^Made me think the same thing!
Maybe our green haired bobo's red head brother.
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^Made me think the same thing!
Maybe our green haired bobo's red head brother.
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China remains the world's most populous nation with 1.34 billion people and has grown to No. 2 behind the United States in economic power, but its own policies contribute to potential changes in both rankings.
When the world welcomes its 7 billionth person on Oct. 31, as the United Nations Population Fund predicts, China will still be home to more than one in every seven inhabitants of the planet.
But changing demographics brought on largely by birth-limit rules may slow China's growth, analysts say. The country allows urban women to have only a single child; rural women, two. That's fewer than the 2.1 overall necessary to keep the population count level.
India, with a higher rate of 2.6 births per woman, by 2030 may overtake China as No. 1 in population.
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Flat cappers (Northerners)
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A boy sleeps as he is pushed in a shopping cart at an IKEA store in downtown Shanghai on May 11, 2011. China's headline consumer price inflation slowed to 5.3 percent in the year to April from 5.4 percent in March, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
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A man looks at the Huaxi village, China, on Dec. 2, 2010. In China's richest village of Huaxi, a booming market town of 36,000 in the affluent eastern province of Jiangsu, every family has at least one house, two cars and $250,000 in the bank.
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A Thai woman struggles to walk as floodwater gushes through a market place near the Grand Palace Bangkok, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011
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Buddhist monks and other passengers travel on a bus through the flooded streets of central Bangkok October 27, 2011. Thailand's prime minister said Bangkok was fighting the forces of nature on Thursday as floodwater threatened to break through dikes protecting the capital and residents took to the road after the government told them to leave if they could.
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II watches Aboriginal dancers as she visits the Clontarf Aboriginal College in Perth on October 27, 2011. The queen, who arrived in Perth on October 26, will officially open the 54-nation Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) on October 28 where revamping succession to the British throne will be discussed, concluding her 10-day tour.
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Queen Elizabeth II looks at an Australian rules (AFL) football during her visit to Clontarf Aboriginal college on October 27, 2011 in Perth, Australia. The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are on a 10-day visit to Australia went to Canberra, Brisbane, and Melbourne before heading to Perth for the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting. This is the Queen's 16th official visit to Australia.
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Earthquake survivor Semiha Karaduman holds her two-week old baby girl, Azra, at a hospital in Ankara October 26, 2011. Rescuers pulled Azra alive from a collapsed apartment block on Tuesday, two days after the earthquake in southeast Turkey. Semiha and the baby's grandmother were also brought out alive.
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A man sits covered against the cold and snow at the "Occupy Denver" protest camp on October 26 in Denver, Colorado. Some 25 protesters slept at the camp overnight as a winter snow storm moved in, and several demonstrators have been taken to the hospital for hypothermia. Despite the severe weather, protesters have vowed to continue their demonstration, now more than a month old. The heavy snowstorm hit Denver and the Rockies' front range after record high temperatures in the 80's earlier in the week.
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Students hug riot policemen during a protest against an education reform bill, in Bogota on October 26. Thousands of students, on strike for the past two weeks, took to the streets to protest against the bill to reform higher education put forward by the government of President Juan Manuel Santos.
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A student hugs a riot policewoman during a protest against an education reform bill, in Bogota on October 26. Thousands of students, on strike for the past two weeks, took to the streets to protest against the bill to reform higher education put forward by the government of President Juan Manuel Santos.
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A hole is breached in the century-old Condit Dam on the White Salmon River near White Salmon, Wash. Wednesday, Oct. 26. The 12-story dam is the second-tallest dam in U.S. history to be breached for fish passage, according to the advocacy group American Rivers.
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Attendees rejoice while watching a live video feed of the breaching of Condit Dam at Freeing the White Salmon River Celebration Wednesday October 26 in Husum, Washington. The celebration was part of events scheduled for the breaching of Condit Dam.
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Davis Washines, Inter Tribal Fisheries Enforcement, is overcome by emotion as he watches a live video feed of the breaching of Condit Dam at an invite only event near the dam, Wednesday, Oct. 26 in White Salmon, Wash.
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The White Salmon River cuts its new course through the sediment of Northwestern Lake after the breaching of Condit Dam, Wednesday, Oct. 26 near White Salmon, Wash.
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From left, Giani Benevento, Jonathan Blum, both Wet Planet river guides, and Temira Wagonfeld, dress up as salmon at the Freeing the White Salmon River Celebration Wednesday Oct. 26 in Husum, Wash. The celebration was part of events scheduled for the breaching of Condit Dam.
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Nick Lippert of Tumwater, Wa. shot this photo of Mount Rainier from his home at 7:40 a.m. with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3 camera. This unusual shadow is visible at certain times of the year when the mountain blocks the sun.
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Four moons of Saturn are visible in this image from the Cassini orbiter: Bright Dione is in the foreground, with Titan in the background. The dot just to the right of Saturn's nearly edge-on rings is Pandora, and Pan is just a speck embedded within the rings, to the left of Titan and Dione.
Occupy Oakland clashes continue
The Californian city of Oakland is braced for further violence between protesters and police
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Protesters take down the fence surrounding Frank Ogawa Plaza
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Protesters gather in front of Oakland city hall
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A protester is tackled by transport police after he and others attempted to hold open a commuter train station gate near Frank Ogawa Plaza
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Sana'a, Yemen: Women burn veils to demonstrate against the government's crackdown on protesters
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Ercis, Turkey: Rescuers search a collapsed building after an earthquake hit the area on Sunday
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Bangkok, Thailand: Residents watch television in a flooded beauty salon
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Bogotá, Colombia: Students mock riot police during a demonstration
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Vatican: Prelates attend a prayer service given by Pope Benedict
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Melbourne, Australia: The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh ride on a tram
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Beijing, China: A model takes part in China Fashion Week
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Cape Town, South Africa: Fans cheer during a Kings of Leon concert
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A man mourns the death of his brother, who was killed in a fuel tanker blast, in Parwan province, north of Kabul, October 26, 2011.
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Rescue workers look for survivors trapped under debris after the earthquake in Ercis, near the eastern Turkish city of Van, October 26, 2011.
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A policeman directs traffic as residents move through the floods as it advances into central Bangkok, October 26, 2011
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Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi leaves a euro zone leaders summit in Brussels, October 27, 2011.
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Tati Almeyda (L), a member of human rights group Madres de Plaza de Mayo (Mothers of the Disappeared), and a friend react after hearing the verdict in the trial of former Argentine navy officer Alfredo Astiz and other military officers in Buenos Aires October 26, 2011. Astiz, also known as the "Blonde Angel of Death" for his role in the 1976-83 dictatorship and sought in France for the murder of French nuns Alice Domon and Leonie Duquet, and other 1970 death squad members were jailed for life on Wednesday in one of the country's biggest human right cases.
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A police officer attempts to control the scene after being surrounded while making an arrest at an "Occupy Wall Street" demonstration in response to an early morning police raid which displaced Occupy Oakland's tent city in Oakland, California October 25, 2011.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and members of lower house of parliament cast their vote on boosting the firepower of the euro zone rescue fund, at the Bundestag in Berlin October 26, 2011.
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Brian Crane (L) and Mark Rozanski prepare for the annual High Heel Drag Race in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, October 25, 2011.
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Passengers sit on the rooftop of a commuter train as it arrives at the Manggarai train station in Jakarta, October 26, 2011
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Wound Up in the Windy City
Occupy Chicago protesters are seen outside the mayor's office in City Hall on Wednesday. The ralliers wanted the mayor to drop charges against demonstrators arrested for trying to occupy Grant Park over the past two weeks.
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Emergency Medicine
A U.S. Navy nurse injects medicine into a severely wounded soldier -- who was hit by an Improvised Explosive Device -- being transferred from Afghanistan's Helmand province to a different hospital. The soldier lost both his legs.
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Legal Drama
Rajat Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs director who has been charged with conspiracy and securities fraud in connection with a massive insider trading case, leaves a Manhattan court on Wednesday.
Spc. Christopher Michael Hodges, 26, was randomly firing an assault rifle into traffic from behind his car on the side of an Augusta highway at about 1 a.m. Sunday when Deputy James Paugh pulled over and was shot — apparently not realizing at first that Hodges posed a threat, authorities said.
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Augusta-Richmond County Sheriff's Deputies look at Deputy James D. Paugh's motorcycle at Hillcrest Memorial Park during funeral services for Deputy Paugh Thursday, Oct. 27, in Augusta, Ga.. The deputy was fatally shot early Sunday morning during a traffic stop.
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Heather Hultman wipes a tear from the cheek of her husband, Deputy William Hultman's after Deputy J.D. Paugh's Funeral at Hillcrest Memorial Park Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011, in Augusta, Ga