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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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Ossetian women sit on the front steps of their house in Tskhinvali, regional capital of Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Russia recognized South Ossetia and the separatist Black Sea province of Abkhazia as independent nations after the five-day war and has ringed the regions with checkpoints the West says violate the terms of a cease-fire brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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A boy suffering from diarrhoea rests at flood relief camp in Araria district town in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, September 7, 2008. Authorities battling a massive deluge in eastern India issued public warnings on Friday of more floods to come and asked villagers not to return home from temporary shelters yet.
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Jean Sarkozy (up), son of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Neuilly municipal counselor holds his hand on UMP' secretary general Patrick Devedjian on September 7, 2008 at the end of a summer rally of French ruling right-wing UMP party in Royan, southwestern France.
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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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Food and Drug Administration's food safety chief Dr. David Acheson, M.D., center, listens to testimony from California Tomato Farmers President Ed Beckman, left, and Ace Tomato Company President Parker Booth, right, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 31, 2008, during the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on the recent salmonella outbreak.
JACK'S(TM) Hangover Relief was recently FDA Over-The-Counter Approved for the U.S. Consumer Market and is hitting stores now for the 4th of July holiday weekend with a Military tribute pack saluting our troops. JACK'S(TM) is available in a multitude of packaging styles to fit specific market demographics and is donating a percentage of its proceeds to related charities such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD).
WASHINGTON - JUNE 12: Assistant FDA Commissioner for Food Protection David Acheson (C) listens to food safety experts testify before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations June 12, 2008 in Washington, DC. During the hearing , titled "American Lives Still at Risk: When Will FDA's (Food and Drug Administration) Food Protection Plan Be Fully Funded and Implemented?", many members of the committee questioned at the lack of progress by the FDA plan for food safety.
WASHINGTON - JUNE 12: Assistant FDA Commissioner for Food Protection David Acheson (2nd R) listens to food safety experts testify before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations June 12, 2008 in Washington, DC. During the hearing , titled "American Lives Still at Risk: When Will FDA's (Food and Drug Administration) Food Protection Plan Be Fully Funded and Implemented?", many members of the committee questioned at the lack of progress by the FDA plan for food safety.
WASHINGTON - JUNE 12: (L-R) Government Accountability Office Director of Food and Agriculture Issues Lisa Shames, Eli Lilly and Company Vice President of Scientific Affairs Gail Cassell; University of Florida's Emerging Pathogens Institute Director Glenn Morris, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services Research Professor of Health Policy Michael Taylor take the oath before testifying before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations June 12, 2008 in Washington, DC. During the hearing , titled "American Lives Still at Risk: When Will FDA's (Food and Drug Administration) Food Protection Plan Be Fully Funded and Implemented?", many members of the committee questioned at the lack of progress by the FDA plan for food safety.
WASHINGTON - JUNE 12: Government Accountability Office Director of Food and Agriculture Issues Lisa Shames testifies before the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations June 12, 2008 in Washington, DC. During the hearing , titled "American Lives Still at Risk: When Will FDA's (Food and Drug Administration) Food Protection Plan Be Fully Funded and Implemented?", many members of the committee questioned at the lack of progress by the FDA plan for food safety.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Andrew C. von Eschenbach holds petri dishes with salmonella colonies as he talks with microbiologist Carlota Santos standing next to bags of tomatoes being tested for salmonella bacteria at FDA's southwest regional research lab, in Irvine, Calif., Monday June 9, 2008, where microbiologists are working to trace the source of the outbreak. McDonald's, Wal-Mart and other U.S. chains have halted sales of some raw tomatoes as federal health officials work to trace the source of a multistate salmonella food poisoning outbreak.
Mark Roh, U.S. Food and Drug Administration's acting regional director holds a bag of tomatoes being tested for salmonella bacteria at FDA's southwest regional research lab, in Irvine, Calif., Monday June 9, 2008, where microbiologists are working to trace the source of the outbreak. McDonald's, Wal-Mart and other U.S. chains have halted sales of some raw tomatoes as federal health officials work to trace the source of a multistate salmonella food poisoning outbreak.
With FDA clearance, ei-Nav/Artemis(TM) can now offer urologists breakthrough technology to help in the fight against prostate cancer. Artemis allows urologists to virtually "see" inside the prostate in real time during biopsy, guides them with 4D needle navigation, maps biopsy locations and saves data for future reference. Artemis, designed by Northern California-based Eigen (www.eigen.com), will first be available in Denver, San Francisco and Irvine.
Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation's Janet Woodcock is sworn in at the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing on heparin imports from China on Capitol Hill in Washington April 29, 2008. A man who said he lost his wife and a son to reactions from tainted heparin made with ingredients from China urged U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday to protect patients from other unsafe drugs.
WASHINGTON - APRIL 29: Janet Woodcock, director of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee on Capitol Hill April 29, 2008 in Washington, DC. The subcommittee listened to testimony during a hearing titled "The Heparin Disaster: Chinese Counterfeits and American Failures."
WASHINGTON - APRIL 29: Janet Woodcock, director of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee on Capitol Hill April 29, 2008 in Washington, DC. The subcommittee listened to testimony during a hearing titled "The Heparin Disaster: Chinese Counterfeits and American Failures."
WASHINGTON - APRIL 29: Janet Woodcock, director of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee on Capitol Hill April 29, 2008 in Washington, DC. The subcommittee listened to testimony during a hearing titled "The Heparin Disaster: Chinese Counterfeits and American Failures."
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