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Make it right Brad Pitt poses for a photograph in Kellogg Park, a technologically advanced playground in the Lower 9th Ward that uses solar energy to run its electronic wireless game system in New Orleans. The playground sits among homes being built through Pitt's Make It Right Foundation. Helping Darfur In May 2007, Jolie and Pitt enjoyed an intimate dinner in Prague, where Jolie filmed a role in "Wanted," a comic book adaptation. While there, the couple announced that they were donating $1 million from their Jolie-Pitt Foundation to groups assisting more than four million people affected by the crisis in Darfur. Traveling to Panama Pitt talked with an unidentified man outside of a handicraft market in Panama City on Dec. 29, 2006. Besides touring the capital, Pitt and Jolie visited a former U.S. military base and the construction site of Panama's new Biodiversity Museum, designed by Frank Gehry, at the entrance of the canal in the Amador district. Visiting Vietn...

More 'Bang' for your buck Star Jim Parsons arrives at "An Evening with 'The Big Bang Theory'" at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles on Thursday, Feb. 18. Together again Leonardo DiCaprio, left, and director Martin Scorsese attend the premiere of "Shutter Island" at The Ziegfeld Theatre in New York on Wednesday, Feb. 17.

ROOM WITH A VIEW: Judges peer through windows during the Ski Jumping Individual Qualification Round at Whistler Olympic Park. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

Seoul (Suh Myong-gon / Yonhap / February 17, 2010) A South Korean man searches for his shoes among a pile of recovered footwear that had been stolen by a thief. Investigators nabbed the thief earlier this month. He had stolen about 1,200 pairs of luxury-brand shoes from funeral halls at large hospitals and stored them at a warehouse, aiming to become a street vendor. Venice, Italy (Luigi Costantini / Associated Press / February 16, 2010) Actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt walk with children Maddox, right, Zahara, front right, and Pax, left. Jolie is in Venice to film the movie "The Tourist."

Small is beautiful "Save Our Earth, Let's Go Green" won first place for photography in the 2009 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, sponsored by the journal Science and the National Science Foundation. The annual contest highlights visuals that reveal the hidden meaning and intricate details of our world. This picture shows how tiny plastic fibers, each with a diameter of 250 nanometers, wrap themselves around a plastic ball when immersed in an evaporating liquid. The process provides a new way to control the self-assembly of polymer hairs. The image was produced with a scanning electron microscope and was digitally enhanced for color. Image courtesy of Sung Hoon Kang, Boaz Pokroy and Joanna Aizenberg, Harvard University.       Math meditation "Kuen's Surface: A Meditation on Euclid, Lobachevsky and Quantum Field" is a highly symbolic work that suggests the history of the 2,000-year-old failed effort to prove that the Parall...

Hello up there Jude Law waves to Japanese fans on the red carpet before the premiere of the film "Sherlock Holmes" in Tokyo on Thursday, Feb. 18. Law plays Dr. Watson, assistant to Arthur Conan-Doyles' legendary London detective Sherlock Holmes, in the film directed by Guy Ritchie. from msnbc.com

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