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US President Barack Obama shakes hands with New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson (R) after making remarks on credit card reform during a town hall meeting at Rio Rancho High School in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, May 14, 2009.

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  1. MOJAVE, CA - DECEMBER 7: Sir Richard Branson (L) watches New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) perform the christening as Virgin Galactic unveils its new SpaceShipTwo spacecraft at the Mojave Spaceport on December 7, 2009 near Mojave, California. The eight-person VSS Enterprise, named after the Star Trek ship of the same name, is the first of a series of space-planes for customers of Virgin Galactic who have paid around $200,000 for a suborbital flight into space. British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson is financing the spacecraft and aerospace designer Burt Rutan is building it through The Spaceship Company, a joint venture of Scaled Composites and Virgin Group.
  2. MOJAVE, CA - DECEMBER 7: New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson speaks as Virgin Galactic unveils its new SpaceShipTwo spacecraft at the Mojave Spaceport on December 7, 2009 near Mojave, California. The eight-person VSS Enterprise, named after the Star Trek ship of the same name, is the first of a series of space-planes for customers of Virgin Galactic who have paid around $200,000 for a suborbital flight into space. British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson is financing the spacecraft and aerospace designer Burt Rutan is building it through The Spaceship Company, a joint venture of Scaled Composites and Virgin Group.
  3. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 09: Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson (R) addresses the NDN, a think tank, as Chair of the Latin America Policy Initiative of NDN Nelson Cunningham (L) listens October 9, 2009 in Washington, DC. Richardson spoke on his resent trip to Cuba and U.S.-Latin American relations.
  4. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 09: Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson (R) addresses the NDN, a think tank, as Chair of the Latin America Policy Initiative of NDN Nelson Cunningham (L) listens October 9, 2009 in Washington, DC. Richardson spoke on his resent trip to Cuba and U.S.-Latin American relations.
  5. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 09: Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson addresses the NDN, a think tank, October 9, 2009 in Washington, DC. Richardson spoke on his resent trip to Cuba and U.S.-Latin American relations.
  6. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 09: Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson (R) addresses the NDN, a think tank, as Chair of the Latin America Policy Initiative of NDN Nelson Cunningham (L) listens October 9, 2009 in Washington, DC. Richardson spoke on his resent trip to Cuba and U.S.-Latin American relations.
  7. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 09: Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson addresses the NDN, a think tank, October 9, 2009 in Washington, DC. Richardson spoke on his resent trip to Cuba and U.S.-Latin American relations.
  8. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 09: Governor of New Mexico Bill Richardson (R) addresses the NDN, a think tank, as Chair of the Latin America Policy Initiative of NDN Nelson Cunningham (L) listens October 9, 2009 in Washington, DC. Richardson spoke on his resent trip to Cuba and U.S.-Latin American relations.
  9. Indonesian activists wear masks featuring US President Barrack Obama (L), Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2nd L), President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso(2nd R) and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during a protest against biodiversity offset programs, in Jakarta on November 18, 2009. Scores of environment activists held a protest against the program of biodiversity offset as they believed that biodiversity offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects, and is not the real solution and will ruin ecological dignity of developing countries.
  10. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: In this photo illustration, a copy of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' sits on end on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  11. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) open boxes of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' as other books sit on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  12. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Matt Cross (R) puts copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  13. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  14. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  15. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Kathrina Norris (L) and Matt Cross (R) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  16. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.

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