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BASRA, IRAQ - OCTOBER 18: People gather around a Land Rover as it arrives at the village Al Houta on October 18 2008 near Basra, Iraq. The trip by the 51 Sqn Royal Air Force Regiment Force Protection Wing was part of a 'key leader engagement' (KLE) visit to the village close to the Basra Airbase to recruit local labour and engage with the village shiek. Visits of this type are seen as key in efforts to continue winning the support of the local Iraqi population. Although improved security in the region has brought some benefits such as improved trade and commerce, much of the infrastructure remains in a poor state of repair. Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown has indicated that the number of UK troops could be scaled down - especially as the security situation in the south of the country continues to improve.
Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during a campaign rally in the rain at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, September 27, 2008.
A puppy stands on a truck carrying people to be evacuated from the area in preparation for the approach of Hurricane Gustav in Batabano, on the southern coast of Cuba, August 30, 2008. Powerful Hurricane Gustav roared toward western Cuba on Saturday with 125 mph (205 kph) winds on its way to the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico after a deadly pass through the Caribbean.
BANGKOK, THAILAND - AUGUST 30: A member of Anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) stands behind barbed wire outside Government on August 30, 2008, in Bangkok, Thailand. The protesters want to unseat the seven-month old coalition government lead by Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej.
France's Sebastien Chabal, right, runs with the ball followed by teammates Benjamin Kayser, left, and Romain Millo-Chluski, center, during their international rugby match against Australia at Stade de France in Saint Denis, north outskirts of Paris, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008.
Astronauts Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper (L) and Steve Bowen (R) work during the mission's third spacewalk cleaning and lubricating the International Space Station's starboard Solar Alpha Rotary Joint and replacing trundle bearing assemblies in this view from NASA TV November 22, 2008. Inside the station, the crew continues to transfer equipment between the two spacecraft as ground experts troubleshoot an issue with the station's new Urine Processor Assembly (UPA), part of the system designed to process urine, perspiration and hygiene water into drinkable water.
Takeshi Koizumi (2nd R-light blue shirt), a man suspected to being involved in the murder of a former top Japanese bureaucrat, is escorted by police officers as he leaves a police station for the Tokyo metropolitan police department early on November 23, 2008 after turning himself into police. Japanese police said Koizumi was being investigated in connection with the murder on November 17 of former top pensions bureaucrat Takehiko Yamaguchi, 66, and his wife Michiko, 61, with local media reporting that he handed in a bloodstained knife to police.
SAN JOSE, CA - OCTOBER 28: Sidney Crosby #87 of the Pittsburgh Penguins skates up to a face off during the NHL game against the San Jose Sharks at HP Pavilion on October 28, 2008 in San Jose, California. The Sharks defeated the Penguins 2-1.
NEW YORK - OCTOBER 22: The new JetBlue terminal is seen at John F. Kennedy International Airport on its first official day of operation October 22, 2008 the Queens borough of New York City. The $743 million building, known as Terminal 5 (T5), has 26 gates and will handle 500 daily departures and arrivals, close to doubling the airline's capacity at JFK.
ABUJA, NIGERIA - NOVEMBER 22: Singer Flo Rida arrives for the MTV Africa Music Awards 2008 at the Abuja Velodrome on November 22, 2008 in Abuja, Nigeria.
Mayor elected of Jerusalem Nir Barkat (C) greets the Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch (R) during a visit to Judaism holiest site, on November 12, 2008 in Jerusalem's old city. The secular tycoon celebrating his election as Jerusalem mayor today vowed to turn the Holy City into a world metropolis and bolster its disputed status as Israel's "undivided" capital. Nir Barkat won 52 percent of the vote in yesterday's poll, routing an ultra-Orthodox rabbi, a scandal-plagued Russian-Israeli billionaire and a pro-cannabis candidate.
moving away from the cool, the functional and the rational tenets of Modernism toward something more sensual and transcendent. . . . I don't think it is too large a claim, in fact, to say that he is the link between Modernist architects like Neutra and Schindler and architects like Frank Gehry and Zaha Hadid. 
Lautner used the space to connect to the landscape ... It didn't matter if it was a tiny mountain cabin or it overlooked Acapulco Bay. Lautner brought the landscape in. He pushed architecture in a new direction in the second half of the 20th century.
The work had been misrepresented for so long, as sensational Space Age-ism, as Hollywood glamour. It was burdened with all these myths: It was vulgar, it was crass, it was drama, it was spectacle. But it wasn't about that. It was about trying to establish this transcendent relationship between man and his environment
he understood this was the only place he could develop his work ... He knew that yes, this was an ugly city. But there was this incredible richness of utopian, intellectual, interesting people, as open to invention as he was. He would not have been able to do this without his clients.
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