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Seeing Double The top 40 nature photos of all time? In honor of the 40th annual Earth Day on April 22, members of the International League of Conservation Photographers chose their top 40, including this one here. Many of the honored photographers or their trusts went on to donate their work for an Earth Day auction benefiting environmental groups.  Ten of those 40 are shown here, including this one by Paul Nicklen of a polar bear and his reflection. Polar bears often travel submerged -- a tactic used to surprise prey -- and this one was spotted at the northern tip of Canada's Baffin Island. Scientists fear melting sea ice habitat due to global warming could drive polar bears to extinction sometime this century. Fished for Fin Underwater documentarian Brian Skerry photographed this thresher shark, doomed by a gill net, in Mexico's Gulf of California. It had been killed for its fin in order to satisify Asian demand for shark fin soup. Conservation groups estimate 100 million sh...

An employee, right, of Mumbai's Oberoi Hotel, which was one of the targets of Nov. 26, 2008, terror attacks that left 166 people dead, walks after a news conference held at the hotel on April 21. The five-star complex is reopening to guests after a $45 million reconstruction.  from msnbc.com

A member of the German Air Traffic Control center crisis management group points at a map showing the current air traffic in the sky over Germany near Frankfurt on Tuesday, April 20. The Eurocontrol air traffic agency in Brussels said it expects 55 to 60 percent of flights over Europe to go ahead Tuesday, a marked improvement over the last few days. By midmorning, 10,000 of Europe's 27,500 daily flights were scheduled to go. A passenger waits at Bilbao airport in northern Spain on April 18, after all flights were canceled due to the ash.

Crocodile tears on Wall Street In the spirit of the original tea party, activists should be demanding accountability from Wall Street BY  BILL MOYERS ,  MICHAEL WINSHIP With all due respect, we can only wish those Tea Party activists who gathered in Washington and other cities this week weren’t so single-minded about just who’s responsible for all their troubles, real and imagined. They’re up in arms, so to speak, against Big Government, especially the Obama administration. If they thought this through, they’d be joining forces with other grassroots Americans who in the coming weeks will be demonstrating in Washington and other cities against High Finance, taking on Wall Street and the country’s biggest banks. The original Tea Party, remember, wasn’t directed just against the British redcoats. Colonial patriots also took aim at the East India Company. That was the joint-stock enterprise originally chartered by the first Queen Elizabeth. Over the years, the government granted...

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Stuck in 1915 How Turkey and Armenia blew their big chance at peace. BY THOMAS DE WAAL   |   APRIL 15, 2010 Not many borders are closed in our globalized world, but the frontier between Armenia and Turkey is still a dead zone where the railroad stops. The closed border is a strange anomaly in the new Europe that stems from two old tragedies: the still unresolved conflict of the early 1990s between Armenia and Turkey's ally Azerbaijan, and the catastrophe of 1915 when the entire Armenian population of eastern Anatolia was deported or killed in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire. People on both sides of this closed border want it open. Last month I flew between the Armenian capital of Yerevan and Istanbul -- the two countries do at least have an air connection. The standard look of the Armenian businessmen packing the plane was slightly menacing at first. They all had dark leather jackets and hair cut short to the scalp, concealing a cheerful friendliness toward Turks. The...