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A file photograph of Fitzwilliam Hunt fox hounds exercising in Milton Park, Cambridgeshire, November 1, 2002. Long-awaited British government proposals concerning hunting with dogs are expected to offer a compromise when they are announced on December 3, 2002, banning some hunts but allowing others. REUTERS/Peter Macdiarmid

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Karen Swartz and Bob Allison, both with Reagan National Airport, put away some of the knives, scissors, pepper spray and other items seized last week at the airport, on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2002, in Arlington, Va. The Transportation Safety Administration hopes to better educate people about what they can take onto airplanes by Christmas, when air travel will be complicated by new gate check procedures and many more checked bags screened for explosives.(AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)

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Rapper Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs left, dances with a South African musician, Lebo Mathosa of Boom Shaka, during an HIV /AIDS concert in Cape Town, South Africa, Saturday, Nov. 23, 2002. Combs and R&B singer Alicia Keys starred in MTV's Staying Alive Concert in Cape Town Saturday night, on a bill which also featured American R&B artist Usher and top South African acts Mandoza and Zola. . (AP Photo/Obed Zilwa)

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The Dominican Republic's synchronized swimming team perform their technical program at the Central American and Caribbean Games in San Salvador, December 4, 2002. REUTERS/Jorge Silva

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Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina is set to reach a final political goal December 5, 2002 -- celebrating his 100th birthday as the oldest member of Congress ever. First elected to the Senate in 1954, Thurmond, seen attending a Senate Armed Services Committee  hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 19, will retire on Jan. 3 when his eighth term comes to an end. (Hyungwon Kang/Reuters)

Anyone notice in those knife pictures of airport confiscations that all of the knives have their blades open?  Someone's going to get cut getting those dramatic photos.  I sure hope they closed all of them before putting them back in that big cardboard box.