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ANDREWS AFB, MD - MAY 16: A F-22 flies during the Joint Services Open House and Air Show May 16, 2008 at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. Military families, their guests and students attended the show, which opens to the public this weekend, featuring demonstrations by the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels and others.
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Actor Harrison Ford (R) is back as character Indiana Jones and is shown in a scene from the new film "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" in this undated publicity photograph. Even decades past their prime, Hollywood's leading men just don't want to give up their image as strapping young action heroes, as Ford proves in his return as Indiana Jones.
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NEW ORLEANS - MAY 13: Tyson Chandler #6 of the New Orleans Hornets grabs a rebound against the San Antonio Spurs in Game Five of the Western Conference Semifinals during the 2008 NBA Playoffs at The New Orleans Arena on May 13, 2008 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Hornets defeated the Spurs 101-79 to take a 3-2 lead in the series.
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CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 14: Actress Eva Longoria (C) and Aishwarya Rai (R) arrive at the Blindness premiere at the Palais des Festivals during the 61st International Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2008 in Cannes, France.
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South Korean protesters stage a candlelight vigil against U.S. beef imports in Seoul, South Korea, Saturday, May 17, 2008. The letters on the cards read "Don't like mad cow disease."
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A boy showers as water leaks out from a public well at a village hit by Cyclone Nargis, outside Yangon May 17, 2008.
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A Chinese soldier carries a little girl as they evacuate Beichuan, southwest China's Sichuan province on May 17, 2008, after the order goes out to leave the area following landslides have clogged the Qingzhu river, creating a body of water that is already overflowing into a nearby village. China has started to evacuate more than 2,000 people on fears of floods stretching for 40 kilometres (25 miles) in the wake of a deadly earthquake.
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Actor Harrison Ford is back as character Indiana Jones and is shown in a scene from the new film "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" in this undated publicity photograph. Even decades past their prime, Hollywood's leading men just don't want to give up their image as strapping young action heroes, as Ford proves in his return as Indiana Jones.
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ANDREWS AFB, MD - MAY 16: A F-22 flies during the Joint Services Open House and Air Show May 16, 2008 at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. Military families, their guests and students attended the show, which opens to the public this weekend, featuring demonstrations by the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels and others.
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CLEVELAND - MAY 16: Head coach Doc Rivers of the Boston Celtics reacts as he coaches against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game Six of the Eastern Conference Semifinals during the 2008 NBA Playoffs on May 16, 2008 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. The Cavaliers won 74-69.
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Soldiers guard a street as a woman walks past with a child during a police operation in the 'el Gallito' neigborhood in Guatemala City May 16, 2008. Hundreds of police and an equal number of soldiers stormed the notoriously dangerous district arresting 19 people for illegal weapons, drug charges and immigration violations.
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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) walks with President Hu Jintao (R) upon Hu's arrival in Mianyang, a city in quake-hit southwestern Sichuan province on May 16, 2008. Hu flew into one of the areas worst hit by the earthquake, vowing no let-up in rescue work from the country's worst disaster in a generation, which officials estimate has killed 50,000 people.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, center, waves to the victims settled temporarily at the Jiuzhou Gymnasium in earthquake-hit Mianyang of southwest China's Sichuan province, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. The deadliest earthquake to hit China in decades has killed at least 19,509 people and the toll is likely to rise sharply as tens of thousands more remain buried under debris three days after the Monday tremor.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C) consoles the families in Beichuan, southwest China's Sichuan province on May 14, 2008. Seen repeatedly on state TV cradling infants and offering hope to earthquake victims, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is reprising his role as the kinder, friendlier face of a communist leadership often viewed as aloof and distant, as within hours of China's southwest being devastated by the worst quake disaster to strike the nation in a generation, Wen, 65, the smiling life-long party bureaucrat, was on his way to the worst hit areas.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C) consoles the families in Beichuan, southwest China's Sichuan province on May 14, 2008. Seen repeatedly on state TV cradling infants and offering hope to earthquake victims, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is reprising his role as the kinder, friendlier face of a communist leadership often viewed as aloof and distant, as within hours of China's southwest being devastated by the worst quake disaster to strike the nation in a generation, Wen, 65, the smiling life-long party bureaucrat, was on his way to the worst hit areas.
This video grab taken on May 13, 2008 from China's CCTV shows Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (C) using a bullhorn to speak to people during a visit to the earthquake-hit area of Deyang county, north of Chengdu, in China's Sichuan province. The death toll from the powerful earthquake in China has exceeded 12,000 in Sichuan province alone, the official Xinhua news agency reported on May 13, quoting the local government.
This video grab taken on May 13, 2008 from China's CCTV shows Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) consoling victims of the massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Deyang county, north of Chengdu, in China's Sichuan province. The death toll from the powerful earthquake in China has exceeded 12,000 in Sichuan province alone, the official Xinhua news agency reported on May 13, quoting the local government.
This video grab taken on May 13, 2008 from China's CCTV shows Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) consoling victims of the massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Deyang county, north of Chengdu, in China's Sichuan province. The death toll from the powerful earthquake in China has exceeded 12,000 in Sichuan province alone, the official Xinhua news agency reported on May 13, quoting the local government.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) is seen helping out during the rescue operation after an earthquake in Dujiangyan, China's Sichuan Province May 13, 2008, in this image taken from CCTV television footage. Nearly 10,000 people were killed in the earthquake that hammered southwest China, officials said on Tuesday, as rescuers struggled to reach the worst-hit areas where many more may have died.
In this photo distributed by the official Chinese news agency Xinhua, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, center, and Communist Party leaders arrange relief work of the earthquake during his flight for the disaster area on Monday May 12, 2008. Premier Wen flew into southwest China's Sichuan Province on Monday afternoon and left straight for the quake-hit county of Wenchuan to oversee rescue work there, Xinhua said.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (R) consoles residents in Dujiangyan, southwest China's Sichuan province on May 12, 2008 after an earthquake measuring 7.8 rocked the province. The death toll from China's worst earthquake in over three decades climbed to nearly 10,000 with many thousands more trapped under crushed houses, schools and factories.
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