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    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204776/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204776/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204776" caption="A snow covered palm tree can be seen as people walk along the beach in English Bay in Vancouver, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008.  Unseasonable snowfall and cool temperatures have gripped the Vancouver area with more to come in the next day or two.  (AP Photo/THE CANADIAN PRESS - Jonathan Hayward)" link="/photos/204776/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204775/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204775/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204775" caption="A road closed sign is placed at the bottom of a steep hill after several snow storms made some roads unnavigable in North Vancouver Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008.  Unseasonable snowfall has gripped the lower mainland leaving it in a blanket of snow.   (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)" link="/photos/204775/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204774/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204774/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204774" caption="Keyon Mosquera, 6, makes a sand angel at Bolton Park in Winston-Salem, N.C. on Monday afternoon, Dec. 29, 2008. With the temperature in the high 50's, Keyon's father, James, said he could not pass up the opportunity to get Keyon out of the house. (AP Photo/Winston-Salem Journal, Jennifer Rotenizer)" link="/photos/204774/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204773/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204773/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204773" caption="A sea otter paddles around in the harbor of Moss Landing, Calif. on Sunday Dec. 28, 2008.  (AP Photo/Monterey County Herald, Orville Myers)" link="/photos/204773/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204772/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204772/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204772" caption="Oregon defensive end Nick Reed gives a wary look to Karroo, a female cheetah, as he pets her during a Holiday Bowl team visit to the San Diego Zoo Friday, Dec. 26, 2008 in San Diego. Oregon will face Oklahoma State in the Holiday Bowl NCAA college football game on Tuesday, Dec. 30.  (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)" link="/photos/204772/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204771/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204771/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204771" caption="A Christmas tree rises just outside the Moscow Kremlin, background right, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008. Shown from right in the background are: the Kremlin's  St. Nicholas Tower,  the Historical Museum, and the monument to Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov. New Year's is the biggest holiday of the year in Russia, and is followed by the Orthodox Christmas on Jan. 7.(AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)" link="/photos/204771/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204770/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204770/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204770" caption="** CORRECTS NAME TO PENGUIN PLAYER TO PHILIPPE BOUCHER **Pittsburgh Penguins' Philippe Boucher, top, is checked by the New Jersey Devils' Mike Rupp (17) in the second period during an NHL hockey game at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., Friday, Dec. 26, 2008. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)" link="/photos/204770/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204769/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204769/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204769" caption="Japanese macaques soak in a hot spring pool at Jigokudani Monkey Park in the mountains near Yamanouchi Town in Japan's Nagano Prefecture (state) on Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008. The area is most famous for its so called &amp;quot;snow monkeys&amp;quot;, wild monkeys indigenous to Japan. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)" link="/photos/204769/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204768/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204768/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204768" caption="After being pronounced husband and wife, Michael and Sigret Cook, center, exit the ice chapel built for their wedding on Christmas Day Thursday afternoon, Dec. 25, 2008 in Fairbanks, Alaska.  (AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Johnny Wagner)" link="/photos/204768/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204767/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204767/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204767" caption="Meishan piglets walk together at the Tierpark zoo in Berlin on Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2008.  In Germany the pig is a traditional symbol for good luck at the beginning of a new year. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)" link="/photos/204767/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204766/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204766/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204766" caption="Frost covers the edges of leaves in Lower Bidwell Park after a cold night brought chilly weather Friday, Dec. 26, 2008 in Chico, Calif.  (AP Photo/Chico Enterprise-Record, Jason Halley) " link="/photos/204766/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204765/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204765/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204765" caption=" Danny Thrall, 19, a sophomore on the swim team at Fordham University in New York, forms his hand in the shape of a heart over the scars from open heart surgery about six weeks earlier, during works out at a downtown Chicago health club Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008. A routine physical in September revealed a problem with a valve in his heart that required the surgery. Six weeks later he is back in the pool and hopes to get back to competitive form. In January, he will return to Fordham and hopes to practice with his teammates, even if he can't compete this season. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)" link="/photos/204765/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204764/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204764/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204764" caption="Southern California defensive end Clay Matthews flips his hair back after spraying water in his face during NCAA college football practice Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008, in Los Angeles. USC is scheduled to play Penn State in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)" link="/photos/204764/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204763/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204763/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204763" caption="Squirrel monkeys stay warm near a newly installed heater to get them through winter at the Chengdu Zoo, southwestern China's Sichuan province on Monday, Dec. 29, 2008.  (AP Photo/Color China Photo)" link="/photos/204763/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204762/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204762/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204762" caption="Micky Odaki swings his 5-year-old daughter Mina through the falling snow outside of MontBleu Casino Resort, in Stateline, Nev., Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2008. Lake Tahoe received 10-15 inches of snow overnight and 1 to 3 feet at higher elevations, according to the National Weather Service. (AP Photo/Tahoe Daily Tribune,  Jonah M. Kessel )" link="/photos/204762/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204761/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204761/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204761" caption="A man looks at the sunset in Han-sur-Lesse, in Belgium, a small village located some 120 kilometers south of Brussels, Sunday Dec. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Thierry Charlier.)" link="/photos/204761/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204760/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204760/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204760" caption="Dissected frogs are seen in Lima, Monday, Dec. 29, 2008. The frogs are used by shamans in rituals to bring good luck for the new year. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro)" link="/photos/204760/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204759/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204759/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204759" caption="A man uses his mobile phone to take picture of his colleague in front of the poster of Pakistan's slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto at her mausoleum, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2008 in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh, Pakistan. More than 150,000 Pakistanis flocked to the mausoleum of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Saturday after some walked hundreds of miles (kilometers) to offer flowers and kiss her grave on the first anniversary of her assassination. Some mourners beat their heads and chests and wailing. Several burst into tears. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)" link="/photos/204759/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204758/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204758/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204758" caption="Jewish demonstrators set up a large menorah to celebrate the eighth night of Chanukah near the Dubuque County Jail Sunday Dec. 28, 2008 in Dubuque, Iowa where Sholom Rubashkin, former manager of the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, is being held.  (AP Photo/Telegraph Herald, Dave Kettering)" link="/photos/204758/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
    <img src="http://www.indy.com/photos/204757/default.jpg" tn="http://www.indy.com/photos/204757/thumbnail.jpg" id="photo204757" caption="A man rides his bicycle during sunset in San Cristobal, Cuba, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2008. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)" link="/photos/204757/galleries/4773" target="_self"/>
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