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5000 skiers bolted off the starting line during the start of the telemark birkebeiner cross country race.

Mark Johnson, of Duluth, Minnesota, tumbles in air as he falls off the 70 meter ski jump at the Winter Olympics. Johnson was jumping off the track as a 'forejumper'--a skier who tests the track before the competition begins.

Thousands of tourists arrive daily by cruise ship to St. Thomas. Some of them sign up for a quick course in snorkeling at Trunk Bay on neighboring St. John.

Dating for 13 months, Richard Heath, 50 and Doreen Campbell, 45, attend 2 or 3 dances a week like this one at the American Legion Hall in San Jose, CA. Usually they go together, but Heath admits with a smile that he sometimes goes with one of his…

Photograph of singer/composer Paul Simon.

A new ferry nears completion at the Harland and Wolf ship yards in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

The three shadows that Preston Chancellor appears to be casting are actually just part of a mural.

Overhead view of black wire chairs and table in the snow.

Kaiopua, a 4-year-old sea lion at Sea Life Park, became a mother.

If you still believe in Santa Claus, here's someone who looks like an identical twin--he's Arnett Hillhouse who played the role of St. Nick this season at a shopping center for the first time in his 67 years of life. He enjoyed the attention and can…