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Up In Smoke

A Hindu holy man smokes as he waits to register for the Amarnath Yatra, the annual Hindu pilgrimage to the Amarnath shrine, in Jammu, India, Monday, June 15, 2009. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims flock each year to the mountain shrine in the predominantly Muslim state of Jammu and Kashmir, which contains a large icicle revered by Hindus as an incarnation of Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and regeneration.

(Photo: AP Photo/Channi Anand)