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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

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• March 21: French swimmer Amaury Leveaux prepares to dive into the pool during training at the World Swimming Championships in Melbourne, Australia.
• March 21: Juneau avalanche expert Bill Glude takes photos of the slide of an avalanche coming down the west slope of Mount Roberts in Juneau, Alaska.
• March 21: Former Vice President Al Gore testifies before the Senate Environment Committee hearing on global climate change.
• March 21: Two women visiting Santa Fe, N.M., from Arizona, look at a mailbox that has been decorated as the droid R2-D2 from the "Star Wars" movies.
• March 21: Jodi, a mother Chimpanzee, holds her one-month-old baby at the Tulsa Zoo in Tulsa, Okla.
• March 21: U.S. army soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment conduct a search in an abandoned house in western Baghdad's Sunni neighborhood of Ghazaliyah.
• March 21: A rare 1937 three-legged buffalo nickel that was the result of a mistake at the Denver mint is shown in Emporia, Kan. The coin is one of the items that will be up for auction during a fund-raiser for the David Traylor Zoo of Emporia, Kan.
• March 21: A woman looks at ‘Trash People,’ an installation of 1,000 life-size figures made from compressed industrial waste and consumer refuse is seen in Rome's Piazza del Popolo. Since 1996 the installation, by German artist Ha Schult, visited many places around the world including Paris La Defense, Moscow Red Square and the Great Wall of China.
• March 21: A man walks through a field of daffodils, or narcissus flowers, on the first day of spring in the town of Lisse in the heart of the bulb-growing district of the Netherlands.
• Firefighters battle an early morning fire on Liberty Street in Batavia, N.Y.
• March 21: Models display swimsuits during the 4th China swimwear design contest and lingerie fashion trend collection show in Beijing, China.
• March 21: Pakistani lawyers take part in an anti-government rally protesting the removal of the country's top judge.
• March 21: Palestinians hold pictures of prisoners held in Israeli jails during a march in the West Bank town of Jenin calling for their release.
• March 21: Two residents talk on the seashore while watching a military submarine being dragged to its position in Lushun, in Dalian, in northeast China's Liaoning province.
• March 21: A picture provided by the Berlin Zoo on March 2 shows polar bear cub ‘Knut.’ Berlin Zoo's abandoned cub has become a front-page media darling.
• March 21: A mother adorns a headdress on her seven-month-old daughter Nirupoma as she performs a ritual during the Hindu festival of Navratri in Gauhati, India.
• March 21: A Kashmiri rows a boat towards his flooded home, as rains continues pour in Srinagar, India.
• March 21: Mexican wrestler 'Hijo del Santo' speaks with local school children about marine conservation issues at the San Ignacio Lagoon, Mexico.
• March 21: A solar magnetic field is shown rising vertically from a sunspot outward into the solar atmosphere in this picture of the sun taken by NASA's Hinode Solar Optical Telescope.