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Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi bows at his seat after a set of controversial security bills were passed at the House of Representatives in Tokyo Thursday, May 15, 2003. The bills, that bolster Japan's ability to respond to attack, mark a major victory for Koizumi but raising concerns over this country's commitment to the strictly defensive policy it has pursued since World War II. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)



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A four-day-old baby buffalo faces off with it's parents as it frolics at the Cincinnati Zoo, Thursday, May 15, 2003, in Cincinnati. The calf, born on Mother's Day, weighs around 60 pounds. An adult buffalo can weigh between 1,100 and 2,500 pounds. It has been 11 years since the zoo exhibited buffalo. Zoo officials, not wanting to disturb the family, have not determined the sex of the as-yet unnamed calf. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)



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Isaac Yerington, 4, of Twain Harte, Calif., tries to coax his frog into jumping during the children's competition of the 75th Annual Frog Jumping Jubilee, at the 2003 Calaveras County Fair in Angel's Camp, Calif., Thursday, May 15, 2003. About 2,000 bullfrogs are captured each May for the Calaveras County Fair and Frog Jumping Jubilee inspired by Mark Twain in the old Sierra gold mining town of Angels Camp. (AP Photo/Dino Vournas)



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A firefighter tries to control a volunteer who is acting frantic during a full-scale emergency response disaster drill at Midway Airport on Thursday, May 15, 2003, in Chicago. Chicago’s Midway International Airport held the drill involving about 200 volunteers who acted as crash victims with varying degrees of injury and distress as well as emergency response specialists from Chicago and several suburban fire departments. (AP Photo/Brian Kersey)



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Texas Democratic state legislators cheer as they pose for a group photo in Ardmore, Okla., Thursday, May 15, 2003, outside the Oklahoma hotel they fled to over the weekend in order to thwart a quorum and derail Republican efforts to redraw the state's congressional districts. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)



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Obadiah Y. Abdullah of Colorado Springs, Colo., who was killed in the car bomb attacks Monday, May 12, 2003, in Saudi Arabia, stands in front of a backdrop that shows the Kaaba during an evening worship service the hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca, in a file photo, date not known. Abdullah has taken part in the pilgrimage. Abdullah was working in Saudi Arabia for defense contractor Vinnell Corp., according to his wife, Sharon Abdullah. (AP Photo/Courtesy Sharon Abdullah)



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An exhibition worker holds steady the original ship's bell which rung out as the Titanic collided with an iceberg on her maiden voyage, displayed as part of the 'Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition' at The Science Museum in London, May 15, 2003. More than 200 artifacts which have been raised from the seabed following the tragic event on April 15, 1912 will be exhibited, and include a large part of the ship's hull and personal items such as jewelry, crockery and clothing. Photo by Natasha-Marie Brown/Reuters



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To protect himself from SARS a salesman at a popular Hong Kong clothing shop wears a decorated surgical mask to lighten up the mood in the shop while waiting for customers on Friday May 9,2003. The SARS virus continues to plague the territory where Hong Kong's death toll hit at least 208. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Great as always JR

Thanks J/R....

Somebody pretty please put that dude in the red shirt somewhere in the background.  I swear he looks just like my father-in-law.
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Good photoshop and good pics.

Bump.