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Debris from the space shuttle Columbia streaks across the sky over Tyler, Texas, Feb. 1, 2003, in this image taken by amateur photographer Dr. Scott Lieberman. Space shuttle Columbia broke apart, killing all seven astronauts, just minutes before they were to glide to a landing in Florida.
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Elizabeth Smart poses with her parents, Lois and Ed, outside their home, March 13, 2003. Two drifters allegedly took Elizabeth from her home in June 2002 and held her for nine months in Utah and California.
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Scott Peterson is shown in this booking photo from the Stanislaus County Sheriffs department, April 19, 2003. Peterson is charged with the murder his wife, Laci, and their unborn child.
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Martha Stewart leaves Manhattan Federal Court, June 4, 2003, following her indictment on securities fraud and obstruction of justice charges.
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Cars try to navigate their way through New York City during the nation's worst blackout, Aug. 14, 2003. It began with three power line failures in Ohio and began to cascade, eventually cutting off electricity to 50 million people in eight states and Canada.
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Montgomery County Sheriff's deputies remove a protester who refused to leave the State Judicial Building in Montgomery, Ala., during a protest over the Ten Commandments monument, Aug. 20, 2003. The statue was removed from the public area on Aug. 27, 2003, and the judge who put it there and refused to remove it was expelled from his office.
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People look over the water damage from Hurricane Isabel in flooded historic downtown Annapolis, including the market house, background, Sept. 19, 2003.
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Convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad looks around the courtroom at the beginning of his trial in Virginia Beach, Va., Oct. 14, 2003.
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With their car packed and ready to evacuate their home, Bob Fegley and his 6-year-old son Kevin watch as wildfires and backfires light up a hillside behind their home on Brook Circle in Stevenson Ranch, Calif., as the Simi Valley fire turned north and burned northward, Oct. 28, 2003. Wildfires burned 74,130 acres of California land in October.
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Standing with his attorneys, multi-millionaire murder defendant Robert Durst, right, reacts to a not guilty verdict in Galveston, Texas, Nov. 11, 2003. Durst had been accused of murder for killing a neighbor at a low-rent Galveston apartment house where they both lived, then dismembering the victim and throwing the body parts into Galveston Bay.
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Terri Schiavo, who has been in a comatose state since 1990, is shown in this Aug. 11, 2001, file video, released by her family in Pinellas Park, Fla. In an bitter right-to-die battle, Schiavo's husband had her feeding tube removed in October, but a hastily passed law allowed Gov. Bush to have it reinserted six days later as her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, had requested.
