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Geena Davis and Holly Hunter promo Sneaker Day program
NYP2003050516 - NEW YORK, May 5 (UPI)--Actress Geena Davis signs autographs for school children during the Women's Sports Foundation 1st Sneaker Day grant presentation ceremonies to the female student athletes at Frederick Douglass Academy in New York City, May 5, 2003. ep/Ezio Petersen UPI

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Palestinian  Security Forces Patrol the Border With Egypt.
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A members of the Hamas security forces patrol the border area between Gaza and Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip May 20, 2013. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again for four days, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, As Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone. Palestinian security forces patrol around the border, witnesses said. UPI/Ismael Mohamad