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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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A woman collects drinking water from a tube well at the flooded village of Godadhar in Faridpur July 27, 2008. Several areas in north and northeastern Bangladesh remain inundated with floodwaters after the embankments of the rivers Jamuna and Padma collapsed due to heavy rainfall earlier this week.
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LONDON - JULY 25: Reese Hoffa of United States competes in the Men's Shot Put Final during day 1 of the Norwich Union Aviva London Grand Prix at Crystal Palace Stadium on July 25, 2008 in London, England.
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Italy's Alex Schwazer reacts after winning the men's 50-kilomter walk during the athletics competitions in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Friday, Aug. 22, 2008.
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Eddy Riva of France rests after competing in the in the men's 50km walk of the athletics competition in the National Stadium at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games August 22, 2008.
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NEW YORK - AUGUST 21: Tennis Player Andy Roddick celebrates Lacoste's 75 Anniversary at Macy's Herald Square on August 21, 2008 in New York City.
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Workers labour in the fields of an organic farm at Dezevci, eastern Croatia, May 27, 2008. Farm owners hope their organic products will fare well on the markets of the European Union, which Croatia hopes to join around 2011.
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LYNCHBURG, VA - AUGUST 20: Presumptive Democratic Presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) waits to speak during a Town Hall event at EC Glass High School August 20, 2008 in Lynchburg, Virginia. Reports indicate that Obama will announce his Vice Presidential candidate on Friday and they will campaign together on Saturday.
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RALEIGH, NC - AUGUST 19: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event August 19, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Democrats hold their national convention August 25-28 in Denver.
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RALEIGH, NC - AUGUST 19: Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama listens to his introduction at a campaign event August 19, 2008 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Democrats hold their national convention August 25-28 in Denver.
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This undated file photo, originally supplied by St. Martin's Press in 2006, shows Augusten Burroughs. On the book tour for "A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father," Burroughs is ready for the skeptics. The "Running With Scissors" author is the first to broach the subject, mockingly referring to himself as a "fake memoirist."
This undated file photo, originally supplied by St. Martin's Press in 2006, shows Augusten Burroughs . A family that claimed the author defamed them in his best-selling book "Running with Scissors" has settled a Boston lawsuit against the author and his publisher, their attorney said Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2007.
This undated file photo, originally supplied by St. Martin's Press in 2006, shows Augusten Burroughs . A family that claimed the author defamed them in his best-selling book "Running with Scissors" has settled a Boston lawsuit against the author and his publisher, their attorney said Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2007.
