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Interim Palestinian leader and front-runner in the upcoming Jan 9 presidential elections Mahmoud Abbas, center waves to the crowd during a campaign ra...

San Antonio Spurs' Beno Udrih (14) from Slovenia looks for room against Portland Trail Blazers' Damon Stoudamire (3) and Ruben Patterson (21) during t...

San Antonio Spurs' Beno Udrih (14) from Slovenia looks for room against Portland Trail Blazers' Damon Stoudamire (3) and Ruben Patterson (21) during t...

Jerry Croes attachs a milking machine to one of his cows at his farm in Deer Park, Wis., Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004. (AP Photo/Janet Hostetter)

Palestinian boys sit under posters for presidential candidate and human rights activist Mustafa Barghouti outside a meeting where he was speaking in t...

French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, right, talks with Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin before a news conference at the Hotel Matignon i...

Nach oben schaut ein Kursmakler am letzten Handesltag des Jahres, Donnerstag 30. Dezember 2004, im Handelssaal der Boerse in Frankfurt. (AP Photo/Bern...

Texas State Rep. Norma Chavez, left, and Texas Department of Transportation (TxDot) district engineer Chuck Berry install a Texas State Official licen...

French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier arrives for a government meeting at the Hotel Matignon in Paris, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004, to address the fallou...

Seattle SuperSonics guard Ray Allen (34) goes to the net against Atlanta Hawks forward Al Harrington, left, during the fourth quarter, Thursday, Dec....

Seattle SuperSonics guard Ray Allen (34) goes to the net against Atlanta Hawks forward Al Harrington, left, during the fourth quarter, Thursday, Dec....

Palestinians walk at a main intersection in the West Bank town of Ramallah, Thursday Dec. 30, 2004 next to posters of presidential candidates, interim...

Skiers and snowboarders coast down the slopes at Berkshire East ski area in Charlemont, Mass., on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004. Ski resorts across New Engl...

A wide swath of destruction of Banda Aceh brought about by Sunday's earthquake-triggered Tsunami is shown from the commercial plane Thursday Dec. 30,...

Volunteers of Edhi welfare trust carry packs of medicines, to be sent to victms of the tsunami on Thursday, Dec 30, 2003, Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistan...

U.S. Marines walk on patrol, in Ramadi, Iraq, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

People walk along Moscow's Poklonnaya Hill on a Thursday morning, with a building of Moscow State University at the background, Dec. 30, 2004. (AP Pho...

Seattle SuperSonics forward Danny Fortson (21) leaves the court against the Atlanta Hawks during the fourth quarter after being ejected by NBA referee...

Brazilian President, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, and the Economy Minister, Antonio Palocci, attend a ceremony for the signing of a law that crea...

Volunteers of Edhi welfare trust pack medicines for victms of the tsunami on Thursday, Dec 30, 2003, Karachi, Pakistan. Pakistan government sent 12 to...

Swiss HC Davos' Niklas Hagman, left, crashes on the ice in front of Sparta Prague's Michal Dragoun, during their game, at the 78th ice hockey Spengler...

Real Madrid's new Brazilian coach Wanderley Luxemburgo, center, chats with the club's directors Emilio Butragueno, left, and Italian Arrigo Sacchi dur...

Real Madrid's new Brazilian coach Wanderley Luxemburgo, center, chats with the club's directors Emilio Butragueno, left, and Italian Arrigo Sacchi dur...

Detroit Pistons' Rasheed Wallace, right, knocks the ball from Miami Heat's Shaquille O'Neal (32) during the first half Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004, in Aub...

Quinnipiac's Rob Monroe takes the ball in in the second half of the Connecticut-Quinnipiac game in Hartford, Conn., Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004. Monroe wa...

Real Madrid's Italian soccer director Arrigo Sacchi, left, and Spanish sporting director Emilio Butragueno, center, smile after presenting their newly...

Supporters of opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko take a break in the tent camp in downtown Kiev, Thursday Dec. 30, 2004. Yushchenko's backers said th...

FedEx employees prepare a shipment of medical supplies from International Aid of Spring Lake, Mich., on a FedEx plane at the Grand Rapids, Mich., airp...

FedEx employees prepare a shipment of medical supplies from International Aid of Spring Lake, Mich., on a FedEx plane at the Grand Rapids, Mich., airp...

FedEx employees prepare a shipment of medical supplies from International Aid of Spring Lake, Mich., on a FedEx plane at the Grand Rapids, Mich., airp...

Ron Matthews, of Ames, Iowa, says goodbye to his wife Dee before boarding a flight, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004, in Des Moines, Iowa. Matthews, the forme...

Emma Morehouse-Hulbert, 6, of Northampton, Mass., gets a lesson from ski instructor Laura Turner at Berkshire East ski area in Charlemont, Mass., on T...

Connecticut's Antonio Kellogg, right, watches as Quinnipiac's Van Crafton trips over Connecticut's Josh Boone in the first half of the Connecticut-Qu...

Real Madrid's newly hired coach Wanderley Luxemburgo from Brazil, right, aswers questions to the media after his news conference as the Spanish sporti...

Real Madrid newly hired coach Wanderley Luxemburgo from Brazil talks to the media during his news conference in Madrid, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004. The B...

Soldiers of the Brazilian air force, prepare a load with humanitarian aid for the quake victims in Thailand, in Brasilia, Brazil, on Thursday, Dec. 30...

Soldiers of the Brazilian air force, prepare a load with humanitarian aid for the quake victims in Thailand, in Brasilia, Brazil, on Thursday, Dec. 30...

Soldiers of the Brazilian air force, prepare a load with humanitarian aid for the quake victims in Thailand, in Brasilia, Brazil, on Thursday, Dec. 30...

Team Canada's Jan Alston, left, tries to control the puck in front of Finnish IFK Helsinki's Lasse Pirjeta, at the 78th ice hockey Spengler Cup tourna...

People weatch televised speech of Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf at a elctronic store in Karachi, Pakistan on Thursday, Dec.30, 2004. Mu...

Islets are formed of what used to be part of Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province in northwest of Indonesia, as seen from a commercial plane on Th...

Islets are formed of what used to be part of Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province in northwest of Indonesia, as seen from a commercial plane on Th...

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Ron Matthews, of Ames, Iowa, kisses his wife Dee goodbye before boarding a flight, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004, at the airport in Des Moines, Iowa. Matth...

Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., talks about his new roll as the chairman of the budget committee, at his office in Concord, N.H., Thursday Dec. 30, 2004. (A...

Louisiana State's Antonio Hudson (42) shoots against Florida State's Alexander Johnson (32) as Diego Romero (25) watches during the first half of a Su...

Star-Dirigent Lorin Maazel waehrend der Generalprobe des Neujahrskonzert mit den Wiener Philharmonikern im Goldenen Saal des Musikervereins in Wien,...

Trenton Robertson of the James Bowie High School Outdoor Performing Ensemble of Austin, Texas, performs at Bank One Ballpark during the Fiesta Bowl Na...

An injured Sri Lankan woman rests against her belongings in a temporary camp for people who lost their houses in the tsunami following a massive earth...

Secretary of State Colin Powell talks to reporters at the Indonesian Embassy on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2004 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)