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Mariela Ducase checks lettuce at an organic farm in San Antonio de los Banos on New Year's Day. During the height of the winter growing season, the selection at state-run vegetable markets is largely limited to lettuce and cabbage, tomatoes, carrots, bell peppers and a variety of tubers. (Associated Press)
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Worshippers light their joss sticks to offer the first prayer of the lunar new year at a temple Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, in Shanghai, China. According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Worshippers offer the first prayer of the new year at a temple Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, in Shanghai, China. According to the Chinese zodiac, 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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A performer playing the role of emperor takes part in a re-enactment of a customary ceremony where the emperor prays for a good harvest during the lunar new year at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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A worshipper offers the first prayer of the lunar new year at a temple Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011, in Shanghai, China. According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)
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Performers take part in a re-enactment of a customary ceremony where the emperor prays for a good harvest during the lunar new year at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Performers take part in a re-enactment of a customary ceremony where the emperor prays for a good harvest during the lunar new year at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Chinese paramilitary police watch performers taking part in a re-enactment of a customary ceremony where the emperor prays for a good harvest during the lunar new year at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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Worshippers divine by drawing lots during the China's Lunar New Year at the Wong Tai Sin Temple in Hong Kong Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. According to the Chinese zodiac, 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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Pedestrians hold their ears as firecrackers explode in a Chinatown street in Yokohama, Japan, during the Lunar New Year celebrations Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
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Japanese worshippers pray at Mazu temple during the Lunar New Year celebration in Yokohama, near Tokyo, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/Junji Kurokawa)
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North Korean refugee Lee Dong-woon, 82, left center, and his family members pay to respect for their ancestors in North Korea in front of the barbed wire fence as they celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Imjingak Pavilion, near the demilitarized zone of Panmunjom, in Paju, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. About 32 million people will visit their hometowns during the five-day holiday that begins Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
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A worshipper touches a statue of a rabbit during the China's Lunar New Year at the Wong Tai Sin Temple in Hong Kong Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. According to the Chinese zodiac, 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
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Tens of thousands of North Koreans attend a New Year's rally to display loyalty to leader Kim Jong-il in the central Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Monday, Jan. 3, 2011. (AP Photo/APTN)
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Penn State quarterback Matt McGloin answers a question during the Outback Bowl NCAA college football media day news conference on Friday, Dec. 10, 2010, in State College, Pa. Penn State plays Florida on New Year's Day in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Pat Little)
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Watching less television and exercising are two popular New Year's resolutions. (Photo illustration: The Washington Times)
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Charlotte Balzereit, harp, designer Markus Binder, Olesya Kurylyak, first violin, Albena Danailova, concert master, and Isabelle Ballot, first violin, from left, of the the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra pose for a photo in their new ladies clothing at the traditional New Year's concert at Vienna's Musikverein in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. The female musicians will first wear their new attire at the Vienna Philharmonic's traditional New Year's concert. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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Southeastern Conference commissioner Mike Slive, shown in this July 22, 2009, file photo, announced that an annual New Year's Day bowl game between the SEC and Big 12 will begin in 2014 and last for five years. (AP Photo/ Butch Dill, File)
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A protester taunts policemen during a protest of the verdict of involuntary manslaughter given to Johannes Mehserle Thursday, July 8, 2010, in Oakland, Calif. Former Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle was found guilty in Los Angeles for shooting unarmed black man Oscar Grant on New Year's Day 2009 at a BART station in Oakland. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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A crowd gathers in downtown Oakland to protest the verdict of involuntary manslaughter given to Johannes Mehserle Thursday, July 8, 2010, in Oakland, Calif. Former Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer Johannes Mehserle was found guilty in Los Angeles for shooting unarmed black man Oscar Grant on New Year's Day 2009 at a BART station in Oakland. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
