A U.S. Army helicopter flies over the snow-capped Hindu Kush mountains of Afghanistan in this 2002 photo. U.S. security analysts are trying to develop a set of early warning signs that could suggest which countries are in most danger of being destabilized as a result of dramatic climate changes.
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Laila Al Nabulsi, 12, stands in what she now calls home — a one-room dwelling pieced together from parts of her old house. Her family's home was demolished during the Israeli offensive in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip almost a year ago.
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'Lovely,' isn't she? Saoirse Ronan brings an appealing naturalness to the part of a murdered girl looking down on the world that survived her, but Peter Jackson's film of The Lovely Bones misses the delicate balance that made the novel work.
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Eileen Fulton at the 31st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards in 2004 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Fulton is a longtime star of As The World Turns, which was recently canceled by CBS.
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Demonstrators gather in downtown Rome during a "No Berlusconi Day" rally Dec. 5, asking for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's resignation. In the latest scandal to hit Berlusconi, a convicted mobster testified about the politician's links to the Mafia.
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