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							“It’s been a long two weeks. He never said quit 
							coming in, and I didn’t ask,” said Freda Gibbs, of 
							the man who hired her, the late Ed Stahl. 
							
					
				
				 
							
							  
							
							  
							
							  
							
							  
							
							  
							
							  
							
							
							
							Freda 
							Gibbs, who is pictured at her desk at Stahl’s 
							Furniture in late December, retired after working 54 
							years and 10 months for the Stahl family of Mount 
							Pulaski. 
							
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Duane Ehmer rides his horse Hellboy at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near 
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				 Oregon occupation leader rejects 
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				Ammon Bundy (L) meets with Harney County Sheriff David Ward 
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				Burns, Oregon, January 7, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart 
			 
			
			
				
				
			
								
			
								
			
			
								
            				
								
				
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				 Gun owners grill Obama at town hall, 
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				President Barack Obama is seen on a monitor as he speaks during 
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				CNN’s Anderson Cooper at George Mason University in Fairfax, 
				Virginia January 7, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque 
			 
			
			
			
				
				
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				 Pressure grows on China to rein in 
				North Korea; South launches propaganda barrage 
				
				
				Secretary of State John Kerry votes at the United Nations 
				Headquarters in Manhattan, New York, December 18, 2015. 
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				 Africa takes fresh look at GMO crops 
				as drought blights continent 
				
				
				A Zimbabwean man, Graham Matanhire, harvests maize from a field 
				in a peri-urban suburb of Mabvuku in Harare, April 10, 2014. 
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				payrolls surge in December in boost to economic outlook 
				 
				People wait in 
				line to enter the Nassau County Mega Job Fair at Nassau Veterans 
				Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York October 7, 2014. 
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				 Brazil dam burst tailings spill 
				below early estimates 
				 
				An aerial view of 
				the mouth of Rio Doce (Doce River), which was flooded with mud 
				after a dam owned by Vale SA and BHP Billiton Ltd burst, at an 
				area where the river joins the sea on the coast of Espirito 
				Santo in Regencia Village, Brazil, November 23, 2015. 
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				insurers sue Puerto Rico over debt default, clawbacks 
				 
				Half-finished 
				houses of the Molinos de Rios housing development stand 
				abandonded after the owners declared bankruptcy, in Toa Alta, 
				Puerto Rico, December 2, 2015. REUTERS/Alvin Baez 
			 
			
			
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				 Global stocks, oil stabilize 
				after new year nightmare 
				 
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				the Japanese yen and the U.S. dollar outside a brokerage in 
				Tokyo, Japan January 5, 2016. REUTERS/Thomas Peter 
			 
			
				
			
			
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					anyone? Touch-free car controls split world's drivers 
					 
					BMW's Vlatko 
					Kalinic demonstrates a gesture control feature to control 
					the radio volume in a 2016 BMW 750i sedan during the 2016 
					CES trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada January 7, 2016. 
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									Congolese boy attacked by chimps getting 
									rare face surgery in New York 
									Dunia 
									Sibomana, 8, who was attacked two years ago 
									by a chimpanzees in his village in the 
									Democratic Republic of Congo, rides on a toy 
									car at Stony Brook Children's Hospital in 
									Stony Brook, New York January 6, 2016. 
									Doctors at Stony Brook Children's Hospital 
									will begin a series of extensive facial 
									reconstructive surgeries on Sibomana on 
									Monday.  
									 
									REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
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