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Mario Mueller steers his huskies on the snow track during an international dog sled race in Nassau, eastern Germany, Saturday, Jan. 10, 2004. The top mushers will need about 20 minutes for a 10 Km distance. (AP photo/Matthias Rietschel)
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This is the daily market chart for Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004. (AP Photo) (Click for Large Photo)
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Southbound traffic on Interstate 95 moves past the scene where a tanker truck carrying a flammable liquid plunged off an Interstate 895 overpass and exploded along Interstate 95, in Elkridge, Md., at about 3 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004. The crash killed at least four. Interstate 95 was closed for four hours in both directions. Two southbound lanes reopened at 7 p.m., but the northbound route remained shut down. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark) (Click for Large Photo)
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Emergency personnel work at the scene of a accident on Interstate 95 in Elkridge, Md., Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004. At least four people were killed Tuesday after a tanker truck carrying a flammable liquid plunged off a highway overpass and exploded into a fiery mass along Interstate 95 south of Baltimore, officials said. (AP Photo/ Steve Ruark) (Click for Large Photo)
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U.S. Army troops recover an Apache attack helicopter from a field near the restive central Iraqi town of Falluja January 13, 2004. Iraq's U.S. Governor Paul Bremer said guerrilla attacks had fallen dramatically in the wake of Saddam Hussein's capture, and the United Nations planned to assess safety for a possible return of international U.N. staff. U.S. soldiers killed at least four Iraqi civilians in a town at the heart of guerrilla attacks on Tuesday, witnesses said, while the Apache crashed nearby after an apparent ground fire attack. Two crewmen escaped unhurt. Photo by Akram Saleh/Reuters (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13, 8:16 PM ET - (Reuters)
Abdelaziz al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, SCIRI, a key Shiite group in Iraq and a member of the US-appointed Governing Council, right, speaks to the media after talks with Turkey's Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, unseen, in Ankara on Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13, 7:12 PM ET - (AP)
U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld listens to a reporter's question during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, January 13, 2004. Rumsfeld on Tuesday called a U.S. military trial of Saddam Hussein unlikely but did not rule it out, and said the U.S. reserved the right to change his prisoner-of-war legal status. Photo by William Philpott/Reuters (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13, 6:54 PM ET - (Reuters)

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Spanish King Juan Carlos waves as he arrives in Santiago International airport, January 13, 2004. The Spanish monarchs are in Chile for a three-day official state visit. REUTERS/Max Montecinos (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13, 9:44 PM ET - (Reuters)
Former South Vietnamese vice president and staunch anti-communist Nguyen Cao Ky (R) is due to Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon, the city he fled nearly 30 years ago at the end of the Vietnam War. He is seen here in conference with Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (L) with President Lyndon B. Johnson (R) and Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Thieu (L) seated behind(AFP/National Archives) (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13, 9:38 PM ET - (AFP/National Archives)
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman speaks to reporters after giving a speech at the Elks Club in Dover, New Hampshire January 13, 2004. Looking to jump-start his struggling presidential bid, Lieberman laid claim to the Clinton mantle on Tuesday by promising New Hampshire voters a platform of 'progressive ideas' aimed at recreating buoyant economic growth. Photo by Reuters (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13, 9:35 PM ET - (Reuters)

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Houston Rockets' Yao Ming (L) dunks the ball in front of Washington Wizards' Etan Thomas (lower right) during third quarter NBA action at the MCI Center in Washington January 13, 2004. Yao finished with 21 points as the Rockets defeated the Wizards 93-80. REUTERS/Joe Giza (Click for Large Photo)
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Thomas Johansson from Sweden hits a backhand during his match against Roger Federer from Switzerland at the Kooyong International tennis tournament in Melbourne January 14, 2004. Federer won the match 6-4 6-7 6-3 at the invitational round-robbin event, held as a warm-up for the upcoming Australian Open championship starting January 19. REUTERS/David Gray (Click for Large Photo)
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Houston Rockets' Steve Francis hangs from the rim after his dunk against the Washington Wizards in the second half of the Rockets' 93-80 win Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass) (Click for Large Photo)
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Actor/director Clint Eastwood pauses in the glare of television lights to talk to reporters before the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures 2003 annual awards gala in New York, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004. Eastwood was honored for Best Film for 'Mystic River,' which he directed. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (Click for Large Photo)
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Kathy Baker poses for photographers at the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures 2003 annual awards gala in New York Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004. Baker stars in 'Cold Mountain.' (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (Click for Large Photo)
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Actor Andy Serkis, who played Gollum in the 'Lord of the Rings,' arrives at the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures 2003 Annual Awards Gala in New York City January 13, 2004. Serkis was among the actors who won the award for Best Acting by an Ensemble. REUTERS/Henny Ray Abrams (Click for Large Photo)
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President George W. Bush will call on Wednesday for landing an unmanned spacecraft on the moon this decade to lay the groundwork for humans to return to the lunar surface and eventually visit Mars, administration officials said on January 13, 2004. Under fire from Democrats for proposing a costly new initiative at a time of record federal budget deficits, Bush said he would make the case that the nation's space program can be revamped affordably. (Reuters) (Click for Large Photo)
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A train leaves the Biblis power plant in Germany with two containers (L) of nuclear power waste. Germany is studying protecting its nuclear power stations from air attacks by shrouding them in artificial fog(AFP/DPA/File/Oliver Stratmann) (Click for Large Photo)
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Anti GM activists destroying a field of genetically modified sugar beetroot. A scientific body commissioned by the British government to look into genetically modified crops delivered a mixed verdict(AFP/File/Philippe Huguen) (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13, 2:04 PM ET - (AFP/File)

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'The Groom' Steven and 'The Bride' Randi, featured on the new Fox television network reality series 'My Big Fat Obnoxious Fianc,' are pictured in this undated publicity photograph. The mid-season show debuting January 19, 2004 centers on a young bride willing to endure a formal engagement and wedding to the world's biggest lout in order to win $1 million. (FOX/Reuters - Handout) (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13, 8:40 AM ET - (Reuters)
German Minister of Defense Peter Struck speaks to the German press after a meeting in the State Department in Washington, May 5, 2003. (Larry Downing/Reuters) (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13, 8:31 AM ET - (Reuters)
Manu Melwani, or 'Sam the Tailor', is reflected in a mirror as he looks at snapshots and letters from his clients inside his shop in Hong Kong, December 16, 2003. The Indian tailor, who has measured the towering Chinese basket player Yao Ming, corpulent former German Chancellor Helmut Koh, U.S. President George Bush, Michael Jackson and David Bowie, is known across the World in palaces, boardrooms and amongst the stars as 'Sam.' (Bobby Yip/Reuters) (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13, 8:27 AM ET - (Reuters)

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An orangutan holds its baby at the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Center in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on Borneo Island on January 11, 2004. Orangutans face extinction in as little as 20 years because of logging and poaching, the conservation group WWF-UK said on Monday. (Bazuki Muhammad/Reuters) (Click for Large Photo)
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A pony rubs his nose on a cat in the Budakeszi game park near Budapest, Hungary on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2004, after snow started to fall in the morning hours in some parts of Hungary. (AP Photo / MTI, Mate Nandorfi) (Click for Large Photo)
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Former sumo wrestler Konishiki appears with Chie Iijima, for a press conference to announce their marriage at a Tokyo hotel Monday, Jan. 12, 2004 after Konishiki registered his marriage to the 28-year-old former medical worker Jan. 7. Konishiki, a native of Hawaii, who was the first foreign-born sumo wrestler to attain the second-highest rank of ozeki, has taken up a career as a TV celebrity in Japan since retiring from sumo in 1997. (AP Photo/Chiaki Tsukumo) (Click for Large Photo)
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apanese automobile maker Mitsubishi Motors Corp. (MMC) will ask its main shareholders, including German-US auto giant DaimlerChrysler, to inject 943 million dollars. Here a Mistubishi on the Dakar rally(AFP/Philippe Desmazes) (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13, 8:22 PM ET - (AFP)
US Commerce Secretary Donald Evans announced that technology firms had secured contracts with Chinese firms worth 2.3 billion dollars(AFP/File/Yoshikazu Tsuno) (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13, 7:55 PM ET - (AFP/File)
US President George W. Bush responds to reporter's questions at a bilateral breakfast meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin during the Special Summit of the Americas at the Inter-Continental Hotel in Monterrey, Mexico.(AFP/Paul J. Richards) (Click for Large Photo)
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Diane Keaton(L) and Jack Nicholson are seen in Sony Picture's 'Something's Gotta Give' in this undated publicity photo. Hollywood's greatest fear became a reality on January 14, 2004 as film industry officials said a digital Oscar 'screener' version of 'Something's Gotta Give' was seen on the Internet after months of industry squabbling over whether sending out the videos to Academy Award voters would lead to movie piracy. A copy of the film sent to an Oscar voter was found to be downloadable from the Internet to a home PC, a spokesman for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the Oscars, said. (SPE/Reuters) (Click for Large Photo)
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A woman tests a 'Wearable Input Device' at the Samsung stand during the world's largest computer fair CeBIT 2003. CeBIT organizers said the number of visitors and exhibitors is expected to drop for the thrid year in a row(AFP/DPA/File) (Click for Large Photo)
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A shop in Singapore displays Hewlett Packard (HP) products. The US-based tech giant will spend one billion US dollars in Singapore over the next five years to strengthen its presence in the Asia-Pacific.(AFP/Angie Chan) (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13,12:05 PM ET - (AFP)

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Long cited as a driving force behind the rising obesity rates in the United States, the fast-food industry is embracing the latest dietary fads in a bid to reinvent itself as the weight-watcher's friend. Here a Tel Aviv McDonald's(AFP/File) (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13, 7:40 PM ET - (AFP/File)
Seeking to prevent the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome, the United States announced an immediate suspension on imports of civet cats.(AFP/File/Str ) (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13, 6:39 PM ET - (AFP/File)
A boy stands in front of a weighing machine at a shopping mall. Ample Asians face obesity-related illnesses just like their plump American and British counterparts, but current medical standards are ill-adapted to evaluate their risks, say experts from the World Health Organization (WHO).(AFP/File/Goh Chai Hin) (Click for Large Photo)
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A Rajasthani folk dancer at Rajpath in Jaipur. A county in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh is offering perks to policemen who grow moustaches which seniors argue add to the stature of the men in uniform.(AFP/File) (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13,12:01 PM ET - (AFP/File)
Prime Minister Tony Blair leaves No. 10 Downing Street. Blair became a radio presenter as he invited listeners in London to pick up the phone and offer suggestions on how to run the country.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis) (Click for Large Photo)
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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Lieberman speaks to reporters after giving a speech at the Elks Club in Dover, New Hampshire January 13, 2004. Looking to jump-start his struggling presidential bid, Lieberman laid claim to the Clinton mantle on Tuesday by promising New Hampshire voters a platform of 'progressive ideas' aimed at recreating buoyant economic growth. (Reuters) (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13, 9:33 PM ET - (Reuters)
A new lobby has recently opened an office near the US Congress run by beleivers in the religious left, with a goal of ousting President George. W Bush, seen here in Westminster Abbey, from the White House.(AFP/File/Peter Macdiarmid) (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13, 8:52 PM ET - (AFP/File)
US President George W. Bush (R) and Argentinian President Nestor Kirchner speak during a meeting at the Special Summit of the Americas.(AFP/PRESIDENCIA-HO) (Click for Large Photo)
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By the fence : Israeli border guards secure the construction site of Israel's controversial security barrier during night works in Abu Dis, eastern Jerusalem. (AFP/Menahem Kahana) (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13,10:04 AM ET - (AFP)
See through : A model walks the catwalk during the Hong Kong Fashion Exravaganza 'Water World' press show, part of Hong Kong Fashion Week. (AFP/Peter Parks) (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13,11:07 AM ET - (AFP)
Swiss return : Patty Schnyder of Switzerland returns a forehand to Amanda Coetzer of South Africa during their first round match at the Sydney International. (AFP/David Hancock) (Click for Large Photo)
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Tue Jan 13,11:40 AM ET - (AFP)