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    Lea Bessinger and her son, Josh Bessinger, sort through the rubble of her tornado-ravaged home in Moore, Okla., Tuesday, May 21, 2013.(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
    Lea Bessinger and her son, Josh Bessinger, sort through the rubble of her tornado-ravaged home in Moore, Okla., Tuesday, May 21, 2013.(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

    MOORE, Okla. — With her son holding her elbow, Colleen Arvin walked up her driveway to what was left of her house for 40 years.It...

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    A file photo of Tamerlan Tsarnaev from Feb. 17, 2010. An acquaintance of Tsarvaev was reportedly shot in Orlando, Fla., on May 22, 2013. (AP Photo/The Lowell Sun, Julia Malakie, File)

    Tsarnaev Friend Killed in Orlando: Report (Updated)

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    This file photo shows Apple CEO Tim Cook at an event in California. Cook testified before Congress May 21 on the topic of corporate tax avoidance. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

    The Game of Corporate Tax Avoidance

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    A screenshot from a propaganda documentary on China Central Television, claiming that there is a guidebook to instruct Tibetans in self-immolation. The charges were denied by Tibetan groups. (Screenshot via The Epoch Times)

    Chinese State TV Airs Supposed Tibetan ‘Self-Immolation Manual’

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    Rescuers retrieve a dead body from a sinkhole in Shenzhen on May 21, 2013. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

    Sinkhole Kills 5 Factory Workers in South China

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    New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, and Ray Halbritter of the Oneida Indian Nation talk while signing an agreement on the Oneida's central New York casino during a news conference on Thursday, May 16, 2013, in Albany, N.Y. The Oneidas have struck a deal with the Cuomo administration to guarantee exclusive territory for their casino in exchange for an estimated $50 million in annual payments to the state. The proposed deal would be part of Cuomo's proposal to bring three Las Vegas casinos to upstate New York at yet-to-be-identified locations. Standing in back are John Becker of the Madison County Board of Supervisors, left, and Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

    Cuomo, Mohawk Leaders Sign Casino Pact

    China Business & Economy

    This file photo shows the beautiful setting of the city of Vancouver, Canada, photographed from West Vancouver. Vancouver’s real estate market is hot, with 40 percent of sales going to Chinese in 2012. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

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    Jeremy Lybarger, 29, marketing, San Francisco, USA: "I don’t know there is a yes or no answer, one way or not. It depends on what kind of technology you mean. People use technology in different ways. … I don’t think that technology itself is good or bad. People can use it in good or bad ways. What good or bad even means in that context, I am not sure. Maybe people rely on technology too much, which could be bad, could isolate people more."

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    Baltimore Oriole Nate McLouth received a shaving cream pie following his walk off home run in the tenth inning, giving the Orioles a 3-2 win over the New York Yankees at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on May 21, 2013 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)

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    Baltimore Oriole Nate McLouth received a shaving cream pie following his walk off home run in the tenth inning, giving the Orioles a 3-2 win over the New York Yankees at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on May 21, 2013 in Baltimore, Maryland. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)
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    File-This June 16, 2011 file photo shows Anthony Weiner speaking to the media during a news conference in New York. The ex-congressman who resigned over raunchy tweets said late Tuesday may 21, 2013, that he's in the New York City mayoral race. He had said last month he was considering it. The Democrat is jumping into a crowded field for September's primary. He's arriving with some significant advantages, including a $4.8 million campaign war chest, polls showing him ahead of all but one other Democrat, and no end of name recognition. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig,File)

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    In this Nov. 24, 2008 file photo, Muppets Fozzie Bear, left, a Whatnot, center, and Kermit the Frog make a television appearance in New York. Kermit, Miss Piggy, Bert and Ernie of "Sesame Street" fame, the stars of "Fraggle Rock" and other puppets, costumes and items from throughout Muppets creator Jim Henson's career have been donated to the Museum of the Moving Image, which is building a new gallery to house them, the institution announced Tuesday, May 21, 2013.(AP Photo/Richard Drew

    Muppets Creator’s Items Head to NYC Museum

    New York Yankees president Randy Levine, left, Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber, center, and Manchester City CEO Ferran Soriano pose for a photo at the MLS headquarter in New York, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The New York Yankees are partnering with Manchester City to own Major League Soccer's 20th team, which will be called New York City Football Club and plans to start play in the 2015 season. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

    Yankees Move Turns up the Heat on Soccer Stadium Search

    About 1,500 Success Academy students from 14 public charter schools in the Bronx and Harlem participate in a Slam the Exam Pep Rally on April 12 at the Washington Heights Armory, to encourage students prior to writing their first Common Core tests. (Samira Bouaou/The Epoch Times)

    Field Tests Amplify Opposition to High-Stakes Student Testing

    Metro-North Railroad President Howard Permut gets ready to descend a ladder after touring the scene of the train derailment, in Bridgeport, Conn., on Saturday, May 18, 2013. (AP Photo/The Connecticut Post, Christian Abraham)

    Commuter Delays Follow Conn. Derailment: Major Reconstruction

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    Ranking member U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) (R) questions current and former IRS employees while the testify before the Senate Finance Committee as committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) listens May 21, 2013, in Washington, D.C. The committee heard testimony on the topic of on 'A Review of Criteria Used by the IRS to Identify 501(c)(4) Applications for Greater Scrutiny.' (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

    Former IRS Chief Testifies ‘Not Responsible’ For Scandal

    Senate Judiciary Committee members Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., left, and Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill. confer on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 20, 2013, as the committee assembled to work on a landmark immigration bill to secure the border and offer citizenship to millions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

    Senate Panel Approves Immigration Bill

    Jodi Arias points to her family as a reason for the jury to give her a life in prison sentence instead of the death penalty on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, during the penalty phase of her murder trial at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. Arias was convicted of first-degree murder in the stabbing and shooting to death of Travis Alexander, 30, in his suburban Phoenix. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher, Pool)

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    Lily Raymond, 17, rushes to embrace her brother Ethan Raymond, 11, as a teacher escorts him away from Briarwood Elementary school after a tornado destroyed the school in south Oklahoma City on Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Paul Hellstern)

    Teachers Credited with Saving Students in Oklahoma

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    This file photo shows the beautiful setting of the city of Vancouver, Canada, photographed from West Vancouver. Vancouver’s real estate market is hot, with 40 percent of sales going to Chinese in 2012. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

    People and Funds Surge Out of China

    A screenshot from a propaganda documentary on China Central Television, claiming that there is a guidebook to instruct Tibetans in self-immolation. The charges were denied by Tibetan groups. (Screenshot via The Epoch Times)

    Chinese State TV Airs Supposed Tibetan ‘Self-Immolation Manual’

    Rescuers retrieve a dead body from a sinkhole in Shenzhen on May 21, 2013. (AFP/AFP/Getty Images)

    Sinkhole Kills 5 Factory Workers in South China

    A variety of rice is displayed in a market on July 17, 2008 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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    FILE - This Sept. 13, 2012 file photo shows a cameraman filming one of U.S. consulate burnt out offices after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens on the night of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya. The U.S. has identified five men they believe might be behind the attack on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, last year, and have enough evidence to justify seizing them by military force as suspected terrorists _ but not enough proof to try them in a U.S. civilian criminal court, the process the Obama administration prefers, U.S. officials said. (AP photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

    FBI ID’s Benghazi Suspects, But No Arrests Yet

    In this Friday, May 17, 2013 photo distributed by Miura Dolphins, 80-year-old Japanese adventurer Yuichiro Miura, right, and his son, Gota, rest on their way to a camp at 6,500 meters (21,325 feet) from a camp at 6,050 meters (19,849 feet) during their attempt to scale the summit of Mount Everest. According to his management office, Miura plans to reach the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak on Thursday, May 23 to be the world's oldest person to reach the world's highest peak. (AP Photo/Miura Dolphins) MANDATORY CREDIT

    Octogenarians Race to Be Oldest Everest Climber

    Jeremy Lybarger, 29, marketing, San Francisco, USA: "I don’t know there is a yes or no answer, one way or not. It depends on what kind of technology you mean. People use technology in different ways. … I don’t think that technology itself is good or bad. People can use it in good or bad ways. What good or bad even means in that context, I am not sure. Maybe people rely on technology too much, which could be bad, could isolate people more."

    Global Q&A: New Technologies Helpful or Harmful?

    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy smiles as he faces the cameras upon arrival at an EU summit in Brussels on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Leaders from the 27 European Union countries gather in Brussels for one of their regular European Council sessions. On the agenda is the increasingly controversial subject of large corporations’ creative tax avoidance schemes. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Scagnetti)

    EU Leaders Discuss Fight Against Tax Evasion

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    FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 file photo, traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York. Stock indexes are edging higher in early trading on Wall Street Tuesday, May 21, 2013, as investors look ahead to the Federal Reserve's next moves. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

    Futures Rise; All Eyes on the Fed

    This file photo shows Apple CEO Tim Cook at an event in California. Cook testified before Congress May 21 on the topic of corporate tax avoidance. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

    The Game of Corporate Tax Avoidance

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    European Council President Herman Van Rompuy smiles as he faces the cameras upon arrival at an EU summit in Brussels on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Leaders from the 27 European Union countries gather in Brussels for one of their regular European Council sessions. On the agenda is the increasingly controversial subject of large corporations’ creative tax avoidance schemes. (AP Photo/Ezequiel Scagnetti)

    EU Leaders Discuss Fight Against Tax Evasion

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    An aerial view shows Briarwood Elementary with vehicles thrown about after Monday's tornado, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Moore, Okla. At least 24 people, including nine children, were killed in the massive tornado that flattened homes and a school in Moore, on Monday afternoon. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

    Meteorologists: Power of Moore Tornado Dwarfs Hiroshima Bomb

    Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, and Tumblr Chief Executive David Karp speak during a news conference on May 20, in New York. Karp, 26, who founded Tumblr, the online blogging forum, and sold it to Yahoo for $1.1 billion, doesn't even have a high school diploma. Karp's mother told the AP that she let him leave school because she realized "he needed the time in the day in order to create." (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

    Should Wunderkinds Drop Out of High School?

    People relax along the East River in lower Manhattan during warm weather on April 9, 2013 in New York City. For the first time since October, temperatures are expected to rise above 70 degrees this week in New York and surrounding areas. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

    Heat-related Deaths in Manhattan Projected to Rise 20 Percent by 2020′s

    NOAH'S ARCHEOLOGY: The story of a Great Flood is present throughout many ancient cultures. But did it really happen? (photos.com)

    Noah’s Ark and the Great Flood, Did it Really Happen?

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    FILE - In this May 15, 2013 file photo German artist Stephan Balkenhol, right, stands besides a part of his Richard Wagner Monument during the installation in Leipzig, central Germany. The Wagner monument will be unveiled Wednesday, May 22, 2013, to celebrate the German composer's 200th birthday. It shows a young Wagner overshadowed by his older, famous self. Some of Wagner's works will be performed later in the day in Bayreuth, where the composer's descendants organize an annual music festival. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, File)

    Germany Celebrates Composer Wagner’s 200th

    Actor Damian Lewis poses for photographers during The Silent Storm portrait session at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

    Seen And Heard At The Cannes Film Festival

    Queen Tara (voiced by Beyoncé Knowles) reigns over Moonhaven, an unseen Eden-like world. (Courtesy of Blue Sky Studios and Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation)

    The Lives Beyond the Leaves: Review of ‘Epic’

    Actor Keanu Reeves poses for photographers during a photo call for the film Man of Tai Chi at the 66th international film festival, in Cannes, southern France, Monday, May 20, 2013. (Photo by Joel Ryan/Invision/AP)

    Keanu Reeves Cannes: Photos of Reeves at French Film Festival

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    Los Angeles Lakers' stars Shaquille O'Neal (R) and Kobe Bryant stand next to each other during the first quarter of NBA Finals, Game 1 against the Philadelphia 76ers. (Vince Bucci/AFP/Getty Images)

    NBA’s Most Dominating Playoff Runs

    San Antonio Spurs' Tony Parker (9), of France, goes up for a shot against the Memphis Grizzlies defense during the first half in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals NBA basketball playoff series, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

    Spurs Ultimately Triumph Over Grizzlies in Overtime

    San Jose Sharks' Brent Burns (88) celebrates his goal against the Los Angeles Kings during the first period in Game 4 of their second-round NHL hockey Stanley Cup playoff series in San Jose, Calif., Tuesday, May 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

    Sharks tie Series With 2-1 Win Over Kings

    Jockey Gary Stevens, aboard Oxbow, celebrates with trainer D. Wayne Lukas after winning the Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

    More Proof That Time Waits For No One


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