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  1. Students and those in the community gather around the statue of Joe Paterno, the former Penn State football coach who died earlier in the morning, outside Beaver Stadium on the campus of Penn State, Jan. 22, 2012 in State College, Pennsylvania. Paterno, who was 85,...

  2. Monday is Chinese New Year, and it marks the beginning of the year of the dragon, which only comes around every 12 years. In Chinese culture, it is considered good fortune to be born during the year of the dragon, and so many mothers are...

  3. A Raramuri Indian woman of the Tarahumara Mountains waits to have her children treated at a clinic in the town of Carichi, northern Mexico, Jan. 18, 2012. A severe drought has place many indigenous communities in the region under severe stress and the Mexican Red...

  4. Markus Windisch of Italy, skis through a heavy snowstorm during the men’s 4 x 7.5 km relay at the Biathlon World Cup in Oberhof, Germany, Jan. 5, 2012. Italy won the competition. (Jens Meyer/AP Photo)   Beggars, with their arms outstretched, ask for alms from...

  5.   On Jan. 5 every year in China, a commemorative stamp of the corresponding year’s Chinese Zodiac character is released to celebrate the coming lunar New Year.  It is an event not unlike the unveiling of new pair of Air Jordans. “People started lining up outside the post office around 4 a.m.,”  Ms.

  6. U.S. GONE, BAGHDAD ERUPTS – AGAIN And once again the violence appears driven by sectarian differences. A wave of explosions struck two Shiite neighborhoods in Baghdad and then pilgrims in the South Thursday, killing at least 57 people and intensifying fears that insurgents are stepping...

  7. A girl goes up the escalators at Comuna 13 neighborhood in Medellin, Colombia, Dec. 26, 2011, the day of their inauguration. The escalators are the first of their kind to be installed in a shantytown with high rates of urban violence. It is a system...

  8. Much of the world welcomed 2001 with fireworks, good cheer and optimism, and even in troubled lands the hope of a better future prevailed. Yugoslavias celebrations, the first since the ouster of Slobodan Milosevic, were dubbed the first free New Year, temple bells tolled in Japan and tens of

  9. Much of the world welcomed 2001 with fireworks, good cheer and optimism, and even in troubled lands the hope of a better future prevailed. Yugoslavias celebrations, the first since the ouster of Slobodan Milosevic, were dubbed the first free New Year, temple bells tolled in Japan and tens of

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