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TWO AMERICANS SHARE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY
Roderick MacKinnon, seen in this undated photo, shares the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Peter Agre, also from the U.S., "for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes" it was announced on Oct. 8, 2003. MacKinnon works at the Rockefeller University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute in New York. (UPI/Rockefeller University)

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Greek PM Antonis vists Beijing
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Greek national flags fly over Tiananmen Square during Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras state visit to Beijing on May 16, 2013. Samaras is in China seeking investment and trade deals to help revive his country's recession-battered economy. UPI/Stephen Shaver