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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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A house destroyed by a landslide is seen in Hachioji, on the outskirts of Tokyo Friday, Aug. 29, 2008. Fierce rains lashed central Japan early Friday, killing one woman, inundating vast stretches of rural and residential areas, and prompting authorities to order tens of thousands from their homes.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama (D-IL) (R) hugs his wife Michelle. Democratic after his speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado August 28, 2008.
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DENVER - AUGUST 28: Fireworks go off Fireworks go off as after Obama's speech on day four of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at Invesco Field at Mile High August 28, 2008 in Denver, Colorado. Obama is the first African-American to be officially nominated as a candidate for U.S. president by a major party.
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SIERRA MADRE, CA - MAY 29: Seventieth anniversary cans of Spam, the often-maligned classic canned lunch meat made by Hormel Foods, are seen on a grocery store shelf May 29, 2008 in Sierra Madre, California. With the rise in food prices, sales of Spam are increasing as consumers look for ways to cut their food bills. According to the US Agriculture Department, the price of food is rising at the fastest rate since 1990. Increasingly expensive staples include such items as white bread, up 13 percent over last year, butter, up nine percent, and bacon at seven percent. The increasing sales have translated to 14 percent higher profits for Hormel. Spam was created in 1937 and was popularized as a staple food for World War II Western allied forces.
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Egyptian Coptic Christians demonstrate in front of the White House in Washington,DC on July 16, 2008. The protestors were demonstrating against recent attacks against Copts in Egypt and what they allege is forced Islamization.
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PHOENIX, AZ - AUGUST 25: Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) speaks during a news conference at Central High School August 25, 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona. Sen. McCain made an appearance with Puerto Rican reggaeton musician Daddy Yankee.
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PHOENIX, AZ - AUGUST 25: Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) greets students during a news conference at Central High School August 25, 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona. Sen. McCain made an appearance with Puerto Rican reggaeton musician Daddy Yankee.
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Law student Yon Goicoechea gestures during an interview in Caracas, Thursday, May 1, 2008. Goicoechea, 23, was awarded the Cato Institute's Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, worth $500,000. Goicoechea first drew attention last year, when he led protests against Venezuela's government's decision that forced an opposition TV channel off the air.
Law student Yon Goicoechea gestures during an interview in Caracas, Thursday, May 1, 2008. Goicoechea, 23, was awarded the Cato Institute's Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty, worth $500,000. Goicoechea first drew attention last year, when he led protests against Venezuela's government's decision that forced an opposition TV channel off the air.
Milton Friedman,left, economist and Nobel Prize winner, gets his prize money of $150,000 from Claes Tisell, manager of the PKbanken in Stockholm in this file photo from Dec. 1976. Friedman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist who championed individual freedom, influenced the economic policies of three presidents and befriended world leaders, died Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006. He was 94.(AP Photo/File)
Michele Horaney of the Hoover Institute on the Stanford University campus, holds up some of Milton Friedman's books in Stanford, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006. Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who advocated an unfettered free market and had the ear of three U.S. presidents, died Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006 at age 94. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
Carol Leadenham, an archivist for the Hoover Institute on the Stanford University campus, cleans the bust of Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who advocated an unfettered free market and had the ear of three U.S. presidents, on display in a reading room in Stanford, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006. Friedman died in San Francisco, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006 at age 94. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
A bust on Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who advocated an unfettered free market and had the ear of three U.S. presidents, is on display in a reading room at the Hoover Institute on the Stanford University campus in Stanford, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006. Friedman died in San Francisco, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2006 at age 94. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
Milton Friedman, left, winner of the Memorial Prize in Economics, grips the hand of Sweden's King Carl Gustaf as he receives his award in Stockholm, in a file photo from Dec. 10, 1976. Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who advocated an unfettered free market and had the ear of Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan, died Thursday. He was 94. (AP Photo/Peter Knopp, Pool, File)
(FILES)US President George W. Bush (R) honors Milton Friedman (L), the recipient of the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Science, on the occasion of his 90th birthday and joined by his wife Dr. Rose Friedman (C) during a tribute at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in this 09 May, 2002 file photo in Washington, DC. Milton Friedman died 16 November 2006, at the age of 94, the Cato Institute think-tank said. Friedman, whose economic ideas greatly influenced the policies of former US president Ronald Reagan and ex-British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, won the Nobel prize for economics in 1976. From 1946 to 1976 he taught at the University of Chicago, a bastion of free-market thinking, and more recently advised the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington. AFP PHOTO/TIM SLOAN (Photo credit should read TIM SLOAN/AFP/Getty Images)
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