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This unusual 28-inch high clock topped by carved heads of Pilgrims was made in the early 1900s. It has brass hands, numerals, weights and a pendulum bob. It was sold by Merritt's Antiques of Douglassville, Pa., for $2,095.

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Director Baz Lurhmann is taking Puccini's opera "La Boheme" to Broadway. The production opens Dec. 8.

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Members of the Lawrence children's choir, Justine Ahle, 12, and Lindsay Gauthier, 12, at left, speak with Moscow Boys Choir member Volodya Fadin, 14, with the help of interpreter Yana Grigortchouk, a Kansas University graduate student from Petrozavodsk, Russia, center, during a choir exchange at the Lied Center. The two choirs met on Saturday, prior to the Moscow Boys Choir's performance that evening. Choir members talked with the help of interpreters and learned that they have a lot more in common than they thought they would. Later, Lawrence choir members got to listen to the Moscow Boys Choir's dress rehearsal.

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Kansas University architecture students Lisa Carpenter, a St. Louis junior, and Justin Gaa a Devils' Lake, N.D., junior, check out their latest projects, which are on display at KU's Art & Design Gallery. The exhibit, showing through Dec. 3, features projects from students working toward both undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecure.

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Cuban writer Leonardo Padura poses at his home in Havana, Cuba. In Padura's detective novels, the mysteries solved by disabused Cuban police investigator Manuel Conde reveal the difference between declarations of socialist virtue and the vices of a society where almost everyone engages in some kind of illegal activity to survive.

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Cuban writer Pedro Juan Gutierez is seen at the window in Centro Havana neighborhood in August. In his "Dirty Trilogy of Havana," Gutierrez writes about thieves, hustlers and drunks living marginal lives in an urban jungle.

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Lawrence artist Judi Geer Kellas sits in front of a wall of artwork created or inspired by her late friend and fellow artist, Dennis Helm. At left is a portrait she painted of Helm after he died of AIDS in 1992. The Red Ribbon Art Auction, now in its 10th year, was created as a tribute to Helms.

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The Owl Bar is a transplanted 1890s bar, brought from Thermopolis, Wyo., where it was a popular hangout for Butch Cassidy's Hole-in-the-Wall Gang.

The Sundance Resort in Sundance, Utah, is best known for its film festival each winter but offers a variety of activities year-round.

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A sun-shaped head on an abstract figure titled "Good Morning Sunshine" greets visitors to a community center in East Cleveland, Ohio. It is another of Rackoff's creations.

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Sidney Rackoff looks up at a 9-foot-high sculpture titled "Baseball Outfielder" that rests in front of the Karamu House in Cleveland. Rackoff has been creating art for nearly two decades. He has about 25 sculptures on display in northeastern Ohio malls, high schools, libraries and even on street corners.

Bridgette Sesti holds a jacket covered with vintage rock music buttons at the Hullabaloo warehouse in St. Louis. The buttons are just a small sample of the memorabilia that has been collected by Hullabaloo.

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Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani speaks about domestic security measures with Republican governors and governors-elect at the Republican Governors Assn. Annual Conference.

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Space shuttle Endeavour lifts off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. The shuttle began Saturday an 11-day mission to the international space station.

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OU forward Matt Gipson collides with Princeton guard Ed Persia, right, during Saturday's game in Norman, Okla.

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Arizona's Rick Anderson shoots over the misguided defense of Western Kentucky's Todor Pandov (45) during Saturday's game in Tucson, Ariz.

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Back row, from left, Lauren Kracl, Eudora; Kelli Wilbur, Mill Valley; Jill Brown, Baldwin - Coach of year; Vanessa Wardy, Tonganoxie; Emily Brown, Baldwin. Front row, from left, Jenny Heck, Ottawa; Shelly Hendrix, Perry-Lecompton; Rachel Miles, Baldwin.

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Lawrence artist Betty Milliken, 91, has been translating her creative tendencies into photographs, portraits, cameos and tiny sculptures for seven decades. She will sell her unique work created from materials like chewing gum, grapefruit skins and window caulk during Saturday's Bizarre Bazaar at the Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H. Below are two faces Milliken created using apple and pear pulp.

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Haskell's Shawnavyn Joe, center, is trapped between Graceland defenders. The Fightin' Indians won Saturday at Haskell.

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KU's Jill Dorsey digs the ball as Josiane Lima (10), Andi Rozum (9) and Jennifer Kraft watch. Missouri defeated the Jayhawks on Saturday night at Horejsi Center.

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KU coach Roy Williams, right, instructs guard Aaron Miles. Williams will face his alma mater Wednesday when the Jayhawks play North Carolina in the Preseason NIT semifinals at New York.

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Mourners carry for burial the Islamic Jihad flag-wrapped body of 11-year-old Mohammed Bilalo, left, and a symbolic stretcher with a U.N. flag in the West Bank town of Jenin. Mohammed was killed Friday during clashes between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli forces in Jenin. During the same clashes, Iain Hook, a senior manager for UNWRA, an agency helping Palestinian refugees, was shot as he tried to evacuate the U.N. compound.

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Danita Strauss kisses her son Tyler after Tyler's adoption was finalized during National Adoption Day in Los Angeles. Actor Bruce Willis, right, national spokesperson for Children in Foster Care, looks on. More than 230 adoptions were finalized Saturday from the Los Angeles County foster care system.

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Joe Quesada, editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics, left, and Martin King, co-owner of Atomic City Comic, take questions from the media in Philadelphia. Marvel Comics is launching a new comic "Truth: Red, White & Black." Marvel Comics is shaking up one of its iconic superheroes with a series that imagines the original "Captain America" as a black Army recruit.

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Three-year-old Charlie Newsome peers through a bridge's support beams to a stream below at the McGrew Nature Preserve, 4600 W. 15th St. The 15-acre preserve, whose sidewalks and bridges were recently renovated, was donated in 1986 by Lawrence resident John McGrew.

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Noise walls are nothing new to HNTB, a consultant working on plans for completing the South Lawrence Trafficway. This photo is from the company's work on the Papago Freeway in Phoenix.

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Sgt. Bob Linzer views video feed captured by a small camera mounted on the windshield of his patrol car. The Kansas University Public Safety Office has equipped its police cars with state-of-the-art technology, including voice-activated cameras and computers that can access the Internet all over campus. The Lawrence Police Department has lagged behind other departments in technology, but it's about to get seven new patrol cars with video and audio recorders.

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