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**SarkisPioute** · 02-23-2010, 10:20 PM

A skier practices his routine ahead of the Men's Freestyle Skiing Aerials qualification at Cypress Mountain during the Vancouver Winter Olympics, north of Vancouver. -- PHOTO: AFP

A dead snail lies on a partially dried reservoir in Shilin county of Kunming, Yunnan province. A total of about 3.56 million hectares of crops in China had been affected by severe drought, said the Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Supporters of Nepal's deposed royal family hold a sit-in protest outside the government headquarters in Kathmandu. The demonstrators said the public should have been consulted over the abolition of the world's last Hindu monarchy. Nepal's 240-year-old royal dynasty was abolished in 2008 after the Maoists came to power following a general election and forced the unpopular ex-king Gyanendra off the throne. -- PHOTO: AFP

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SarkisPioute Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 540 Senior Member	A skier practices his routine ahead of the Men's Freestyle Skiing Aerials qualification at Cypress Mountain during the Vancouver Winter Olympics, north of Vancouver. -- PHOTO: AFP A dead snail lies on a partially dried reservoir in Shilin county of Kunming, Yunnan province. A total of about 3.56 million hectares of crops in China had been affected by severe drought, said the Office of State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters. -- PHOTO: REUTERS Supporters of Nepal's deposed royal family hold a sit-in protest outside the government headquarters in Kathmandu. The demonstrators said the public should have been consulted over the abolition of the world's last Hindu monarchy. Nepal's 240-year-old royal dynasty was abolished in 2008 after the Maoists came to power following a general election and forced the unpopular ex-king Gyanendra off the throne. -- PHOTO: AFP
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