APTOPIX Thailand Political Unrest

    Anti-government demonstrators push past police barricades near the Royal Plaza Friday, Aug. 29, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. Thai police muscled into crowds of anti-government protesters occupying the prime minister's office compound Friday to deliver a court order demanding they leave, sparking scuffles that left several people with minor injuries. (AP Photo/David Longstreath)

  • APTOPIX Philippines Muslim Rebels

    Filipino Muslim woman looks on during a prayer rally for peace in southern Mindanao provinces at a mosque in suburban Taguig, south of Manila on Friday Aug. 29, 2008. Aid workers stepped up food assistance to hundreds of thousands of displaced civilians in the southern Philippines as fighting eased after troops overran 18 Muslim rebel camps in a 10-day offensive. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)

  • Georgia Russia

    A boy holds a toy gun in a street in Tskhinvali, the regional capital of Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. A brief war broke out between Russia and Georgia following Georgia's assault on South Ossetia's capital, Tskhinvali, on Aug. 7, 2008. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

  • APTOPIX  Georgia Ethnic Abuse

    Ethnic Ossetian Yekaterina Doguzova, 70, left, and her daughter-in-law Zemfira Doguzova, 34, reacts, at the place of temporary grave of son and husband Lenya Doguzov, 46, in a fruit garden near their house in Ksuisi village, 20 kms east of Tskhinvali, near South-Ossetian- Georgian border Georgia, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2008. The war between Russia and Georgia has caused the worst rift between Russia and the West since the Cold War. But it has also pitted neighbor against neighbor in this region of mountain slopes and fruit orchards, home to two ethnic groups who have lived side by side for centuries. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

  • Severe Weather

    Residents view a massive tree Friday, Aug. 29, 2008, that fell on the roof of a home in downtown Phoenix as a result of Thursday night's fierce storm that hit the Phoenix area..A series of fast-moving thunderstorms packing winds of up to 100 mph plowed through the Phoenix area, leaving tens of thousands without power, briefly shutting down the airport and ripping the roof off a brand-new college football facility. (AP Photo/Dave Seibert/The Arizona Republic)** MARICOPA COUNTY OUT, COCONINO COUNTY OUT,MAGS OUT NO SALES**

  • APTOPIX Jamaica Tropical Weather

    The bodies of two people who were killed when their home was destroyed by Tropical Storm Gustav are transported to a truck in Kingston, Jamaica, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Deadly Gustav drenched Jamaica and menaced the Cayman Islands on Friday, and on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall, forecasters said for the first time there's a better-than-even chance that New Orleans will get slammed by tropical storm-force winds. (AP Photo/Collin Reid)

  • APTOPIX Jamaica Tropical Weather

    Residents watch a bridge that collapsed due to heavy rains caused by Tropical Storm Gustav in Kingston, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Gustav ripped off roofs, downed power lines and pounded rain into Jamaica, triggering landslides and flooding but no reported deaths. The death toll rose to 67 in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, where Gustav left dangerous floods.(AP Photo/Collin Reid)

  • APTOPIX Jamaica Tropical Weather

    A home is seen fallen into a swollen river caused by Tropical Storm Gustav in Kingston, Jamaica, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Deadly Gustav drenched Jamaica and menaced the Cayman Islands on Friday, and on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's landfall, forecasters said for the first time there's a better-than-even chance that New Orleans will get slammed by tropical storm-force winds. (AP Photo/Collin Reid)

  • Cayman Islands Tropical Weather

    A bulldozer passes on the beach in front of a seaside resort, as good weather held even as the Gustav storm system was expected later in the day, on Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman Island, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Tropical Storm Gustav has drenched Jamaica and threatens to menace the Cayman Islands, setting off alarm from Cuba to New Orleans. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

  • HURRICANE KATRINA ANNIVERSARY

    Louisiana National Guardsmen, from left, Gerald Falgout, Rebel Barcia, Jonathan Smith and Jeff Bohne prepare for the approaching storm Gustav, which may become a hurricane, on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, La., Aug. 29, 2008. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)

  • Cayman Islands Tropical Weather

    Workers at a seaside resort carry sandbags in preparation for a possible storm surge as the Gustav storm system approaches, on Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman Island, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Tropical Storm Gustav has drenched Jamaica and threatenes to menace the Cayman Islands, setting off alarm from Cuba to New Orleans. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

  • Cayman Islands Tropical Weather

    A woman walks on the beach, at the Westin Casuarina Resort and Spa, as good weather held even as the Gustav storm system was expected later in the day, on Seven Mile Beach, Grand Cayman Island, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Tropical Storm Gustav has drenched Jamaica and threatenes to menace the Cayman Islands, setting off alarm from Cuba to New Orleans. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

  • HURRICANE KATRINA ANNIVERSARY

    Patrina Peters,left, hugs Geneva Seals during a memorial ceremony on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, La., Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. New Orleans braces for Tropical Storm Gustav as it enters the Gulf of Mexico. In background is a military honor guard. (AP Photo/Cheryl Gerber)

  • Katrina Anniversary

    Retired Army Gen. Russel Honore, right, listens to New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin make remarks at the graveside of a Hurricane Katrina victim at a memorial service in New Orleans, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Honore led his Army troops in the early days after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city. It has been three years since the deadly storm struck the city and unclaimed victims are just being buried. Joining Nagin and Honore is City Council woman Shelley Midura. (AP Photo/Bill Haber)

  • APTOPIX Cambodia New Monkeys

    A yellow-cheeked crested gibbon sits in a cage at Cambodia's Phnom Tamau Zoo in Takeo province, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) south of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. The New-York-based Wildlife Conservation Society announced its findings in a statement Friday. The group says its researchers, working with Cambodian wildlife officials, have counted 42,000 black-shanked douc langurs along with 2,500 yellow-cheeked crested gibbons in the Seima Biodiversity Conservation area in a remote northeastern corner of the country. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

  • CORRECTION Georgia Russia

    ** CORRECTS NAME OF THE VILLAGE ** A house on fire is seen in the ethnic Georgian village of Eredvi, in Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2008. Russian forces and their armed allies have driven all Georgians out of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and are now ethnically cleansing other areas of Georgia, a senior Georgian official charged Thursday. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

  • Waterfalls Ruined Plants

    Trees and plants at the River Cafe restaurant, right, affected by spray from one of the waterfalls, left, are shown underneath the Brooklyn Bridge Friday, Aug. 29, 2008 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Four waterfalls built as an art spectacle on Manhattan's East River are the subject of an eco-uproar for the damage their brackish mist is doing to the waterfront greenery. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)




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