Workers watch as a crane lifts the 1,000-year-old Hollow Tree, in the heart of Stanley Park Vancouver, British Columbia June 11, 2009. The Western Red Cedar, which has been a popular tourist stop for over 100 years, is being secured after it became unstable and threatened to fall down. REUTERS/Andy Clark (CANADA ENVIRONMENT) 

A worker checks the base of the 1,000-year-old Hollow Tree in the heart of Stanley Park Vancouver, British Columbia June 11, 2009. The Western Red Cedar, which has been a popular tourist stop for over 100 years, is being secured after it became unstable and threatened to fall down. REUTERS/Andy Clark (CANADA ENVIRONMENT) 

Engineers and and tree experts stand inside the Stanley Park's Hollow Tree in Vancouver, British Columbia July 25, 2008. Experts have begun to try and secure the Red Cedar which is about 1,000 years old and has been rotting since the early 1900s. The tree is a very popular stop for visitors to the park and has weakened over the last few years, threatening to fall down. REUTERS/Andy Clark (CANADA) 

European foreign policy chief Javier Solana and German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung (L) are pictured inside the bridge on board of auxiliary vessel 'Pegnitz' during a visit of German naval base in Kiel November 9, 2006. Jung is visiting German Federal Armed Forces ships, which are part of the UNFIL international peacekeeping force that have been dispatched to the coast of Lebanon. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY) 

European foreign policy chief Javier Solana (L) and German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung (C) listen to explanation of German Navy captain Frank Martin on board of auxiliary vessel 'Pegnitz' during a visit of German naval base in Kiel November 9, 2006. Jung is visiting German Federal Armed Forces ships, which are part of the UNFIL international peacekeeping force that have been dispatched to the coast of Lebanon. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY) 

European foreign policy chief Javier Solana (L) and German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung (C) listen to explanation of German Navy captain Frank Martin on board of auxiliary vessel 'Pegnitz' during a visit of German naval base in Kiel November 9, 2006. Jung is visiting German Federal Armed Forces ships, which are part of the UNFIL international peacekeeping force that have been dispatched to the coast of Lebanon. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY) 

An honour guard of the German Federal Armed Forces awaits the arrival of German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung, aboard the German frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the port of Limassol November 4, 2006. Jung is visiting German Federal Armed Forces ships, which are part of the UNFIL international peacekeeping force that have been dispatched to the coast of Lebanon. REUTERS/Gero Breloer/Pool ( CYPRUS) 

A boarding soldier salutes German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung (R) and German Admiral Andreas Krause, commander of the maritime joint task force UNFIL, while aboard the frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern off the coast of Cyprus November 4, 2006. Jung is visiting German Federal Armed Forces ships, which are part of the UNFIL international peacekeeping force that have been dispatched to the coast of Lebanon. REUTERS/Gero Breloer/Pool ( CYPRUS) 

German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung sits at the wheel on the bridge aboard the frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern off the coast of Cyprus November 4, 2006. Jung is visiting German Federal Armed Forces ships, which are part of the UNFIL international peacekeeping force that have been dispatched to the coast of Lebanon. REUTERS/Gero Breloer/Pool ( CYPRUS) 

German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung sits at the wheel of on the bridge aboard the frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern off the coast of Cyprus November 4, 2006. Jung is visiting German Federal Armed Forces ships, which are part of the UNFIL international peacekeeping force that have been dispatched to the coast of Lebanon. REUTERS/Gero Breloer/Pool ( CYPRUS) 

German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung (R) talks with German Admiral Andreas Krause, commander of the maritime joint task force UNFIL, while aboard the frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern off the coast of Cyprus November 4, 2006. Jung is visiting German Federal Armed Forces ships, which are part of the UNFIL international peacekeeping force that have been dispatched to the coast of Lebanon. REUTERS/Gero Breloer/Pool ( CYPRUS) 

German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung (R) talks with German Admiral Andreas Krause, commander of the maritime joint task force UNFIL, while aboard the frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern off the coast of Cyprus November 4, 2006. Jung is visiting German Federal Armed Forces ships, which are part of the UNFIL international peacekeeping force that have been dispatched to the coast of Lebanon. REUTERS/Gero Breloer/Pool ( CYPRUS) 

German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung wearing a garrison cap, poses for photographers while aboard the frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern off the coast of Cyrpus November 4, 2006. Jung is visiting German Federal Armed Forces ships, which are part of the UNFIL international peacekeeping force that have been dispatched to the coast of Lebanon. REUTERS/Gero Breloer/Pool ( CYPRUS) 

German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung (R) speaks members of the German Federal Armed Forces while on board the frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern off the coast of Cyrpus November 4, 2006. Jung is visiting German Federal Armed Forces ships, which are part of the UNFIL international peacekeeping force that have been dispatched to the coast of Lebanon. REUTERS/Gero Breloer/Pool ( CYPRUS) 

German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung (R) and German Admiral Andreas Krause, commander of the maritime joint task force UNFIL, watch an exercise from aboard the frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern off the coast of Cyrpus November 4, 2006. Jung is visiting German Federal Armed Forces ships, which are part of the UNFIL international peacekeeping force that have been dispatched to the coast of Lebanon. REUTERS/Gero Breloer/Pool ( CYPRUS) 

German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung (C) and German Admiral Andreas Krause, commander of the maritime joint task force UNFIL, inspects an honour guard aboard the German frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the port of Limassol November 4, 2006. Jung is visiting German Federal Armed Forces ships, which are part of the UNFIL international peacekeeping force that have been dispatched to the coast of Lebanon. REUTERS/Gero Breloer/Pool ( CYPRUS) 

German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung inspects an honour guard aboard the German frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the port of Limassol November 4, 2006. Jung is visiting German Federal Armed Forces ships, which are part of the UNFIL international peacekeeping force that have been dispatched to the coast of Lebanon. REUTERS/Gero Breloer/Pool ( CYPRUS) 

German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung (C) is welcomed aboard the frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern by German Admiral Andreas Krause, commander of the maritime joint task force UNFIL in the port of Limassol November 4, 2006. REUTERS/Gero Breloer/Pool ( CYPRUS) 

German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung (L) is welcomed aboard the frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern by German Admiral Andreas Krause, commander of the maritime joint task force UNFIL, in the port of Limassol November 4, 2006. REUTERS/Gero Breloer/Pool ( CYPRUS) 

Iraq's President Jalal Talabani speaks during a government swearing in ceremony in Baghdad May 3, 2005. Iraq swore in its new government on Tuesday, but five ministries and two deputy prime minister posts were left unfilled, highlighting the severe difficulties faced in forming a united leadership. REUTERS/Ceerwan Aziz PA/CCK 

Timur Goksel, senior advisor to the United Nations Interim Force (UNFIL) in Lebanon stands in front of a map of southern Lebanon, from where Israel pulled out its troops last May, 2000. Goksel arrived in 1979, a year into what would become Israel's 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon aimed at crushing fighters of the Palestine Liberation Organisation who took refuge in the power vacuum that the civil war created. Over two decades into what was to be a temporary assignment to the United Nations force in southern Lebanon, Timur Goksel still has no idea when he'll be leaving. "I still like the place and we're needed. The U.N. will play an essential role between Lebanon and Israel until they reach a peace, and I don't see that coming quickly," says Goksel. Undated file photo.

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Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Vice President Al Gore holds a stack of prescription requests that went unfilled by Hazel Woodruff because of the high medicine costs while visiting with customers in a diner in Dearborn, Michigan, November 5, 2000. The vice president is scheduled to continue his campaign by traveling on to Detroit late today.

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