This is an undated image released by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of a curious cow who got her head stuck in the drum of a washing machine drum that was illegally dumped in a field at Higher Fraddon, southwestern England The lucky cow escaped injury after her ordeal - but the RSPCA warned that Friday Aug. 29, 2008 that illegally dumping of rubbish can cause animals harm. AP Photo logo AP Photo 17 months ago

This is an undated image released by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals of a curious cow who got her head stuck in the drum of a washing machine drum that was illegally dumped in a field at Higher Fraddon, southwestern England The lucky cow escaped injury after her ordeal - but the RSPCA warned that Friday Aug. 29, 2008 that illegally dumping of rubbish can cause animals harm.

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  5. In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, Royal Society librarian Keith Moore holds the manuscript of 'Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton' by William Stukeley, pointing to the word 'gravitation', in London. An 18th-century account of how a falling piece of fruit helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity is being posted to the Web on Monday, Jan. 18, 2010, making scans of the fragile paper manuscript widely available to the public for the first time.
  6. In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, Royal Society librarian Keith Moore holds the manuscript of 'Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton' by William Stukeley, in London. An 18th-century account of how a falling piece of fruit helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity is being posted to the Web on Monday, Jan. 18, 2010, making scans of the fragile paper manuscript widely available to the public for the first time.
  7. In this photo taken Friday, Jan. 15, 2010, Royal Society librarian Keith Moore holds the manuscript of 'Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton' by William Stukeley, pointing to the words 'does this apple fall', in London. An 18th-century account of how a falling piece of fruit helped Isaac Newton develop the theory of gravity is being posted to the Web on Monday, Jan. 18, 2010, making scans of the fragile paper manuscript widely available to the public for the first time.
  8. In this Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009, Keith Moore, Britain's Royal Society head librarian stands behind a statue of Isaac Newton and his original reflective telescope from 1672, in central London. Dozens of epoch-changing moments are preserved in the library of Britain's Royal Society, an academy of scientists founded in 1660 to gather, discuss and spread scientific knowledge, a role it still fills today. Its members, dedicated to discovery through observation and experiment, form a roll-call of scientific fame: Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Charles Darwin, Stephen Hawking. All contributed scientific papers that together recount what geneticist Alec Jeffreys, the father of DNA fingerprinting and a current member of the society calls "this amazing journey over the past 350 years."
  9. LONDON - FEBRUARY 02: Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers a speech on political reform at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (RSA) on February 2, 2010 in London, England. Brown proposed that a referendum should be held on whether existing first-past-the-post Westminster elections should be replaced with an alternative order of preference system.
  10. LONDON - FEBRUARY 02: Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers a speech on political reform at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (RSA) on February 2, 2010 in London, England. Brown proposed that a referendum should be held on whether existing first-past-the-post Westminster elections should be replaced with an alternative order of preference system.
  11. LONDON - FEBRUARY 2: Prime Minister Gordon Brown answers questions after delivering a speech on political reform, at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, (RSA), February 2, 2010 in central London, England.
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  15. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown delivers a speech on political reform at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), in central London February 2, 2010.
  16. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown gestures as he answers a question after delivering a speech on political reform at the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), in central London February 2, 2010.

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