| All
eyes on McCain (聚焦麦凯恩）
Arizona Sen. John McCain's presidential
campaign took him to Riverside, Calif., on March 1, where residents
heard him speak at the local convention center |
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| Coming
home （终于回家了）
A girl hugs her boyfriend as his unit,
just returned from Chechnya, arrives in Narofominsk, some 70 km from
Moscow. |
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| Last
hurrah (最后的欢呼）
Republican presidential candidate Sen.
John McCain of Arizona sticks out his tongue as he greets a crowd at
the conclusion of a rally in Broadview Heights, Ohio, on March 5. Four
days later, he suspended his presidential bid after a disappointing
performance on Super Tuesday. |
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| Plucked
from a tree （终于从树上上来了）
A Mozambican woman is hoisted into a
South African Air Force helicopter on March 3 after spending five days
in a treetop near Chibuti to escape raging flood waters that swept
through most of southern Mozambique. |
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| On
the waterfront （海报后的枪影）
A police officer in full riot gear
shoots a tear gas canister in the direction of striking shipyard
workers on March 6 in the Spanish city of Gijon.（
注：西班牙恐怖组织--埃塔在西班牙搞分裂由来已久） |
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| An
oceanic stroll （大洋之子）
French adventurer Remy Bricka, paddling
“floating skis” and pulling a “survival pod,” departs Marina
del Rey, Calif., on March 4 for what he hopes will be a 7,800-mile
walk across the Pacific Ocean. Bricka, who intends to arrive in
Sydney, Australia, in six months, already is in the Guinness Book of
World Records for a 40-day stroll across the Atlantic Ocean from the
Canary Islands to Trinidad in 1988. |
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| A
mess o’ fish （满湖的死鱼也曾拥有生命）
Ox-Bo Marine owner Chad Buelter looks
out over thousands of dead carp in Lake Sinissippi in Hubbard, Wis.,
on March 7. The mess resulted from a poisoning by the state Department
of Natural Resources to eliminate a carp infestation in nearby Horicon
Marsh. Rather than dying below the ice and sinking, as the state had
hoped, hundreds of thousands of the rotting fish rose to the surface
of the lake when the ice melted. |
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| A
bridge too low （桥太低了点吧）
The Juan Ramon Molina bridge in
downtown Tegucigalpa, Honduras, sags into the Chuloteca River on March
6. The 'Bailey' bridge, built in March 1999 by the U.S. Marines to
replace a concrete span destroyed by Hurricane Mitch in 1998,
collapsed a day earlier, apparently after it was overloaded by two
passenger buses and two dumptrucks. |
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Scars of history（历史的恐怖）
An Angolan child observes a
bullet-ridden edifice March 10 in Luanda. Angola's brutal 26-year
civil war has displaced around 2 million people -- about a sixth of
the population -- and 200 die each day according to U.N. estimates. |
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| A
time for faith （麦加朝圣）
Muslims preparing for the “hajj”
pilgrimage perform afternoon prayers under the shadow of one of the
minarets inside the Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest shrine, in Mecca,
Saudi Arabia, on March 13. |
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| Kind
of blue （超级蓝人）
A Blue Man Group member performs amid
multimedia effects during the March 14 world premiere of their new
show “Blue Man Group: Live at Luxor,” at the Luxor Hotel on the
Las Vegas Strip. |
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| Thunder
down under （胜利的荣耀）
Ferrari driver Michael Schumacher of
Germany is cheered by his pit crew as he heads for the finish line to
win the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne on March 12. |
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| Top
dogs （世界上最棒的狗）
Musher Doug Swingley of Lincoln, Mont.,
poses with his lead dogs Cola, left, and Stormy after crossing the
finish line in Nome, Alaska, on March 14. Swingley won his third
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in a record time of 9 days 0 hours 56
minutes and 6 seconds, breaking his previous record by more than an
hour and joining an elite group of Alaskans who are three-time
winners. |
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| Mourning
in Kashmir （克什米尔的葬礼）
The wife and mother of a man who was
killed in a massacre along with 35 other male Sikhs mourn his death in
Chadisinghpoora, in the Indian-controlled region of Kashmir, on March
21. |
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| Historic
visit （教皇溯源也头疼）
Pope John Paul II attends an interfaith
meeting at Notre Dame in Jerusalem on March 23 during his six-day trip
to the Holy Land. |
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| They
do （我们同性我怕谁）
Caroline Forks, right, holds her
partner Lori Augustine during the fourth annual same-sex domestic
partners “commitment ceremony” at San Francisco City Hall on March
23. |
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| Cheers
for Clinton （克林顿的风光）
President Bill Clinton delights in the
celebration of his visit by women of the village of Nayla, India. |
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| A
life destroyed （破碎的生命）
A drug overdose paralyzed the legs of
Newark, N.J., resident Harold Moore. Drugs also left him infected with
HIV. “It's a change in life,'' Moore says. “It humbles you.” |
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| Spring
in his step （春天的脚步）
A boy skips through fields of ranunculi
flowers during a March 28 visit to a commercial flower growing nursery
in Carlsbad, Calif. |
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| Prayers
for Elian （为埃连祈祷）
Elian Gonzalez's cousin, Marisleysis
Gonzalez, left, and great uncle, Lazaro Gonzalez, take part in a
nighttime vigil in front of their home in the Little Havana
neighborhood of Miami, on March 27. |
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| Funeral
in New York （纽约的葬礼）
Pall-bearers carry the coffin of
Patrick Dorismond, killed in a March 16 confrontation with New York
police. |
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| Nature‘s
lava lamp (火山之光）
Italy's Mount
Etna provides a colorful display during a March 23 eruption. |
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