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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.
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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.
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Georgian soldiers run near a blazing building after a Russian bombardment in Gori, 80 km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 9, 2008. A Russian warplane dropped a bomb on an apartment block in the Georgian town of Gori on Saturday, killing at least 5 people, a Reuters reporter said. The bomb hit the five-story building in Gori close to Georgia's embattled breakaway province of South Ossetia when Russian warplanes carried out a raid against military targets around the town.
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CARSON, CA - JULY 31: Andre Villa practices in the Moto X Freestyle during the summer X Games 14 at Home Depot Center on July 31, 2008 in Carson, California.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert attends his government's weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008.
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Jeff Glasbrenner of the U.S. falls. during their wheelchair basketball preliminaries Group B match against Israel at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games September 7, 2008.
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Dotan Meishar of Israel (2nd R) shoots against the US in their Group B basketball game at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games in Beijing on September 7, 2008. US won 76-53.
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Former astronaut Lisa Nowak (R) speaks to the press as her attorneys Cheney Mason (L) and Donald Lykkebak (C) stand with her after her pre-trial hearing at Orange County Court in Orlando, Florida August 24, 2007. Nowak is accused of stalking and attacking Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman at Orlando International Airport.
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Supporters of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari, widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, in the presidential election, in front of The Parliament House in Islamabad on September 6, 2008. Zardari secured a large win in Pakistan's presidential elections on September 6, capping a remarkable rise from jail, exile and his wife Benazir Bhutto's assassination just nine months ago. The controversial front-runner swept a poll among lawmakers to become the 14th president in Pakistan's short but turbulent history, taking power in the world's only nuclear-armed Islamic state and frontline "war on terror" ally.
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Supporters of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari, widower of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto, in the presidential election, in front of The Parliament House in Islamabad on September 6, 2008. Zardari secured a large win in Pakistan's presidential elections on September 6, capping a remarkable rise from jail, exile and his wife Benazir Bhutto's assassination just nine months ago. The controversial front-runner swept a poll among lawmakers to become the 14th president in Pakistan's short but turbulent history, taking power in the world's only nuclear-armed Islamic state and frontline "war on terror" ally.
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Supporters of the ruling party, Pakistan People's Party, chant slogans as they celebrate the victory of Asif Ali Zardari in the presidential election in Islamabad September 6, 2008. Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, swept to victory in a presidential election on Saturday, as a suicide bomber killed at least 10 people in the northwest.
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ARLINGTON, VA - AUGUST 28: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen speaks to the media during a briefing August 28, 2008 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Mullen has just returned from a visit to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which was underway in the Indian Ocean.
ARLINGTON, VA - AUGUST 28: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen speaks to the media during a briefing August 28, 2008 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Mullen has just returned from a visit to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which was underway in the Indian Ocean.
ARLINGTON, VA - AUGUST 28: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen speaks to the media during a briefing August 28, 2008 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Mullen has just returned from a visit to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which was underway in the Indian Ocean.
ARLINGTON, VA - AUGUST 28: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen speaks to the media during a briefing August 28, 2008 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Mullen has just returned from a visit to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which was underway in the Indian Ocean.
ARLINGTON, VA - AUGUST 28: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen speaks to the media during a briefing August 28, 2008 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Mullen has just returned from a visit to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which was underway in the Indian Ocean.
ARLINGTON, VA - AUGUST 28: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen speaks to the media during a briefing August 28, 2008 at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Mullen has just returned from a visit to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, which was underway in the Indian Ocean.
An early morning sunrise lights Illinois' Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., Friday Aug. 22, 2008 where Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous 1858 "House Divided" speech inside Representatives Hall, and used the governor's rooms as a headquarters during the 1860 presidential campaign. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will have a pre-convention appearance here on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008.
The sun rises behind Illinois' Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., Friday Aug. 22, 2008, the building where Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous 1858 "House Divided" speech inside Representatives Hall, and used the governor's rooms as a headquarters during the 1860 presidential campaign. Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., will have a pre-convention appearance here on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2008.
This photo taken in early 1850's and provided by The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum shows Stephen A. Douglas while a Senator from Illinois. Abraham Lincoln, a longshot candidate for U.S. Senate, debated Douglas on the edge of the rolling northwestern Illinois hills 150 years ago this August. As another U.S. senator from Illinois admired for his oratorical polish_ Barack Obama _ shoots for the presidency, Illinois is marking Lincoln's rise to the national stage with a sesquicentennial commemoration of the David-and-Goliath showdowns.
First Lady Laura Bush gestures as she address the students of Edna Karr High School to promote the National Endowments for the Humanities "Picturing America" project, Thursday, Aug. 14, 2008, in New Orleans. Picturing America is a collection of 40 reproductions of American art given to schools and public libraries to help educators teach American history and culture through art. Behind Mrs. Bush is Alexander Gardner's photo of Abraham Lincoln taken Feb. 5, 1865.
This photo taken in Springfield, Ill. on Aug. 11, 2008 shows Abraham Lincoln's notes left on the dais after the third debate against Stephen A. Douglas at Jonesboro, Sept. 15, 1858, retrieved by Lincoln's law partner, John Todd Stuart. As another U.S. senator from Illinois admired for his oratorical polish _ Barack Obama _ shoots for the presidency, Illinois is marking Lincoln's rise to the national stage with a sesquicentennial commemoration of the David-and-Goliath showdowns.
Illinois State Historian Tom Schwartz, talks about the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates while in his office at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library in Springfield, Ill., Monday, Aug.11, 2008. As another U.S. senator from Illinois admired for his oratorical polish _ Barack Obama _ shoots for the presidency, Illinois is marking Lincoln's rise to the national stage with a sesquicentennial commemoration of the David-and-Goliath showdowns.
Tourists pose for pictures in front of the Jefferson Davis statue in the Capitol Rotunda as a statue of Abraham Lincoln towers in the foreground in Frankfort, Ky., Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008. Visitors this year are flocking to Kentucky sites dedicated to Lincoln, but, his Confederate counterpart, Davis, is experiencing a similar resurgence.
U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) speaks under a statue of Abraham Lincoln in a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of President Truman's Executive Order integrating the U.S. Armed Forces inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington July 23, 2008. On the left is U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).
Capt. Spencer C. Moore (L) and Sgt. A. William Perry (C), both World War II veterans of the 370th Regiment, 92nd Infantry (Buffalo) Division, are joined by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates as they speak under a statue of Abraham Lincoln while at a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of President Truman's Executive Order integrating the U.S. Armed Forces inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington July 23, 2008.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (C) speaks under a statue of Abraham Lincoln in a ceremony marking the 60th anniversary of President Truman's Executive Order integrating the U.S. Armed Forces inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington July 23, 2008. From L-R are: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Powell, and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
